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Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently witnessed a major outage. The service outage sent shockwaves across the internet on Monday (October 20). The outage disrupted operations at some of the world’s biggest companies including McDonald’s, Microsoft Office 365, Apple Music, Alexa and dozens of others. The outrage started early morning in the AWS’s US-East-1 region. The…
Amid escalating US-China trade tensions, Microsoft is reportedly targeting a major overhaul of its manufacturing operations, aiming to produce the bulk of its upcoming hardware outside China by as soon as 2026. According to a report in Nikkei Asia, quoting sources, Microsoft aims to produce the majority of its new products outside of China as…
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic frontrunner for the New York City mayoral race, has sent a message to CEOs of tech companies. During the first debate of the campaign, when the candidates were asked how they would convince tech leaders concerned about increased corporate taxes to build their companies in NYC instead of cities like Dallas,…
Microsoft is bringing AI to every Windows 11 computer, no special hardware required. The company announced major updates that make Copilot—its AI assistant—a central part of how people use their PCs, from voice commands to on-screen help that can actually get things done for you. Just say “Hey Copilot” and you’re good to go The…
A consortium led by global asset manager BlackRock, along with chipmaker Nvidia and tech giant Microsoft, is set to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Australian financial services major Macquarie in a deal valued at around $40 billion.The acquisition underscores the tech sector’s escalating race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure — from chips and servers to…
Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm, reason is: A notorious cybercrime group, tracked as Storm-2657 by Microsoft’s team, has launched a brazen attack on US university payroll systems since March 2025. In a blog post, Redmond said a cybercrime crew it tracks as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees since March 2025, hijacking…
Amazon has fired a 29-year-old Palestinian engineer who protested against the e-commerce giant’s ties to the Israeli government. Ahmed Shahrour was among a group of seven current and former tech workers who occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith’s office in August this year. According to a Bloomberg report, Ahmed Shahrour worked as a software engineer in…
EY and Microsoft on Saturday launched the AI Skills Passport, a free online learning initiative aimed at equipping Indian students and early-career professionals with essential artificial intelligence (AI) skills. The program targets individuals aged 16 and above and is designed to bridge the country’s growing AI skills gap, according to an EY statement, ANI reported.Part…
Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 years, announced his resignation Thursday in a mass email sent to thousands of colleagues, protesting the company’s continued cloud services contracts with the Israeli military. “I can no longer accept enabling what may be the worst atrocities of our time,” Sutfin-Glowski wrote, choosing to leave…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared a video on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) which shows the company’s newly deployed AI system, calling it the “first of many” massive Nvidia-powered AI factories rolling out across Microsoft Azure’s global data centers. “Another first for our AI fleet… a supercomputing cluster of NVIDIA GB300s with…
