Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference. The 200, which follows the company’s Maia 100 released in 2023, has been technically outfitted to run powerful AI models at faster speeds and with more efficiency, the company has…
Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows computers rely on full-disk encryption, called BitLocker, which is enabled by default. This type of technology should prevent anyone except the device owner…
Ravie LakshmananJan 15, 2026Prompt Injection / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new attack method dubbed Reprompt that could allow bad actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Microsoft Copilot in a single click, while bypassing enterprise security controls entirely. “Only a single click on a legitimate Microsoft…
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has taken a “coordinated legal action” in the U.S. and the U.K. to disrupt a cybercrime subscription service called RedVDS that has allegedly fueled millions in fraud losses. The effort, per the tech giant, is part of a broader law enforcement effort in collaboration with law enforcement authorities that…
Dec 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Law Enforcement Authorities in Nigeria have announced the arrest of three “high-profile internet fraud suspects” who are alleged to have been involved in phishing attacks targeting major corporations, including the main developer behind the RaccoonO365 phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) scheme. The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF–NCCC) said investigations conducted in…
Dec 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the company’s November 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, according to ACROS Security’s 0patch. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-9491 (CVSS score: 7.8/7.0), which has been described as a Windows…
Cyber Monday and Black Friday are a thing of the past at this point, but if you didn’t get a chance to grab all that you wanted during the biggest sale of the year, all is not lost. We’re still spotting quite a few lingering deals across retailers, so whether you’re after a new laptop,…
In a carefully worded announcement on Monday, Apple said John Giannandrea, who has been the company’s AI chief since 2018, is “stepping down” to, well, not work at Apple anymore. He’ll stick around through spring as an adviser. His replacement is Amar Subramanya, a highly regarded Microsoft executive who spent 16 years at Google, most…
Since Black Friday Week started, Amazon has sold hundreds of thousands of Xbox controllers. Even though it’s now the weekend after Thanksgiving, there are still great deals on these gaming essentials but the problem is that a lot of the color options are already sold out. However, the famous Carbon Black version is still available…
Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA are setting a bar for cloud infrastructure investment and AI model availability with a new compute alliance. This agreement signals a divergence from single-model dependency toward a diversified, hardware-optimised ecosystem, altering the governance landscape for senior technology leaders. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the relationship is a reciprocal integration where the…
