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Microsoft Confirms ‘Last Update’ For 700 Million Windows Users

Microsoft Confirms ‘Last Update’ For 700 Million Windows Users

Microsoft confirms bad news for Windows users. Gado via Getty Images Republished on August 17 with a new privacy warning for Windows 10 users. Microsoft has just warned more than 700 million Windows 10 users that they must act now to stay “protected from the latest security threats.” Coming just days after the company fixed more than 100 security vulnerabilities, …

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Microsoft is finally improving Windows 11’s dark mode

Microsoft is finally improving Windows 11’s dark mode

Microsoft first introduced a dark mode option in Windows 10 in 2016, but there were still plenty of areas of the operating system that looked like a mish-mash of light and dark modes. Nearly a decade later, the latest preview build of Windows 11 now includes even more darkened UI elements. Windows watcher Phantomofearth spotted updated file operation dialogs with …

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Microsoft might finally fix dark mode in Windows 11 — seriously

Microsoft might finally fix dark mode in Windows 11 — seriously

It’s finally happening. After more than six years since it was last updated, Microsoft looks to be making new progress towards finishing dark mode on Windows 11. Ever since dark mode debuted on Windows in 2016, it’s been embarrassingly incomplete with common UI interfaces still brightly colored when dark mode is enabled. That looks to finally be changing, as the …

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Hackers Mimic IT Teams to Exploit Microsoft Teams Request to Gain System Remote Access

Hackers Mimic IT Teams to Exploit Microsoft Teams Request to Gain System Remote Access

A sophisticated social engineering campaign by the EncryptHub threat group that combines impersonation tactics with technical exploitation to compromise corporate networks. The Russian-linked cybercriminals are posing as IT support staff and using Microsoft Teams requests to establish remote access, ultimately deploying malicious payloads through a previously unknown Windows vulnerability. The attack begins with threat actors claiming to be from internal …

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Meta spends more guarding Mark Zuckerberg than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet do for their own CEOs—combined

Meta spends more guarding Mark Zuckerberg than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet do for their own CEOs—combined

Mark Zuckerberg goes to great lengths to protect himself. It makes sense: Critics say his social networks are bad for your mental health, he’s aggressively hiring people across Silicon Valley to staff up his ambitious AI projects (which are, unto themselves, polarizing), and he owns wide swaths of land in Hawaii, which has rankled residents and activists alike. It makes …

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Meta spends more guarding Mark Zuckerberg than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet do for their own CEOs—combined

Meta spends more guarding Mark Zuckerberg than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet do for their own CEOs—combined

Mark Zuckerberg goes to great lengths to protect himself. It makes sense: Critics say his social networks are bad for your mental health, he’s aggressively hiring people across Silicon Valley to staff up his ambitious AI projects (which are, unto themselves, polarizing), and he owns wide swaths of land in Hawaii, which has rankled residents and activists alike. It makes …

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Microsoft reminds of Windows 10 support ending in two months

Microsoft reminds of Windows 10 support ending in two months

Microsoft has reminded customers that Windows 10 will be retired in two months after all editions of Windows 10, version 22H2 reach their end of servicing on October 14. On the same date, Windows 10 2015 LTSB and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2015 will also reach the end of extended support. After Windows 10 is retired, Microsoft will no …

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Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel-Gaza war

Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel-Gaza war

Microsoft has launched an “urgent” external inquiry into allegations Israel’s military surveillance agency has used the company’s technology to facilitate the mass surveillance of Palestinians. The company said on Friday the formal review was in response to a Guardian investigation that revealed how the Unit 8200 spy agency has relied on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a vast collection …

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