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Microsoft Discontinued One Of Its Oldest Office Apps After 35 Years

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gguy/Shutterstock Microsoft is undergoing major shifts as the tech giant looks to redesign its suite of products by adding premium features and incorporating AI in existing tools like the Paint app. The evolution has brought sweeping changes that have made Microsoft users wary of the new direction, ranging from the unfortunate demise of Skype to AI-induced price…

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Microsoft identifies boardroom cyber awareness as a top priority

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Given the recent spate of high-profile cyber breaches, such as the attack on Jaguar Land Rover that halted production and required a government bailout, Microsoft’s 2025 Digital security report is urging IT departments to ensure cyber risk is managed at boardroom level. Microsoft recommended that IT leaders treat cyber security as a business risk on…

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Why we should all be worried about the AI bubble

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It’s becoming clearer that we are in a perilous financial situation globally. Fears over an “AI bubble” are being cited by the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon. If you want a sense of how insane the narrative is around AI investments, consider this: Thinking Machines…

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Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide

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Microsoft must immediately end any involvement with the “Israeli authorities’ systemic repression of Palestinians” and work to prevent its products or services being used to commit further “atrocity crimes”, civil society groups have urged. In a joint letter sent to the tech giant at the end of September 2025, which has now been made publicly…

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OpenInfra Summit Europe: Digital sovereignty in the face of political tension

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Geopolitical tension and its potential impact on open source was one of the main focus points during the OpenInfra Foundation European summit held in Paris on 16–19 October. When asked about OpenStack’s resilience given the volatile geopolitical climate, Jonathan Bryce, executive director at the OpenInfra Foundation, said: “The thing that I love about open source…

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Samsung Is Now Showing Ads On Some Of Its Most Expensive Smart Refrigerators

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Michele Tantussi/Getty Images If you were debating picking up one of Samsung’s top-of-the-line smart fridges with a display, you should read this first. The company is making a major change to how it operates these smart appliances by adding advertisements to some of the themes you can use on their cover displays. The change was…

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Nscale founding director exits AI infrastructure provider in wake of $1.1bn investment round

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One of the founding directors of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure provider Nscale has exited the company, in the wake of it securing $1.1bn in Series B funding, Computer Weekly has learned.   According to a Companies House filing dated 8 October 2025, Nathan Townsend has stepped down as a director of Nscale, which he co-founded…

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Will AI wipe out entry-level jobs?

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has become the latest to add his voice to a cacophony of warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) is eliminating entry-level jobs. A recent report by job search engine Adzuna indicated that vacancies for graduate jobs, apprenticeships, internships and junior jobs with no degree requirement had dropped 32% since the launch of…

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IT departments face huge Windows 10 support bill

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Windows 10 is reaching end-of-life next month, which means Microsoft will no longer issue patches and no longer provide functional enhancements for free. Those organisations that have yet to migrate PCs off Windows 10 face a hefty bill if they want to continue to receive Windows 10 patches. But this is not something that can…

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Microsoft shows potential of analogue optical computing in AI

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Microsoft has teamed up with Barclays on a novel approach to tackling artificial intelligence (AI) and optimisation problems based on a scalable analogue optical computer (AOC) architecture, designed to use consumer-grade technology. The approach, described in a paper published in Nature, overcomes the Von Neumann bottleneck that occurs in classical computing architecture, where performance is…

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