Microsoft adds new skills — and more oversight — for Copilot in Excel

The new features, including connectors to third-party data sources, are aimed at making the AI assistant more useful for ...
Reuters

Microsoft limits employee use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 over data retention concerns, The Verge reports

June 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is limiting employees' use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 because of the AI startup's new data retention requirements, The Verge reported on ...
Inc

The FBI Just Issued an Urgent Warning for Anyone Using Microsoft Teams, Outlook, or OneDrive Over a New Phishing Scheme

The security measure millions rely on to protect their accounts may not be as foolproof as they think. At the center of the scheme is a hacking platform called Kali365. Unlike traditional phishing ...
Dark Reading

China's Webworm Uses Discord, Microsoft Graphs to Hack EU Governments

A China-backed persistent threat actor known as Webworm is targeting governmental organizations across Europe, and it's using unusual command-and-control mechanisms to do so. Security vendor ESET this ...
Reuters

Anthropic in talks to use Microsoft's AI chips, The Information reports

May 21 (Reuters) - Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed (MSFT.O), opens new tab chips to meet rising demand for its AI services, The Information reported on Thursday, in ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...
Computer Weekly

How Australian firms are using graph databases

Neo4j, the graph database from the US-Swedish company of the same name, is used by 76% of the Fortune 100, and its Australian customers include organisations in the healthcare, policing and banking ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it

Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said Wednesday that its user base and engagement are growing for the AI tool that’s baked into M365 apps like Word, Excel, ...
Microsoft

Work smarter in 90 days: A real-world guide to using AI

You hear about it everywhere, from LinkedIn posts to keynote speakers to job listings: Learning to use AI is the way to get ahead in your job and help future-proof your career. But you may not know ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Using Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development

Data API Builder helps developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building extensive custom data access code. Steve Jones' Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026 session will show ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft traces Universal Print issues to Graph API code change

Microsoft says that an ongoing Universal Print sharing issue that prevents users from creating some printer shares is due to a Microsoft Graph API code change. Universal Print is a cloud-based print ...