Microsoft claims its Defender catches nearly all malicious email on its own, with integrated third-party tools improving detections by less than 1%. The company's quarterly benchmarking data shows Defender misses the fewest malicious emails compared to competitors and removes nearly 100% of dangerous emails that reach the inbox. However, security experts urge caution, stating that percentages obscure the true quantity and severity of emails that get through. Microsoft's data ranks itself against other security vendors, including Mimecast [...]

A significant vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Copilot, dubbed SearchLeak, which can steal personal and enterprise data. The vulnerability is a three-stage chain that turns Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search into a silent data exfiltration weapon. It works by sending a malicious link with a "q parameter" that Copilot's AI engine interprets as executable instructions, allowing attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data via Bing. The vulnerability has been patched, but it highlights the dangers of AI in [...]

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's upcoming Sim Update 6 is scheduled for release in July or August 2026, bringing significant improvements to the game. The update will introduce visualization for airflow, including downdrafts and vertical wind shear, as well as new debugging tools for helicopter physics. Additionally, Sim Update 6 will feature new visual turbulence warnings, automatically added apron lighting to 2,236 airports, and improved Career mode with a new filtering layer. Bush Trips, a community-requested feature, will [...]

Microsoft has made its Copilot Cowork service generally available worldwide for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers. This feature allows users to assign tasks to AI to complete in the background using organizational context. Copilot Cowork is 30-40% cheaper than Claude Cowork and runs on Anthropic models, with the option to use GPT-5.5 for Frontier customers. The service is billed separately through Copilot Credits, with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.01 per credit. Microsoft provides IT teams with control over usage [...]

Microsoft has announced the Surface Pro 12, a 2-in-1 device powered by a Snapdragon X2 chip. The device comes with a free Surface Pro keyboard, but it must be physically attached to the Surface Pro to work and lacks a haptic trackpad. However, the Surface Pro Flex Keyboard, available for purchase, offers wireless connectivity and a large haptic trackpad, making it a more desirable option for those seeking a laptop-like experience. The Surface Pro Flex Keyboard is [...]

NVIDIA has launched the RTX Spark, an ARM-powered system on a chip designed to compete with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series and other CPU manufacturers. The RTX Spark features an ARM Cortex-powered CPU and a Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 CUDA cores. This move comes after Microsoft and Qualcomm laid the groundwork for Windows ARM support with the introduction of the Prism emulation layer and optimized OS tweaks. The RTX Spark will run Windows, unlike NVIDIA's [...]

Microsoft has turned to Amazon Web Services for extra computing power after a string of AI-related outages on GitHub, the platform it acquired for $7.5 billion in 2018. The outages have strained GitHub's compute resources, which have been overwhelmed by a surge in development activity driven by the increasing use of AI to write code faster. GitHub's own blog has detailed how the service has failed to meet its own service level agreements, with an uptime of [...]