A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday — from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks’ mobile app — was triggered by a distributed denial of service cyberattack, according to the tech giant.
Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform used
I love almost everything about email newsletters. From finance to gadgets to pop music, there are just so many stellar ones these days. Their very format—intimate, regularly scheduled, free of any temptation to please the Google algorithm rather than human readers—liberates many writers to do their best work. Then th
Long before the advent of reality television, the popular game show “Queen for a Day” thrilled American audiences by giving women who told heartbreaking tales of financial struggles a chance at winning expensive items that could help solve their problems.
Throughout its 1956-1964 run, each episode featured contestants describing a misfortune that had struck them or their families, such as polio, rheumatic fever or hunting accident
Businesses using Vimeo to produce videos for employees and customers will now be able to translate their content to dozens of different languages with the touch of a button.
A new AI feature will let Vimeo enterprise customers generate translated videos that even match the voice and tone of the original speakers. The company envisions the feature will be useful both for localizing corporate training and town hall–style updates
Two things are certain about the emergence of new technologies. One is that it will be accompanied by a host of world-saving missions. The second is that one of those missions will be “solving” education.
Indeed, the more advanced the technology, the more seductive the idea that it can educate us. But history has shown the opposite: the more advanced the technology, the further it substitutes genuine intellectual labor, the less we learn.
AI is a much bigger t
Last week, the NBA unveiled its new TV rights deal: an 11-year, $77 billion arrangement that will begin with the 2025-26 season. ESPN/ABC will remain the league’s premier broadcast partner, paying $2.6 billion per year for a package that includes the NBA Finals. NBC, which aired most of Michael Jordan’s ruthless eviscerations of the Utah Jazz before losing game rights in 2002, is back in
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?
Microsoft shares were down more than 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday, despite quarterly earnings beating on the top and bottom lines. It was a lesson to tech companies that earnings mean less to investors today than the growth of artificial intelligence divisions.
The company reported earnings per share of $2.95 in its fourth fiscal quarter of 2024, compared to estimates of $2.93. Rev
Microsoft is calling on Congress to pass new laws that make it illegal to use AI-generated voices and images to defraud people, especially seniors and children.
The call to create a “deepfake fraud statute” was part of a 52-page white paper the tech giant released Tuesday, which laid out its vision about how governments should approach AI. The company proposes the government make it illegal to use voice- and image-generation tools to impersonate someone, whether a political candida
Meta agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with Texas on Tuesday over claims that the Facebook and Instagram-parent company illegally collected users’ facial and biometric data.
It’s the largest privacy settlement by a U.S. state.
“This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the