Microsoft incorporates OpenAI’s GPT-5 into consumer, developer and enterprise offerings Today Microsoft is incorporating GPT-5, OpenAI’s best AI system to date, into a wide variety of its products, to bring new reasoning capabilities and improvements to coding and chat across its platforms. GPT-5, which was trained on Azure, includes OpenAI’s latest reasoning models, along with a…
How L&G is reinventing customer care with AI L&G is using Microsoft to unify its customer service technology, creating a single “pane of glass” that simplifies life for its 2,800 colleagues and more than 12 million customers. For nearly 200 years, UK financial services giant L&G has helped its customers navigate life’s biggest financial milestones…
Microsoft’s New ‘Microfluidic’ Tech Cools AI Chips From Within New AI-optimized cooling system etches liquid channels directly into silicon, potentially transforming data center efficiency and chip performance. Microsoft has unveiled a breakthrough cooling technology that could fundamentally transform how AI chips handle heat, potentially revolutionizing data center design and efficiency. The tech giant said it…
New EDR-Freeze tool uses Windows WER to suspend security software A new method and proof-of-concept tool called EDR-Freeze demonstrates that evading security solutions is possible from user mode with Microsoft’s Windows Error Reporting (WER) system. The technique eliminates the need of a vulnerable driver and puts security agents like endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools into…
Microsoft and Cloudflare disrupt massive RaccoonO365 phishing service Microsoft and Cloudflare have disrupted a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) operation, known as RaccoonO365, that helped cybercriminals steal thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials. In early September 2025, in coordination with Cloudflare’s Cloudforce One and Trust and Safety teams, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) disrupted the cybercrime operation by seizing 338…
Microsoft: WMIC will be removed after Windows 11 25H2 upgrade Microsoft has announced that the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool will be removed after upgrading to Windows 11 25H2 and later. WMIC is a legacy built-in Windows command-line tool that allows users to interact with the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) system using text commands. In a Microsoft…
Microsoft: Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in 30 days Microsoft has reminded administrators again that Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will reach the end of extended support next month and has provided guidance for decommissioning outdated servers. According to the company’s product lifecycle website, Exchange 2016 reached mainstream end date in October 2020, while…
Microsoft investigates Exchange Online outage in North America Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage affecting customers throughout North America, blocking their access to emails. «We’re investigating an issue affecting a portion of infrastructure in North America, where users may be unable to access their mailbox via any Exchange Online connection method,»…
Microsoft fixes streaming issues caused by Windows updates Microsoft has resolved severe lag and stuttering issues with NDI streaming software affecting Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems after installing the August 2025 security updates. The company confirmed these problems after receiving widespread reports from users who experienced a range of performance issues while using various streaming apps, including OBS (Open Broadcast Software) and NDI…
Microsoft now enforces MFA on Azure Portal sign-ins for all tenants Microsoft says it has been enforcing multifactor authentication (MFA) for Azure Portal sign-ins across all tenants since March 2025. The company’s Azure MFA enforcement efforts were announced in May 2024 when Redmond began implementing mandatory MFA for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. One…
