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Microsoft regains top spot as best employer to work for in India: Randstad

The company was on the top of the list in 2022, but had slipped to fifth in 2023

Nvidia's AI chip demand to face impact from production delay: Analysts

According to media reports, Nvidia's Blackwell chips may face delays of 3 months or more due to design flaws, potentially affecting customers such as Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft

Amazon set to join Google, Microsoft's spending surge as AI race heats up

The e-commerce giant's capital investments - mostly for building cloud and generative AI infrastructure - is expected to have risen 43 per cent in the second quarter to $16.41 billion

Microsoft's Azure posts slowdown in growth, testing investors' patience

The company's Xbox video-gaming unit posted 61 per cent growth in content and services revenue, much of that fueled by the $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, which was completed in October

Tech wrap Jul 31: Nothing Phone 2a Plus, ChatGPT advanced voice mode, more

Nothing launched the Phone 2a Plus at Rs 27,999 onwards. OpenAI releases advanced voice mode in ChatGPT for Plus users. Garmin announces a price cut on Forerunner 165 series GPS smartwatch

Microsoft's slow cloud growth signals AI payoff likely to take longer

Big technology companies have been pouring billions of dollars into data centers to capitalise on the generative AI boom

Microsoft pushes US Congress to pass law for crackdown on deepfakes

The company also is pushing for Congress to label AI-generated content as synthetic and for federal and state laws that penalize the creation and distribution of sexually exploitive deepfakes

Microsoft reports outage of some office applications, cloud services

Users may be either unable to access the apps, or experience worsened connection or performance, the company said in a message to customers

Phishing attacks targetting CrowdStrike users after global outage: CERT-In

A Microsoft Windows outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor update led to system crashes globally. Now a phishing campaign is targeting CrowdStrike users who were impacted by the outage

PwC India, Microsoft India ink agreement to strengthen cybersecurity

The alliance would use Microsoft Copilot for Security - a generative AI-powered security tool

Soon, Microsoft Windows will show connected Android device in File Explorer

Currently available in preview to users enrolled to Windows Insider Program, the Android device integration into Microsoft Windows' File Explorer is expected to roll out widely in coming days

Tech wrap Jul 26: OpenAI SearchGPT, Microsoft Bing, Gemini 1.5 Flash, more

OpenAI introduces SearchGPT. Microsoft brings AI-powered Bing. Google Gemini gets 1.5 Flash model. POCO M6 Plus launch on August 1. ChatGPT voice for GPT-4o next week. Reddit results absent in search

Microsoft introduces AI-powered Bing to rival Google Search: What is new

Bing generative search results will show snapshot, source links and related search results in an overview, which is displayed inside a grey box at the top side of result page

Crowdstrike blames defect in content update for massive global IT crash

The incident crashed Microsoft Windows computer systems around the world on Friday, taking down airline, banking and stock exchange operations from Australia and Japan to the UK

CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over global tech outage

US House leaders are calling on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify to Congress about the cybersecurity company's role in sparking the widespread tech outage that grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and affected services around the world. CrowdStrike said this week a significant number of the millions of computers that crashed on Friday, causing global disruptions, are back in operation as its customers and regulators await a more detailed explanation of what went wrong. Republicans who lead the House Homeland Security committee said Monday they want those answers soon. While we appreciate CrowdStrike's response and coordination with stakeholders, we cannot ignore the magnitude of this incident, which some have claimed is the largest IT outage in history, said a letter to Kurtz from Rep. Mark E. Green of Tennessee and Rep. Andrew Garbarino of New York. They added that Americans "deserve to know in detail how this incident happened and the mitigation ste

CrowdStrike short sellers net $461 mn after stock plunges on Windows outage

The contrarian group reaped paper profits of $461 million on the cybersecurity software company's 11% drop, according to data from S3 Partners LLC

2 days after global outage: Airlines play catch-up with flight schedule

About 1,000 flights delayed at country's three busiest airports

Microsoft global tech outage: When all systems in the world go down

The tech outage marks the risk of depending on a single firm's software, report Shivani Shinde & Ashutosh Mishra

About 8.5 mn devices got affected by CrowdStrike-related outage: Microsoft

We currently estimate that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines, Microsoft said in a blog

Microsoft outage: IndiGo cancels 93 flights; systems limp back to recovery

Air India, on the other hand, said its systems have been working just fine but a few of its flights have been delayed due to the outage of airport systems