Microsoft's Bing team has open-sourced Harrier, an embedding model family that tops the multilingual MTEB v2 benchmark under an MIT license.

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

In an effort to boost its AI investments, Microsoft has integrated AI tools into just about every part of the company’s operation, whether anyone wants it or not (and they mostly don’t). The result of ...

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In this post, we will show you how to use VibeVoice Text to Speech AI from Microsoft. VibeVoice is a next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) AI framework that converts written text into natural, ...

Microsoft reported issues with sending and receiving email messages through Outlook, searching in OneDrive and creating chats in Teams. The incident lasted nearly 11 hours. Last summer, Outlook was ...

IT admins have been told to follow guidance related to deployments handled via the Windows Deployment Services (WDS). There are only a few months left before a Windows Server feature is disabled.

Microsoft Bing is testing a new home page design where it promotes its AI-powered search and answer engine, Copilot. It seems to be a limited test and is not fully live yet, but it is a big change to ...

Google upgraded Circle to Search, turning it into a proactive digital safety tool. Users can now circle suspicious messages to receive an AI Overview that analyzes the text for scams. If fraud is ...

The big picture: Mark Russinovich developed Sysmon and other utilities in the Sysinternals suite to provide advanced monitoring and troubleshooting tools for system administrators. Russinovich now ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 finally hit general availability today, following a private preview a year ago and a public preview back in May. That said, the AI-focused release is still in a public ...

Microsoft has released an upgrade to Copilot, bringing what it calls “the best of AI Search” to its AI engine – Copilot. Microsoft said its Copilot responses “will now include more prominent, ...