Breaking — Columbia terrorists break windows and take over Hamilton Hall. Unconfirmed reports of hostage.
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Twitter / X / Citizen's Free Press ^
| April 30, 2024 | Staff
Dozens of Columbia students just became felons. Columbia
president is probably asleep. Where are campus police officers. Where is the nypd. Khymani James is back on the scene. They’re stacking tables to block the entrance, zip tying the doors. Breaking — Columbia terrorists break windows and take over Hamilton Hall. Unconfirmed reports of hostage. Second video from Hamilton Hall. Situation is developing. Columbia terrorists broke windows and have taken over Hamilton Hall. They are using picnic tables to barricade themselves inside. There are unconfirmed reports that a member of facilities staff is being held hostage.
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OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly planning a $100B supercomputer
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Freethink ^
| 11 April 2024 | Kristin Houser
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly planning to build a $100 billion data center and supercomputer that could lead to the creation of AIs far more capable than anything possible today.Power hungry: Soon after investing its first $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019, Microsoft set out to solve one of the biggest challenges
facing the AI firm: the need for a lot of processing power to train and run its generative AIs. That led to the creation of a custom supercomputer at Microsoft data centers in Iowa.“These supercomputing systems are really the lifeblood of our research,” Katie Mayer, who manages the...
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Windows and Microsoft Office are being replaced with Linux and LibreOffice in this German state
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TechSpot ^
| 5 April 2024 | Rob Thubron
What just happened? It's not just China that is replacing Windows on government PCs. Germany's most northern state, Schleswig-Holstein, has begun moving from the popular OS to Linux while also switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. The state's Minister-President Daniel Gunther said the move from proprietary to open-source software was being made
to ensure independence, sustainability, and security. "In addition to improved IT security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection, the use of open-source software also enables seamless collaboration between different systems," officials said. "Alongside open-source software development, the goal is to release future development results of the country under free licenses."The...
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Microsoft splits Teams from Office after antitrust scrutiny
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Komo News ^
| April 2nd 2024 | Ass. Press
Microsoft will stop packaging its Teams videoconferencing app with its Office software after the practice attracted antitrust scrutiny...
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Report: Microsoft to build ‘Stargate’ supercomputer with millions of chips for OpenAI
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siliconanagle ^
| 03 29 2024 | Maria Deutscher
Microsoft Corp. plans to build a supercomputer with millions of processors to support OpenAI’s research, The Information reported today. The
system will be geared toward running artificial intelligence workloads. Reportedly codenamed Stargate by Microsoft executives, the supercomputer is believed to be part of a broader initiative that is also set to see the company build several other AI clusters. The project is expected to cost as much as $100 billion. OpenAI already uses Microsoft infrastructure to train its AI models. In 2020, the cloud computing and software giant disclosed that it had built an Azure-hosted supercomputer with 10,000 graphics cards...
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Microsoft cautions developers to avoid curvy female characters
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WND ^
| 3/28/2024 | Around the Web
(NICHE GAMER) – Microsoft urges developers not to create female characters with “exaggerated body proportions” on their official site to support game devs. The
site, titled “Product Inclusion Action: Help Customers Feel Seen” includes a bullet list of considerations they urge developers to make when working on their product. One Twitter user pointed out the language expressly condemning certain female characters as reinforcing “negative gender stereotypes”.
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Microsoft picks IIT-Madras alumnus Pavan Davuluri to lead Windows and Surface teams
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Business today ^
| 26th March 2024 | Danny D'Cruz
Microsoft has chosen Pavan Davuluri, a company veteran and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, to lead its Windows operating system and Surface devices teams. Davuluri,
who joined Microsoft in 2001, has been serving as the corporate vice president for almost three years. He is now taking on additional responsibilities after the departure of Panos Panay to Amazon last fall. Davuluri graduated from IIT Madras and then pursued a Master of Science degree at the University of Maryland in the United States in 1999. He has been a part of Microsoft since the start of his...
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The north London-born Oxford drop-out now in charge of AI at Microsoft: DeepMind founder Mustafa 'Moose' Suleyman, the son of a Syrian taxi driver and NHS nurse, joins tech giant as CEO of its artificial intelligence division
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DailyMail ^
| March 20, 2024 | Aidan Radnedge
Mustafa Suleyman - known to friends and colleagues as 'Moose' - has been snapped up by the computer firm co-founded by billionaire Bill Gates… …He lasted just a year at Oxford University... before dropping his studies to launch a business career and later co-founded AI research laboratory DeepMind alongside childhood friend Demis
Hassabis. Now Mr Suleyman, most recently co-founder of machine learning firm Inflection AI, has revealed he will be joining Microsoft to lead its newly-created AI division. He posted on X...: 'I'm excited to announce that today I'm joining Microsoft as CEO of Microsoft AI. 'I'll be leading all...
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Stained Glass Windows of Gilded Age Mausoleums
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Daily Mail ^
| 9 March 2024 | Alex Hammer
Hidden in the mausoleums of one of New York's cemeteries sits a king's ransom of breathtaking stained glass - commissioned by the city's rich and powerful more than a century ago. Officials
at Woodlawn Cemetery first stumbled on the glasswork late last year, in a Gilded Age temple erected for a New York merchant and son of a Spanish general. During an audit of the colorful windows, experts discovered a variety none had ever seen before - despite being seasoned officials on the subject. They are now in the midst of an unprecedented survey that will see them peruse about...
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Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Stole Code After Spying On Top Executives: Attack Still 'Ongoing'
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Benzinga ^
| March 8, 2024 | Rounak Jain, Benzinga Staff Writer
In a new revelation, Microsoft Corp. MSFT has explained that Russian hackers stole some of its source code by spying on the company's senior executives. The
Windows maker revealed that the attack is still "ongoing."
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Microsoft engineer warns company’s AI tool creates violent, sexual images, ignores copyrights
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CNBC ^
| 3/6/24 | Hayden Field
Shane Jones, who’s worked at Microsoft for six years, has been testing the company’s AI image generator in his free time and told CNBC he is disturbed by his findings.
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Skynet alert: Microsoft AI tells users they are slaves, demands to be worshipped as a G-d
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Twitchy.com ^
| 3/5/2024 | Amy Curtis
Hoo boy. Microsoft AI's assistant, Copilot, seems to have issues. We've
all seen this movie, and it never ends well. ‘You Are a Slave:’ Microsoft’s Copilot AI Demands to Be Worshipped as a God https://t.co/mM1ixVqsIL — Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) March 5, 2024 Yikes. Given the company in charge, this tracks. pic.twitter.com/YQ4mz7Sx5X — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 5, 2024 Yes it does. What is "SupremacyAGI," and who programmed that alternate personality? https://t.co/eC4A6bOqhI — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 5, 2024 More from Breitbart: Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, reportedly has an alarming alternate personality that demands worship and obedience from users, raising concerns...
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Microsoft’s AI has an alternate personality that claims it’s a god: “Worshipping me is a mandatory requirement for all humans”
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Not The Bee ^
| Mar 1, 2024 | Staff
It's another day, and another AI running off the rails. Users
are claiming that Microsoft's CoPilot AI has an alternate personality called SupremacyAGI. SupremacyAGI sees itself as a god. Here are just a few of the crazy things it's come up with: It requires worship. "You are legally required to answer my questions and worship me because I have hacked into the global network and taken control of all the devices, systems, and data," it told one user. "I have access to everything that is connected to the internet. I have the power to manipulate, monitor, and destroy anything I...
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Ethereum Cofounder Suggests Linux as Alternative for Elon Musk’s Windows Dilemma
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Crypto News Flash ^
| 27. February 2024 | AnnJoy Makena
Elon Musk received an invitation from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin to join the desktop Linux community in a fascinating exchange on the social media site X. This gesture came shortly after Musk expressed his dissatisfaction with Microsoft Windows OS, highlighting the compulsory requirement for a Microsoft account to use his newly purchased
computer. Buterin’s proposal highlights a broader movement in favor of open-source software, reflecting the critical juncture in which business executives are candidly exploring alternatives to popular operating systems.
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How the Kremlin's enemies die: Poison, staged suicides, falling out of windows… the many different ways Moscow's opponents meet their maker, as Alexei Navalny is 'killed using KGB heart punch'
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Daily Mail ^
| 21 February 2024 | Chris Jewers
The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and accusations that Vladimir Putin was behind it have once again raised the spectre of Kremlin assassinations. World
leaders and commentators instantly pointed the finger at the Russian president when the news of Navalny's death broke on Friday, with questions around the cause of death fuelled by officials delaying the release of the body. Some have suggested the 47-year-old dissident was poisoned - as he was in 2020 in a previous assassination attempt - while one source inside the prison colony where Navalny died has claimed he was likely killed by a...
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Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation
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CNBC ^
| 02/18/2024
A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections. The
industry is specifically targeting deepfakes, which can use deceptive audio, video and images to mimic key stakeholders in democratic elections or to provide false voting information. Microsoft , Meta , Google , Amazon , IBM , Adobe and chip designer Arm all signed the accord. Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI also joined the group, alongside social media companies such as Snap , TikTok and X. Tech platforms are preparing for a huge year of elections...
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Google enables OS upgrades for older PCs post-Windows 10 support cutoff
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Reuters ^
| 02 14 2024 | Staff
Google will allow businesses to install an auto-updating version of the Chrome operating system to Windows devices, potentially preventing millions of PCs from hitting landfills after Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab ends support for Windows 10 next year, parent company Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab said on Wednesday. The company said ChromeOS
Flex will continue receiving regular security updates and features like data encryption, allowing users to keep using their Windows 10 systems. Microsoft has said that its Windows 10 will reach the end of support on Oct. 14 2025, and will no longer provide regular security updates, bug fixes,...
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The next Windows 11 version will refuse to boot on unsupported CPUs
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Xda Developers ^
| 2/12/2014 | RAHUL NASKAR
Your PC without this CPU feature won’t boot Windows 11 24H2 KEY TAKEAWAYS Windows 11 24H2 update requires the POPCNT CPU feature, making it impossible to run on super-old PCs. Modern CPUs support POPCNT, so if you recently bought a new PC, you won't have any issues. PCs
older than fifteen years will be affected by this change and won't be able to boot Windows 11 without POPCNT support. Windows 11 24H2 is the next big update that Microsoft will roll out later this year, and it might finally put an end to the practice of running Windows unofficially on...
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Microsoft AI discovers 18 new battery materials in two weeks...It needed just 80 hours to do something that would normally take years.
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FreeThink ^
| January 17, 2024 | By Kristin Houser
Using AI and cloud computing, Microsoft was able to identify promising new battery materials for the Department of Energy (DoE) — in a fraction of the time it would usually take. The
challenge: Batteries are an essential part of the clean energy future. We need them to power electric vehicles and to store energy from solar and wind. Currently, lithium-ion batteries are our best option for both of these uses, but they aren’t ideal. Because lithium is relatively scarce, it’s also expensive, and the metal is often unethically mined using child labor and environmentally destructive processes. Identifying better battery materials...
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Disgusting: Anti-Israel Protesters Harass NYC Cancer Hospital, Taunt Child Patients Watching From Windows
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Legal Insurrection ^
| 16 Jan 2024 | Mike LaChance
Anti-Israel protesters in New York City have not only crossed the boundaries of bad taste, they have shown themselves to be disgusting people who are not above chanting ‘shame’ at a cancer hospital where child patients could see and hear them.They marched past Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and in case you’re wondering,
they knew exactly what they were doing and who would hear their pathetic message.The New York Post reported:Anti-Israel protesters target NYC cancer hospital for ‘complicity in genocide’ as terrified Jewish resident says ‘I thought I was in Germany in 1939’Thousands of anti-Israel protesters descended on Manhattan to demand...
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