Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor

Microsoft Pluton

The role of the Windows PC and trust in technology are more important than ever as our devices keep us connected and productive across work and life. Windows 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, built with end-to-end security for protection from the edge to the cloud all the way down to the hardware. Advancements like Windows Hello biometric facial recognition, built-in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and firmware protections and advanced system capabilities like System Guard, Application Control for Windows and more have helped Microsoft keep pace with the evolving threat landscape. Today, Microsoft alongside our…

Microsoft will replace journalists with AI

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Microsoft will replace journalists with news-savvy artificial intelligence (AI). Microsoft has announced that it will be axing its team of journalists that work for msn.com. Artificial intelligence will perform these news production tasks, sources told the Seattle Times. The tech giant contracts several dozen journalists to select and curate news stories that appear on MSN. That news is displaying on the home page of Microsoft Edge browser and integrate in the new Microsoft News Bar. But starting in June, these media workers will be out of a job. Their responsibilities will…

Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

When I read that Microsoft released open-sources GW-BASIC, I couldn’t resist to take a look at the code on GitHub. I spent my childhood to play with GW-BASIC and Clipper (do you remember that?) These sources, as clearly stated in the repo’s readme, are the 8088 assembly language sources from 10th Feb 1983, and are being open-sourced for historical reference and educational purposes. This means we will not be accepting PRs that modify the source in any way. A little historical context The GW-BASIC source code being published is dated Feb 10th…