Rabia Noureen

Google announced the launch of its new A3 supercomputer virtual machines at Google I/O 2023. The company explained that the new offerings are designed to cater to the needs of the resource-intensive Large Language Models (LLMs). Google explained that its A3 supercomputer virtual machines (VMs) are powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs built on the Hopper…

Google has announced major updates for its Google Workspace suite of apps at the annual I/O conference. Dubbed Duet AI for Google Workspace, the new generative AI tools are coming to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps. “Duet AI already works behind the scenes in Workspace to help you write — whether it’s refining existing…

Microsoft has recently released several new security tools and features for its Microsoft Entra product family. These updates are designed to help organizations improve their security posture and protect against sophisticated cyber-attacks. “With the ever-increasing sophistication of cyber-attacks and the increasing use of cloud-based services and the proliferation of mobile devices, it is essential that…

Microsoft has released new security patches to address the BlackLotus UEFI security flaw in all supported versions of Windows 11 and 10 as well as Windows Server. The vulnerability (CVE-2023-24932) could enable threat actors to bypass Secure Boot and other advanced protections on fully updated Windows machines. The Secure Boot feature allows users to prevent…

Amazon has announced that AWS User notifications support is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new feature enables IT Pros to create actionable push notifications across AWS services, accounts, and regions. With AWS User notifications, IT admins can centrally manage and view notifications from more than 100 AWS services. These include AWS Health Dashboard…

Microsoft has detailed its plans to protect organizations against persistently vulnerable Exchange Servers. Starting on May 10, the company is introducing a new transport-based enforcement system that will block email traffic from unpatched or out-of-support Exchange Server instances. Microsoft explained that it will implement the new transport-based enforcement system in eight stages. The service will…

Microsoft has released its latest Work Trend Index report, which highlights data and insights about how work is changing in this new era of artificial intelligence (AI). The research study was published in conjunction with the latest updates to its Microsoft 365 Copilot tool. The report, “Will AI Fix Work?,” is based on data collected…

Microsoft has recently released a major update for its Microsoft Lists app. The company detailed that the latest update brings several new capabilities and performance optimizations for Microsoft List users. Under the hood, Microsoft has made various enhancements to make the Lists app twice as fast as before. Users should now notice faster loading times,…

Last year, Microsoft released support for number matching in push notifications for its Microsoft Authenticator app. Starting today, the number matching feature will become the default experience for all Authenticator users worldwide. Microsoft’s Authenticator app’s number matching feature requires users to type the number displayed on the sign-in screen to approve access requests. It helps…

Microsoft has announced the release of its new cumulative update (CU13) for Exchange Server 2019. The latest update brings modern authentication support to Outlook for Windows in Exchange Server 2019 and addresses around 200 bugs. Specifically, the 2023 H1 cumulative update adds support for modern authentication to on-premises Exchange Server 2019 environments. The security feature…

Last year, Microsoft released a public preview of Azure Active Directory certificate-based authentication (CBA) on mobile. The company announced yesterday that Azure AD CBA support is now generally available on iOS and Android devices. The new security solution allows IT admins to provision certificates with a hardware security key for authentication on mobile devices. The…

Google has started rolling out its passkey technology to Google accounts across all platforms. The feature allows users to log into any of their accounts with passkeys instead of passphrases and multifactor authentication (MFA). A passkey is an authentication feature that enables users to securely access apps and services. It’s designed to let users authenticate…