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Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Fungible, a start-up selling composable disaggregated infrastructure solutions for data centers. The company plans to use the Fungible technology and team to boost the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Fungible launched its data processing unit (DPU) back in 2016 to enhance the efficiency of data-centric computations within server nodes in…

Microsoft is reportedly planning to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into its Office applications. A new report from The Information suggests that the new AI-powered features will allow users to automatically generate text with natural language prompts in Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. OpenAI first made its ChatGPT tool available for public testing back in November 2021….

Amazon Web Services announced yesterday that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) can now encrypt all new objects by default. The company says that S3 can automatically apply server-side encryption (SSE-S3) for each new object without any performance degradation. Amazon Simple Storage Service (also known as Amazon S3) is a web-based cloud storage service. It’s…

Last month, Microsoft acknowledged that some Windows applications might experience problems while connecting to databases through ODBC (Open Database Connections). Now, the company has provided a workaround solution to address this problem on Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs. Microsoft says that the OBDC SQL Server bug specifically affected users who installed the November Patch…

Microsoft is set of end extended support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 in October 2023. The company is reminding customers that it will no longer provide software updates, security patches, and technical support after this date. It’s been more than four years since Microsoft announced the end of mainstream support for…

Last week, PyTorch identified a supply chain attack that potentially caused developers to download a compromised PyTorch dependency. The PyTorch team published an advisory to warn developers that the package includes malicious code to steal system data. PyTorch is an open-source framework that allows Python developers to build machine-learning applications. It was mainly developed by…

Microsoft announced yesterday that it has started rolling out the Automate tab to Excel for Windows and macOS. The latest update lets desktop users create and edit Office scripts to automate their repetitive spreadsheet tasks or workflows. Up until now, the Automate tab was only available for customers in Excel on the web. With this…

Microsoft has recently detailed the latest round of updates made to its Teams collaboration service in December 2022. It’s been a quiet month for Microsoft due to the holiday season, but the company announced some interesting improvements like a delete chat feature, over 800 emoji reactions, new Adobe Acrobat integration, updates for Teams devices, and…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new update that brings co-organizer support for managing breakout rooms. The company has recently announced that this feature is rolling out in public preview to the Windows and macOS desktop apps. Just like meeting organizers, Microsoft Teams now allows co-organizers to create and manage Breakout Rooms. The feature also enables…

Microsoft is working on a slew of notable improvements for Windows 11 that are expected to arrive with different “Moment” updates in 2023. Indeed, a new report from Windows Central suggests that the company plans to release the first update for Windows 11 PCs in February or March of next year. Microsoft officially announced the…