CERT-In Warns Users of Multiple Vulnerabilities in Different Versions of Microsoft Windows OS

CERT-In Warns Users of Multiple Vulnerabilities in Different Versions of Microsoft Windows OS

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. Two separate vulnerabilities were found in various builds of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server, the company’s platform for running network-based applications. The cybersecurity agency has flagged these vulnerabilities as…

Take-Two CEO Says Call of Duty Will Help Grow Xbox Game Pass ‘For a Period of Time’: Report

Take-Two CEO Says Call of Duty Will Help Grow Xbox Game Pass ‘For a Period of Time’: Report

Microsoft announced in May that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Xbox Game Pass on day one when it launches October 25. The Xbox parent likely expects Game Pass subscriber numbers to grow with the launch of the popular first-person shooter on the service….

Doom and Doom II Now Available in a ‘Definitive’ Enhanced Package, Upgraded for Modern Platforms

Doom and Doom II Now Available in a ‘Definitive’ Enhanced Package, Upgraded for Modern Platforms

Bethesda is bringing the first two Doom games together in a single enhanced package for modern platforms. The combined re-release, dubbed Doom + Doom II, is now available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and Nintendo Switch. It’s also playable on Game Pass with an active subscription….

Iran is accelerating cyber activity that appears meant to influence the US election, Microsoft says
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Iran is accelerating cyber activity that appears meant to influence the US election, Microsoft says

Iran is ramping up online activity that appears intended to influence the upcoming US election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday. Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway…

OpenAI Launches SearchGPT, an AI-Powered Search Engine Prototype That Could Take on Google and Perplexity

OpenAI Launches SearchGPT, an AI-Powered Search Engine Prototype That Could Take on Google and Perplexity

OpenAI launched a temporary prototype of an artificial intelligence (AI) search engine dubbed SearchGPT on Thursday. The announcement came just a day after Microsoft rolled out its Bing generative search. Currently, SearchGPT is available in limited release, with access to a small group of users and publishers. The company has…

Microsoft Rolling Out AI-Powered Bing Generative Search, Could Rival Google’s AI Overviews

Microsoft Rolling Out AI-Powered Bing Generative Search, Could Rival Google’s AI Overviews

Microsoft added a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Bing search engine on Wednesday. Dubbed Bing generative search, the feature shows a snapshot with the information for the searched query. The feature is similar to Google’s AI Overviews which was publicly released in the US in May. Bing’s AI-powered…

HP EliteBook Ultra, HP OmniBook X Copilot+ AI PCs With Snapdragon X Elite Chipset Launched in India

HP EliteBook Ultra, HP OmniBook X Copilot+ AI PCs With Snapdragon X Elite Chipset Launched in India

HP unveiled its first Copilot+ AI PCs, the HP EliteBook Ultra and HP OmniBook X, in India on Thursday. Powered by the Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite platform, HP’s new AI laptops take advantage of the dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) of the chipset, rated at 45 trillion operations per second…

Activision Sold AI-Generated Call of Duty Cosmetic, Approved AI Use That Led to Layoffs: Report

Activision Sold AI-Generated Call of Duty Cosmetic, Approved AI Use That Led to Layoffs: Report

Activision reportedly utilised generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create an in-game cosmetic for its latest Call of Duty title and made it available for purchase in late 2023. The Call of Duty maker is said to have approved the use of generative AI tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to…

Microsoft Outage: From ATMs to Flights, Epic IT Crash Leaves Trail of Chaos

Microsoft Outage: From ATMs to Flights, Epic IT Crash Leaves Trail of Chaos

In what will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. crashed countless Microsoft Windows computer systems around the world on Friday. Microsoft Corp. and CrowdStrike have rolled out fixes, and systems are gradually being…