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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates: Keeping up with the latest fixes

Here's a look at the most recent Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft as well as a collection of recent updates so you can track what's changed.

16 Aug 20245 mins

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For August, Patch Tuesday means patch now

By Greg Lambert

16 Aug 202410 mins

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Germany’s BSI guns for better tech security

16 Aug 20245 mins

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AI and AR can supercharge ‘ambient computing’

16 Aug 20247 mins

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Agentic RAG AI — more marketing hype than tech advance

By Evan Schuman

16 Aug 20245 mins

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9 hidden Google Pixel features for smarter calling

16 Aug 202422 mins

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Windows 11 Insider Previews: What’s in the latest build?

By Preston Gralla

16 Aug 2024285 mins

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Researchers tackle AI fact-checking failures with new LLM training technique

By John E. Dunn

15 Aug 20244 mins

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MIT delivers database containing 700+ risks associated with AI

15 Aug 20241 min

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Jamf’s Microsoft Azure partnership opens up the enterprise

Jamf has removed another talking point used by Windows-centric IT folks to argue against accepting Macs in the enterprise.

15 Aug 2024 4 mins

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Google documents filed in antitrust case show efforts to push data collection limits

The filings showed a fondness for various corporate-speak euphemisms for spying on users, such as “sharing of conversational corpus.”

By Evan Schuman

15 Aug 2024 5 mins

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Microsoft rolls out Face Check selfie verification system

Powered by the Azure AI Vision Face API, Face Check uses real-time selfies to confirm an employee’s identity.

By Matthew Finnegan

15 Aug 2024 2 mins

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Hollywood unions OK AI-cloned voices in commercials

But companies must first obtain consent from the actor for any ad that uses the digital voice copy.

By Viktor Eriksson

15 Aug 2024 1 min

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BitLocker encryption becomes the default in Windows 11 24H2

When the next version of Windows 11 arrives this fall, encryption via BitLocker will be the default setting for reinstallations and new installations.

By Mikael Markander

15 Aug 2024 1 min

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The irony of Google's Pixel 9 AI gamble

Does Google really want these two letters to define its Pixel experience?

15 Aug 2024 12 mins

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Convenience has a cost, privacy has iPhone

Google's Apple-slanted criticisms open the debate about privacy in AI — and expose Gemini's limitations.

14 Aug 2024 6 mins

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AI firms face setback in copyright battle with visual artists

A California federal judge has ruled that visual artists can continue to pursue some of their copyright claims against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI.

14 Aug 2024 4 mins

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Microsoft to archive unlicensed OneDrive business accounts, charge reactivation fee

SharePoint admins are advised to identify unlicensed accounts and delete, assign a new license, or pay to keep the account in the Microsoft 365 Archive.

By Matthew Finnegan

14 Aug 2024 2 mins

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Microsoft patches six actively exploited vulnerabilities

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday covered 10 zero-day flaws, of which six are being exploited in the wild and four are publicly disclosed.

By Lucian Constantin

14 Aug 2024 1 min

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Microsoft has a fix for preventing the next CrowdStrike fiasco, but is it a good one?

Maybe giving security firms access to the Windows isn’t the best idea, but freezing them out could be worse.

By Preston Gralla

14 Aug 2024 6 mins

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The 5 best ways to print and save web pages on Windows

There are ways to improve your printing and saving experience in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and other modern browsers running on Windows.

By Chris Hoffman

14 Aug 2024 8 mins

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Office 365: A guide to the updates

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Windows 365 — Microsoft’s cloud-based OS explained

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Podcast: Is the gold rush for AI talent slowing down?

15 Aug 202427 mins

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Podcast: Google loses antitrust, and the world yawns

15 Aug 202442 mins

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Podcast: Does a chief risk officer make sense?

15 Aug 202438 mins

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Former Secret Service agent explains the security mistakes we continue to make

25 Jul 202448 mins

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