Delta’s CEO said that the CrowdStrike outage cost the airline $500 million in 5 days
Delta Airlines has sued Microsoft’s cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike over the software outage last month which led to thousands of flight cancellations. Delta’s CEO Ed Bastian said, “If you want priority access to the Delta, you need to fix the flaw in CrowdStrike’s deployment processes.” “You can’t come into a mission-critical 24/7 operation and tell us we have a bug,” he added.
Microsoft wants Congress to act against fraud created by artificial intelligence
Microsoft has called on US lawmakers to amend the federal law to combat ‘deepfake’ or AI-generated content. It said the laws need to be updated to include AI-generated content. “While tech sector and non-profit groups have taken recent step to address this problem, it has become apparent that our laws will…need to evolve to combat deepfake fraud,” Microsoft added.
Microsoft is having an outage that affects flights and banking around the world
A global IT outage on Friday led to a disruption in the services of at least 8.5 million Windows devices, including those of government agencies and businesses, Microsoft said. The outages are being felt across the globe, including in India, Japan, the UK, the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
Microsoft faces charges from the EU for abuses
The European Union (EU) has said it will impose a fine on Microsoft if it is found guilty of antitrust violations, if it cannot reach an agreement. In 2004, the EU had ordered Microsoft to offer a Windows operating system without Media Player bundled, which resulted in a Windows XP N version available only in EU markets.
After security backlash, Microsoft will switch off recall
Google’s Project Zero researcher James Forshaw has found a way to access Microsoft’s Recall feature without “administrator privileges”. This comes after Microsoft announced changes to its Copilot+ feature to make it an opt-in feature. The new features require users to provide a username and password to unlock the feature, which was previously turned on by default.
Unless you opt in, Windows won’t take the photos after all
Microsoft has said that it will continue to develop new ” capabilities and experiences” for its customers by prioritising privacy, safety and security first. This comes after Microsoft’s ‘Recall’ feature was criticised for failing to protect users’ data from unauthorised access. “We are taking steps to improve recall security,” said Nina Davuluri, corporate VP at Microsoft.
Before its pizza glue, the technology was cut back in its search
Microsoft has reportedly been asked to provide information about the safety of its AI-generated answers to search queries called AI Overviews. The feature was criticised after it produced incorrect answers to several queries. Google had recently made adjustments to its new search feature, AI Overviews, after screenshots of bizarre and misleading answers to queries went viral.
Microsoft aims to win over developers who use artificial intelligence
Microsoft has revealed it’s building a ‘Copilot runtime’ that can be used to integrate AI-based features into its apps like Studio Effects, filters and portrait blur. The runtime also includes a library of APIs that developers can use to tap into for their own apps. Microsoft also announced a new feature to automatically translate videos from sites like YouTube.
How does the Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air?
Microsoft has claimed that its “Copilot Plus PCs” will be “58 percent faster” than an “M3 MacBook Air”. The Copilot Plus PC’s neural processing unit can perform 45 trillion operations per second. The machine learning-enabled Surface Laptop 7 is powered by a Snapdragon X Plus chip and has a 20-hour battery life, compared to 13 hours on an M3 MacBook Air.
The US is working with key allies to create a global artificial intelligence safety network
South Korea and the UK on Tuesday opened a two-day AI Safety Summit which is being hosted by the two countries. This is the first of its kind since the first AI Safety Summit in the UK was held in November. It will also feature talks between world leaders and industry leaders, including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.