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Anniversary Of Nuclear Disaster At Three Mile Island Marked Near The Site

Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers

1:40pm September 20, 2024

Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania power plant that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in American history, will reopen and sell power to Microsoft.

Microsoft detects fake news sites linked to Iran aimed at meddling in U.S. election

6:16pm August 09, 2024

by Juliana Kim

Researchers at Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center say Iran was behind four fake news sites geared toward amplifying polarizing messages to both liberal and conservative audiences.

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What we know about the computer update glitch disrupting systems around the world

3:17pm July 19, 2024

by The Associated Press

A tech meltdown left workers at airlines, banks and hospitals staring at the dreaded “blue screen of death” as their computers went inert in what is being described as a historic outage.

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AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change

11:22am July 12, 2024

by Dara Kerr

The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

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State-backed Russian hackers accessed senior Microsoft leaders' emails, company says

1:25pm January 20, 2024

by The Associated Press

Microsoft says hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of its leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.

Sam Altman is shown at a panel discussion on artificial intelligence at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco on Thursday.

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Ousted OpenAI leader Sam Altman joins Microsoft

11:11am November 20, 2023

by Bobby Allyn

The surprise development follows Altman's abrupt ouster from OpenAI by its board of directors over an apparent rift over balancing AI safety with the push to publicly release new powerful AI tools.

A signage of Microsoft is seen on March 13, 2020 in New York City. The U.S. government and Microsoft recently revealed that Chinese hackers broke in to online email systems and stole some unclassified information.

Microsoft says Chinese hackers breached email, including U.S. government agencies

12:56pm July 12, 2023

by Jenna McLaughlin

The U.S. government and Microsoft reveal Chinese hackers broke in to online email systems and stole some unclassified data.

The Activision Blizzard Booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on June 13, 2013. British regulators have blocked Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy the video game maker over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market.

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The U.K. blocks Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy game giant Activision Blizzard

10:49am April 26, 2023

by The Associated Press

British regulators blocked Microsoft's purchase, thwarting the biggest tech deal in history over worries that it would stifle competition in the fast-growing cloud gaming market.

Shares for Google's parent company, Alphabet, dropped 9% Wednesday after its AI chatbot, Bard, gave an incorrect answer.

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Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake

1:15pm February 09, 2023

by Emily Olson

Google's Bard, an answer to Microsoft's ChatGPT, delivered a factual error in a search demo that the company shared widely. That sent Alphabet's market value plummeting this week.

A building with offices belonging to Microsoft is seen in Chevy Chase, Maryland, January 18, 2023.

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Microsoft applications like Outlook and Teams were down for thousands of users

1:19pm January 25, 2023

by Emily Olson

Microsoft says it rolled back a network change that may have caused thousands to lose access to its apps Wednesday morning. Key workplace engines like Teams, Outlook and Sharepoint were impacted.