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RoboTic-Tac-Toe is an interactive game where two physical robots move around a tic-tac-toe board, with both the gameplay and robots’ movements orchestrated by LLMs. Players can control the robots using natural language commands, directing them to place their markers on the game board. In this post, we explore the architecture and prompt engineering techniques used to reason about a tic-tac-toe game and decide the next best game strategy and movement plan for the current player.

Thunderbird 145 has been released with full native support for Microsoft Exchange email via the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol. [...]

Timed with the Microsoft Ignite conference running this week, NVIDIA is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft, including through the adoption of next-generation NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switches for the new Microsoft Fairwater AI superfactory, powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The collaboration brings new integrations across Microsoft 365 Copilot, as well as the public preview of Read Article

My social media feed is now a hellish stream of puerile AI slop. Am I stubborn to want to hang on to reality? Recently, a friend sent me a video of a man dressed as a pickle. Following a high-octane car chase, the pickle flung himself out of the car and flailed down the highway. It was stupid and we laughed. But it also wasn’t real. When I pointed out to my friend that the video was AI-generated, she was taken by surprise, noting she’s usually pretty good at spotting them. She was also frustrated: “I hate having to be on the constant lookout for AI trash,” she lamented in the chat. And I feel that. Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit. Continue reading...

Nasdaq lower as heavyweights including Nvidia and Microsoft sustain steep falls

A global campaign dubbed ShadowRay 2.0 hijacks exposed Ray Clusters by exploiting an old code execution flaw to turn them into a self-propagating cryptomining botnet. [...]

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.

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Microsoft announced two new Windows 11 recovery features today at the Ignite developer conference, called Cloud Rebuild and Point-in-Time Restore (PITR), that aim to reduce downtime and make it easier to recover from system failures or faulty updates. [...]

Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues.

Excellent design and display filters, but the lack of OpenFPGA support rankles.

The malware authors associated with a Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) kit known as Sneaky 2FA have incorporated Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) functionality into their arsenal, underscoring the continued evolution of such offerings and further making it easier for less-skilled threat actors to mount attacks at scale. Push Security, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said it observed the use

ZDNET sat down with Andrew Ng at AI Dev 25 in New York to talk about developer futures, responsible AI, and why AGI is overhyped.

In the agentic era, security must be ambient and autonomous, like the AI it protects. This is our vision for security, where security becomes the core primitive. The post ​​Ambient and autonomous security for the agentic era​​ appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

We investigate the scaling behaviour of multimodal transformers across data regimes.

This new AI coding environment looks like a real winner. Here's why.