Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Once, Azure was a cloud platform dedicated to Windows. These days, the company tests over 1,000 Linux distributions a month just to ensure their customer apps run smoothly on Azure.

Microsoft is always finding new ways to disrupt and annoy users—and this time, it comes in the form of an unavoidable pop-up notification. Even while most people are still upset…

Microsoft has released a recovery tool that’s designed to help IT admins repair Windows machines that were impacted by CrowdStrike’s faulty update that crashed 8.5 million Windows devices on Friday….

Banks, airports, TV stations, health care organizations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines have displayed…

Microsoft said early on Friday that its cloud services outage in the Central U.S. region was resolved after it led to the grounding and cancellation of several flights.  Frontier cancelled…

Nvidia announced Wednesday it is expanding its GPU kernel module open-source transition. Nvidia first released production-ready open-source Linux GPU kernel modules for data center compute GPUs in May 2022. Beginning…

UK regulators are now formally investigating Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff, months after most of Inflection’s staff joined Microsoft’s new AI division. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)…

Microsoft has been hit with fierce internal criticism after eliminating a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) team, according to internal documents viewed by Business Insider. The criticism came from a…

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Server updates from last month’s Patch Tuesday break some Microsoft 365 Defender features that use the network data reporting service.

Tech giants Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh each of electricity during 2023, surpassing the consumption of more than 100 countries, new research has claimed.

Microsoft signed a truce today with cloud providers that sees them get paid to drop a complaint to European Union antitrust regulators. Cloud association CISPE, which is backed by Microsoft’s…

Microsoft updates are making headlines this month, with multiple Windows vulnerabilities making the US government’s list of those known to have been exploited in the wild. Now a new report…

Republican lawmakers asked the Biden administration for an intelligence assessment of Microsoft’s $1.5 billion investment in UAE-based artificial intelligence firm G42 over concerns about transfer of sensitive technology and G42’s…

Over the last month, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office users have been experiencing “30088-27” errors when attempting to update the application. Based on widespread user reports, the update problems plague…

Today is Microsoft’s July 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 142 flaws, including two actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-days. This Patch Tuesday fixed five critical vulnerabilities,…