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Microsoft lodges appeal against block on $75bn Call of Duty deal | Business News
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Microsoft will on Wednesday lodge a formal appeal against British regulators’ decision to block its $75bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, the Call of Duty maker. Sky News understands that the technology behemoth will file its complaint with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) within hours, sparking the next phase of its fight to secure one of…
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Microsoft blocked in bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard – but vows to respond | Business News
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The British competition watchdog has blocked Microsoft’s bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stopped the $68.7bn (£55bn) deal due to concerns that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. It would have been the record highest price ever paid by a US tech company in…
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Microsoft reveals AI ‘copilot for work’ that can write your emails and let you skip meetings | Science & Tech News
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Microsoft has revealed an AI “copilot for work” that can write your emails and allow you to catch up on skipped meetings. The tech giant is bringing the ChatGPT-like assistant to all of its Office apps, including Word, Teams, and Outlook. A recorded video showed the bot summarising calls, taking notes during meetings, and answering…
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Microsoft limits new Bing after reports of bizarre answers – with journalist ‘compared to Hitler’ | Science & Tech News
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Microsoft is limiting how many questions people can ask its new Bing chatbot after reports of it becoming somewhat unhinged, including threatening users and comparing them to Adolf Hitler. The upgraded search engine with new AI functionality, powered by the same kind of technology as ChatGPT, was announced earlier this month. Since then, it has…
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Microsoft unveils new Bing powered by ChatGPT and takes aim at Google in bid to change how we search the web | Science & Tech News
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Microsoft has revealed a revamped Bing search engine powered by chatbot technology as an AI arms race with rival Google hots up. The Windows, Office, and Xbox maker is also giving its Edge web browser an update following a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, which took the world by storm last year by releasing ChatGPT. While…
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German cybersecurity officials looking into ‘culprits’ behind Microsoft outage | World News
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Germany is looking into a Microsoft outage that affected users around the world today. The interior ministry said the country’s cybersecurity office was investigating to identify potential culprits behind the attack. “The scope and source of these attacks are currently being clarified,” said a spokesperson. The company has not revealed how many were affected, but…
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Teams and Outlook go down for thousands of Microsoft users | Science & Tech News
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Microsoft is investigating an outage that has left thousands of users around the world unable to access the website’s services, including Teams and Outlook. Downdetector.com, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, recorded thousands of people reporting problems with Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and XBox Live. It showed there were around…
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Microsoft to axe thousands of jobs in latest cull by tech giant | Business News
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Microsoft is preparing to axe thousands of jobs in the latest move by one of the world’s biggest technology companies to reduce its workforce in the face of a slowing global economy. Sky News has learnt that the US software giant could announce plans to cull a significant number of posts around the world within…
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Microsoft $69bn takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard challenged by US watchdog | Business News
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A US competition watchdog has moved to block Microsoft’s $69bn (£56bn) bid to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard. The action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) threatens the tech giant’s plans to rapidly expand its portfolio of games and catch up with rivals. Microsoft, which owns the Xbox console and game network platform,…
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Microsoft reveals Janet Jackson song had the power to crash laptops – even if it wasn’t playing on them | Science & Tech News
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The music video for Janet Jackson’s 1989 hit Rhythm Nation was a sensation in terms of its choreography and direction. Its foggy noir-like style won it numerous accolades, including a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. But the dystopian pop video had something else going for it too – the power to crash…