Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as its customers, with the same requirements and the same problems, only doing it a couple of years ahead of them. Many of its tools

Every new protocol introduces its own complexities. When a new protocol shows up, the first question to ask is whether it is truly necessary. So, let’s ask that question about the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The current wave of agentic apps, sparked by tools like ChatGPT, are powered by large language models (LLMs) that excel

Pattern matching is a way to simplify your code by checking if a value fits a certain structure or type, without having to write messy, repetitive checks. Instead of using multiple if statements and manual type casting, you can simply let Java do the heavy lifting. Developers use pattern matching to reduce unnecessary work in

Every now and then, a new phone feature comes along that really makes you sit up and say: “Now, that’s cool.” Today, my fellow Android-appreciating animal, is one of those days — quite literally. No exaggeration: When I first found and tried out the feature we’re about to go over, just a few moments ago,

OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be crushing Microsoft Copilot, but Microsoft has a plan. And Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, offered up some clues about that plan on a podcast last week. He said OpenAI is interested in “superintelligence and AGI” — while Microsoft is interested in “craft and delight.” Microsoft wants to create AI life

Once again, Microsoft software is at the center of a massive global attack that has victimized vital US government agencies and businesses around the world. This time, the security hole is in SharePoint, Microsoft’s widely used collaboration software used to build company and agency websites, manage files and documents, and help people share and work

The surveillance-loving UK is in the news again, as Google refuses to deny it received a demand from the UK government to install backdoor access into its services (the same demand it’s made of Apple). It’s yet another illustration of the extent to which the UK, which makes more subject-access requests per head than any other Western

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his aggressive recruitment campaign for new AI venture Meta Superintelligence Labs. After luring in staff from OpenAI, he has now targeted Thinking Machines Lab — a startup led by Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former chief technology officer, Wired reports. According to data provided to the publication, more than a dozen

There’s mixed news for anyone worried that AI is about to wipe out a swathe of today’s well-paid IT jobs: according to a Microsoft Research study of real-world Copilot use, IT roles will be among the most affected by the technology. What’s less clear is whether applying AI to IT will mean that specific roles

Amid the launch of OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent, Redditors found something odd: that the AI will gladly click its way through a test meant to distinguish between humans and robots — by identifying itself as the former. Spotted by Ars Technica, this hilarious — if not foreboding — occurrence was documented on the r/OpenAI subreddit,