A Microsoft employee has managed to circumvent a block instituted earlier this week that limited mentions of "Palestine," "Gaza," and "Genocide" in email subject lines or in the body of a message. Nisreen Jaradat, a senior tech support engineer at Microsoft, emailed thousands of employees on May 23rd with the subject line: "You can't get [...]

Microsoft confirmed that it's laying off as many as 9,100 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in yet another round of cuts this year, reports The Seattle Times. Employees in Microsoft's Xbox division, known as Microsoft Gaming, are being hit hard by these layoffs, although exact numbers and divisions are not yet known. [...]

Researchers have already found a critical vulnerability in the new NLWeb protocol Microsoft made a big deal about just just a few months ago at Build. It's a protocol that's supposed to be HTML for the Agentic Web," offering ChatGPT-like search to any website or app. Discovery of the embarrassing security flaw comes in the [...]

Microsoft has fired two employees that were involved in a sit-in protest in vice chair and president Brad Smith's office. Software engineers Riki Fameliand Anna Hattle were both dismissed today, after being part of a group of seven protesters that managed to get inside Smith's office in Building 34 yesterday. Microsoft was forced to temporarily [...]