InfoWorld

Microsoft’s PostgreSQL alternative, HorizonDB: Worth the wait?

Microsoft’s extended HorizonDB preview gives CIOs little reason to wait when production-ready PostgreSQL alternatives are already available, although Azure shops readying new AI workloads may still ...
Bleeping Computer

Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies

A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. Starting ...
GeekWire

Microsoft earnings preview: AI spending, cloud margins, and why the stock keeps falling

Microsoft has topped earnings expectations consistently in recent years, yet its stock is near a one-year low. So while it’s worth paying attention to revenue and profits when the company reports its ...
Seeking Alpha

Microsoft's Earnings Should Change The Narrative And Send Shares Back Over $500

I believe Microsoft is on the cusp of being re-rated back towards 52 week highs, as Azure and Copilot growth help shape the narrative back to "AI Winner." Current valuation is near multi-year lows, ...
Microsoft

Microsoft and Mistral expand strategic partnership to give enterprises and regulated industries frontier AI they can control

REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS — July 21, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Mistral on Tuesday announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises and regulated ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI

Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for ...
CNET

Xbox Live Is Back Online, Microsoft Says, but Some Players Want Compensation

It was a bad Monday for Xbox Live gamers. The gaming platform experienced about 20 hours of issues that prevented gamers from using it. According to the Xbox Live Status page, the problems ranged from ...
Reuters

Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech giants back open-source AI models

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab and other tech heavyweights made a public ‌case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source AI ...
WESH

'Had to arrest one of my own': Sumter detective accused of using databases to look up husband's ex

A detective with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office was fired and arrested for allegedly using law-enforcement databases to gain information on her husband's ex-wife, the sheriff said Thursday. Brandy ...

This 'classic' decades-old SQL injection flaw could let hackers take over entire Windows servers

Huntress spotted a white whale - a malicious toolkit stored as a database object.
The Verge

Xbox’s ‘reset’: all the news about Microsoft’s layoffs and studio changes

Sharma noted that there will also be changes at “Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios” that will “vary in size.” That reportedly includes cutting around half of ...