In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: into the kind of non-technical roles that, in earlier waves of enterprise software, would have waited years […]
HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs upwards of £4,000, and the EliteBook X G1a. The updates were flagged as critical, meaning they were applied automatically with no user intervention required. Complaints have […]
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous.
It is an unsettling irony when the world’s largest code-hosting platform becomes the victim of its own ecosystem. GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that a threat actor exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories after compromising an employee’s device through a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, marking one of the most significant breaches the Microsoft-owned company has ever […]
Windows, Office, Teams, Copilot, server operating systems, and the cloud licensing the regulator already flagged last July. A nine-month investigation, a February 2027 designation decision, and the first CMA SMS case to walk straight through the door the cloud market inquiry left ajar. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened a Strategic Market Status […]
