TrueSkill Through Time: Revisiting the History of Chess (2008) [pdf]

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Microsoft Quantum team reports observation of a 30 μEV topological gap

Quantum computing promises to help us solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges. Yet as an industry, we are still in the early days of discovering what’s possible. Today’s quantum computers are enabling researchers to do interesting work. However, these researchers often find … | Continue reading


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Best practices to implement a comprehensive Zero Trust security approach

Learn how to create a comprehensive, integrated Zero Trust approach that enables simplified security and compliance across your enterprise. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Soundscape - A map delivered in 3D sound

Microsoft Soundscape explores the use 3D audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings | Continue reading


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Preventing, Detecting, & Hunting for Exploitation of the Log4j 2 Vulnerability

Microsoft is tracking threats taking advantage of the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2. Get technical info and guidance for using Microsoft security solutions to protect against attacks. | Continue reading


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A Cross-Modal Audio Search Engine Based on Joint Audio-Text Embeddings (2018)

Ad-hoc audio clips, such as those from smart speakers, social media apps, security cameras and podcasts, are being recorded and shared online on a daily basis. For a variety of applications, it is important to be able to search effectively through these recordings. Web-based mult … | Continue reading


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Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology

Editor’s note: The researchers would like to acknowledge co-authors Christopher Takahashi, Gagan Gupta, Jake Smith, Richard Rouse, Paul Berndt, Sergey Yekhanin, David Ward, Siena Ang, Patrick Garvan, Hsing-Yeh Parker, Rob Carlson, Douglas Carmean, and Luis Ceze for their contribu … | Continue reading


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The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression

Our discovery and analysis of a sophisticated Mac trojan in October exposed a year-long evolution of a malware family—and depicts the rising complexity of threats across platforms. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Reports Q2 Earnings

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Destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has identified evidence of a destructive malware operation targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine. | Continue reading


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Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces

This is a guest post from our close partners, Semantic Machines By Zachary Tellman Conversational interfaces are an idea that is forever on the cusp of transforming the world. The potential is undeniable: everyone has innate, untapped conversational expertise. We could do away wi … | Continue reading


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Finding and fixing bugs with deep learning

Finding and fixing bugs in code is a time-consuming, and often frustrating, part of everyday work for software developers. Can deep learning address this problem and help developers deliver better software, faster? In a new paper, Self-Supervised Bug Detection and Repair, present … | Continue reading


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Project Frigatebird: AI for Autonomous Soaring

We push the frontier in AI decision making through enabling sailplane sUAVs to autonomously fly long range using energy of the air mass, like frigatebirds. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 2 years ago

Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology

Editor’s note: The researchers would like to acknowledge co-authors Christopher Takahashi, Gagan Gupta, Jake Smith, Richard Rouse, Paul Berndt, Sergey Yekhanin, David Ward, Siena Ang, Patrick Garvan, Hsing-Yeh Parker, Rob Carlson, Douglas Carmean, and Luis Ceze for their contribu … | Continue reading


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Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources [pdf]

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Stay Current, keep track of individual elements of a webpage

We view the browser as a “window to the world”. As we browse online, we have access to all kinds of resources and information. There are some tasks we do every day that are monotonous and can very much be automated. With Stay Current, our mission is to transfer the power to autom … | Continue reading


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ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop – Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows - $219

The ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop is an ultra-compact, ultra-efficient computer built for a range of home and business applications—making it the perfect testbed for Windows on Snapdragon (ARM) application developers.Note: There are no refunds available on this product. This pr … | Continue reading


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Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: Maintaining Confidentiality

Machine learning (ML) offers tremendous opportunities to increase productivity. However, ML systems are only as good as the quality of the data that informs the training of ML models. And training ML models requires a significant amount of data, more than a single individual or o … | Continue reading


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Efficient Remote Procedure Calls for Datacenters

Datacenter network latencies are approaching their microsecond-scale speed-of-light limit, and network bandwidths continue to grow beyond 100 Gbps. These improvements bear rethinking the design of communication-intensive distributed systems for datacenters, whose performance has … | Continue reading


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New Microsoft Sysmon report in VirusTotal improves security

Today, following the 25th year anniversary of Microsoft Sysinternals, we are announcing the general availability of a new Microsoft Sysmon report in VirusTotal. Whether you’re an IT professional or a developer, you’re probably already using Microsoft Sysinternals utilities to hel … | Continue reading


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Turing Bletchley: A Universal Image Language Representation Model

Today, the Microsoft Turing team is thrilled to introduce Turing Bletchley, a 2.5-billion parameter Universal Image Language Representation model (T-UILR) that can perform image-language tasks in 94 languages. T-Bletchley has an image encoder and a universal language encoder that … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft.com Offline with 503 Error

Entdecken Sie Microsoft-Produkte und -Dienste für Ihr Zuhause oder Ihr Unternehmen. Surface, Microsoft 365, Xbox, Windows, Azure und mehr. Hier finden Sie Downloads und erhalten Support. | Continue reading


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Forerunner: Constraint-Based Speculative Execution for Ethereum

Ethereum is an emerging distributed computing platform that supports a decentralized replicated virtual machine at a large scale. Transactions in Ethereum are specified in smart contracts, disseminated through broadcast, accepted into the chain of blocks, and then executed on eac … | Continue reading


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Microsoft finds new macOS vulnerability, Shrootless, that could bypass SIP

Microsoft found a vulnerability (CVE-2021-30892) that could allow an attacker to bypass System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS. We shared our findings with Apple via coordinated vulnerability disclosure, and a fix was released October 26. | Continue reading


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Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with the threat actor tracked as NOBELIUM, attempting to gain access to downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT ser … | Continue reading


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Get Mozilla Firefox – Microsoft Store

Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Mozilla Firefox. | Continue reading


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Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model

We are excited to introduce the DeepSpeed- and Megatron-powered Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model (MT-NLG), the largest and the most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date, with 530 billion parameters. It is the result of a research collabo … | Continue reading


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An Overview of the Singularity Project – Microsoft's Experimental OS [pdf]

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Algebraic Effects for Functional Programming [pdf]

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Microsoft’s 5 guiding principles for decentralized identities

Microsoft is excited about the opportunity to create a decentralized identity system that increases customer trust and adoption by minimizing data processing and providing the user much greater control of the specific identity data they share and how it will be used. | Continue reading


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Windows 11 System Requirements

Find an overview of Windows 11 specs and features from Microsoft. Learn about the device specifications, versions and languages available for Windows 11 | Continue reading


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Windows 11 Available for Download

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Account Surfer

Quickly switch between browsers and accounts with Account Surfer | Continue reading


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Office 2021 launches on October 5th

Today, we’re announcing more details about what consumers, students, and small businesses can expect from both Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 on October 5, 2021. Microsoft 365 is the best way to get access to the latest apps and features that help you stay productive, protected, a … | Continue reading


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Where-Provenance for Bidirectional Editing in Spreadsheets [pdf]

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Surface Laptop Studio

Flex your creative muscle on the boundary-pushing 14.3" touchscreen. Make seamless transitions from laptop to perfectly-angled stage to your portable canvas. | Continue reading


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Surface Duo 2

Open two screens and discover limitless possibilities with Surface Duo 2, now with next-level multitasking, lightning-fast 5G and intelligent three-lens camera. | Continue reading


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Microsoft allows sign-in without password

Beginning today, you can break free from your password and go passwordless with your Microsoft account. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Viva – Employee Experience and Engagement

Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform bringing communications, knowledge, and learning together to empower people and teams anywhere to be the best. | Continue reading


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Programming with Implicit Values, Functions, and Control

We introduce two new language features, called implicit functions and implicit control. Both generalize implicit values (or parameters) which are a typed implementation of dynamic binding. Implicit functions are bound dynamically but evaluated in the lexical scope of their bindin … | Continue reading


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Coq: Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf]

We describe a Coq formalization of a subset of the x86 architecture. One emphasis of the model is brevity: using dependent types, type classes and notation we give the x86 semantics a makeover that counters its reputation for baroqueness. We model bits, bytes, and memory concrete … | Continue reading


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A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability

We're sharing technical information about the vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-35211, which was used to attack the SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in limited and targeted attacks. | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 2 years ago

A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability

We're sharing technical information about the vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-35211, which was used to attack the SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in limited and targeted attacks. | Continue reading


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Detours: Software package for re-routing Win32 APIs underneath applications

Detours is a software package for re-routing Win32 APIs underneath applications. For almost twenty years, has been licensed by hundreds of ISVs and used by nearly every product team at Microsoft. What’s New? Detours 4.0.1 is now open source under the MIT license. Detours is on Gi … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 2 years ago

Lcc.net: Targeting the .NET Common Intermediate Language from Standard C (2002)

The core of the Microsoft .NET platform includes a new virtual machine, the Common Intermediate Language, also known as MSIL. Unlike most other VMs, including the Java VM, MSIL is designed specifically to support a wide range of languages. While it is designed primarily for type- … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 2 years ago

Attackers use Morse code, other encryption methods in evasive phishing campaign

During our year-long investigation of a targeted, invoice-themed XLS.HTML phishing campaign, attackers changed obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, demonstrating high motivation and skill to constantly evade detection and keep the credential theft opera … | Continue reading


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Safe program merges at scale: A grand challenge for program repair research

Since the computing world began embracing an open-source approach to programming, building software has become increasingly collaborative. Members of development teams with as few as two developers and as many as thousands are simultaneously editing different components in creati … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 2 years ago

Make Every feature Binary: A sparse neural network for improved search

Recently, Transformer-based deep learning models like GPT-3 have been getting a lot of attention in the machine learning world. These models excel at understanding semantic relationships, and they have contributed to large improvements in Microsoft Bing’s search experience and su … | Continue reading


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