Tag: Microsoft
Microsoft reinvented office applications with AI tools
“Manufacturers now have a co-pilot in the live studio to help them build solutions and provide suggestions for improvements. To build an app, stream or bot, you can describe it in natural language and the co-pilot can build it in seconds. Easy,” the statement reads. “Power Apps’ Copilot makes it easy to keep data at […]
ChatGPT is still in the early stages of proving its industrial value: Report
The chatbot, which converses with users, has demonstrated its ability to write poems, essays and research papers, program computers and even take master’s level exams. Generative AI describes artificial intelligence algorithms that can be used to create new content, including text, images, videos, audio, code, and synthetic data. The excitement surrounding ChatGPT shows that the […]
Spotify announces plans to lay off 6% of workforce
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced Monday that the company plans to lay off about 6% of its workforce, or roughly 600 employees. The cuts are a result of financial challenges, according to Ek. The Swedish media streaming giant is one of the largest providers of its kind. Founded in 2006 by Ek and Martin Lorentzon, […]
Spotify is to reduce 6% of the workforce, approximately 600 employees
Stockholm – Swedish music streaming giant Spotify said Monday it is cutting six percent of its roughly 10,000 employees, the latest cost-cutting announcement among tech companies. “In retrospect, I was too ambitious when it came to investing ahead of our revenue growth. And for this reason, today we are reducing our employee base by approximately […]
Novo Nordisk will help finance abortion trips for American employees
Novo Nordisk will expand financial support to employees in the US after the implementation of strict abortion laws, reports Politiken. After the US Supreme Court overthrew Roe vs Wade on June 24, it is now illegal in many states in the United States to have an abortion. Because of the extreme mental and physical effects […]
Microsoft: Russian cyber espionage targets 42 allies in Ukraine
Cleveland, Ohio – At the same time as relentless cyberattacks on Ukraine, state-backed Russian hackers have engaged in “strategic espionage” against governments, think tanks, companies and aid groups in 42 countries that support Kyiv, Microsoft said in a report on Wednesday. “Since the beginning of the war, the Russian orientation [of Ukraine’s allies] has been […]
Nokia, VTT Finland’s leading patent application list
Last year, the online company Nokia filed by far the largest number of patent applications in Finland, the National Board of Patents and Registration said on Sunday. Nokia Technologies filed 223 applications and Nokia Solutions and Networks 58. Together, they applied for 281 patents, compared to 259 the previous year. Previously, Nokia, the world’s largest […]
Microsoft is building an energy-efficient, heat-generating data center in Finland
The US software company Microsoft has announced plans to build a new zero-emission data center area in southern Finland, which will also be able to supply district heating to the municipalities of Espoo, Kauniainen and Kirkkonummi. The company said in a statement released on Thursday "unique collaboration" Finland’s largest energy company – with the state-owned […]
The traffic map of Helsinki renamed the Russian Embassy Volodymyr Zelenskyy Park
The map of the route planner used by the Helsinki Region Transport (HSL) has been obtained from the ‘Volodymyr Zelenskyy Park’ at the address where the Russian Embassy is normally located. Users looking for their tram stop could see buildings related to the Russian embassy at Tehtaankatu 1 on Thursday, which was renamed in honor […]
Europe’s recovery and sustainability are at the top of the agenda at a high-level international conference in Dublin
LIVE speech by Taoiseach Michael Martin and a Q&A session Nicolas SchmitThe EU Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights will open the afternoon for discussions on the transition to a green economy and the future of social protection. Ivailo KalfinExecutive Director of Eurofound, opens Eurofound 7 Foundation Forum, which is held every four years. Forum […]
Meta threatens to withdraw Facebook, Instagram from Europe due to advertising ban
WASHINGTON DC: In a US application, Meta said that they are considering leaving Europe if they can no longer exchange data from European users with the US, due to the EU’s Schrems II privacy decision. The Schrems II decision is a crucial ruling by the European Court of Justice, which in July 2020 declared the […]
Police will lose crime reports from a hacked therapy center due to a spreadsheet error
Helsinki police admit that they have lost some of their criminal reports due to a large-scale patient data breach at the psychotherapy center and have not tried to contact the victims to tell them about the error. According to the authorities, the reports disappeared when they were transferred from the spreadsheet to the police system. […]
Microsoft will buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for $ 68.7 billion
According to The Verge, the deal is Microsoft’s biggest gaming effort, and the company says it will be “the third-largest gaming company after Tencent and Sony” after the deal expires. The popularity of online gaming has grown in all genres, including iGaming which has also grown in popularity during the pandemic. The growth of iGaming […]
Microsoft to end support for Internet Explorer in 2022: Is Mozilla the closest threat to Google Chrome?
Mozilla Firefox: Privacy Issues Prior to Edge’s launch, Firefox was a leading challenger to Google Chrome; in 2009, its market share was 31.56%, but since then its number of users has fallen significantly and steadily. Mozilla’s focus is to provide robust security and privacy features. To this end, they guarantee independence from large data mining […]
Millions have lost phishing scams – victims turn to arbitration
The National Financial Supervisory Authority (FINE) has resolved some 20 disputes this year involving citizens who have been victims of phishing scams that direct users to fake banking sites to steal their account credentials. Non-binding decisions have been made, some in favor of customers, but others have relieved banks of liability for losses. According to […]
Norway accuses China of cyberattacks
Norway has accused China of carrying out a major cyber attack. The attack has affected at least 30,000 organizations globally, including Norwegian government and business institutions earlier this year. Norway is among many European countries that accuse China of cyber attacks. China denies the allegations. It is a serious attack that affected our most important […]
The company giants are gaining ground during the pandemic
The five largest tech companies in the United States; Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Facebook, have grown strongly in the past year and together they now account for almost a quarter of the value of all 500 companies on the Standard and Poors stock index. The pandemic is one explanation for the growth In one […]
Four out of ten Swedes are considering changing jobs
A recent survey by Microsoft shows that four out of ten Swedes are considering changing jobs. This is something that will be a great challenge for the managers who now work remotely, says Hélène Barnekow, CEO of Microsoft Sweden to Ekonomiekot Extra. In the study, which was conducted in January, 1,000 Swedes were asked and […]
The Icelandic Smart Ring is gaining attention from foreign media
Icelandic tech company Genki has launched its latest smart device that allows you to control applications such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Spotify using hand gestures. The product has already attracted overseas attention and has been covered by major tech media such as Engadget, Fast Company, TechRadar, and Apple Insider. There are three buttons on […]
Hundreds of Finnish organizations are threatened by email hacking
The National Cyber Security Center says that it is aware that the e-mail systems of at least ten organizations in Finland have been hacked and that hundreds of corporate, municipal and other group e-mail services are at risk. The Center issued an updated warning on Monday (in Finnish) that active exploitation has targeted a critical […]
Tens of thousands affected by new hacker attack
A hacker attack is said to have affected around 30,000 companies, authorities and organizations in the USA, Europe and Asia, reports Reuters. The hackers are said to have installed a so-called backdoor in Microsoft’s email system Outlook and were thus able to get into the computer systems. Microsoft fears more attacks and accuses China of […]
Finns cheated one million euros of Internet scams this year
The scammer typically sends a message that the recipient can collect the tax refund by clicking on the link in the text. When a person clicks on the link, they are directed to a website that prompts them to disclose personal information, such as credit card information and social security numbers. These phishing messages have […]
Police: Finns will lose one million euros to online fraud so far this year
Fraud online as legitimate businesses and agencies successfully scams people for their money Juho Jauhiainen, Security Specialist at Traficom’s National Cyber Security Center. Scammers pretending to represent trustworthy outfits such as the national postal company Post, Microsoft and most recently the tax administration have been increasingly successful. In recent days, criminals opened a new scam […]
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Last week, the infection control doctor in Gävleborg, Shah Jalal, established a cluster outbreak of covid 19 infection at Microsoft’s facility in Gävle. This led him to issue special restrictions to everyone who works there, in order to prevent the spread of infection. “As a company, we naturally take what is happening seriously and we […]
From the serious to the colorful and back again
In the three years between 2008 and 2010, Erik Damgaard bought Denmark’s most expensive house, got his own TV program with Anni and became a fixture in the gossip press. It was a turbulent time for the businessman, where he got married, divorced and fathered for the third time. It was also there that he […]
Kofod: Tech ambassador cannot be measured in kroner and øre
For most of 2020, the position as Denmark’s tech ambassador was vacant, after Casper Klynge announced his farewell in January last year in favor of a job at tech giant Microsoft. It was not until August last year that Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen was hired to replace him in the position that Denmark was the […]
Folksam accidentally leaked information about over a million customers
Sweden’s largest insurance company, Folksam, accidentally leaked information about over a million customers to corporate giants such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft, Folksam states in a statement today. The information that was leaked included a social security number, but according to the insurance company, there is nothing to indicate that the information ended up in […]
United States sues Google for breach of competition rules
The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google for violating competition rules, US media reports. The Ministry of Justice considers that Google has acted as a disincentive to competition in order to maintain its monopoly on the search engine market and advertising there. Eleven Republican state justice ministers support the government in […]
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At the same time as Microsoft is lowering the groundwater level in Stackbo in Valbo, wells in the village have dried out. The groundwater lowering takes place without a permit review by the land and environmental court or the county administrative board, and the company ensures that no people, animals or nature are affected. The […]
Board states: Mails were deleted by mistake
It was a human error and not a deliberate act, as all sent emails from employees of the Danish Health and Medicines Authority and the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) were deleted. This is what Deputy Director of the Danish Health and Medicines Authority Vibeke van der Sprong says. After the board on Wednesday issued a […]
Denmark gets new technological ambassador
Denmark hit the global headlines in 2017, when Casper Klynge became the first tech ambassador in the world. Now the position is getting attention again after the news about Anne Marie Engtoft succeeds Klynge to become the youngest Dane to hold an ambassadorial post in Danish history. The 33-year-old takes over the position in Silicon […]
A man from Helsinki loses 100,000 euros "Microsoft support" hoax
According to the city’s police department, the scammers who acted as Microsoft’s supporters fled the Helsinki man for 100,000 euros. The scam started with the victim getting a phone call from someone who claimed to be from a Microsoft support team who told him they needed access to his computer. He was asked to install […]
Listen: Calls from ‘Microsoft Support’ scammers have been recorded for a vigilant destination
According to experts from the National Center for Cyber Security, scammers posing as Microsoft technical support employees make tens of thousands of calls to Finland in just a week. “The numbers could be as high as one hundred thousand a week, ”he said Ville Kontinen, a security expert at the center. The unit estimates that […]
