New research reveals how hackers are using Google to attack Microsoft passwords. Here’s everything you need to know and do.

In a refreshing change from recent negative sparring with Google, Microsoft has just confirmed a critical update for Windows PC users that should make everyone safer. The Windows-maker is asking users to change their settings now, given it says, that this new update targets a threat the FBI warns costs victims “over a billion dollars per year.”

Microsoft is trying out another new tactic to stop people from switching to Google products -- and it's even dodgier than the last one.

Malvertising targets Microsoft advertisers via fake Google ads, stealing credentials with phishing pages mimicking ads.microsoft.com.

Both Microsoft and Google are now including AI in some of their most popular productivity software. But prices are going up at the same time.

The open source software license of these iterations enabled Google to put its browser together quickly, which is partly why Chrome has an open source variant called Chromium. Oth

Considering Microsoft ends up buying TikTok, the company might be able to use the platform to boost its existing services, such as Bing Search. Bing Search is the main competitor to Google Search, and it has been rising in popularity for the last few years due to its quest to decentralize the search engine market.

A consortium of US west coast billionaires will own 49% of the Lords-based Hundred franchise after agreeing to pay a world record price for a minority stake in the team, Sky News can reveal.

Microsoft said its cloud-computing business will continue to grow slowly in the current quarter as the company struggles to build enough data centers to handle demand for its artificial intelligence products.

In its own research, DeepSeek said it had “distilled” models from its R1 system based on other open-source systems. Unlike OpenAI’s closed systems, some models such as Meta’s Llama are open-source and freely available for use.

Microsoft is allowing Copilot+ PC users to test out the sexy new AI model from DeepSeek -- and on the NPU, no less.

Google Workspace with Gemini AI now free gives Google Cloud a leg up over Microsoft 365 with Copilot generative AI, says CTO of Google partner Promevo.