If you are thinking LinkedIn Audience Network is not a new service, you’d be right. The professional networking company has previously launched the feature in the past, in 2008 and 2015. However, this is an overhauled concept of the Audience Network and focuses on advertising. Speaking to VentureBeat, LinkedIn product manager Divye Raj Khilnani explained how the new network differs: “The difference is that this a completely new experience that is focused on mobile and native formats....

“If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released it too late,” he said over a decade ago, and as with all good quotes, it’s been hopelessly misconstrued. The problem, of course, is context. Speaking on his Masters of Scale podcast with Mark Zuckerberg, he went into more detail about the issue. “Over the years, some people have have interpreted my theory as permission to cut corners, act recklessly, or proceed without a clear plan,” he explained....

According to the Microsoft-owned company, the reply now features three suggestions based on a message received. Machine learning allows the suggestions to be tailored in context with personalized replies. These suggestions will be given based on the conversations being held. LinkedIn explains how this works in its blog today: “For example, if an old friend asks if you’re available to catch up over coffee next week, you may see suggestions like ‘Yes I am,’ or ‘Sure!...

It is worth noting that users will not be spammed by all jobs a company posts, which could be many for major organizations. Instead, LinkedIn will send a notification when a job listing matches aspects of the user profile. Speaking about the change, LinkedIn says it helps users on their career path: “Even if we’re not currently looking for a job, there’s often a particular company out there that we admire....

In a report published yesterday, Meta says the campaign was running for over a decade. After the first exposure in August, the Pentagon mandated an audit into how the military conducts false information warfare. Meta’s Q3 Adversarial Threat Report shows more evidence of the U.S. military playing a major role in the operation. The goal was to target users in Central Asia and the Middle East with pro-US information. This operation was first uncovered in August by the Stanford Internet Observatory and social media firm Graphika....

In a new developer blog post, the company says the full suite of the API’s features are coming to Windows 11: “The new DirectStorage API programming model that provides a DX12-style batched submission/completion calling pattern, relieving apps from the need to individually manage thousands of IO requests/completion notifications per second GPU decompression providing super-fast asset decompression for load time and streaming scenarios (coming in a later preview) Storage stack optimizations: On Windows 11, this consists of an upgraded OS storage stack that unlocks the full potential of DirectStorage, and on Windows 10, games will still benefit from the more efficient use of the legacy OS storage stack....

In a tweet, Sarkar said early-week builds were prevented by a ‘blocking bug’. As for any previews in the coming days, they are postponed because of the Memorial Day weekend in the US. Because most engineers are taking Friday off, there is not enough data on builds to release a preview. That means Insiders will not get a new release until sometime next week. If we were to guess, we would say Tuesday at the earliest, but likely later....

It’s clear the changes Microsoft made to combat phishing attacks earlier this year have worked. Before then, from November 2017 to January 2018, the company had a poor record. During that timeframe, Office 365 was missing too many phish emails compared to rivals. Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft, says the change is a result of hard work: “[It] is the culmination of the incredible focus, drive, and expertise of Microsoft researchers and engineers working together to push the boundaries of threat research, machine learning, and development of algorithms that together provide customers the most impressive and effective protection against phish emails available for Office 365 today....

In a blog post, Microsoft says the Emissions Impact Dashboard is now available on M365 in preview. It gives customers properly understand their impact on the environment through their greenhouse gas emissions when using Microsoft apps. By accessing Microsoft’s AI technology, the Emissions Impact Dashboard provides accurate accounting data for carbon usage across an organization. Admins can see the impact caused by Microsoft cloud service across the footprint of a business....

At its AI Summit in SanFrancisco on Wednesday, Microsoft announced an update for its Seeing AI app that will significantly help the vision-impaired. Simply, the app can now recognize and read written text aloud. Christmas cards will no longer be a mystery, and nor will currency in them. Seeing AI now supports more currencies, including British pounds, US dollars, Canadian Dollars, and Euros. This includes recent changes to the notes....

All Windows 10 customers want their data protected. In some instances, the information can be hugely critical, such as authorities passing data, political campaigns, governments, and military organizations. Microsoft Accounts for users running elections campaigns, in political committees, or politician staff can now protect themselves with AccountGuard. This new feature beings added security to Microsoft Accounts across platforms and services. Including more in-depth threat monitoring, AccountGuard regularly monitors accounts for security breaches....

To end NCSAM, Microsoft is announcing a machine learning algorithm that will detect password spray attacks. It is available in Microsoft Azure AD Identity Protection. Importantly, Redmond says the tool provides significantly better results than the previous algorithm. Password spray attacks are a common type of digital attack that rely on fairly primitive methods. A bad actor will use thousand of IP addresses through a botnet with common passwords. This is different to a password attack on a single user where the actor will use many passwords....

“Our grant fund will provide financing, technology, mentorship, networking opportunities and other support to help scale these start-ups’ innovative new technologies, services and business models,” explains Shelley McKinley, head of technology and corporate responsibility at Microsoft. Half of Microsoft’s investments are in its home continent, supporting startups in New York, West Virginia, and California. The rest support companies in Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, and Bangladesh. Here’s the full list: “US: CV Wireless (Essex County, New York), Skylark Wireless (Mingo County, West Virginia), Tribal Digital Village (Valley Center, California) and Numbers4Health(Texas, Maine, and Compton, California)....

When Microsoft said it would stop support for new chips on older Windows builds, there was considerable backlash. In reply, the company extended support for a year for Intel’s Skylake, and then came back and said it would extend until 2020. Again, this extension was just for Skylake. Newer processors like Intel’s Kaby Lake and AMD’s Ryzen are not supported. Microsoft is now implementing its changes. Of course, this is not a surprise as the company has been talking about it or a long time....

The move away from the legacy desktop app is because Microsoft will launch Office 2019 this year. Part of the suite’s updates is a new UI design which will extend to OneNote. The company wants all versions of the app to be the same across Windows. That obviously means Microsoft will push its UWP version over the older legacy app. With that in mind, a new version of OneNote is available on the Inside in preview....

Available from today, Bing Maps can now toggle on/off for colored mapping of traffic on maps. As mentioned, this has been available as two separate features in the past. Bing Maps would previously allowed users to follow routes by seeing which areas are most congested (green least, orange middle, red most). This ability is still available, but now users can also select options that overlay color schemes for added information such as time of routes, distance, and mode of transport....

Azure Managed Disks brings an easier way to manage disks. This is achieved via enhanced scalability and allows developers to scale without worrying about storage limitations. For developers, this means Azure CLI works like other cross-platform solutions. Customers can use the Azure Python SDK and the azure-mgmt-compute package 0.33.0 to administer Managed Disks. In its blog post, Microsoft explains that developers have previously needed to use multiple storage accounts to maintain images for VMs....

Azure Container Instances has launched in six regions through in the United States, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Microsoft says users can currently create containers for free, but a pricing structure will start from July 1, 2018. Developers use containers to host applications in virtualization, and Microsoft is already deep in this area with Azure Container Service. The hosting service needs virtual machines to work, but the new Instances solutions does not: Microsoft will continue to supply Azure Container Service as some customers will need it....

In terms of iOS and Android versions of OneDrive, Microsoft has added a new Mobile Capture feature. With this capability, users can add metadata to images they take on their device. Mobile Capture works with normal images, documents, or other scanned items. OneDrive already allows users to take an image directly in the app, so you will not have to leave to use Mobile Capture. Once an image is selected, you can choose which added data to include....

The addition allows customers to debug in Linux and Windows using direct serial-based access. Microsoft says some issues in virtual machines are hard to diagnose and fix. The company already supplies numerous tools for managing and securing VMs, but fixing tools are relatively scarce. For example, Microsoft offers tools like configuration, patching, automation, and scripting tools, but limited diagnostic abilities. Introducing Serial Console access gives users access to Microsoft’s datacenter-grade diagnostic tools to solve problems....