In early June, complaints began cropping up on Twitter that Outlook was down for as many as 18,000 users at the peak of what, it turns out, was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, according to a story in The Associated Press (AP) this morning. Microsoft acknowledged the attack in a blog post on Friday, offering some technical details and...Read More

Facebook parent Meta, introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can convert a chunk of new speech from text input and a brief audio clip for context. Called Voicebox, the company said that it can perform speech generation tasks it was not specifically trained on. However, the company is not releasing the chatbot for public use. According...Read More

After testing the smart chips feature for a while, Google has finally announced its availability to Docs users across the globe. The feature allows users to embed third-party apps — smart chips — into Google Docs. The feature has arrived as a part of Google’s new smart canvas revamp of the office suite services which also includes the...Read More