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Microsoft posted a staggering ninety billion dollars in quarterly revenue, an eighteen percent jump that sent its stock up more than seven percent after hours. The real engine was cloud, which pulled in nearly sixty billion dollars alone, with AI services increasingly contributing to that growth — though analysts note the AI harvest is still modest relative to the investment.
On the threat intelligence front, Google is overhauling how it names the hacker groups it tracks. Out go the inherited Mandiant and TAG identifiers, replaced by two-word cryptonyms where the second word signals origin — CASTLE for China, NEPTUNE for North Korea, RELIC for Russia. It's a bid to standardize language across teams and make attribution clearer to the outside world.
And for anyone frustrated by the fragmented streaming landscape, a writer at TechRadar made a compelling case for going off-grid entirely — building a personal media server using the free Plex app in about three hours. With content scattered across a dozen paid platforms, owning your library and hosting it yourself is starting to look less like a hobby and more like a rational choice.
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