At its annual Ignite 2025 conference, Microsoft announced a major, long-term initiative to transform the operations of its massive Azure cloud infrastructure, moving toward fully autonomous, self-repairing data center platforms driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents. The company stated that the goal is to shift from reactive maintenance, where human engineers respond to server failures, to a predictive, self-healing model where the AI platform identifies, isolates, and

A team of IT security researchers from the University of Vienna and SBA Research has uncovered a severe privacy flaw in WhatsApp that allowed them to successfully enumerate and map the profiles of 3.5 billion active user accounts. That’s virtually the entire global user base. The flaw exploited a weakness in WhatsApp's contact discovery API, the mechanism designed to help users find which of their phone book contacts are also on the platform. The researchers demonstrated that