Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to ...

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Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code ...

Live from San Francisco, we compiled all the biggest news from Microsoft's annual developer conference. This is how Microsoft sees the future of AI computing. Microsoft Build is officially over, but ...

Every new AI agent your team deploys starts from scratch: no memory of how the business works, where data lives, or what rules apply. And as agentic coding tools spin up applications faster than ...

Microsoft has open-sourced two new tools aimed at bringing AI safety checks much earlier into the agent development lifecycle. The tools, called Rampart and Clarity, were announced this week as part ...

Microsoft open-sources RAMPART and Clarity to improve AI agent safety engineering. RAMPART turns red-team findings into repeatable AI safety tests for CI pipelines. Clarity helps developers validate ...

Microsoft releases RAMPART and Clarity as open source to improve AI agent safety engineering. RAMPART turns red-team findings into repeatable AI safety tests for CI pipelines. Clarity helps developers ...

A threat actor targeting Microsoft 365 and Azure production environments is stealing data in attacks that abuse legitimate applications and administration features. Microsoft tracks the actor as Storm ...

A large Microsoft Corp. data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government over the company’s request for guaranteed payments, people familiar with the matter ...

Microsoft is weighing whether to delay or scale back one of its most ambitious clean energy goals as its rapid buildout of AI data centers puts pressure on its ability to meet those targets. Microsoft ...