When Mike McClary decided to revive a discontinued flashlight that had once been one of his best sellers, he didn’t dust off the old supplier spreadsheet or spend weeks emailing factories. Instead, he opened Accio, an AI-powered sourcing assistant on Alibaba.com, and started a conversation. Within weeks he had a redesigned product, a recommended factory in Ningbo, and a projected
Announcing General Availability of Server Logic in Power Pages
Power Pages has taken a significant step forward: Server Logic is now generally available for production use. What began as a preview capability to bring server-side processing closer to makers and developers has matured into a production-ready feature designed for enterprise scenarios. With this GA release, organizations gain a native, governed, and extensible way to run server-side operations directly within
Price Elasticity: The One Data Point That Could Clarify AI’s Impact on Jobs
Silicon Valley’s conversations about AI often sound like inevitabilities: sweeping automation, mass displacement, and workplaces remade by powerful models. Those scenarios have driven anxiety among workers and intense debate among researchers. But one practical problem underlies much of the confusion: we lack the right economic data to predict how AI-driven productivity gains will actually affect employment. Without that missing piece,
Microsoft Links Medusa Ransomware Affiliate to Zero-Day Exploitation Campaign
Microsoft’s recent analysis tying a Medusa ransomware affiliate to a campaign that leveraged zero-day vulnerabilities has put a renewed spotlight on the evolving tactics of extortion groups and the threat posed by previously unknown software flaws. For security teams and executives, the announcement is a reminder that threat actors are combining rapid vulnerability exploitation with tried-and-true ransomware playbooks to increase
Zero Ads, Zero Tracking, Zero Exceptions: Build a Zero-Trust DNS Fortress for Every Device You Own
One self-hosted DNS server. Every device protected — at home and anywhere in the world. Here is a slightly terrifying, yet fun fact most people do not know: every time anyone in your household opens a browser, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) sees exactly which website they are visiting — before the page even loads. Not because they hacked your
Anthropic opens Microsoft 365 connectors to all Claude plans — what it means for users
Anthropic has quietly broadened access to one of Claude’s most practical integrations: the Microsoft 365 connector. Once reserved for Team and Enterprise subscribers, the connector is now available across every Claude plan — including the free tier — enabling Claude to read and search content stored in Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and Calendar for users tied to an organization’s Microsoft