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Global software and cloud giant; Azure, M365, Intune; DMA probe and US cloud sovereignty risk.
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#11 31 Jul
Mentioned in: Marking code draws 190, none of them TV
Media's AI Pivot#12 29 Jul
Reported quarterly capex and revised its calendar-2026 capex estimate to ~$175bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: The big four's combined capex holds near $732bn#12 28 Jul
Dublin slips to 15% as growth heads north
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#12 22 Jul
Mentioned in: Hotel WiFi steers guests to fake logins
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#13 22 Jul
Mentioned in: Google fined €890m four days before EU deadline
European Tech Sovereignty#11 22 Jul
Mentioned in: Alphabet lifts 2026 capex to $205bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#11 22 Jul
Mentioned in: SharePoint stays under active KEV fire
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#18 21 Jul
Mentioned in: Who actually said the word AI
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#18 21 Jul
Eighty jobs go at a Galician call centre
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#13 15 Jul
Mentioned in: Brussels orders Google to open Android to AI rivals
European Tech Sovereignty#17 14 Jul
Mentioned in: Citigroup reports a ratio, not a layoff
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#10 14 Jul
Mentioned in: A quiet KEV fortnight, then a 2008 bug
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#10 13 Jul
Mentioned in: New York freezes new permits by decree
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#10 9 Jul
Shipped an out-of-band Defender engine update patching RoguePlanet
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: Microsoft ends the Nightmare Eclipse run#16 6 Jul
Cut 4,800 jobs on 6 July 2026
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Microsoft cuts 4,800, denies AI did it#9 1 Jul
BlueHammer turns into a ransomware step
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#9 1 Jul
Mentioned in: SharePoint patch clock runs out today
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#10 29 Jun
Mentioned in: Ireland codes a 900 MW load-loss limit
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#9 24 Jun
Mentioned in: Virginia forces water draw into daylight
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#10 23 Jun
Mentioned in: Mistral ships self-hosted OCR 4 to Europe
European Tech Sovereignty#8 22 Jun
Mentioned in: Virginia taxes power behind the meter
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 22 Jun
Contracted 2.67 GW of dedicated BTM gas generation through 20-year PPA with Chevron
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Chevron builds Microsoft a gas plant#8 18 Jun
Mentioned in: Splunk lands its first-ever KEV entry
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#8 17 Jun
Restated opposition to uncoordinated disclosure and confirmed patch under development
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: A handle keeps dropping MS zero-days#7 14 Jun
Kenya's AI campus turned on a guarantee
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#7 10 Jun
Mentioned in: Seattle locks in its data-centre freeze
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#13 10 Jun
Mentioned in: States write the AI law Congress won't
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#7 9 Jun
Mentioned in: Arista refuses to patch KEV flaw
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#7 9 Jun
Released ~200-CVE June Patch Tuesday including Exchange fix sixteen days past its federal deadline
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: 200 fixes, six zero-days, late Exchange#6 4 Jun
Mentioned in: Cape Town objection hits Equinix sites
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 4 Jun
Mentioned in: Parliament drops Google for Qwant search
European Tech Sovereignty#7 3 Jun
Mentioned in: Google prices its water ahead of rules
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#7 3 Jun
Mentioned in: CAIDA due before College, scope cut
European Tech Sovereignty#8 2 Jun
Mentioned in: Gartner sees EU sovereign cloud up 83%
European Tech Sovereignty#5 1 Jun
Mentioned in: Amazon discharge nears Lake Anna vote
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#10 1 Jun
Mentioned in: Bruegel says EU sovereignty mimics rivals
European Tech Sovereignty#10 1 Jun
Mentioned in: Meta makes a third WhatsApp access offer
European Tech Sovereignty#5 27 May
Mentioned in: Brussels locks 27 May for CAIDA and Chips II
European Tech Sovereignty#6 27 May
Mentioned in: EU sovereignty law slips a third time
European Tech Sovereignty#3 19 May
Mentioned in: Gemini makes Canva and Adobe callable
Media's AI Pivot#5 18 May
Operated the Visual Studio Marketplace from which the trojanised extension was served
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: GitHub's own code cloned via add-on#9 15 May
Mentioned in: WARN Act untested: four AI cuts, zero enforcement actions
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#4 15 May
Provided only EEMS URL-rewrite mitigation; had not shipped a patch for CVE-2026-42897 as of 20 May
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: Exchange repeats the CISA deadline-before-patch trap#2 15 May
Mentioned in: Publisher AI adoption hits 93% in Q4 2025
Media's AI Pivot#5 15 May
Mentioned in: Multiverse hits $2.1bn on first cash quarter
UK Startups and Innovation#10 14 May
Mentioned in: Cisco cuts 4,000 on a record quarter
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#4 13 May
Released May 2026 Patch Tuesday on 13 May with 120 CVEs and no in-the-wild zero-days, breaking a 22-month streak
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: Patch Tuesday clean streak hides out-of-band KEVs#9 13 May
Launched voluntary retirement programme for 8,750 US employees and took $900M Q4 charge
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Microsoft's $900M retirement charge obscures 8,750 departures#4 11 May
Mentioned in: UNC6780 takes Cisco AI Defense source code
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#10 11 May
Mentioned in: Brussels gives no case number on Article 102 file
2026 FIFA World Cup#3 8 May
Mentioned in: Trellix discloses 21-day-old breach of source-code repository
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#1 8 May
Mentioned in: News Corp names $1.5bn Anthropic settlement
Media's AI Pivot#2 8 May
Mentioned in: Akamai puts Claude on the EU edge for $1.8bn
Media's AI Pivot#3 7 May
Mentioned in: Ivanti EPMM logs fourth KEV zero-day since 2023
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#5 7 May
Named as one of three hyperscalers targeted by CAIDA public-sector ban
European Tech Sovereignty: CAIDA leak: US clouds barred from EU public data#3 6 May
Mentioned in: CISA deadline for PAN-OS RCE lands four days early
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#6 6 May
Faced suspension of the $1bn Olkaria geothermal data-centre project
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Kenya halts $1bn Olkaria over power#8 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Hangzhou court bans AI-driven worker sackings
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#2 30 Apr
Reported $30.88bn fiscal Q3 capex up 84% YoY and $37bn AI annual run rate
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers raise 2026 capex to $725 billion#8 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Apple R&D up 33% as Tim Cook announces exit
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#2 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Seattle freezes data centres for a year
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 29 Apr
Raised annual capex to $190B and disclosed headcount will decline year-on-year in 2027
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Microsoft tells investors 2027 headcount will fall#3 29 Apr
Reported $30.88bn Q1 capex with no downward revision
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers post record $110.75bn Q1 capex#5 29 Apr
Mentioned in: Mistral ships Le Chat Enterprise and Medium 3.5
European Tech Sovereignty#3 28 Apr
Mentioned in: OpenAI cuts compute target by $800bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#2 27 Apr
Mentioned in: Johor halts data-centre approvals after water protest
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#4 24 Apr
Mentioned in: CISPE ships rival sovereign cloud badge
European Tech Sovereignty#2 23 Apr
Mentioned in: Sixteen agencies put IOC extinction in print
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#2 23 Apr
UNC6692 runs SNOW through Microsoft Teams
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#5 23 Apr
Lost Health Data Hub reference customer contract to Scaleway
European Tech Sovereignty: France awards Health Data Hub to Scaleway#3 19 Apr
Issued emergency out-of-band patch KB5091157 on 19 April for Windows Server LSASS reboot loops
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: KB5091157, Gentlemen C2 intel, ENISA CNAs: in brief#2 17 Apr
Mentioned in: EU awards first sovereign cloud deal
European Tech Sovereignty#3 17 Apr
Mentioned in: Commission awards sovereign cloud slot to Google joint venture
European Tech Sovereignty#1 16 Apr
Mentioned in: IEA: 17% growth, $700B capex run-rate
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 16 Apr
Mentioned in: Avid embeds Google Gemini in Media Composer
Media's AI Pivot#2 16 Apr
Mentioned in: DMA orders Google to open search data
European Tech Sovereignty#2 15 Apr
Mentioned in: Meta faces DMA order on WhatsApp AI
European Tech Sovereignty#2 15 Apr
Mentioned in: ORG brands UK tech dependency a risk
European Tech Sovereignty#1 14 Apr
Contained a 17-year-old RCE vulnerability now actively exploited in unpatched legacy deployments
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: 17-year-old Office RCE back on KEV#3 13 Apr
Mentioned in: OpenAI takes 88,500 sq ft in London, pauses Stargate UK
European Tech Sovereignty#1 14 Apr
#5 8 Apr
Anthropic withholds Mythos from public release
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 7 Apr
Mentioned in: GRU hijacks home routers for M365 logins
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#5 8 Apr
“granted restricted model access via glasswing”
AI: Jobs, Power & Money · source event
#2 2 Apr
Mentioned in: Outlook Crashes at 46,000 Miles From Earth
Artemis II Moon Mission#8 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Alphabet books $35.7bn Q1 capex; backlog hits $460bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#8 1 Apr
Mentioned in: India IT trio post first negative quarter
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Reach signs AWS pay-per-usage AI licensing deal
Media's AI Pivot#3 31 Mar
Mentioned in: Amazon pays $20.5m Boardman nitrate deal
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 28 Mar
Mentioned in: Granola hits $1.5bn in three years
UK Startups and Innovation#3 26 Mar
Azure up 40%, Microsoft posts $77.7bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 23 Mar
Mentioned in: CitrixBleed 3 lands on SAML broker
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#1 11 Mar
Mentioned in: Handala wipes 200,000 devices at Stryker
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#8 11 Mar
Microsoft and Google back the Warner-Rounds bill
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 2 Mar
Mentioned in: UK 24-hour reporting bill at Report
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#1 1 Mar
Mentioned in: Google closes $32bn Wiz deal; 38 M&A
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#1 1 Mar
Mentioned in: BRICKSTORM dwell hits 393 days, Mandiant
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#1 1 Feb
Mentioned in: Sovereign cloud spend set to triple by 2027
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Feb
“admitted as member undermining sovereignty mandate”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#1 1 Jan
Announced basin-level water disclosure framework while requiring Racine NDA suppressing community impact data
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Microsoft Mount Pleasant: 8M gallons via lawsuit#1 1 Jan
Mentioned in: French military signs Mistral AI deal
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Dec
Mentioned in: GE Vernova gas backlog hits 80 GW into 2029
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 1 Oct
EC opens DMA cloud probes against AWS and Azure
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Oct
“opened cloud gatekeeper probe”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event