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FILE PHOTO: Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, appears during an interview in San Francisco on Jan. 27, 2017.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft is investing $2.5 billion into a new group focused on assisting clients with AI implementations, becoming the latest tech company to commit hefty resources to helping businesses understand and adopt emerging artificial intelligence technologies. With the new venture, called Microsoft Frontier Co., the software vendor said Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients, in a practice that’s become known as forward deployed engineering. The division will contain existing Microsoft FDEs, technical…

The Home Secretary has vowed to “right the wrongs” identified by an inquiry into the “senseless killing” of three young girls and violent attacks on others in Southport.Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in June 2024.Inquiry chairman Sir Adrian Fulford said there had been a “fundamental failure” by any organisation to take ownership of the risk Rudakubana posed in the years leading up to his attack.Shabana Mahmood said the government accepted these findings, adding: “We will do whatever is needed to…

The New York Stock Exchange on April 14, 2025.View Press | Corbis News | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Nearly 1 million people became millionaires in 2025, largely thanks to a thriving stock market, according to a new report by UBS. The Swiss bank estimated that the United States is responsible for nearly half of these newly minted millionaires, adding an average of more than 1,200 new millionaires a day last year for…

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Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with stealthy, custom-developed credential-stealing code. The malware is delivered in two stages. The first is distributed in a disk image that masquerades as Maccy, a clipboard manager for Macs. It’s compiled as AppleScript that is notable for the way it delivers the second stage. The malware is named PamStealer because the Rust-written infostealer uses the Pluggable Authentication Modules interface built into macOS to validate the target’s login password before sending it to an attacker-controlled server. A quieter execution chain The use…

Former special counsel Jack Smith speaks with MS NOW.Courtesy: MS NOWFormer special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday said that under President Donald Trump, “We are facing an attack on the rule of law.”Smith also said that a potential indictment of him by the Department of Justice “could happen” given Trump’s animus toward him for prosecuting the president in two separate criminal cases before Trump returned ot the White House.Smith told Nicolle Wallace on MS NOW’s “Deadline: White House” that “it angers me” to see career officials at the DOJ “demonized” by the Trump administration for their work on cases that…

Trump’s July Fourth celebration faces new scrutiny ahead of America’s 250th birthdayU.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a rally to kick off the Great American State Fair on the National Mall on June 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesTrump’s July 4th celebration to mark America’s 250th birthday is arriving amid growing controversy over how the events have been organized, funded and politicized.Trump and his allies have built a splashy, Washington-centered celebration that includes the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, a major renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, military flyovers, a…

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 5, 2025.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesWhile investors and businesses spent the early days of April 2025 fretting over the future of global trade and the economy, President Donald Trump was busy buying into the stock market sell-off he created.Trump made 327 stock purchases on April 8, 2025, according to a CNBC analysis of the president’s annual financial disclosure for 2025 that includes trades, income and liabilities and was released on Tuesday. That made April 8 his 11th busiest day for stock buying last year, more than five…

Andy Burnham has said he would take his responsibilities to fund the defence investment plan “extremely seriously” if he becomes prime minister.The plan, published on Tuesday, provided a £15bn spending boost to defence but is projected to leave the next prime minister with a £4.7bn funding gap to fill.Burnham told LBC he had not seen all of the details prior to its publication but insisted there would be “no compromise on the security of the nation”. The Makerfield MP also rejected attacks on his economic stance, insisting he would not be “indisciplined” on public finances.He has faced criticism in the…