Apr 14, 2025 | Today’s news and insights for Microsoft leaders:

Microsoft warns CVE-2025-29824 lets attackers with user access escalate privileges to deploy ransomware via a flaw in Windows CLFS.

One CVE was used against “a small number of targets.” Windows 10 users needed to wait a little bit for their patches.

Two Microsoft employees who protested the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft-powered AI were fired this week by the tech giant.

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Microsoft announced on April 4 its new generative AI model for gaming called WHAMM (World and Human Action MaskGIT Model), which is capable of supporting real-time gameplay.

Anthropic studied its own Claude and DeepSeek’s-R1. Neither AI model always considered “hints” in prompts relevant to disclose in their output.

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