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Microsoft Ships Urgent .NET Fixes for Critical Brotli Flaw and Linux Bug

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Microsoft Ships Urgent .NET Fixes for Critical Brotli Flaw and Linux Bug

Microsoft has shipped security updates on an unscheduled basis for .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10 and the third release candidate of .NET 11. The driver is CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow rooted in how the framework invokes the Brotli decompression algorithm. The company’s advice is to install the patches immediately. Details went up on the … Read more

Microsoft’s Maia 300 Targets Gigawatt-Scale AI Inference Without Nvidia

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Microsoft’s Maia 300 Targets Gigawatt-Scale AI Inference Without Nvidia

Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, an inference accelerator that the company says will make its own silicon the primary engine behind Copilot, Azure OpenAI and its in-house models from 2027. The headline claims: 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems and up to seven times the rack-scale token throughput of its predecessor, Maia … Read more