Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue declines 33 percent and content/services 5 percent in its latest earnings, despite $82.9 billion total revenue driven by cloud growth. The contrast highlights gaming struggles against surging AI and cloud segments reaching $54.5 billion.
Azure's 40 percent growth and Copilot seat expansion signal accelerating enterprise adoption of Microsoft's AI tools.
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The Linux Foundation launched Akrites on Thursday with 19 founding members including major tech firms and banks to organize remediation of critical open source vulnerabilities before AI-powered attackers can exploit them. The project tackles the reality that fewer than 5% of thousands of AI-identified flaws have received patches by instituting one confidential response team in place of scattered reports.
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch two critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Communications Manager and PTC Windchill/FlexPLM products by June 28 due to active exploitation. The move underscores the urgency of addressing known exploited flaws in widely used enterprise and industrial software.
Paul Meade, Apple’s VP in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses development, is leaving for OpenAI’s hardware unit by next week to work on its AI-powered devices. The departure, reported June 26, 2026, continues a pattern of executives exiting Apple for AI rivals and follows a 2025 restructuring of the company’s spatial computing teams.
