This Week in Tech
Microsoft and technology-related updates for the week of March 4, 2022
This Week’s Stories
- Microsoft finds FoxBlade malware on Ukrainian systems
- “Microsoft says it found a new malware package — which it calls “FoxBlade” — hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.” READ MORE
- First Windows 11 on Arm laptops arrive with Microsoft’s Pluton chip
- “The first Arm-based laptops with Microsoft’s Pluton security co-processor have arrived in the form of Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X13s, which features Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chipset.” READ MORE
- Microsoft Defender for Business now available for Microsoft 365 Business Premium users
- “Microsoft Defender for Business, a new security solution for small-to-medium organizations, is now at the ‘general availability’ commercial-release stage for Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscribers.” READ MORE
- Russia’s Ukraine war raises specter of an online splinternet
- “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is accelerating the national fragmentation of the internet’s foundations and services, an idea called the splinternet.” READ MORE
- Biden to Congress: Pass bill to fund U.S. chip manufacturing
- “President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass the CHIPS Act, a law that would provide chipmakers with $52 billion in subsidies to advance semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, during his State of the Union speech Tuesday.” READ MORE
- The cybersecurity implications of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- “Immediately after the conflict broke out, suspected Russian-sourced cyber-attacks were observed over a 48-hour period at an increase of over 800%.” READ MORE
- Pittsburgh real estate development is becoming more the province of tech in Hazelwood and beyond
- “The hiring of a prestigious global firm to remake an old Hazelwood coke plant is another signal of the growing influence of tech in the region’s real estate development, experts say.” READ MORE