04 Jun 2026
An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies
Listen to this post: Good morning, This week’s Stratechery Interview is with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella . I have previously interviewed Nadella in May 2024 , October 2022 , April 2020 , and May 2019 . As I noted yesterday , I spoke to Nadella shortly after the conclusion of his keynote at Build , Microsoft’s annual developer conference .
03 Jun 2026
Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls,…
03 Jun 2026
Deals: Amazon early Prime Day discounts, Pixel 10 series up to $615 off, Best Buy World Cup sale, more
Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by Amazon’s early Amazon Prime Day deals and the ongoing Google Pixel 10 series at up to $300 off right now – just keep in mind these open-box units are up to $615...
03 Jun 2026
Microsoft's aims to compete with Google's AI assistant Spark
With Scout, an AI assistant that is intended to go significantly further than the previous Copilot, Microsoft seems to want to compete with Google's Gemini Spark.
03 Jun 2026
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
At Microsoft’s annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents.
03 Jun 2026
Preinstall to persistence: Inside the Red Hat npm Miasma credential-stealing campaign
A large-scale npm supply chain attack compromised over 90 versions of @redhat-cloud-services packages, silently infecting CI/CD environments and developer systems. The malicious code steals credentials from GitHub, cloud platforms, and local machines, then spreads like a worm by republishing trusted packages. Discover how the attack works, what data is at risk, and the steps you can take to…
02 Jun 2026
Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work
Platforms shift when developers build. We explore, choose tools, dream, create. This platform shift comes with more information than ever, ready at your fingertips. This shift, it’s about building fast AND THEN: it’s about building, operating, optimizing and observing. Securing your infrastructure, applications and agents in a seamless way that doesn’t slow you down from the moment you open your…
02 Jun 2026
AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.
AI has arrived in the enterprise, and the shift is happening all at once. Every function, every role, every workflow is being reshaped. At the same time, a new class of organizations is emerging, one that will look fundamentally different from the companies that defined the last era of business. The winners won’t be those with the most demos, but those that turn AI into a governed, continuously…
02 Jun 2026
NVIDIA Partners With Microsoft on Unified Stack for Agentic AI Deployment, From Windows Devices to Cloud to Local
The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers across Windows devices, Azure cloud and local deployments.
