Global Scans · Microsoft · Weekly Summary

• [New] Microsoft has signalled it will end one of the last remaining ways to acquire VMware products outside of a big bundle. theregister
• Microsoft Security's Corporate Vice President, Vasu Jakkal, warns against 'double agents' carrying unchecked risks, emphasizing the critical need for robust safeguards as AI agents become more prevalent. TashiOS
• Organizations running Microsoft SharePoint Server are facing immediate exposure due to real-world exploitation of CVE-2026 - 58644, a deserialization vulnerability with a critical CVSS rating. TECHMANIACS.com
• Microsoft tracks more than 4,000 identity attacks every second and analyzes 38 million identity risk detections daily - no organization is off the target list. theregister
• Microsoft attributes the growing patch volume in part to its AI-powered vulnerability discovery system and expects future releases to stay large. Ampcus Cyber
• Microsoft signed a $16 billion, 20-year deal to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 - renamed the Christopher M. Crane Clean Energy Center - for 835 MW of nuclear power targeting 2028 operation, to secure carbon-free baseload power for its AI data centers per Zylos AI's energy research. AI Business Weekly
• The so-called hyperscalers - Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta - have announced 2027 capex spending plans totaling $815 billion, up from $636 billion in 2026, with Goldman Sachs estimating that the actual number might get closer to $1.1 to $1.4 trillion. Fiduciary Trust
• Microsoft is encouraging organizations to expand threat-modeling exercises to uncover cryptographic dependencies that could leave applications and data vulnerable to future quantum computing attacks. Campus Technology
• Microsoft targets 2029 for quantum-safe adoption, emphasizing ML-KEM, ML-DSA and AES-256. Campus Technology
• Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle were projected to spend roughly $750 billion during 2026, much of it connected to the expanding data-center and AI infrastructure buildout. PharmaXNext Conference
• The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) launched a Next G Alliance, an alliance consisting of AT&T, Ericsson, Telus, Verizon, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Samsung, and others that will advance North American mobile technology leadership in 6G and beyond over the next decade. Precedence Research
• Microsoft has attributed the recent growth in security updates in part to its increased use of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery across its software. Netizen
• Microsoft has said it will be able to create a useful quantum computer by 2029. Wired
• Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and SpaceX will on average spend a combined $1.1 trillion a year over the next three years on capital expenditure. Watson French Wealth Management
• HUMAIN engineers will work alongside Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers to help organizations identify AI use cases, integrate systems into existing workflows, tune deployments, and move projects from prototypes into production. Tech Startups - Tech News, Tech Trends & Startup Fundin
• Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is in early talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google over revenue-sharing agreements that could bring its Kimi K3 model to Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Tech Startups - Tech News, Tech Trends & Startup Fundin
• Microsoft signed a 20-year PPA with Constellation Energy that will help reopen a retired reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, to be renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center, with the restart targeted for the second half of 2027. Global Energy Monitor

Last updated: 27 September 2026