Microsoft Patents a CPU Performance Sampler That Avoids Polluting Its Own Cache
Profiling a CPU is a bit like measuring your car's speed by adding a second engine to power the speedometer — the…
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Microsoft Patents an AI System That Scores URLs Before Indexing Them
Every second, search engines discover millions of new URLs — and most of them are junk. Microsoft's new patent describes an AI…
Microsoft Patents a Precision Glass Filament Drawing and Cutting Method
Microsoft — best known for software, cloud, and Surface laptops — has quietly filed a patent for manufacturing glass filaments with sub-millimeter…
Microsoft Patents a System for Navigating Screenshot Interfaces with a Keyboard
What if you could navigate a screenshot of a desktop interface using just arrow keys or a gamepad? Microsoft is patenting exactly…
Microsoft Patents a System That Backs Up Files Before You Delete Them
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that intercepts a file deletion in real time, ships the file to cloud storage…
Microsoft Patents Synthetic DNA Tags That Log a Product's Entire Supply Chain Journey
Imagine if every head of lettuce carried an invisible molecular diary of every farm, warehouse, and truck stop it passed through. That's…
Microsoft Patents a Layered Capacitance Sensor for Body-Proximity Antenna Detection
Microsoft is quietly working on a way for devices to sense when your hand is near their antenna — and automatically adjust…
Microsoft Patents a Key Rotation System That Never Exposes Your Encrypted Data
Rotating encryption keys is a security best practice — but doing it usually means either holding onto old keys or laboriously re-encrypting…
Microsoft Patents a Security Engine That Blocks Files Based on Filename Tricks and Device History
Malware often hides in plain sight — a file named 'Report.pdf.exe' looks like a document but runs like a program. Microsoft's new…
Microsoft Patents a Multi-Layer Security Graph Engine for Cloud Incident Management
Managing cloud security means juggling thousands of interconnected resources — servers, identities, permissions, network paths — and querying all of that in…
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