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Enterprises implementing agentic AI face a challenge: Which tools should they allow their agents to use, where can they be found, and how can they be used safely? A new protocol, Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, aims to let agents answer those questions for themselves. Behind it are Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Salesforce and others. ARD aims to standardize the way that tools and services are shared across systems within a corporate domain. For example, when investigating a production problem, an agent may want to query engineering documentation and open support tickets, deployment history and observability systems, all of which could be managed by different registries and across different silos. There is no common layer that pulls them together. ARD has been designed to be that layer. It operates across two levels. Catalogs and Registries. In the first, an organization publishes a catalog setting out its available capabilities. The Registries layer act as a form of search engi

Enterprises implementing agentic AI face a challenge: Which tools should they allow their agents to use, where can they be found, and how can they be used safely? A new protocol, Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, aims to let agents answer those questions for themselves. Behind it are Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Salesforce and others. ARD aims to standardize the way that tools and services are shared across systems within a corporate domain. For example, when investigating a production problem, an agent may want to query engineering documentation and open support tickets, deployment history and observability systems, all of which could be managed by different registries and across different silos. There is no common layer that pulls them together. ARD has been designed to be that layer. It operates across two levels. Catalogs and Registries. In the first, an organization publishes a catalog setting out its available capabilities. The Registries layer act as a form of search engi

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation. The Appia Foundation will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that provide a connecting layer to bridge foundational global standards with practical, trusted assessments across the global AI value chain.” Those specifications will help AI users ascertain whether the systems they are using meet all the obligations that apply to them in the form of standards and regulations, it said. It’s a challenging task with so much regional variation in requirements, and where the EU, for example, is more tightly controlled than the US. The Foundation has established a set of criteria to demonstrate conformity with what is expected. There are two layers: the Requirements and Guidance layers will help users determine what is actually required, while the Assessment Enablement layer will look at how those

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation. The Appia Foundation will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that provide a connecting layer to bridge foundational global standards with practical, trusted assessments across the global AI value chain.” Those specifications will help AI users ascertain whether the systems they are using meet all the obligations that apply to them in the form of standards and regulations, it said. It’s a challenging task with so much regional variation in requirements, and where the EU, for example, is more tightly controlled than the US. The Foundation has established a set of criteria to demonstrate conformity with what is expected. There are two layers: the Requirements and Guidance layers will help users determine what is actually required, while the Assessment Enablement layer will look at how those

Microsoft warns of CryptoBandits.A, a Tor-based Windows clipper stealing wallet data and hijacking crypto transfers. Microsoft has warned about a Windows-based crypto clipper designed to steal wallet data and alter crypto transfers. The malware has affected users since February 2026, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Experts. The campaign uses malicious .lnk shortcuts […] The post Microsoft Warns of New Crypto Malware That Hijacks Wallet Transfers appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

One of the most commonly used Microsoft programs, Excel is highly useful for data collecting, processing, and analysis. To fully harness Excel’s powers, though, you need to make use of formulas. Excel formulas allow you to perform calculations, analyze data, and return results quickly and accurately. The usefulness of formulas is even greater once you start dealing with large data sets. With the correct formula, Excel can process vast amounts of information in a matter of seconds. In this article we’ll look at five useful types of formulas and functions that will get you started performing data analysis in Excel. Along the way, you’ll learn several different ways to enter formulas and functions in Excel. We’ll demonstrate using Excel for Windows under a Microsoft 365 subscription. If you’re using a different version of Excel, you might not have exactly the same interface and options, but the formulas and functions work the same. If you have the right kind of M365 subscription, you can

The malware blends data theft with remote code execution, “turning a financially motivated stealer into a lightweight backdoor,” Microsoft said.

The EU probe could reshape cloud market dynamics, potentially enhancing competition and impacting AWS and Azure's strategic operations. The post Microsoft, Amazon Web Services face EU probe over cloud dominance appeared first on Crypto Briefing.