Finland to send €90 mln worth of ammunition to Ukraine funded by frozen Russian assets
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Day: May 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV receives White House invitation in meeting with JD Vance
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BBC presenter Gary Lineker resigns following social media controversy
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Microsoft adds support for Anthropic’s open-source standard Model Context Protocol to Windows and rebrands the AI platform inside Windows as Windows AI Foundry (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Microsoft adds support for Anthropic’s open-source standard Model Context Protocol to Windows and rebrands the AI platform inside Windows as Windows AI Foundry — Microsoft is embracing Model Context Protocol …
Microsoft open-sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux, launched in 2016, and makes it available on GitHub, except for a few Windows-specific components (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
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Microsoft open-sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux, launched in 2016, and makes it available on GitHub, except for a few Windows-specific components — Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Su…
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