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These are the daily tech headlines for Thursday, March 12, 2026. I'm Ro Rob Dunwood. Medical equipment provider Stryker recently suffered a global network disruption from a cyber attack allegedly by the Iranian linked group Handala, which claimed to have stolen 50 terabytes of data and wiped over 200,000 systems. The attack impacted Stryker's internal Microsoft environment, deleting information, disabling company phones, and halting work across its operations in Europe, Asia and the US While the full financial and operational impact is still unknown and a restoration time unclear, Stryker stated in a SEC filing that there is no indication of malware or ransomware. The incident appears contained to the internal Microsoft environment and its products remain safe for customer use. Atlassian is cutting approximately 1,600 jobs 10% of its workforce as a restructuring effort. CEO Mike Cannon Brooks stated that the goal is to self fund further investment in AI enterprise sales and strengthen the company's financial profile. The Sydney based company, whose stock value has significantly dropped due to competition from generative AI tools like Anthropic's cloud cowork, is adapting its required skill mix, though AI is not directly replacing employees. This move, which follows a previous cut of 500 employees in 2023, is expected to result in charges between $225 million and $236 million and aims to accelerate Atlassian's path to sustained profitability. Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a secure AI feature allowing users to analyze medical records, lab results and wearable data, search for providers and engage in health chats. It integrates data from 50,000 US healthcare groups, functions for lab results and more than wearables. Microsoft emphasizes strict data privacy, isolating user health chats, avoiding data user for AI training and providing citations with plans to announce updates on meeting voluntary HIPAA controls. It is important to note that Copilot Health is not a diagnostic tool or a substitute for a doctor. Google developed Ground Source, a GeoTag dataset of 2.6 million flood reports by analyzing 5 million news articles with its Gemini LLM. This qualitative data was used to train its LSTM neural network alongside Glob Global Weather Forecast to predict flash flood probabilities. The resulting system is developed in Google's flood hub in 150 countries to support emergency response, especially in regions lacking robust weather infrastructure, showcasing a novel application of deep learning and text based data for weather forecasting. Valve is fighting the lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who claims the company promotes illegal gambling through the use of loot boxes in games such as Counter Strike 2 and Dota 2. Valve's defense is that the mystery boxes are a widely used feature containing only cosmetic items. While the company has agreed to comply with new state laws, it's specifically resisting a demand to eliminate transferability of digital items, stating its intent to uphold the beneficial consumer right to sell or trade unwanted items. WhatsApp has launched new parent supervised accounts for users under 13, offering a messaging and calling platform without ads. The setup requires a parent child QR code authentication and parents can use a six digit PIN to manage alerts for activity changes and lock incoming chat or group group invitations from unknown contacts. These managed accounts exclude features like meta AI channels and status, keep chats in and encrypted and can convert to standard accounts when the child ages with an optional one year parental delay. Google is expanding its Play Games platform to Windows, making the desktop a key part of its gaming strategy. This expansion includes adding a Windows tab to the Play Store, offering a growing selection of desktop optimized titles like Sledding Game and Potion Craft, and planning trials for games. Google has also introduced introducing a Buy Once Play Anywhere program allowing cross buy functionality for premium games between Android and Windows dependent on developer implementation even though the games run on a virtualized Android OS container on the PC. Google Maps is integrating Google's Gemini AI to introduce two new features, AX Maps and Immersive Navigation. AXMaps is an AI powered chatbot that allows users in the US and India to get personalized location based information, restaurant recommendations and answers by analyzing reviews and personal history of navigation. Debuting in the US will offer drivers a detailed 3D road view, suggest alternative routes and provide guidance on parking and building entrances. These updates are part of Google's effort to innovate against competitors like Apple Maps and finally, Disney has launched Verts, a dynamic feed of short vertical video clips intended to boost user engagement and content discovery, particularly as a counter to social media. Following a similar successful introduction on the ESPN app, the feature uses an advanced algorithm to present relevant clips of Disney's movies and shows, thereby competing with platforms like YouTube that often feature Disney owned material. The company is considering expanding Verts to include content from creators focused on Disney fandoms. 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