An internal Pentagon document says more than 80% of the US soldiers who used Microsoft’s HoloLens experienced “mission-affecting physical impairments” (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
The US Army starts accepting some of the 5,000 sets of HoloLens goggles, citing encouraging results from field testing, after putting the order on hold in 2021  —  The US Army is taking delivery of a first batch of high-tech combat goggles made by Microsoft Corp., citing encouraging results from testing in the field.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-founder Alex Kipman left  —  Microsoft has long supported real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, but now the company …

Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
A look at HoloLens’ development, as Microsoft spurned an early lead in AR to cede ground to Meta and others; one executive blames a lack of money and people  —  Problems plagued development of its HoloLens augmented reality headset; ‘we had the opportunity to own this market’

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability  —  – Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Sources: the Pentagon plans to audit how it conducts online clandestine information warfare after Meta, Twitter, and others removed pro-US operations  —  Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.

Alex Marquardt / CNN:
Documents: SpaceX told the Pentagon it can’t donate more Starlink terminals to Ukraine or keep funding the service there, asking the Pentagon to provide funding  —  Since they first started arriving in Ukraine last spring, the Starlink satellite internet terminals made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX …