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Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

Wed, 2025-10-01 20:29
Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account

Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix.…

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US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

Wed, 2025-10-01 19:48
The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex Social Security CISO tells The Register

The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews.…

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'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover

Wed, 2025-10-01 19:35
Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?

A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.…

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AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study

Wed, 2025-10-01 18:12
Other studies are finding the same thing

Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening.…

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Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach

Wed, 2025-10-01 17:51
Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond

Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.…

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Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing

Wed, 2025-10-01 17:49
Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…

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Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future

Wed, 2025-10-01 17:21
Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…

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Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates

Wed, 2025-10-01 16:27
Petitions pile up on Satya’s desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave

With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs.…

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Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out

Wed, 2025-10-01 16:01
Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow

Windows 11 25H2 has seeped out of Redmond with just two weeks left before free support for most Windows 10 versions goes down the drain.…

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SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13

Wed, 2025-10-01 15:32
Once more with feeling...

SpaceX has named the date when it will try for another Starship launch without anything exploding. October 13, which is both the Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day holiday and the last day of Windows 10 support, is the current target.…

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OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions

Wed, 2025-10-01 15:00
Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt

OpenStack has delivered its 32nd major release, named "Flamingo."…

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Taiwan won't chip in to US effort to make half its own processors

Wed, 2025-10-01 14:24
US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support

Taiwan has rejected US demands to shift semiconductor manufacturing so that half of America's chip needs are produced domestically, as tariff negotiations with the Trump administration intensify.…

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Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry

Wed, 2025-10-01 13:20
The physics of transistors and politics of trading licenses are colliding on the AI frontier

Analysis Few of us would have imagined that national security would play such a key role in AI hardware, even dictating its development, but here we are – in a new era of export controls.…

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Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory

Wed, 2025-10-01 12:31
Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year

Raspberry Pi is upping the cost of some devices by double-digit percentages from today driven by what CEO Eben Upton calls "insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI applications."…

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3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes

Wed, 2025-10-01 12:24
Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop

A trio of companies disclosed data breaches this week affecting approximately 3.7 million customers and employees across North America.…

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JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets

Wed, 2025-10-01 12:09
Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training

IDE and developer tools biz JetBrains believes training AI models on public datasets is insufficient, and is offering free product licenses to organizations that are willing to share detailed code-related data.…

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Autonomous AI adoption stalls amid trust and governance crisis

Wed, 2025-10-01 11:25
Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years

Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality.…

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Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat

Wed, 2025-10-01 10:20
Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal

Qualcomm is claiming complete victory over Arm in their licensing spat, after a court in Delaware ruled it has not breached the terms of any architecture license agreement (ALA) with the chip designer.…

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Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine

Wed, 2025-10-01 10:07
ICO investigation into platform's lack of age assurance continues

The UK's data watchdog has described Imgur's move to block UK users as "a commercial decision" after signaling plans to fine parent company MediaLab.…

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Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

Wed, 2025-10-01 09:13
Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead

UK prime minister Keir Starmer avoided mentioning the mandatory digital ID scheme in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference amid calls for him to put meat on the bones of the plans or risk it failing fast.…

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