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Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
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.…
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
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.…
'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover
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.…
AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study
Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening.…
Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach
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.…
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing
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.…
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future
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.…
Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates
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.…
Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out
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.…
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13
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.…
OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions
OpenStack has delivered its 32nd major release, named "Flamingo."…
Taiwan won't chip in to US effort to make half its own processors
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.…
Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry
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.…
Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory
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."…
3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes
A trio of companies disclosed data breaches this week affecting approximately 3.7 million customers and employees across North America.…
JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets
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.…
Autonomous AI adoption stalls amid trust and governance crisis
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.…
Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat
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.…
Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine
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.…
Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told
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.…