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Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

Wed, 2025-10-15 10:16
Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses

Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…

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Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone

Wed, 2025-10-15 09:00
ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing

Canalys Forums 2025 US President Donald Trump released a wrecking ball that smashed through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies stateside – and it's now swinging across the Atlantic, according to analysts.…

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UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told

Wed, 2025-10-15 08:15
Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up

UK government's plans to save £45 billion through the application of AI in the public sector lack clarity and are based on broad-brush assumptions, Members of Parliament have heard.…

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AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage

Wed, 2025-10-15 07:30
And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely

Column Steve Jobs probably didn't remember how many times he skinned his knees learning to ride a bike before describing a personal computer as a "bicycle for the mind." Jobs' point was that both tools help us to go further, faster, with just a little extra effort.…

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Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements

Wed, 2025-10-15 00:08
In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn’t replace people, it elevates them'

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff heralded the arrival of the agentic era during his keynote at the CRM giant's annual Dreamforce conference.…

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Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack

Tue, 2025-10-14 22:30
Plus: Adobe, SAP, Ivanti offer treats, not tricks

Spooky season is in full swing, and this extends to Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday with security updates for a frightful 175 Microsoft vulnerabilities, plus an additional 21 non-Microsoft CVEs. And even scarier than the sheer number of bugs: three are listed as under attack, with three others publicly known, and 17 deemed critical security holes.…

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CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down

Tue, 2025-10-14 22:01
America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year

The Trump administration has continued to cut staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and is reportedly reassigning others, further imperiling the US' cybersecurity posture. …

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Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects

Tue, 2025-10-14 21:38
Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance

Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a "big tent" after a Debian developer objected to the company's sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints.…

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