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  • The Register: Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn’t after security fix

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/windows_admin_rights_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn’t after security fix Feedly Summary: Patch closes vuln but leaves standard users locked out of common apps Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.……

  • The Register: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/ Source: The Register Title: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Feedly Summary: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don’t bother with anything more complex A UK government department’s three-month trial of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up…

  • Slashdot: SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In ‘Sovereign Cloud’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1959258/sap-to-invest-over-20-billion-euros-in-sovereign-cloud?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In ‘Sovereign Cloud’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: SAP’s significant investment in European sovereign cloud infrastructure emphasizes the intersection of innovation and data sovereignty. The initiative aims to expand cloud offerings, ensuring compliance with regional data protection regulations like…

  • Krebs on Security: The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/the-ongoing-fallout-from-a-breach-at-ai-chatbot-maker-salesloft/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft Feedly Summary: The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate…

  • Slashdot: Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/29/1928258/pentagon-halts-chinese-coders-affecting-dod-cloud-systems Source: Slashdot Title: Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Pentagon has terminated a Microsoft program that permitted Chinese coders to work on sensitive Department of Defense (DOD) cloud systems under U.S. supervision. This decision was made due to concerns about unacceptable…

  • The Register: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/github_deepens_ties_with_elon/ Source: The Register Title: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Feedly Summary: Platform’s staffer complains security review was ‘rushed’ Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk’s xAI, bringing early access to the company’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into…