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Proofpoint’s latest product wave is a direct answer to a single, urgent reality: work is no longer only human-to-human, and security must expand to protect people and the AI agents they now rely on. The company announced four major innovations at Proofpoint Protect 2025 that together aim to secure what Proofpoint calls the agentic workspace — the layer where people, AI assistants, and AI agents collaborate and exchange data — addressing prompt‑injection and AI‑targeted attacks, unified data...

Australians under pressure from rising living costs are quietly handing more of their money-management tasks to algorithms — not to replace advisers, but to supplement them — and the shift is already reshaping how everyday people budget, file taxes and shop financial products. Background / Overview A recent media report summarised new survey findings that show a sharp uptick in Australians using artificial intelligence for personal finance tasks such as budgeting, saving, tax preparation and...

TechBullion’s recent roundup highlights ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and GrammarlyGO as among the top AI tools making learning easier for students — a concise list that captures the current mainstream players while missing several specialist tools educators are already using in classrooms. Background The last two years have pushed generative AI from novelty to classroom utility. Models that handle text, images, audio and increasingly video are being embedded into productivity...

Microsoft’s last-minute shift on Windows 10 extended security updates has turned what looked like a tidy, paid “escape hatch” into a regional free-for-all — and exposed a tangle of regulatory, privacy, and security trade-offs that matter for millions of PCs worldwide. Background Microsoft will officially stop providing routine technical support and security patches for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date, devices running Windows 10 will no longer receive feature updates, general...

Windows quietly ships a surprising number of powerful, underused tools that can accelerate everyday work — and four of them alone cover safe testing, workspace organization, phone integration, and accessibility in ways many users never discover on their own. Background Windows has evolved into a feature-rich platform where many small, well-designed utilities sit tucked away behind menus, settings pages, or keyboard shortcuts. Power users who dig beyond the obvious find built-in options that...

The clock is no longer just ticking — it’s already in overtime: with Windows 10 scheduled to leave mainstream support, organisations that treat the Windows 11 upgrade as a compliance chore are missing an opening to convert a necessary refresh into a measurable competitive advantage. The technical prerequisites, deployment mechanics, and the strategic payoff are now well understood; the remaining challenge for IT leaders is execution at scale — inventory, pilot, procurement, deployment, and...

Microsoft is quietly rolling an AI-powered tidy-up inside the Windows 11 Photos app: a new Auto‑Categorization feature will scan your library and group images into four practical buckets — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — but it’s being tested only on Copilot+ PCs for now and arrives via a Photos app update (minimum build 2025.11090.25001.0). Background / Overview Microsoft has been evolving the Photos app from a passive image viewer into a productivity surface that...

Canadian offices have crossed an inflection point: roughly half of office employees now report using AI tools at work — but a large share are doing it without clear employer guidance, approved platforms, or formal training, leaving employers exposed to data, legal and reputational risk while forfeiting the chance to harvest productivity gains responsibly. Background: the headline numbers and what they mean The most immediately striking figure comes from CDW Canada’s 2025 Modern Workspace...

Microsoft has disabled a group of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions used by a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal and externally assisted review found evidence that supported investigative reporting alleging the use of Microsoft services to ingest, store, and analyze massive volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications. Background The controversy began with a joint investigative report that alleged Israel’s Unit 8200—a signals‑intelligence formation—used Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast SKUs — grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning — in its model catalog, opening a new route for enterprises to run Grok’s cost‑efficient, tool-enabled models with Azure’s governance, scale, and integration surface. Background / Overview xAI released Grok 4 Fast as a performance‑and‑cost play: a unified architecture that exposes two SKUs (reasoning and non‑reasoning), a very large context window for long‑document workflows...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to store and process large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications. Background In early August an investigative package led by The Guardian — working with +972 Magazine and Local Call — published detailed reporting that...

Microsoft’s calendar decision to stop issuing routine security and feature updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has moved from an abstract lifecycle notice to an immediate, practical problem for millions of users who still rely on the decade-old OS. The company has published a formal end‑of‑support notice and a time‑boxed consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program intended as a bridge, but the response from consumer advocates, press coverage, and the technical community has...

LockBit 5.0 has reappeared as a multi‑platform threat that researchers say can hit Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi hosts in a single campaign — and its blend of enhanced obfuscation, modular design and virtualization‑aware routines makes it a materially different threat for enterprise defenders. Background LockBit’s name has dominated ransomware reporting for years, but the group suffered a major law‑enforcement disruption in February 2024 (Operation Cronos) that saw agencies seize servers...

Microsoft’s hard deadline for Windows 10 support is now a live commercial opportunity for the channel — but selling Windows 11 successfully will require a balanced pitch that pairs the immediate security imperative with a persuasive, practical case for productivity, manageability and long‑term cost control. Background Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, after which technical assistance, feature updates and security updates will no longer be...

Microsoft will stop servicing Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that looming deadline is the trigger many Windows users need to decide whether to upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, or buy time with Extended Security Updates — but first you must know whether your current PC is actually compatible with Windows 11 and, if not, what realistic fixes are available. Background / Overview Microsoft’s official lifecycle calendar confirms that Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14...

Uninstalling the Xbox Game Bar from Windows 11 is a quick way to remove an overlay you don’t use, reduce background activity on low‑spec machines, and eliminate potential overlay conflicts — and Windows gives you three primary removal paths: Settings (GUI), PowerShell (Appx), and the Windows Package Manager (winget) for a one‑line uninstall. Background The Xbox Game Bar (package name Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay) is Windows 11’s built‑in gaming overlay: a lightweight dashboard that exposes...

Corsair’s Vanguard Pro 96 squeezes a surprising amount of flagship functionality into a compact 96% frame, marrying a numpad, arrow cluster, six programmable G‑keys, a 1.9" colour LCD, a multifunction rotary dial, and Corsair’s MGX Hyperdrive Hall Effect magnetic switches into a package that aims to be both a gamer’s weapon and a streamer’s control centre. The result is a keyboard that keeps full-size capability while trimming the chassis to a TKL-like footprint, and in doing so asks buyers...

The last two weeks of the regulatory calendar delivered a concentrated set of changes that push corporate sustainability from aspiration to audit‑grade practice: European standard‑setters moved to simplify reporting requirements, enforcement agencies intensified greenwashing penalties, and Asia‑Pacific supervisors and market frameworks introduced practical tools and pilots that require operational responses from finance, legal, IT and sustainability teams. Background / Overview The...

Microsoft has pushed one last non‑security preview rollup for Windows 10 — labeled KB5066198 and appearing as OS Build 19045.6396 — that closes out two lingering regressions discovered in September and gives administrators a final, optional stabilization package to validate before Windows 10 reaches end of servicing on October 14, 2025. This preview contains no new consumer features; it is a targeted quality update that fixes an SMBv1 over NetBIOS (NetBT) connectivity regression and an...

The migration from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is no longer a distant IT project — it is a definable strategic opportunity that, when handled correctly, can deliver measurable security, productivity, and competitive gains for businesses across sectors. The recent CAJ News Africa briefing framing 2025 as the “Windows 11 Refresh” underlines that the real question for organizations today is not if they will move, but how quickly and smartly they will turn that move into advantage. Background /...