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Microsoft has quietly shifted a crucial enforcement point for enterprise AI: Copilot Studio now offers near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block verdict while the agent executes. Background / Overview Copilot Studio, Microsoft’s low‑code agent authoring environment inside the Power Platform, is used to build, customize, and deploy AI copilots and autonomous agents that interact with...

Microsoft has added built‑in auditing to help administrators safely roll out two proven SMB server hardening features—SMB Server signing and SMB Server Extended Protection for Authentication (EPA)—so that organizations can discover compatibility gaps before they require those hardening controls by policy. The change, published on September 9, 2025, introduces new Group Policy, registry and event‑log hooks that let operators run audit-first assessments and gather actionable telemetry for...

Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio promises to bring native, inline attack prevention into the execution path of enterprise AI agents, positioning runtime enforcement and step-level policy controls as the new baseline for safe agent deployment at scale. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has rapidly become the focal point for enterprise "agentic AI" — low-code and no-code tooling that lets business teams compose agents with natural-language prompts...

Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets organizations route an AI agent’s planned actions through external monitors — including Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or custom in‑tenant policy engines — and receive an approve-or-block verdict while the agent runs, a capability Microsoft released to public preview in early September 2025. Background Copilot Studio sits inside the Power Platform as Microsoft’s low‑code/no‑code environment for...

Windows 95 engineers walked away from a simple CPU instruction — the x86 HLT (halt) — not because the idea was exotic or useless, but because using it risked turning customers’ laptops into permanent bricks. What looks, in hindsight, like a small compatibility choice was in fact a high-stakes risk assessment: Microsoft had a working implementation of HLT in the Windows 95 codebase, but large numbers of machines from multiple vendors would lock up irrecoverably when the CPU executed HLT...

Microsoft’s Azure customers in and around the Middle East experienced measurable latency and service disruption after multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic onto longer, more congested routes and exposing persistent fragilities in the global internet backbone. Background The modern internet is not a cloud floating in the sky; it is a physical network built on submarine fibre-optic cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental traffic. The...

Windows 10 reaches a hard stop on October 14, 2025 — but Microsoft has built a narrowly scoped, one‑year bridge that lets many consumers keep receiving critical security fixes through October 13, 2026 if they enroll in the new consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. Background / Overview For nearly a decade Windows 10 has been the default platform for millions of PCs worldwide. Its broad hardware compatibility and familiar user experience made it the last major Windows release to...

Microsoft has quietly begun fixing one of Windows 11’s most persistent visual annoyances: the long-neglected file operation (copy/move/delete/permission) dialogs are finally receiving proper dark‑mode styling in Insider preview builds, and the work is rolling out in stages rather than as a single global flip. Background Windows introduced a user-selectable dark theme in 2016, but the implementation across the OS has been piecemeal: modern WinUI and newer apps adopted dark palettes quickly...

User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 11 protects the system by requiring explicit permission for actions that need elevated privileges, but for experienced users and specific workflows its prompts can become an impediment — this feature article explains every supported way to silence UAC prompts, when to use each method, and the real security trade-offs of disabling or bypassing UAC on Windows 11. Overview User Account Control was introduced to reduce the number of operations that run with...

Windows 11 users faced a sudden and alarming data‑integrity scare when an August cumulative update was linked to a reproducible failure mode that can make certain SSDs “vanish” from the operating system during sustained, large writes — a problem that can truncate files, corrupt partitions, and in a minority of cases leave drives inaccessible without vendor‑level recovery. Background The incident centers on the Windows 11 cumulative package distributed in mid‑August (commonly tracked as...

Gartner’s message at its recent IT Symposium keynote was blunt: AI is no longer a niche experiment — it is seeding itself into every corner of technology management, and CIOs must treat it as an organizational operating reality rather than a vendor-driven fad. This framing — repeated by Gartner analysts on stage and summarized in industry reports — underpins three connected assertions that have dominated headlines: that AI will touch essentially all IT work by the end of this decade, that...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a new enforcement point into the live execution path for enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block decision before the agent executes those actions. Background / Overview Copilot Studio is Microsoft’s low‑code/no‑code authoring environment in the Power Platform for building, customizing, and deploying AI...

Rutgers Business School is systematically embedding generative AI into course work across undergraduate and graduate programs, pairing hands-on tool experience with ethics, critical evaluation, and new degree tracks so students graduate with AI fluency that matches employer expectations for the modern workplace. (business.rutgers.edu, prnewswire.com) Background Rutgers Business School announced an institutional push to integrate generative AI into classroom teaching after formalizing a...

Microsoft's Copilot app for Windows 11 just received a redesign that does more than tidy the chat window — it reorganizes Copilot into a Start menu–style hub that surfaces recent files, apps, and ongoing work, and hints at a deeper future in which the AI assistant becomes the central navigation and discovery layer of the OS. Background The Microsoft Copilot experience has evolved rapidly from a sidebar/chatbox into a fully fledged app that sits on the desktop like any other Windows program...

Proxmox can be run inside a Docker container — and yes, it actually works well enough to be useful for tinkering — but the method requires deliberate compromises, extra host privileges, and several manual workarounds that make it unsuitable for production and risky for anything beyond experimentation. Background / Overview Proxmox VE (PVE) is a full-featured, Debian-based virtualization platform built for bare-metal installs. It blends KVM-based virtual machines and LXC containers under one...

Microsoft’s latest moves to decouple Teams from its flagship productivity suites mark a watershed moment in how dominant software vendors respond to regulatory pressure — and could redraw the economic map for collaboration tools, enterprise procurement, and platform integration worldwide. The story is simple in headline form: after years of scrutiny sparked by a 2020 complaint from Slack, Microsoft has extended measures that first appeared in Europe — offering Office/Microsoft 365 without...

Ralph Lauren has quietly moved from runway to R&D with the launch of Ask Ralph, a conversational AI stylist embedded in the Ralph Lauren mobile app that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit recommendations powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform. (wsj.com, voguebusiness.com) Background Ralph Lauren’s Ask Ralph is rolling out to U.S. iOS and Android app users as a curated, in-app AI experience designed to replicate the store stylist through natural-language conversation. The feature...

As organizations race to exploit generative AI and broaden their third‑party ecosystems, a startling pattern is emerging: mass adoption without adequate visibility is creating a cascade of security, compliance, and financial risks that many firms are poorly equipped to handle. New survey data from Kiteworks — confirmed across multiple industry reports and picked up by enterprise press — shows large swaths of companies lack a reliable inventory of who accesses their most sensitive data, are...

Microsoft’s decision to restore a simple, long-requested Windows 10 convenience—the ability to flip the mouse wheel scrolling direction from the modern Settings app—feels small, but it’s one of those pragmatic changes that quietly improves everyday usability for millions of people. Background Windows 11 launched with a redesigned user interface that prioritized a streamlined aesthetic and simplified workflows, but many power users noticed functionality regressions compared with Windows 10...

Microsoft’s high-stakes legal gambit in the UK could redraw the map for the entire European market for second‑hand Windows and Office licences, and the preliminary hearing now before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) is already exposing fault lines that matter to resellers, IT purchasers, and public procurement teams alike. Overview The dispute pits Microsoft against the UK reseller ValueLicensing in a case that began as a competition claim but has evolved into a provocative copyright...