Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement at the Congressional Hackathon that the U.S. House will begin a staged pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot marks a dramatic reversal of last year’s ban and opens a high‑stakes test of how a legislative body adopts generative AI...
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The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...
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The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from prohibition to pilot: beginning this fall, a limited rollout will make Microsoft Copilot available to Members of Congress and a subset of House staffers under a one‑year pilot that promises “heightened legal and data protections,” expands access...
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Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...
Microsoft has pushed a meaningful new enforcement point into AI agent workflows: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime monitoring that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions to an external policy engine — such as Microsoft Defender, a third‑party XDR, or a custom...
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) now lists CVE-2025-53763 as an improper access control vulnerability in Azure Databricks that can be exploited to achieve elevation of privilege over the network, a finding that demands urgent attention from cloud and data platform administrators...
Microsoft has folded generative AI directly into Excel’s calculation engine with a native =COPILOT() formula that lets users type natural‑language prompts into cells, reference worksheet ranges for context, and receive live, spillable outputs that recalculate automatically when the source data...
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Title: Microsoft 365 Copilot gets GPT‑5 sessions: what it means for your tenant, your budget, and your workflows
Executive summary
Microsoft has begun rolling out the option to run selected Microsoft 365 Copilot chats on GPT‑5, with a “Try GPT‑5” control appearing for licensed users in Copilot...
Title: Microsoft puts Grok 4 behind a gate: What Azure and Windows admins need to know right now
TL;DR
Microsoft is not broadly launching xAI’s Grok 4 on Azure AI Foundry. Instead, the model is entering a limited, invite-only private preview while Microsoft continues safety and red-team...
Microsoft Teams is rapidly evolving its security posture, ushering in a new era of transparency and control for enterprise collaboration. In its latest wave of updates, Microsoft has significantly advanced its audit logging capabilities within Teams meetings, offering IT administrators...
Enterprises worldwide have long sought tools that not only facilitate seamless remote collaboration but also uphold stringent cybersecurity standards. As the prevalence of hybrid and remote work environments grows, so does the need for transparency and accountability within digital collaboration...
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Microsoft Teams, the dominant workplace collaboration platform, is poised to introduce a pivotal update aimed at safeguarding sensitive information: the “Prevent Screen Capture” feature. Beginning a worldwide rollout in July 2025, this upgrade is designed to automatically block screen capture...
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Microsoft’s April 8, 2025 update—KB5055528—marks a pivotal turning point for Windows 11 users and IT professionals alike. Designed for OS Builds 22621.5189 and 22631.5189, this update isn’t simply another routine patch; it signals the full enforcement of robust security protocols that have been...
Big news for Exchange Online users: Microsoft is making significant changes to its audit logging functionality, and with change comes a mix of opportunity and challenge. In a modern world where security and compliance are critical, audit logs act like your IT department’s black box—providing...
Original release date: April 29, 2020
Summary
As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these...
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Every day, the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) receives vulnerability reports from security researchers, technology/industry partners, and customers. We want those reports, because they help us make our products and services more secure. High-quality reports that include proof of...