Employers are waking up to a new kind of workplace hazard: AI notetakers that keep listening after people have left, create searchable transcripts of casual or sensitive remarks, and then disseminate those records automatically — sometimes to the entire team.
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Token Security’s latest week of communications sharpened a single, urgent message: as enterprises rapidly adopt AI copilots and autonomous agents, identity — not just models or data — is the primary attack surface that must be discovered, governed and controlled. The company reinforced that...
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) is a tightly scoped, paid lifeline — not a replacement for migration — and organisations that treat it as anything else risk rising costs, compliance headaches, and a false sense of security. Background
Microsoft set a firm end-of-support...
Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...
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More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor...
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Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has moved from a calendar note to a tangible operational crisis for business process outsourcing (BPO) firms — a sector that depends on large, stable PC estates, predictable application stacks and strict compliance...
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Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...
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Microsoft’s countdown is now unmistakable: October 14, 2025 is the drop-dead date for Windows 10 version 22H2 and related editions, and that deadline forces a clear set of practical choices for anyone still running Windows 10 today. Microsoft will stop issuing routine security and quality...
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Microsoft’s decision to stop issuing security updates for Office 2016 and Office 2019 on October 14, 2025 forces a clear choice on millions of users and IT teams: upgrade to a supported platform, migrate to Microsoft 365, or accept the operational and security trade-offs of third‑party...
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Microsoft’s official support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — and that deadline turns a decade-old, still‑widely used operating system into a growing security liability unless you act now. 10 has been a workhorse for hundreds of millions of PCs, but when Microsoft stops shipping...
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Microsoft's message is blunt: Windows 10 will stop receiving official security and technical updates on October 14, 2025, and users who delay migration risk an increasing security, compliance, and operational exposure that will grow more dangerous with each month after the cutoff. What began as...
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Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...
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Microsoft employees have erected a protest encampment on the company’s Redmond campus, turning a high-profile workplace dispute over Israel ties into a public test of Microsoft’s ethics, governance, and operational transparency. protest is the latest escalation in a year-long campaign by...
As the countdown begins toward Windows 10’s End of Life on October 14, 2025, millions of devices face a pivotal crossroads. After this date, Microsoft will discontinue all security updates and technical support for Windows 10, leaving the popular operating system increasingly vulnerable to...
In the ever-evolving world of healthcare IT, email security is not just an operational concern but a critical compliance issue—especially for organizations governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Recently, Paubox, a company widely recognized for its...
Microsoft Intune administrators are facing a wave of unease after Microsoft officially acknowledged a significant flaw affecting security baseline customizations, casting a spotlight on the evolving landscape of modern device management. In a recent update, Microsoft revealed that custom tweaks...
A new wave of concern is spreading through the enterprise IT community as Microsoft prepares to roll out a controversial new OneDrive feature aimed at synchronizing data between personal and business accounts. This change—formally known as the “Prompt to Add Personal Account to OneDrive...
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Usually, when your boss tells you “We have robust safeguards protecting our corporate systems,” it’s not an invitation to get your popcorn and wait for the plot twist. But in the latest drama out of Redmond, Microsoft has delivered exactly that, leaving IT administrators everywhere either...