cybersecurity

Microsoft has quietly extended consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates by one year, allowing eligible enrolled PCs to keep receiving security fixes until October 12, 2027, rather than stopping in October 2026. The move does not resurrect Windows 10 as a fully supported operating system...

NTT DATA says it helped Virginia’s IT agency migrate Commonwealth agencies from a split Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environment to Microsoft 365 on Azure, moving more than 72,000 accounts and 1.6 billion objects in under a year. The headline number is impressive, but the more interesting...

Microsoft has quietly extended Windows 10’s consumer Extended Security Updates program to October 12, 2027, giving eligible personal PCs an extra year of critical and important security patches after normal support for the decade-old operating system ended on October 14, 2025. The move does not...

Microsoft has updated its Windows 10 consumer Extended Security Updates language to say enrolled PCs can keep receiving security-only updates until October 12, 2027, effectively giving holdout users a second post-retirement year after the operating system’s formal end of support on October 14...

OpenAI on Monday, June 22, 2026, announced a more capable and more permissive GPT-5.5-Cyber release for vetted defenders, expanded government and institutional access, a Codex Security plugin, and a new open-source remediation effort called Patch the Planet. The company is not merely shipping...

On June 20, 2026, reporting based on a Bloomberg interview amplified Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker’s warning that AI chatbots and agents should not be treated as friends, confidants, or trusted custodians of private life. Her argument is not merely that chatbots hallucinate or...

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation said it deactivated 3.03 crore suspicious user IDs in 2025, revalidated 6.05 crore more, and still set new online ticketing records during the 2025–26 financial year across India’s national railway reservation system. The headline is not merely...

Perigus Energy has selected Cegal’s Cetegra, deployed on Microsoft Azure, as the foundation for a European onshore renewables GIS platform serving wind, solar and battery storage operations across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Spain. The deal is not large enough to redraw the cloud...

Microsoft Canada National Security Officer John O’Brien said on June 18, 2026, that Canadian organizations must treat AI and cybersecurity as inseparable priorities, arguing that identity protection, data controls, operational resilience, and public-private threat intelligence now determine...

Anthropic disabled public access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on Friday, June 12, 2026, after the U.S. Commerce Department ordered the company to block foreign nationals from using the models on national security and export-control grounds. The shutdown turned a model-launch story into...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco and the Computex hardware cycle in Taipei to recast Windows 11 as a local, agent-capable AI platform, anchored by Microsoft Execution Containers, OpenClaw support, and Nvidia’s new RTX Spark PC silicon. The message was not that Copilot is getting...

Windows users can avoid the old browser-download-installer routine by using Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager, better known as WinGet, a command-line tool available on Windows 11, modern Windows 10 releases, and Windows Server 2025 through App Installer. That sounds like a small convenience...

Microsoft has discontinued Microsoft Easy Fix solutions, the downloadable repair tools once known as Microsoft Fix it, and now directs Windows users to built-in troubleshooters, Settings-based diagnostics, and the Get Help app in Windows 11 for common PC repair workflows. The change is not...

A Windows XP Service Pack 3 virtual machine placed directly on the public Internet with its firewall disabled was reportedly compromised within about 10 minutes in Eric Parker’s experiment, acquiring Trojan processes, a rogue FTP service, DNS tampering, and unauthorized user accounts. The stunt...

Microsofts neuer Fünfjahres-Deal mit Stellantis ist mehr als nur ein weiterer Cloud-Vertrag. Er zeigt, wie ernst es klassische Autobauer inzwischen mit der KI-Transformation meinen — und wie stark Big Tech dabei zum strategischen Partner der Industrie wird. Für Microsoft ist die Kooperation ein...

Microsoft’s new five-year collaboration with Stellantis is more than another enterprise software win. It is a clear signal that AI, cloud migration, and cybersecurity are becoming deeply embedded in the operating model of global manufacturers, not just in their customer-facing apps. For...

Stellantis’ new five-year collaboration with Microsoft is more than another automotive AI headline. It is a sign that the race to modernize carmakers has moved far beyond in-car assistants and factory dashboards and into the deeper plumbing of cybersecurity, engineering, and enterprise...

Stellantis’ new five-year collaboration with Microsoft is more than another automotive AI headline. It is a signal that software-defined vehicles, connected services, and cyber defense are now being treated as core industrial capabilities rather than nice-to-have experiments. The companies say...

Stellantis is making a deliberate bet that software, data, and AI will now shape the car company as much as engines and manufacturing ever did. Its five-year strategic collaboration with Microsoft, announced on April 16, 2026, is framed as a broad digital transformation push spanning employee...

Stellantis is making its clearest bet yet that AI is no longer a side project but a core operating system for a modern automaker. The five-year partnership with Microsoft, announced on April 16, 2026, stretches from employee productivity and cybersecurity to customer-facing vehicle insights and...