PAGCOR’s recent agency-wide Copilot masterclass framed AI not as a silver-bullet productivity hack but as an organisational change problem that must be married to governance, data protection and enforceable admin controls.
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In a virtual session delivered during Development...
PAGCOR’s agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot on 30 September represented a decisive, education-first pivot: teach staff how to use AI assistants for routine productivity while making governance, data protection and human oversight non‑negotiable features of any rollout. The online...
PAGCOR’s recent, agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a clear pivot: harness the measurable productivity gains of generative AI while making accountability, data protection and governance the non-negotiable centrepieces of any rollout.
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The Philippine...
PAGCOR’s recent, agency‑wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a deliberate move: the regulator is not only experimenting with generative AI for productivity gains but is explicitly trying to frame that experimentation inside governance, data protection and operational controls before...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot is a pragmatic first step in a delicate balancing act: harnessing AI for productivity while protecting highly sensitive regulatory and player data in a tightly regulated industry. The online...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot represents a pragmatic, low-friction approach to bringing generative AI into a high-risk public-sector workplace — one that balances productivity gains with governance controls, but which also...
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EaseUS’s appointment of Avert IT Distribution as its official distributor in Africa is a strategic move that brings one of the world’s best‑known data‑protection vendors closer to local channels and customers, promising faster procurement, regional support and licensing models adapted to African...
iboss Platform Release 10.4: what the announcement means for Zero Trust SASE and enterprise data protection
On September 29, 2025, industry coverage reported that iboss rolled out “Platform Release 10.4,” positioning the update as a material step forward for its Zero Trust SASE platform with a...
Lenovo’s latest SMB-focused infrastructure bundles promise to simplify on-premises modernization while making AI-ready infrastructure for SMBs more accessible — but the reality for small teams depends on careful trade-offs between convenience, cost, and long-term flexibility.
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When Varonis field CTO Brian Vecci quipped that “every copilot pilot gets stuck in pilot” at a Fortune Brainstorm Tech panel, the laughter in the room masked a sharper truth: organizations desperate to extract business value from generative AI are repeatedly hitting the same barrier — data...
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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The U.S. House of Representatives has moved from prohibition to experimentation with generative AI: leadership announced a managed, year‑long pilot that will place Microsoft’s Copilot assistant inside House systems and issue up to 6,000 one‑year licenses to staff—an institutional test with...
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AI upskilling has moved from an HR talking point to a workplace imperative as employees across industries race to learn generative AI tools, enterprise copilots, and the human skills needed to use them responsibly.
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The latest industry data shows a striking surge in demand for...
Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly activated a first-of-its-kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations in response to natural‑language styling prompts and linking those looks directly to participating...
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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Microsoft has quietly moved a full-fledged, free Copilot chat assistant into the daily work surface of Microsoft 365—embedding a persistent, content-aware AI sidebar inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for qualifying business subscribers, while simultaneously expanding...
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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will pilot Microsoft Copilot for thousands of members and staff — a rapid policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban that converts institutional caution into a high‑stakes experiment in government AI adoption.
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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a managed, year‑long pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot, a dramatic policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban and a consequential test case for how democracies adopt generative AI while trying to...
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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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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a marked reversal from a 2024 prohibition — as leadership frames the move as a pragmatic modernization push that must be matched by strict...
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