data protection

CVE-2025-49728 — Microsoft PC Manager: Cleartext storage of sensitive information (Security‑feature bypass, local) Summary (TL;DR) Microsoft has assigned CVE‑2025‑49728 to a vulnerability in Microsoft PC Manager where sensitive information is stored in cleartext, enabling a local, unauthorized...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote—embedding a content‑aware AI assistant as a right‑hand sidebar inside the Office apps millions of people use every day. This shift makes conversational AI a native part of...

All West Virginia University–managed computers still running Windows 10 will be removed from the university network on Oct. 1, a last-resort enforcement step intended to protect WVU systems, research data and patient information ahead of the operating system’s end-of-support cycle. This hard...

When Windows refuses to finish an upgrade, the experience quickly moves from annoying to terrifying: cryptic error codes, long rollbacks, and the gnawing fear of lost files. Millions of Windows users have lived through that loop; the good news is that most upgrade failures are diagnosable and...

Windows shipping with System Restore (System Protection) turned off by default is one of those small, baffling defaults that quietly raises the stakes when things go wrong — but it’s also an easy fix that can save hours of troubleshooting and a reinstall. The built‑in System Restore feature...

Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise thousands of public comments on Bath Rugby’s proposed 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground, folding an AI‑assisted thematic analysis into the officer’s 121‑page planning report that went to councillors...

Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...

Norway’s legal profession is at a decisive inflection point: by combining strict, fjord‑tested data protection rules with a newly modernised Lawyer Act, Norwegian firms can safely harvest huge productivity gains from generative AI — but only if they pick tools and deployment patterns that...

If your laptop is still in your hands right now, treat that as a narrow window of opportunity: apply a handful of defensive settings that will protect your data, help you recover the device if it goes missing, and dramatically reduce the damage a thief can do. These changes take minutes, and...

Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise more than 5,500 public comments submitted on the planning application for an 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground — a development that has reignited debates about AI in local government, public consultation...

If your Windows 10 or 11 C: drive is running out of space and there's unallocated room elsewhere on the same disk, you can reclaim it — but not always the way you'd expect. Windows built‑in tools require the unallocated space to be immediately to the right of the partition you want to expand...

Microsoft's hard deadline for Windows 10 support — October 14, 2025 — has shifted the conversation for IT leaders from “if” to how fast and how wisely to move, and the time for planning alone has passed: organisations must now execute migration plans that protect security, preserve productivity...

Microsoft’s Copilot Agent ecosystem is facing a governance and enforcement crisis: multiple independent reports show that tenant-level policies intended to block agent availability are not being reliably enforced, Microsoft’s Copilot audit telemetry has contained reproducible blind spots, and...

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...

CVPeople Tanzania’s recent IT Airport Supervisor recruitment notice doubles as a signal: Tanzania’s airports are deepening their commitment to on‑site technical teams to support biometric enrollment and immigration control systems, and the advertised role frames that expansion as both an...

CVPeople Tanzania’s mid‑August job posting for a Junior Software Developer signals a focused hiring need inside the company’s Network Operations Center (NOC) for work tied to immigration and biometric systems — an entry‑level technical role with NOC shift duties, exposure to Automated Biometric...

Headline: When the Chamber Teaches AI: What Logansport’s Workshop Means for Small Businesses Deck: On Aug. 15, 2025 the Logansport Cass County Chamber of Commerce packed a room for an introductory AI workshop. That turnout — and the questions that followed — shows small and medium businesses are...

Microsoft has begun publicly testing a dramatic expansion of Copilot’s “vision” capabilities: a new Desktop Share mode that, when explicitly enabled by a user, lets Copilot Vision see and analyze an entire Windows desktop in real time. The feature is rolling out to Windows Insiders in markets...

This week’s HR headlines lay bare a widening disconnect between how work gets done and how employers think it should be done: nearly half of employees report using banned AI tools to speed their tasks, the U.S. Department of Labor is offering $30 million in grants to push employer-led training...

Dow’s security team has quietly rewritten the playbook for a 125‑year‑old materials science giant by folding generative AI into daily operations — not as a flashy headline, but as a force multiplier that shortens investigation times, elevates junior analysts, and reshapes incident response...