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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Eliezer Yudkowsky’s call for an outright, legally enforced shutdown of advanced AI systems — framed in his new book and repeated in interviews — has reignited a fraught debate that stretches from academic alignment labs to the product teams shipping copilots on Windows desktops; the argument is...
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House leaders announced this week that the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled rollout of Microsoft Copilot to congressional staffers, marking a sharp policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 prohibition and launching a one‑year pilot that will place Copilot‑powered tools inside...
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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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Australian small and medium businesses are sprinting to adopt generative AI — often by pasting confidential company data into free consumer tools — and that rush is creating a clear, demonstrable security and compliance gap that needs urgent remediation.
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StatCounter’s August 2025 snapshot produced a deceptively simple headline — Windows 11 slipped below 50% of desktop Windows installations while Windows 10 regained ground — but the data behind that headline, and what it means for users and IT teams as Windows 10 support ends in October, require...
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There has been a sharp and measurable shift in how Irish mid‑market executives view artificial intelligence: the proportion who described AI as “over‑rated” or mostly hype has collapsed, firms are moving rapidly to formalise generative‑AI rules for staff, yet anxiety about data privacy has never...
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Google’s Chrome is quietly treating copy-and-paste as a first‑class privacy risk: Canary builds now show Safety Check automatically removing clipboard permissions from sites you haven’t visited recently, surface a clear “Removed permissions for [x] sites” notice in the menu, and give users a...
AI is already everywhere in the enterprise — and the biggest short-term risk may be that most employees don’t even realize they’re using it.
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The conversation about AI risk has, until recently, centered on sophisticated threats: algorithmic bias, model explainability, intellectual...
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Azure Arc gives Hyper‑V administrators a new, cloud‑centric management plane that complements — not replaces — established tools like System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Windows Admin Center (WAC), Hyper‑V Manager and PowerShell, and this guide walks through practical onboarding...
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Microsoft’s new federal bargain is one of those rare deals that looks simple on paper and seismic in practice: deep, governmentwide discounts on Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, security tooling and — critically — up to 12 months of Microsoft 365 Copilot for qualifying G5 agency customers...
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YouTube’s recent admission that it’s been running an experiment that automatically alters some Shorts during processing has crystallized a deep, practical question for creators and viewers alike: when a platform polishes your work without asking, does “better quality” become a betrayal of...
In a recent podcast interview, Coinbase’s CEO said he fired a small number of engineers who repeatedly refused to use—or even try—AI tools the company had provisioned for its developers.
The CEO described going “rogue” in a company Slack announcement to make the priority clear, then hosting open...
LibreOffice’s blunt charge that Microsoft is using an “artificially complex” Office XML schema as a deliberate lock‑in tool landed like a splash of cold water—and the splash matters because it exposes how fragile interoperability, user choice, and long‑term digital access really are in a world...
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Describes the Microsoft support policy for Windows virtual Desktop and Windows 10 Enterprise for Virtual Desktops. Both are supported in Azure only.
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The hearings will focus on competition in digital markets, anti-competitive conduct of “dominant firms,” and whether current laws and enforcement policies are adequate.
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