GitHub is rebuilding its Git storage system as AI-driven activity strains the service, with early tests showing writes up to 35 times faster. The redesign replaces Spokes’ replica-quorum write path with Azure Blob Storage and separates reads and maintenance from writes. GitHub has not announced a migration timeline.

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Microsoft Teams plans to add built-in warnings for suspicious meeting identities in November, alongside the third-party deepfake detection integration already in development. The two features are listed for worldwide rollout and general availability that month, though Microsoft has not provided a specific date.

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Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access can stop stolen refresh tokens from being replayed outside an organization’s network using a Conditional Access policy and the GSA client. The compliant network check is included with Entra ID P1, though organizations must deploy and route traffic through GSA. The service can also apply network rules to AI agents and extend continuous access evaluation to apps routed through it.

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Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027 as costs mount, business value stays murky, or safeguards prove inadequate. “Agent washing” adds another wrinkle: only about 130 of thousands of vendors claiming to offer AI agents may have genuine agents. Organizations can improve their odds by testing a narrowly defined task, setting measurable success and stop-or-go criteria, and limiting agent permissions until they demonstrate results.

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Investors got two very different snapshots of OpenAI’s sales pace: nearly $50 billion in annualized net revenue, versus the $68 billion figure widely reported earlier that included partner revenue. The accounting difference isn’t an $18 billion vanishing act, but it was enough to send AI-linked shares lower and renew doubts about whether rapid growth can justify sky-high valuations and immense computing costs.

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Trump awarded science and technology medals to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, Lisa Su, Michael Dell and Satya Nadella, whose donations and pledges linked to Trump and his administration reportedly approach $6 billion. The ceremony celebrated U.S. tech ambitions, including quantum computing and advanced AI, while Nadella’s honor came soon after Microsoft was suspended from the H-1B program—a timing the article notes, without claiming a connection.

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Anthropic is hiring a Political Programs lead to brief Republican and Democratic presidential candidates on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election—and to oversee its political giving, including its employee-funded PAC. The company frames the effort as policymaker education, but the overlap between candidate outreach and campaign spending has already raised questions about where education ends and influence begins. With jobs, data centers, and privacy looming larger in AI debates, Anthropic will need to persuade both parties that its guidance is more than an attempt to shape the rules in its favor.

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AWS has made OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast available on Amazon Bedrock, giving developers a faster-inference option for applications where response time matters. AWS positions it for real-time coding assistants, interactive agents, and customer-facing services.

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Older Windows PCs could lose access to Windows Update in 2027 if they miss required certificate updates. Most supported systems need a specified security update by May or June 2027; unsupported versions must be upgraded. Devices updated through WSUS are not affected by this certificate rotation.

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Microsoft has made Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) generally available to commercial customers, giving Windows 11 organizations a way to restrict what AI agents can access while they run. At the same time, Microsoft is preparing Copilot and developer tools to route work between local models and the cloud, based on factors such as cost, privacy, and device capability.

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Microsoft’s October 13 Patch Tuesday is expected to fix Excel copy-and-paste failures and a File History/Windows Backup problem caused by September updates. The release will also bring the final updates for Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro, while Extended Security Updates end for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.

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Microsoft is urging CISOs to reconsider patch schedules as AI-driven vulnerability discovery increases the volume of flaws teams must assess. The company recommends applying fixes to critical systems such as domain controllers and edge devices within 24 hours, and says its September 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities. Microsoft has also released its MDASH scanning harness to customers.

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Microsoft has identified updated Windows 11 builds that can test ML-DSA certificates, adding a platform-specific step to its seven-CA post-quantum TLS pilot. The tests are limited to controlled, non-production environments. Organizations can use them to uncover compatibility and performance issues before planning broader post-quantum authentication changes.

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Microsoft has detailed NeedyMantis, a modular malware family found in targeted intrusions against organizations including telecom providers, universities, and government contractors. Deployed after attackers gain access, it can masquerade as legitimate software components and communicate with command-and-control servers over WebSockets. Microsoft says its operators and the malware’s additional modules remain only partly understood.

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Since January, Star Blizzard has expanded its phishing campaigns and adopted RedFlick, a delivery method that installs the CosmicPulse backdoor with less victim interaction. Microsoft has observed at least 13 campaigns, affecting more than 100 organizations, primarily in the United States and United Kingdom.

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Microsoft has declared remote PC connections in the Windows app generally available. You can now add physical or virtual Windows PCs by name or IP address and connect to them over Remote Desktop, alongside Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Microsoft Dev Box. Windows App is meant to replace the Remote Desktop app. This article covers the setup steps, the prerequisites, and the limitations that Microsoft's announcement does not spell out.

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The September 2026 update for Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based SIEM (security information and event management) platform, includes three items. Case Management is a new public preview in the Microsoft Defender portal for tracking investigations. Defender unified role-based access control (RBAC) custom roles can now be assigned to partner groups through granular delegated admin privileges (GDAP). Codeless connectors in the Sentinel data lake can bring in data from many accounts through a single connector. Microsoft also says the connector catalog now exceeds 500 entries.

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Apple is planning a launch around October 27 featuring its first touch-screen MacBook, a new iPad mini, and M6-powered MacBook Pro and iMac models, according to a report citing people familiar with the plans. The MacBook Pro redesign is expected to bring an OLED display and Dynamic Island, while the iPad mini is also set to gain OLED. Apple has not confirmed the launch.

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Anthropic has opened OSS Scanner, a free opt-in service that sends open-source maintainers vulnerability reports generated by its strongest AI models, including Claude Mythos. The reports arrive without human review, trading validation for speed as Anthropic faces a backlog of findings. Projects that cannot triage the reports can continue using Anthropic’s human-reviewed disclosure process.

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