AWS’s public Deception Benchmark shows that AI vulnerability detectors can identify nearly every real flaw while incorrectly labeling 41% to 99% of safe code as vulnerable. Requiring models to demonstrate an actual exploit sharply reduced false positives, but caused them to miss more genuine vulnerabilities—and none of the tested configurations met AWS’s 10% threshold for both error types.

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Linux 7.3-rc3 is now available for testing, bringing an unusually large filesystem workload dominated by XFS maintenance and SMB client fixes. It follows Linux 7.3-rc2’s broad wave of kernel fixes, but this candidate shifts the focus toward storage reliability and file-sharing security.

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Microsoft is bringing SpaceXAI’s Grok models to Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but employees cannot use them until an administrator enables the feature. The limited Frontier preview also excludes customers in the EU, EFTA countries, and the UK, while Microsoft evaluates usage, performance, and safety.

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Microsoft has now listed the Excel copy-and-paste failure caused by KB5002914 as a known issue, confirming reports that the September 2026 Office security update can disrupt everyday spreadsheet work. The patch had already been linked to broken Excel copy and paste and autofill across multiple Office releases; Microsoft has not yet provided a fix or a resolution date.

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Microsoft Entra ID prevents a signed-in administrator from disabling the account currently being used, but reports the failure as “Property accountEnabled is invalid.” The restriction applies in both Microsoft Graph PowerShell and the Entra admin center, meaning administrators should not waste time troubleshooting the SDK or request body.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Microsoft will publish a Code of Conduct for its first-party MAI models and invite public consultation, adding outside scrutiny to the company’s approach to superintelligence. He argues that advanced AI is only worth pursuing if it benefits humanity, remains under human control, and does not force organizations to surrender control of their own knowledge.

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Windows 11 update KB5121003 is being linked to sudden AC-power disconnects on Lenovo laptops, with affected systems switching briefly to battery power, black-screening, or shutting down unexpectedly. The strongest evidence so far comes from a rollback test that eliminated the failures, although the exact change responsible has not been confirmed by Microsoft or Lenovo.

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Sam Altman told Fortune’s Allison Chantel that it is “absolutely” possible to build an AI system beyond human control, but said OpenAI will pause or redirect training whenever it cannot make a credible case for controllability and alignment. He also ruled out an OpenAI IPO in 2026, saying the company has more safety, policy, and international coordination work to complete.

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In a CNN interview, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he largely agrees with former researcher Jacob Coxon and alignment lead Evan Hubinger that advanced AI could eventually kill all humans—but he rejects treating the danger as a single roll-of-the-dice percentage. Instead, Amodei is urging the industry to “pace the frontier” by slowing capability gains and coordinating safety controls.

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Microsoft has released six Windows 11 dynamic updates for versions 26H1, 25H2, 24H2, and 23H2, including KB5126056 and KB5124015. The packages address security issues in Windows Setup components and improve the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), with delivery handled automatically through Windows Update.

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Windows 11 updates KB5124008 and KB5126052 are being linked to severe instability on AMD-based PCs, including driver timeouts, freezes, display disconnects, and hard crashes. The troubling detail for administrators is that uninstalling both updates—and even replacing AMD graphics drivers—did not reliably restore affected systems.

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Microsoft has refreshed the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool with KB5124008, giving administrators a current 25H2 installation image just before Windows 11 26H2 arrives. The timing follows 26H2 reaching Release Preview and Microsoft publishing its small 26H2 enablement package, making this likely one of the last official 25H2 media refreshes.

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Perplexity is allowing OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to write communications, modify production software, monitor live systems, and create tests with substantially fewer human check-ins than earlier models. The shift moves Astra beyond code assistance toward supervised, end-to-end operation of the company’s search and answer platform.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that frontier AI development should proceed at a more measured pace so safety research can keep up with rapidly advancing capabilities. He says pacing would not halt training or technical progress, but would create time to improve alignment, operational security, interpretability, testing, and independent evaluation.

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Debian 13.7 “Trixie” is now available with 107 security updates, 106 bug fixes, and a new installer kernel. The seventh point release gives administrators a particularly important reason to patch: QEMU receives fixes for more than 20 secure-boot bypass vulnerabilities, while glibc updates trigger rebuilds of core utilities including Bash and BusyBox.

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The Dutch NCSC now expects attackers to target two critical Check Point VPN flaws soon, despite no public proof-of-concept exploit. The warning raises the urgency around Check Point’s disclosure of two CVSS 9.8 Quantum VPN certificate RCEs, which can be triggered during certificate processing before authentication.

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Google has completed a talent acquisition from AI coding startup Mechanize, bringing co-founder Tamay Besiroglu and more than a dozen employees into Google DeepMind. The team is expected to focus on mid-training, a model-development stage aimed at improving coding and chatbot performance as Google works to close the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Google Workspace’s native migration tool is now generally available for small businesses and educational institutions moving from Microsoft 365. It can copy users, email, OneDrive files, calendars, contacts, and tasks into a new Google Workspace tenant, but the initial rollout is limited to 10 users and specific subscription plans.

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Microsoft is moving Administrator Protection into the Windows 11 26H2 rollout after disabling the feature during the previous release cycle. It appeared in the Release Preview build KB5124006 and is now being distributed more broadly through the September 2026 update, KB5124008.

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