Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct would make shutdown compliance, human oversight, and audit transparency mandatory for its MAI models. Microsoft is opening the 37-page framework to public review for six weeks before revising it later this year.

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Salesforce is expanding Agentforce across AWS and Google Cloud while introducing Enterprise AI Harness, a control layer for governing agents, models and enterprise data across multiple platforms. The integrations let agents use Salesforce context and workflows alongside AWS and Google Cloud services without forcing customers to move all their data or standardize on one model provider.

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Salesforce is moving beyond its fixed CRM screen with AIforce, a live interface layer that lets users and agents work with platform data through natural-language tools. After opening Salesforce’s platform to agents without its interface, the company is now adding customizable experiences through Claudeforce, Slackforce, and Agentforce Coworker.

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Salesforce has unveiled Koa, a CRM-focused AI reasoning model developed with Nvidia that the company says can match or outperform leading models on CRM actions while making three times fewer errors. Koa was trained on synthetic scenarios rather than customer records and runs inside Salesforce-controlled infrastructure, giving organizations a way to automate complex workflows without sending CRM data outside its trust boundary.

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CISA now says ransomware gangs are exploiting CVE-2026-59310, the critical VMware vCenter flaw that had already compromised vCenter systems in attacks. Broadcom patched the unauthenticated directory-traversal vulnerability in July, but more than 450 vCenter servers remain exposed online, increasing the urgency for organizations that have not completed remediation.

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Splunk is expanding in two directions at once: bringing AI-driven operations closer to sensitive on-premises data with Cisco and Nvidia, while moving beyond AWS integrations toward jointly designed, agent-based security products. The strategy positions Splunk as a full-stack observability and security platform spanning cloud, data center, and edge environments.

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Microsoft’s emergency out-of-band updates KB5129195 and KB5129242 have failed to resolve secure domain login problems triggered by Windows 11 KB5124008. The unresolved authentication issue follows KB5124008’s earlier authentication and connectivity problems, leaving administrators without a confirmed Microsoft fix.

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A campaign used the BlueMoon Chrome-Windows exploit chain, delivering the GRIMWEDGE JavaScript backdoor through a compromised university website. The operation adds a UTA0560 campaign and a new payload to the BlueMoon exploit kit spreading across espionage campaigns, increasing the urgency for administrators to update both Chrome and Windows.

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New Outlook is now prompting users to let Copilot generate morning briefings and end-of-day wrap-ups, but Microsoft provides no obvious user or tenant setting to stop the offers. The summaries may be useful, yet the inability to control these unsolicited prompts could make Copilot another source of friction as organizations move away from classic Outlook.

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Cisco has patched CVE-2026-76461, a critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day that attackers are exploiting to run commands as root through specially crafted email messages. CISA has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and ordered federal agencies to patch by September 17.

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Windows administrators are reporting that Windows 11 security update KB5124008 can break domain authentication by destroying the computer’s Netlogon secure channel. The failure has been reproduced across multiple systems and appears on networks using Windows Server 2019 and Server 2022 domain controllers, while Microsoft has not yet confirmed the issue or provided a permanent fix.

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told the hosts of the All-In podcast, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg, that he rejects predictions of AI-driven extinction as unscientific. A surprise call from President Donald Trump reinforced the event’s pro-AI message, with Trump saying that robots would not take over the world and calling fears about data centers and AI takeover a “hoax.”

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Microsoft is retiring NTLM (NT LAN Manager), a legacy challenge-response authentication protocol, in favor of Kerberos, a ticket-based protocol that verifies both the client and the server. NTLM will be disabled by default in the next major Windows Server and client release, but you can start preparing now with enhanced auditing and Kerberos fixes. This article summarizes Microsoft's new FAQ about the upcoming retirement of NTLM.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang turned a live All-In Summit appearance into an impromptu AI policy moment when President Donald Trump called him onstage. On speakerphone, Trump rejected fears about runaway AI as a “hoax” and said robots would not take over, offering a sharp public counterpoint to recent calls for slower frontier-AI development.

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iOS 27 is now available for iPhone 11 and newer, bringing Apple’s biggest Siri overhaul yet alongside faster system performance and new AI tools across Photos, Safari, Shortcuts, and the Home app. Most Apple Intelligence features require an iPhone 15 Pro or later, but the underlying performance improvements also benefit older supported devices.

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Donald Trump privately met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican National Convention, with Altman reportedly requesting the discussion. The brief meeting focused on artificial intelligence and its growing influence, but no policy commitments or specific agreements were disclosed.

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President Donald Trump has rejected calls for AI guardrails and attacked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after Amodei urged frontier AI companies to slow capability advances. Trump framed opposition to AI development and data centers as a conspiracy benefiting China, arguing that presidential leadership—not new regulation—is the necessary safeguard.

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Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band updates after September Patch Tuesday disrupted Remote Desktop Services, Hyper-V-based Linux virtual machines, and USB audio devices. The move follows a record-breaking September Patch Tuesday that was quickly complicated by two Windows zero-days, giving administrators a second urgent deployment decision within days.

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Microsoft is preparing to bring Copilot’s Edit mode in Word to Office 365 GCC, GCC High, and DoD environments in October 2026. The web-only rollout will let government employees rewrite, refine, and transform documents with Copilot, but it is not yet available and Microsoft has not announced desktop or mobile support.

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