The Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update released on October 13 contains a bug that turns off Smart App Control, a feature introduced in 2022 that blocks potentially malicious or suspicious apps and files. Affected systems show the feature as Off with the On option grayed out, so users cannot re-enable it. Microsoft says it is working on a fix…
ServiceNow and Nvidia announced general availability of Arc, a long-running personal AI agent for enterprise productivity tasks such as email and Microsoft Teams. Arc was first announced in May and is available now on Mac, with Windows support still pending. It is designed for Nvidia's new RTX Spark devices and can run locally or inside N…
Microsoft announced changes to its Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium and Pro subscriptions, replacing per-member 1 TB OneDrive allowances with a single shared storage pool and shared AI usage credits. Family and Premium plans drop from up to 6 TB of total storage to 2 TB, and the new Microsoft 365 Pro plan offers 5 TB at about $100 …
The Netherlands' Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout and will move to an on-premises, open-source approach, citing digital sovereignty and data control concerns. About 5,000 employees had already migrated when the Dutch Advisory Council on ICT Assessment recommended reversing the rol…
Munich's chief digital officer, Dr. Laura Dornheim, said at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that the city is returning to open-source software, but only for infrastructure and not for desktops. The city is replacing VMware with Proxmox, Jira and Confluence with OpenProject and XWiki, and adopting PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle…