[German]Microsoft's next move in AI agents. Microsoft wants to provide its Office users with AI agents (which could also be seen as forced happiness) and describes this "new step" as "vibe working." Together with the switch from OpenAI to Antrophic's LLM, this fits in well, and Office users are being forced to use the functionality with CoPilot.
[German]It was a security incident waiting to happen; the only question was how soon it would occur. The AI provider localmind.ai has currently shut down all services. A "readily avoidable security vulnerability" could have allowed third parties to extract sensitive customer data. A reader informed me by email after receiving notifications to this effect.
[German]The Australian airline Qantas fell victim to a cyber incident involving data leakage. It's unfortunate when lawyers take up the case and a judge issues an injunction. Troy Hunt, who runs the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), is unable to add names and other data to his database due to an injunction.
[German]By mid-October 2025, Microsoft will complete a security measure in Outlook that blocks SVG image files used in attacks. And one reader complained that certain images have not been displayed in his Outlook Classic for years.
[German]Auto-archiving for Exchange Online will be introduced worldwide for all public clouds in October 2025 and for all government clouds in November. Once archiving is enabled for Exchange Online users, the oldest items will be automatically moved from a user's primary mailbox to their archive as soon as the mailbox usage reaches 90% of the mailbox quota limit to avoid disruptions to email flow. Addendum: Apparently stopped after customer protests.
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[German]U-turn after massive customer protests and probably also customer loss. The provider Synology has largely withdrawn its "hard drive requirement," which had only recently been established for NAS Plus models.
[German]Canonical released Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) on October 9, 2025. This is an interim version of Ubuntu that forms the basis for the next LTS version. This distribution comes with GNOME 49 and several other new features.
[German]Brief note to readers regarding an unfortunate development at SonicWall. There was a recent incident in which backup files of the firewall configuration were exposed. While it was initially reported that only a few accounts were affected, it has now been announced that all accounts using cloud backup are affected. Attackers were able to read the configuration information.
[German]Quick question for blog readers who are upgrading their machines to Windows 11 25H2: Are you getting a warning that there are NVMe SSD issues? I have received information that NVMe SSDs from WD and Sandisk are causing problems when upgrading to Windows 11 25H2 and that users are being warned.
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