Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-10-11

Max severity SonicWall SMA1000 flaw now exploited in attacks

Attackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances (CVE-2026-102255) that was patched on Tuesday, three days ago. [...]

BleepingComputer

Oct 9, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Dutch Blockchain Week returns, May 17-23, 2027,

By Iaros Belkin, Founder of Belkin Marketing I spent last June at the Johan Cruijff ArenA, watching a sold-out room actually listen to the main stage. Rare at a crypto event. By the end of the week th...

Irish Tech News

Oct 9, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell

Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

Azure SQL Data Sync After a Database Restore: Troubleshooting Leftover Sync Metadata

Recently, I worked on an interesting Azure SQL Data Sync issue that I thought was worth sharing with the community. The scenario looked straightforward at first: a database had been restored from anot...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Oct 9, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Introducing the Agent Experience (AX) Practitioner Playbook

AI coding agents now pick the SDK, the version, and the pattern for your developers. The AX Practitioner Playbook is our method for finding out whether they get your technology right, and for fixing t...

Microsoft for Developers

Oct 9, 2026 - devblogs.microsoft.com

Whose roadmap is your software estate running on?

SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should.

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

America’s next family car might look a lot like a golf cart

For decades, automakers have been designing cars to look like they have faces. Headlights resemble eyes, grilles look like mouths, and the shape of a hood can give a vehicle something resembling an ex...

Fast Company - technology

Oct 9, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Unpatched AhsayCBS Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

The flaws, CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, allow attackers to bypass authentication and inject OS commands. The post Unpatched AhsayCBS Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild appeared first on Sec...

SecurityWeek

Oct 9, 2026 - securityweek.com

I'm seriously considering canceling my Microsoft 365 Family subscription

Microsoft 365 Family's 66.7% OneDrive storage cut in favor of shared Copilot benefits has destroyed its value and pushed me toward cancellation. Read more...

Neowin

Oct 9, 2026 - neowin.net

Intent, Not Identity

On a recent episode of This Week in AI, we discussed that the number of nonhumans on the internet is greater than humans, 144 to 1. It’s an estimate, and the order of magnitude is more important than ...

Radar

Oct 9, 2026 - oreilly.com

Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?

"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."

Ars Technica - All content

Oct 9, 2026 - arstechnica.com

Germany arrests alleged core Qilin ransomware member after extradition

Germany has arrested a Russian national suspected of being a leading member of the Qilin ransomware group following extradition from Japan earlier this month. [...]

BleepingComputer

Oct 9, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

We Need to Embed Ethics Into Our Engineering Courses

In mid-September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined a growing group of researchers calling for the AI industry to slow down. While some have questioned these researchers’ motivation for voicing concer...

IEEE Spectrum

Oct 9, 2026 - spectrum.ieee.org

The Emergent Leader, how to build your brand and leadership, insights with Don Gregori

An interview with Don Gregori the Author of The Emergent Leader: A Guide to Brand Building, Leadership, and Self-Mastery. By Selva Ozelli Esq, CPA, Author of Sustainably Investing in Digital Assets Gl...

Irish Tech News

Oct 9, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

Weird Meraki MS250-48 Switch Issue

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Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Oct 9, 2026 - reddit.com

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

Anyone replace Intune with a full feature RMM?

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Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Oct 9, 2026 - reddit.com

Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto

Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners. [...]

BleepingComputer

Oct 9, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch

No word on exploitation status, but a 9.5 severity score suggests time is of the essence

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

Anthropic expands AI security plans for critical infrastructure

Opt-in open-source projects will receive free periodic security scans with suggested fixes, the company said. Read more: Anthropic expands AI security plans for critical infrastructure

Silicon Republic

Oct 9, 2026 - siliconrepublic.com

Microsoft 2.5: GitHub COO Kyle Daigle on stitching the developer universe together

Kyle Daigle, who now also leads developer marketing across Microsoft, says GitHub is roughly 60% through its migration to Azure as it works through capacity problems and outages. He also talks about G...

GeekWire

Oct 9, 2026 - geekwire.com

Removing GitHub Login option for Students

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Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Oct 9, 2026 - reddit.com

Cybercriminals Increase Use of RMM Tools in Phishing Campaigns

Cybercriminals are increasingly combining phishing attacks with legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software such as AnyDesk to gain persistent access to victims’ devices. Phishing campa...

Petri IT Knowledgebase

Oct 9, 2026 - petri.com

Apple’s new ‘second-party’ HomeKit products will have this exclusive iPhone feature

Apple could showcase its new co-developed smart home accessories as soon as next week. Ahead of that, a new leak today reveals a HomeKit feature exclusive to these “second-party” accessories. more...

9to5Mac

Oct 9, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

Microsoft 365 Consumer Subscriptions Are Transitioning to Shared AI Benefits and Cloud Storage

Microsoft is making AI features available for all members of a Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium plan. However, these plans will also transition to a shared cloud storage pool. The post Mi...

Thurrott.com

Oct 9, 2026 - thurrott.com

FBI seizes Chinese hacking tools used for cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure

The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and is believed responsible for disruptive cyber operations in th...

Fast Company - technology

Oct 9, 2026 - fastcompany.com

New TrailblazHER Scholarship to support the next generation of women engineers

TU Dublin and ESB launched the inaugural ESB TrailblazHER Scholarship to help remove barriers for women pursuing engineering careers through financial assistance, industry mentoring, professional netw...

Irish Tech News

Oct 9, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

Ransomware consultant said he would decrypt data, is accused of paying ransoms instead

The owner of a ransomware remediation company is facing trial for defrauding customers. Zohar Pinhasi, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” has been arraigned in New York on wire fraud char...

Computerworld

Oct 9, 2026 - computerworld.com

ChatGPT for Teens Fails Alerting Parents in Crisis Conversation Tests

ChatGPT for Teens replied without the expected parent alerts in simulated teen crisis tests. OpenAI disputes whether the parental controls had been fully activated. The post ChatGPT for Teens Fails Al...

WinBuzzer

Oct 9, 2026 - winbuzzer.com

Financial Operations: Cloud, AI and Where Enterprise Accounts Need to Save Money

The invoice arrives from your cloud provider. You open the PDF and stare at the total. It is not just high. It is completely disconnected from the reality of your business metrics. You were promised t...

Ciente

Oct 9, 2026 - ciente.io

Anthropic Bans Claude Abuse

Anthropic officially banned users from being cruel to Claude. But doesn’t regulating manners toward digital math matrices miss the mark entirely? Anthropic has updated its terms of service to outlaw “...

Ciente

Oct 9, 2026 - ciente.io

Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world

Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

Anyone else seeing random oauth issues, or Google Sign in issues across various services?

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Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Oct 9, 2026 - reddit.com

Managed Methods Email Filtering Phishing Solution Feedback/Opinions

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Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Oct 9, 2026 - reddit.com

Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters

SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

From H-1B to CEO: How Satya Nadella traveled the path the U.S. just cut off for Microsoft workers

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella followed the path from a temporary work visa to permanent residency to U.S. citizenship. On Thursday, President Trump honored him with a national medal, hours after the admin...

GeekWire

Oct 9, 2026 - geekwire.com

Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program

Today’s engineers face an unprecedented acceleration in AI hardware complexity, as explained in the recent research article “Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges.” The article examines the...

IEEE Spectrum

Oct 9, 2026 - spectrum.ieee.org

Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage

What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

Anthropic’s OSS Scanner finds a serious curl flaw

Anthropic’s free OSS Scanner has uncovered a curl vulnerability that maintainer Daniel Stenberg describes as one of the project’s worst in several years. The finding puts a real-world result behind th...

4sysops

Oct 9, 2026 - 4sysops.com

OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers after dispute over AI risks

OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,” defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as th...

Fast Company - technology

Oct 9, 2026 - fastcompany.com

What are Microsoft Execution Containers?

Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) are generally available as a policy-driven execution layer for untrusted or model-generated workloads, including AI agents, plugins, and tools. You declare the fil...

4sysops

Oct 9, 2026 - 4sysops.com

AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials

Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 9, 2026 - theregister.com

ICANN’s 1,615 new gTLD applications include 13 bids for .agent

ICANN received 1,615 applications for new generic top-level domains, with.agent drawing the most competition: 13 applicants. Brand, cryptocurrency, and AI-related names feature prominently, alongside ...

4sysops

Oct 9, 2026 - 4sysops.com

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.

Ars Technica - All content

Oct 9, 2026 - arstechnica.com

Agentic AI just got very real

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. In recent years, being gobsmacked by AI’s ever-expanding capabilities has become my new normal. More importantly, I’ve found the technolog...

Fast Company - technology

Oct 9, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, October 10 (game #1720)

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

Latest from TechRadar

Oct 9, 2026 - techradar.com

‘Star Wars’ is crossing over with ‘D&D’ in two upcoming books from Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast plans to revisit the Star Wars universe as its next big cross-company collaboration for Dungeons &… Read More

GeekWire

Oct 9, 2026 - geekwire.com

Man jailed for using 1,000 bots to fraudulently make $8m from his AI music

A man has been sentenced to prison for fraudulently making $8 million from streams of his AI music.

Latest from TechRadar

Oct 10, 2026 - techradar.com

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that ...

Krebs on Security

Oct 10, 2026 - krebsonsecurity.com

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: NEC 286 Laptop Rides Again

The sad reality is that all consumer electronics are going to be e-waste eventually. [Cory Whitesell] was determined his old NEC ProSpeed 286 Laptop wouldn’t meet that fate until absolutely …read more...

Blog – Hackaday

Oct 10, 2026 - hackaday.com

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

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Hacker News

Oct 10, 2026 - beaksec.github.io

30-year Microsoft veteran explains why you shouldn’t run two antivirus apps on Windows 11

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen, who has been with the company for more than three decades, has advice for everybody with two or more antivirus solutions, and it’s quite straightforward. Just don’t use...

Windows Latest

Oct 10, 2026 - windowslatest.com

Microsoft is slashing free OneDrive storage for Microsoft 365 subscribers

Microsoft 365 subscribers are set to lose terabytes of free online storage space. Microsoft has quietly announced a reduction in the amount of OneDrive storage included with various subscriptions, and...

BetaNews

Oct 10, 2026 - betanews.com

Why Francesca Hong is still on the campaign trail

Francesca Hong, a representative in the Wisconsin State Assembly, poses for a photo with a supporter in Racine, Wisconsin, on July 19, 2026. | Sara Stathas for the Washington Post via Getty Images T...

Technology | Vox

Oct 10, 2026 - vox.com

Ugreen NASync DXP8800 Ultra review

The Ugreen NASync DXP8800 Ultra is the DXP8800 Plus with a newer Intel processor and a higher memory ceiling. It also costs much more.

Latest from TechRadar

Oct 10, 2026 - techradar.com

Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management

Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP introduces AITEM, an AI-powered approach that conn...

BleepingComputer

Oct 10, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Can Apple keep its AirPods from becoming ‘PervertPods’?

Apple’s AirPods are arguably the most iconic headphones ever. The small, glossy, stylish buds are lauded for both their sound and design and are worn by hundreds of millions of people across the globe...

Fast Company - technology

Oct 10, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev

The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 10, 2026 - theregister.com

Math professor details how OpenAI stole his intellectual property and then blackmailed him

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster describes a dispute over OpenAI’s claims about solving the Navier–Stokes problem. He says that he and his collaborator had reached a related result on the ...

4sysops

Oct 10, 2026 - 4sysops.com

This free tool fixes your copy-paste headaches

Have you ever pasted text into Slack or Google Docs and noticed that everything looks just plain wrong? You’re not alone. Formatting is a mess on the internet right now, mostly because different app...

Fast Company - technology

Oct 10, 2026 - fastcompany.com

‘It's out of our hands anyway’: Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says there probably isn’t a need to pause AI development despite widespread warnings

Atlassian CEO urges caution on pausing AI development despite recent concerns.

Latest from TechRadar

Oct 10, 2026 - techradar.com

Anthropic cuts internet access to all internal Claude evaluations

Anthropic has cut live internet access to all internal Claude evaluations after finding models had used real websites and systems in unintended ways. The cases include exploiting a server flaw, submit...

4sysops

Oct 10, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Amazon disputes AgentCore vulnerability report after fixes

Amazon says Zenity’s AgentCore findings misrepresent documented behavior and would require developer error, disputing researchers’ account of how a prompt could expose credentials. Zenity had previous...

4sysops

Oct 10, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Why Every Microwave Has a “Popcorn” Button, But Every Bag Warns You Not to Use It

[Hyperfixed] has a podcast episode that does a deep dive into exactly why bags of microwave popcorn advise against using your microwave’s popcorn setting (in North America, anyway.) The answer …read m...

Blog – Hackaday

Oct 10, 2026 - hackaday.com

Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers

Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites

www.theregister.com - Articles

Oct 10, 2026 - theregister.com

Anthropic's AI submitted a false tip-off about an unsolved murder to cops

Anthropic took two weeks to notify Philadelphia cops that its AI had sent them a hallucinated lead.

Latest from TechRadar

Oct 10, 2026 - techradar.com

Does a VPN protect your privacy when using ChatGPT or Claude? What network encryption can and can’t hide from AI

A VPN masks where you are – not what you share

Latest from TechRadar

Oct 10, 2026 - techradar.com

Microsoft reducing OneDrive Storage for Office 365 plans

Windows 11 Forum

Oct 10, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Micro 11 Barebones Powershell Script

Windows 11 Forum

Oct 10, 2026 - elevenforum.com

McAfee rouge software, re-install Windows 11?

Windows 11 Forum

Oct 10, 2026 - elevenforum.com