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Google Fixes Chrome Zero-Day Used in Attacks Google has patched another Chrome zero-day after confirming attackers are already exploiting the vulnerability in the wild. The out-of-bounds write flaw can be triggered through a crafted webpage, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution within Chrome’s sandbox. AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and adding to an already overwhelming volume …

Apple’s A20 Pro Debuts on 2nm Apple unveiled the A20 Pro, its first chip built on 2nm process technology, powering the iPhone 18 Pro lineup with a six-core CPU, seven-core GPU, and dual Neural Engines for on-device AI. The node shrink is the real story for silicon watchers. Sam Altman Biopic Drops First Teaser Neon …

Summary Microsoft is changing how consumption is measured for select AI experiences in Microsoft Fabric, moving from a fixed model to a dynamic model based on the resources needed for each task. Affected Fabric AI capabilities include Copilot in Fabric, Fabric data agents, AI Functions, and Fabric IQ ontologies. Consumption will still be billed through …

Summary Power Pages is retiring support for the wildcard (*) value in the Webapi/<table-name>/fields site setting. Websites that currently expose Dataverse table columns through a wildcard must switch to explicit column allowlists. This is a security and least-privilege change intended to reduce unintended exposure of table data through the Power Pages Web API. Admins should …

Summary Copilot features in Microsoft Viva Glint will no longer be available to Microsoft Entra cross-tenant guest users (B2B collaboration guest users). Affected Copilot experiences include Copilot Highlights in summaries, the Copilot button/chat panel for comment summarization, and the Copilot Summarize option in comments. This is a service limitation in the underlying Copilot LLM experience, …

Summary Microsoft is changing the sender address for Copilot educational, product enablement, and service-enablement emails to [email protected]. The emails’ content and purpose stay the same; only the sender identity/branding is changing from [email protected]. Organizations that filter, allow, or block these messages should update mail flow rules, safe sender entries, and allow/block lists. Admins should also …

Summary Exchange Online is changing how the EWSAllowedAppIDs setting is enforced as part of the EWS retirement process. Organizations that still use Exchange Web Services should review and maintain their own allow list for apps that need EWS access. If EWSEnabled is True, EWS will require a configured EWSAllowedAppIDs list; Microsoft will not overwrite tenant-managed …

Summary Microsoft Purview Information Protection auto-labeling policy simulation capacity is increasing from 4 million to 20 million items. Administrators can now select up to 1,000 individual SharePoint sites and use adaptive scopes for up to 50,000 SharePoint sites per policy. Reporting and auditing will include additional visibility such as Sensitive Information Type detection summaries and …

Summary Microsoft Whiteboard is retiring legacy Azure-backed storage and moving all remaining legacy Whiteboards to OneDrive-backed storage. Organizations still using legacy Whiteboards must identify and migrate any remaining content before Microsoft retires the migration tooling. After migration tooling is retired, legacy Whiteboards become read-only and later will be permanently deleted if not migrated. Admins should …

Summary Microsoft has published new and updated planning resources for rolling out Windows feature updates and Microsoft 365 Apps. The guidance is aimed at IT admins who manage Windows devices and app update deployment. Microsoft is recommending a plan > prepare > deploy approach to help speed update rollout and support remote workers. Administrators are …