Data Security
The latest Data Security coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
August Patch Tuesday Chaos: Broken PC Resets, Disappearing SSDs, and Microsoft’s Emergency Fix
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday rollout, intended to patch dozens of security vulnerabilities including a zero‑day, spiraled into a crisis within days as two separate critical...
Excel's New COPILOT Function Turns Natural Language Into Live, Spillable Formula Results
Microsoft has quietly rolled out one of the most significant architectural changes to Excel in decades: a native COPILOT function that lets users type plain‑English prompts directly into cell...
A 12-Year-Old Backlog, a Chatbot, and a Blueprint for Municipal AI: Inside Cornwall's Digital Transformation
A service request had been sitting open in the City of Cornwall’s system for twelve years. That single, startling discovery became the organizing problem that drove a complete rethink of how the...
Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform Scores Azure Certified Software Designation, Unlocking Co-Sell and Marketplace Perks
Board International has secured a Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure, adding the company’s enterprise planning platform to a short list of financially focused...
Microsoft Embeds AI Directly into Excel Cells with New COPILOT Function
Microsoft has begun rolling out a native =COPILOT function in Excel, allowing users to type natural-language prompts into cells and receive live, recalculating AI-generated results directly in the...
Ricoh’s 5-Day AI Bootcamp: Upskilling Over 1,000 Staff to Fuel a Copilot-Powered Services Pivot
Ricoh Asia Pacific has just completed a region-wide, five-day AI upskilling sprint designed to transform more than a thousand of its employees from printer salespeople into Copilot-powered solution...
Tanzania Hunts Junior Developers to Keep Biometric Border Systems Running at Major Airports
A new job posting by recruitment firm CVPeople Tanzania reveals an urgent need for junior software developers to join a Network Operations Center (NOC) in Dar es Salaam. The role supports the...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers SSD Disappearances, Data Loss Risk
Microsoft's August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, build 26100.4946) has triggered a wave of community reports and independent test results pointing to a serious storage...
Identity Kits Breached, NFC Malware Spikes, and Microsoft Patches a Dangerous Kerberos Bug
The cybersecurity news cycle last week delivered a triple blow that no financial institution or Windows enterprise can afford to ignore. On Monday, a Connecticut-based credit union confirmed a data...
Airport Biometric Job Boom: Tanzania Recruits 23 Windows IT Techs for Immigration Systems
A recruitment portal in Tanzania has just posted a single intake for 23 identical junior IT support roles, all stationed at Dar es Salaam’s airports and all tasked with keeping biometric...
Microsoft Hires Covington & Burling to Probe Azure's Role in Israeli Spy Unit Surveillance
Microsoft has hired the U.S. law firm Covington & Burling to lead an independent investigation into whether its Azure cloud platform was used by Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit...
Microsoft Retains Covington for Azure-Palestine Surveillance Investigation
Microsoft has retained the law firm Covington & Burling LLP to lead an urgent external investigation into claims that its Azure cloud platform was used to store and process massive amounts of...