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The Evals Deadline Has Passed. Here Is What to Freeze Before Agent Builder Goes Away.
Agent Builder’s scheduled November 30, 2026 shutdown is close enough to turn a vague migration plan into a practical question: what do you need to preserve so you can tell whether a replacement still ...
You Patched Ivanti on October 13. That Patch Is Already Out of Date.
You patched Ivanti on October 13. That patch is already out of date. If you run Ivanti Connect Secure and applied the October 13 fix for CVE-2026-104935, you did the right thing at the time. On Octobe...
The TCP Handshake Bug With a Working Root Exploit Still Has No Ubuntu or RHEL Fix
On October 27, Anthropic published a research post describing five exploit chains its internal research model had built. The last one was the quietest and the most uncomfortable for anyone running Lin...
B.C. Will Not Fall Back on Nov. 1: A Five-Check Card for Metro Vancouver Calendars, Cross-Border Plans, and Clocks
Most Metro Vancouver readers do not need to set a clock back on November 1, 2026. On that date, clocks in most of B.C. will stay where they are instead of repeating an hour. The province’s new year-ro...
PHP2Shell, Brotli, and eMudhra Hit at Once. The Copy You Forgot Is the One That Counts.
On October 30, Microsoft published one piece of guidance covering three problems disclosed within days of each other: two critical PHP flaws, a flaw in the Brotli compression library, and a certificat...
Cisco's Exploited VPN Flaw Needs No Login. It Just Restarts Your Firewall.
Cisco published the fix on October 28. CISA put the flaw on its exploited list the next day. That speed tells you most of what matters here, and it is not the score. The score is 8.6, high but not cri...
A Chat Answer Can Now Be a Calculator. Use This Four-Check Card Before You Trust Its Output
Chat answers are changing shape. Instead of a tidy paragraph—or an unruly one with 14 bullet points and an unexplained amount of confidence—some ChatGPT responses can now include buttons, diagrams, fo...
ConnectWise Is Restoring Cloud Backup. Re-Authorizing Before the Tenant Hunt Is the Mistake.
On October 28, ConnectWise began phased restoration of Cloud Backup, the Microsoft 365 backup service formerly known as SkyKick. Partners must re-authorize each tenant through a new application, "Conn...
BC Hydro’s Free Thermostat Is Not Just a Giveaway: Seven Checks Before You Order
“Free thermostat” is the kind of headline that makes a person open a new tab before the kettle boils. Fair enough. But BC Hydro’s current offer is not mainly a brand-picking exercise. It is a fit-and-...