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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-...
Authenticator Trusted the App That Said It Was Teams. Start With Version 6.2606.4246.
Your phone already had the fix. That is the uncomfortable part of this story. Microsoft published CVE-2026-80097 on September 8, 2026, and the fixed version of Microsoft Authenticator for Android, 6.2...
One London Zone Went Dark for Nearly Eight Hours. The Diagnosis Is Yours to Make.
On Tuesday, October 20, one zone of Google Cloud's London region went dark at 7:08 in the morning, British time, for 7 hours and 52 minutes. By mid-morning, banking apps would not load, card payments ...
A Notebook Just Became a Chat Action. Use This Boundary Card Before Gemini Writes to One
A research notebook used to be a place you opened on purpose. You picked the notebook, looked at its sources, and then asked a question. Google’s October 23 update changes that shape a little. Gemini ...