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1. Are you certain that there's nothing pending that requires a reboot first from the earlier October Cumulative Update. 2. Unless you have the WSUS server role installed on the server, you don't "need" this one.

That’s just creepy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59287 This appears to be an update to the October cumulative update.

Have they posted anything useful on the Hub Status Portal yet?

If I were to make a bet as to which website would be first to ignore any fine from Ofcom, it would likely be 4chan, given that Ofcom like most other UK regulators never go after bigger fish. This from just a few days ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c708v7qkeg1o TikTok's algorithm recommends pornography and highly sexualised content to children's accounts, according to a new report by a human rights campaign group. Researchers created fake child accounts and activated safety settings but still received sexually explicit search suggestions. The suggested search terms led to sexualised material including explicit videos of penetrative sex. The platform says it is committed to safe and age-appropriate experiences and took immediate action once it knew of the problem. In late July and early August this year, researchers from campaign group Global Witness set up four accounts on TikTok pretending to be 13-year-olds. They used false dates of birth and were not asked to provide any other information to confirm their identities.

I agree, but schools are always reluctant (resistant), to pay for anything they think they can have (should have?), for free.

Sam Altman has been announcing today "In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," Altman concluded - quite the titillating tease. Like so many other specifics, there was no mention of how OpenAI intends to handle the creation of erotic content using its chatbot, and Altman's responses in the comments of his X post only suggest users won't be shown it if they don't ask for it.” “How OpenAI intends to stop AI-generated erotic imagery from ending up in the hands of minors, prevent the creation of non-consensual imagery, and tackle other AI porn problems is unknown. Given other recent OpenAI news, it seems monetization may be the driving force for the company, which has yet to disclose profitability.” https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/openai_chatgpt_ai_erotica/ Will schools still be endorsing this for teachers?

Lately, its not really about the block/unblock process but more about things being categorised correctlly so that the system takes care of itsself.

I paid £90 for my Covid jab last week. Free flue jab next week.

Dairy - clotted cream, cheese. Arts and crafts, Some seriously outstanding gardens, "Heritage" - tin, china clay, Goonhilly. Rick Stein?

“Sometimes” HP doesn’t always provide the right 3rd party driver. I would try a previous version of the driver and also try downloading from Realtek. On rare occasions I’ve even unpacked and used a driver for the exact same component from a competitor such as Lenovo and that has worked. Have you checked the hardware device code in System Information / components that it really is Realtek? Occasionally, even in a continuous run of serial numbers there is a random differently branded component.

Is that RealTek audio?

I'd go to the Lenovo support page for the model and see what's available for device there by way of Intel updates and maybe, depending on what it's supposed to fix, give it a go.. I'd use the official Microsoft ‘Show or Hide Updates’ tool to hide the Intel update offered by Microsoft regardless.

Maybe this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/may-13-2025-kb5058379-os-builds-19044-5854-and-19045-5854-0a30e9ee-5038-45dd-a5d7-70a8813a5e39 Symptoms We are aware of a known issue on devices with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) enabled on 10th generation or later Intel vPro processors. On these systems, installing the May 13, 2025, Windows security update (KB5058379) might cause lsass.exe to terminate unexpectedly, triggering an Automatic Repair. On devices with BitLocker enabled, BitLocker requires the input of your BitLocker recovery key to initiate the Automatic Repair. Affected devices then enter one of two states: Some devices might make several attempts to install update KB5058379 before Startup Repair successfully rolls back to the previously installed update. Startup Repair might experience a failure that creates a reboot loop, which again initiates an Automatic Repair, returning the device to the BitLocker recovery screen. Consumer devices typically do not use Intel vPro processors and are less likely to be impacted by this issue. Resolution This issue was resolved by Windows updates released May 19, 2025 (KB5061768), and later. We recommend you install the latest update for your device as it contains important improvements and issue resolutions, including this one. I passed on May's Cumulative Update for Win 10 devices that reason.

Mainframe Sysprog agrees with you.

Cloudflare accidentally DDoSed themselves. https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-12-dashboard-and-api-outage/

With "new" cars the dealer normally does this for you, and charges.

Us too. Started last week. Another symptom for us were associated CSAM blocks (never had them before), which were FP's.

Without being specific, I wondered if anyone had noticed anything 'odd' in their filtering logs lately when the catering staff are ordering up supplies? Thanks.

Another Scratch clone: machinelearningforkids.co.uk/scratch/

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-used-ai-automate-unprecedented-cybercrime-spree-anthropic-says-rcna227309 “The company behind the Claude chatbot said it caught a hacker using its chatbot to identify, hack and extort at least 17 companies.”

Can you accept the risk of unpatched, unprotected devices, potentially compromised personal devices accessing personal data? We use ‘last gasp’ devices before they are disposed of for these users.

For myself, stuff the school having ANY "control" whatsoever over any of my personal devices. Authenticator apps are different. They are under my control. If you want somebody to work either off-site or out of hours surely they would need to tools for they job, and payement for the time?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2490598-how-ai-poisoning-is-fighting-bots-that-hoover-data-without-permission Glaze, released in 2022, functions defensively, applying imperceptible, pixel-level alterations, or “style cloaks”, to an artist’s work. These changes, invisible to humans, cause AI models to misinterpret the art’s style. For example, a watercolour painting might be perceived as an oil painting. Nightshade, published in 2023, is a more offensive tool that poisons image data – again, imperceptibly as far as humans are concerned – in a way that encourages an AI model to make an incorrect association, such as learning to link the word “cat” with images of dogs. Both tools have been downloaded more than 10 million times.