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Mesa de una oficina administrativa a última hora: archivadores de anillas, una calculadora de sobremesa y un archivador metálico con un cajón abierto
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5% more for paying monthly: what changes on 1 October, and when not to switch

From 1 October 2026 Microsoft will add a 5% uplift to CSP software subscriptions on annual terms billed monthly: it names Windows Server, SQL Server, CALs and System Center, and leaves the list open. The product does not change; the price of money does. The full arithmetic — that 5% works out at borrowing at roughly 11% a year — why your date is not 1 October but each line's renewal date, and the cases where moving is not worth it.

Paso fronterizo vacío con la barrera levantada: la frontera de datos europea sigue dibujada y el tráfico pasa igual
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Three settings decide whether Claude processes your documents in Copilot, and one was decided by your tenant's creation date

Microsoft turned Anthropic models on by default in Microsoft 365 Copilot, but not in the EU. There are three separate settings with three different defaults, one of them depends on whether the tenant was created before or after 25 March 2026, and Microsoft's own documentation sends you to the Message Center to find out yours. What each source says, what cannot be inferred from them, and the twenty-minute review.

Sala de control con una pared de pantallas mostrando paneles y mapas mientras varias personas los observan: el panel que todo el mundo mira y nadie mantiene
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Metabase: the data dashboard that was also the keyring

On 3 August, attackers walked into Metabase instances through the "forgot my password" endpoint, unauthenticated, with a CVSS of 10.0. Framework and Tally have already told their users. What an attacker takes from a compromised BI dashboard is not the charts: it is the credentials for every connected database, stored unencrypted unless somebody turned encryption on by hand. Which versions are in range, why this hole never shows up in your CVE feed, and why patching is the easy half of the job.

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