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New research from IANS, discussed by senior director Nick Kakolowski, finds that most CISOs are using AI to automate routine security tasks rather than reduce staff. Instead, security leaders are reskilling junior employees and freeing senior professionals to focus on more complex problems, while also leveraging AI momentum to justify budget requests.
According to a report, three unnamed EU officials expressed skepticism about a homegrown European alternative meant to replace Microsoft Teams. The report notes that France earlier this year said millions of its civil servants will shift to domestic video-conferencing tools instead of Microsoft Teams and Zoom by 2027, and that Austria's military replaced Microsoft Office with Germany's LibreOffice last year.
The European Commission rolled out a European-built video conferencing tool meant to serve as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Teams, reducing reliance on US software. According to a report, internal staff reactions have been harshly negative, with one employee reportedly calling the tool 'absolute sh*t'.
The European Commission has deployed Element Pro, a self-hosted messaging tool from UK firm Element, as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Teams. Politico reported that internal staff messages described the software harshly, with officials calling it confusing and of little value, and one saying the U.S. would win instantly if it cut off its tech given how Teams compares. Element CEO Matthew Hodgson acknowledged early 'teething issues' and said switching tools always causes friction.
Google has made generally available a feature allowing Android-based Google Meet room hardware to join Microsoft Teams calls, and Android-based Microsoft Teams Rooms to join Google Meet meetings. The rollout began October 1 and is reaching eligible Google Workspace customers within one to three days. The feature applies only to dedicated meeting-room devices running Android/AOSP, not to the Meet or Teams apps on phones or tablets.
Ryan Roslansky, who led LinkedIn before taking over Office and later Microsoft Teams, is leaving the company after nearly 18 years. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the departure in an internal memo, praising Roslansky's work consolidating product, engineering and design teams. Microsoft is folding Office and Teams into its Copilot, Agents, and Platform organization under Charles Lamanna, with design chief Jon Friedman now reporting to Copilot lead Jacob Andreou, while Dan Shapero remains LinkedIn CEO reporting to Nadella.
Ryan Roslansky, who has led LinkedIn since 2020 and took on oversight of Microsoft 365's Copilot strategy last year, announced he is leaving the company. In an internal memo, he said the decision stemmed from a need to be based full-time in Redmond, while his family remains in the Bay Area. He credited CEO Satya Nadella and his teams for LinkedIn surpassing a billion members and nearly tripling its business during his tenure.
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Spaces, a shared workspace where colleagues, ChatGPT and new AI agents called Dots can access common files and generated content. The company also unveiled a meeting-notes plugin, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, and document tools called Pages, alongside a data-protection system called Private Intelligence.
A security industry report highlights that attackers are increasingly using AI tools to identify and exploit vulnerabilities within minutes. The report argues most security teams remain organized around slower, manual response processes that cannot match this accelerated attack pace.
An engineering guide describes how staff engineers on platform teams—who typically lack product managers, roadmaps, or revenue metrics—can identify what to build next. It categorizes signals into four sources: system-generated signals like crashes and cost data, plus signals from users, the organization, and the broader industry. The piece details methods such as analyzing postmortem patterns and scrutinizing cloud costs and vendor contracts to surface opportunities.
Microsoft plans to update Teams' Weaponizable File Protection feature so administrators can customize which file types get blocked in chats and channels, rather than relying solely on Microsoft's default list. The change is listed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap and is expected to roll out starting November 2026 across Android, desktop, iOS, macOS and web.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that AI won't eliminate startup teams but will change who gets hired, favoring employees who can judge problems, execute independently and adapt across roles. The piece cites data showing 80% of CEOs plan to rebuild workflows, a projected 70% shift in job skills by 2030, a 73.4% drop in junior tech hiring in Europe, and a rise in single-founder U.S. startups from 23.7% to 36.3% since 2019.