Campus Technology Feed Campus Technology Feed Campus Technology: All ArticlesFlashpoint Patents Ransomware Risk Model, Tying Vulnerabilites to Likelihood of Attack October 9, 2026Cybersecurity company Flashpoint recently announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks.Report: Convergence of AI, Quantum Risks Impacting Cybersecurity October 9, 2026New research from Thales highlights how AI adoption and emerging quantum computing threats are putting pressure on existing security measures.Claude Sonnet 5.5 Offers Model-Switching Cybersecurity Safeguards October 8, 2026Anthropic's latest Claude release, Sonnet 5.5, brings cybersecurity safeguards that can change which model handles a request during a Claude conversation. Higher-risk tasks can fall back to Sonnet 5.Survey Reveals Data Governance Enforcement Gap for Agentic AI Tools October 7, 2026According to a new report, 99.7% of IT and security leaders surveyed by identity security company Delinea said their organization has a formal policy governing what data AI tools and agents are permitted to access. Yet only about 51% said AI access is checked against those policies in real time.OpenAI Introduces Dots, AI Agents that Continue Working Between User Conversations October 7, 2026OpenAI has announced Dots, GPT-6 Astra-powered agents that run on their own cloud computers, using connected applications to carry on with assignments between conversations and incorporating users' feedback as they go.Survey: Lack of Specialized Infrastructure Is a Top AI Adoption Challenge October 7, 2026Enterprise AI projects are running into infrastructure questions as organizations move from planning toward deployment, according to a recent Digital Realty survey.Report: AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem October 5, 2026Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption.OpenAI Discontinuing Custom GPTs and Moving to Plugin Architecture October 5, 2026OpenAI has announced it is preparing to retire Custom GPTs and move the specialized workflows built around them to a new plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and its Codex coding agent.AI Leads 2027 Educause Top 10 October 1, 2026While artificial intelligence has long factored into the trends and issues within Educause's annual Top 10, the technology has officially risen to the No. 1 spot for 2027.AI Leaders Warn of Security Risks at United Nations Briefing September 30, 2026The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face joined AI researcher Yoshua Bengio at the United Nations headquarters in New York to warn the UN Security Council about the security risks of increasingly capable AI.Redesigned Copilot Will Build Apps and Work on Its Own September 30, 2026Microsoft recently announced that it's redesigning Copilot, the company's all-encompassing AI assistant, so users can hand off complex tasks, build tools by describing what they need and assign work to an agent that keeps going after they log off.AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Shut Down September 28, 2026Microsoft has disrupted EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.Industry Alliance Targets Common Security Model for AI Agents September 28, 2026A new vendor coalition built on an Okta-developed blueprint is proposing a shared architecture for discovering, governing, monitoring and containing enterprise AI agents.California Governor Proposes Independent Watchdogs Within AI Safety System September 23, 2026California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new model of artificial intelligence regulation that would give independent organizations a formal role in evaluating the safety claims made by leading AI companies.AI's Productivity Gains in Science Tempered by Time Spent Validating Outputs September 23, 2026Artificial intelligence is saving scientists substantial amounts of time, but researchers are giving some of those gains back by checking the technology's work, according to a new study involving Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT.Report: AI May Be Eroding the Very Skills Employers Need Most September 21, 2026AI is changing which human capabilities matter most at work, yet employees are reporting that some of those same capabilities are being eroded, according to a new IBM study.Infrastructure Accounts for More than Half of Worldwide AI Spending September 21, 2026Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.67 trillion in 2026, up 49.5% from 2025, with AI infrastructure accounting for nearly $1.5 trillion, or about 56% of the total. For every dollar Gartner expects to be spent on generative AI models, more than $52 will be spent on infrastructure.AI's Role as Research Assistant Calls into Question Ownership of Scientific Discoveries September 21, 2026As AI systems become capable of generating genuinely novel scientific results, determining who discovered something, who deserves credit, and what role the company behind the model played will become considerably harder.Researchers Warn: Passkey Phishing Attacks Are Leading to Cloud Account Takeovers September 16, 2026In an active social engineering campaign, attackers are impersonating IT help desks and using fake passkey setup requests to compromise employee identities and gain access to enterprise cloud data.Want to Close the Skills Gap? Bring Learning Closer to Work September 15, 2026If the jobs of the future require different skills, creating those jobs is only half the equation. We also need realistic pathways for people to reach them.
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