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Containing risks of abusive or malicious deepfakes

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made it easier than ever to create realistic looking falsified photos, videos, and audio recordings involving staff and students—known as deepfakes.

Auto-archive before mailbox reaches storage threshold

To ensure uninterrupted email service —especially when you are focused on other priorities rather than managing mailbox content — Microsoft will deploy a new auto-archiving feature starting in early February 2026.

Semester 2 IT workshops

This February, workshops on Gen AI tools and prompting techniques, featuring practical use examples, will be available for students, instructors, and administrative staff. Please enrol and reserve your spot for a hands-on experience.

PolyU Gen AI App updates on 1 Feb 2026

The Gemini 3 Pro Preview model demonstrates significant improvements in high-level reasoning, complex instruction following, agentic and tool use cases, as well as long context capabilities.

Windows 11 upgrade notice

Microsoft releases major feature updates for Windows 11 annually, with each version receiving three years of security and performance support.

Highlights from the January Department CLO Briefing

Key updates on January Departments Computer Liaison Officers (CLO) Briefing. Department Computer Liaison Officers’ collaboration is vital to ensuring that IT services continue to meet the needs of staff and students.

PolyU Researcher Portal

This portal allows researchers to view information on project timelines and research team members, with convenient information filtering and export functions.

Stay vigilant – Verify before you donate, purchase, or share personal information

As Christmas and New Year approach, online scammers are taking advantage of the festive season to launch fraudulent schemes. These include fake online deals, lucky draw scams, and impersonated donation campaigns.

Semester Two IT Training for students and staff

Semester Two IT training workshops for students and staff are now open for enrolment.

Net One-Time Passcode (NetOTP) login method for PolyU business administration applications

NetOTP is a 6-digit one-time passcode generated by the MS Authenticator app that refreshes every 30 seconds. Compared to using a static NetID password, the dynamic one-time passcode offers better risks containment against unauthorized access resulted from compromised NetID passwords.