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When UC Berkeley announced we’d be hosting the inaugural, signature UC Berkeley AI LLM Hackathon, in a matter of days, over 1,500 hackers signed up to participate. But the explosive attention given to this event was not shocking. ChatGPT is immensely popular and the Application Programming Interface (API) is difficult for developers to access.

Dear Campus Community,

Good afternoon bIT and Happy Pride Month!

Today our bIT Culture Champions Internship application opens! It will remain open until Friday, June 23. Once applications close I will reach out to everyone who submitted and set up a 15-minute follow-up (via Zoom) during the week of June 26. 

The University of California is bringing cybersecurity risk management into the digital age by creating the Cyber Leadership Program, the world’s first program designed to cultivate broad, diverse, and collaborative ways of thinking about the management of digital risk.

UC Colleagues,

The countdown is on! We are less than two months away from UC Tech 2023: Resilient, Rising, and Reinspired. This message is chock full of conference info, please share with your networks!

To campus members with Berkeley Desktop-managed computers,

You are receiving this message because you have been identified as having a Berkeley Desktop-managed University computer. Berkeley Desktop provides a reliable, secure, and integrated computing environment that reduces the amount of time you have to spend keeping your machine updated and secure. 

This week, The Current at UC San Diego IT Services aired a podcast about the 2023 UC Tech Conference, featuring, Van Williams, University of California VP of IT and Chief Information Officer, Joseph Bengfort, CIO, UC San Francisco Medical Center and Campus, and Faye Snowden, Manager, Technology Program Office at UC Berkeley.

The panelists discussed:

To campus faculty and staff,

We want to honor all employees’ lived identities. This includes enabling employees to set their Lived Name (sometimes referred to as Preferred Name) in the main UC systems of record. As part of UCOP’s Gender Recognition and Lived Name (GRLN) Policy, the process for employees and HR affiliates to set their Lived Names is changing. You are receiving this email because you are a faculty member, staff member, or HR affiliate in the UCPath system and these upcoming changes may impact you.

UC Colleagues,

UC Colleagues,

Dear One IT colleagues,

We are excited to host our second annual One IT Celebration Picnic. Join your fellow One ITers to meet new folx, build stronger relationships, and (most importantly) play some fun games on the lawn! 

Dear One IT Colleagues,

Awards season is upon us, and I’m very happy to announce that several of our One IT colleagues have been recognized for their outstanding achievements over the past year. 

Welcome to our quarterly newsletter!

By now, many of you have noticed storage limits on your UC Berkeley-provided Google accounts. These limits were put in place in January 2023 as part of the larger Google Cost Reduction Project. You can find your storage limit and usage in your Google account settings

One IT colleagues,

This message is to inform you about a new network service requirement that was implemented at the end of March 2023. All new campus subnets need to be secured by either a bSecure Departmental firewall or the bSecure Shared Firewall service. In the past, selecting one of these services was optional when a new subnet was created.