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If you create, manage or share digital content as part of your work at UC — whether it’s a website, PDF, PowerPoint, video or social media post — a new federal accessibility law will affect how you do that work.

Throughout the history of technology, Black innovators have played a pivotal role in advancing computing, engineering, aerospace, data science, and countless other fields — often without recognition at the time.  Structural barriers limited visibility but not impact. In honor of Black History Month, UC Tech News highlights a selection of the trailblazing technologists whose work continues to shape modern systems. 

The Information Technology Policy and Security Community of Interest (ITPS) is a systemwide, CISO-supported group of more than 700 UC professionals dedicated to strengthening cybersecurity through collaboration and information sharing. 

In just a few years, AI has gone from a tech novelty to a society-altering force.

Mark your calendars for the 2026 UC Tech Conference, taking place on July 8-10, 2026, on the UC Merced campus.

The University of California is at the forefront of exploring how AI is shaping research, society and technology. UC campuses are exploring AI’s impact on education, privacy, healthcare and innovation, while developing cutting-edge tools that push the boundaries of science and engineering. In this roundup, we’ve gathered eight recent articles that highlight some of the most exciting and thought-provoking AI work happening across the UC system.

Dear One IT Community, 

We want to inform you about an important change regarding the Duo Mobile app. Starting Feb. 2, 2026, Duo Mobile app versions earlier than 4.85 will no longer be supported by Duo. This means that users running the older versions may be unable to complete a CalNet two-step after this date.

To our One IT community,                                                                                                                                                                                                      updated 12/2/25

UC Berkeley tech founders were among those featured at B-School Disrupt 2025, an after-hours event held during the annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. The gathering brought together MBA alumni from top programs, also including Harvard Business School and INSEAD, who are launching technology startups — each inspired by solving real-world customer challenges through tech innovations.

This year, UC Womxn in Technology showed what true teamwork and resilience look like. Outgoing Chair Charron Andrus reflects on the challenges, accomplishments, and new leaders shaping the next chapter of this inspiring community.

To our campus community,

At approximately midnight on Oct. 20, we began receiving reports of people experiencing issues accessing BearBuy and bCourses. These issues resulted from a global outage with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud provider used for many campus services. Several commercial services were also impacted, as you may have seen reported in the news. 

Dear campus community:

As the fall semester begins, please take a moment to review this annual reminder about UC Berkeley’s commitment to compliance with federal copyright laws.