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.
Dear IT Community,
We want to alert you to a phishing scam that has been observed recently involving Google Calendar. This scam involves fake calendar invites or meetings with misleading subjects that may contain links, attachments, or instructions intended to steal credentials or personal/financial information.
Dear One IT and Micronet Colleagues,
This October, join us in celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM), a time to engage and educate our UC Berkeley community on the importance of and our shared responsibility to cybersecurity.
AI has taken the world by storm. On the scientific front, the ability to mine huge datasets and make informed, actionable predictions has accelerated the pace of innovation.
The University of California hosted its first open source summit this spring—UC Open 2025, led by the UC Open Source Program Office (UC OSPO) at the UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus. The event gathered developers, researchers, funders, and industry partners to explore how open source can thrive within and beyond the UC system.
Dear Berkeley IT Colleagues,
I’m delighted to share the announcement of our 2024–2025 Berkeley IT Spot Award recipients. These awards honor staff members who have made outstanding contributions to specific projects or tasks, and recognize their achievements and the values and behaviors that define Berkeley IT.
The 2025 UC Tech Annual Conference, held June 25–27, 2025, brought together staff and faculty technologists from across the University of California system for three days of learning, collaboration and connection.
Kicking off the second day of the 2025 UC Cybersecurity Summit, Jennie Kennedy, Chief Privacy and Data Protection Officer at the University of Texas System, shared an eye-opening session on the realities of data privacy in the age of AI during the 2025 Cybersecurity Summit.
“Student-to-Staff” is a series featuring stories from Cal alumni who are now career employees in One IT. This series was created to show the importance of investing in our student staff and how vital their work is to the university and its mission. These stories also highlight career paths that may inspire current students toward opportunities that exist after graduation.
The UC-licensed Google Gemini App will be available to all UC Berkeley students starting Aug. 15 in order to extend negotiated IP, security, and privacy protections to students.
Gemini App is a mobile and web application that allows for generative chat using Google's AI.
As the pace of technological change accelerates, leaders need more than awareness — they need tools, strategy, and hands-on experiences. This fall, UC Berkeley Professional Education is offering two executive programs that deliver precisely that: the AI Leadership Accelerator and Emerging Tech Management: Strategic Digital Transformation.
Dear IT community,
Effective August 17, 2025, UC Berkeley will implement age-based restrictions on Google Workspace for Education accounts in order to comply with Google’s Terms of Service. These restrictions are required to ensure compliance with privacy and safety regulations that protect minors when parental consent has not been obtained.
IT Colleagues and Campus Partners,
As we prepare to ramp up technical support for instruction during the summer sessions' final exam period and the beginning of the fall semester, we are implementing our customary IT change freezes on production changes for UC Berkeley systems. These freezes enable us to provide optimal IT service and systems performance for our campus and minimize potential disruptions during peak periods of academic activity when our services are in greater demand.
Starting on August 10, an updated UC Berkeley logo will appear on all login screens for accessing campus systems. This is part of campus-wide efforts to update all digital assets since the launch of our new brand last summer. Being diligent in our awareness of phishing scams, here is a side-by-side comparison of the current and new screens:
A recent discussion at the National Workshop on Data Science Education illustrated the value of open conversation about the impact of AI on humanity.
