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Retirement: Support for Windows Server 2016 Marketplace images on Azure Batch pools will end on January 12, 2027
Azure Batch periodically retires support for operating systems that reach end-of-life status. Support for Windows...
Retirement: Migration of Azure Batch Low-Priority VMs to Spot VMs in early March
Azure Batch had retired Low-Priority VMs on September 30, 2025 and will begin a system-initiated migration to Spot VMs...
[In preview] Public Preview: Entra ID-Based Access for Azure Blob Storage SFTP
Microsoft Entra ID-based access for Azure Blob Storage SFTP is now in public preview. This new capability empowers you...
Retirement: End of life reminder of NVv3 and NVv4-series Azure virtual machine in Azure Batch pools
Microsoft Azure will retire support for NVv3 or NVv4-series VMs on September 30th, 2026, including NVv3 Series (NVIDIA...
Retirement: Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (preview)
Azure Kubernetes Service support for Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (preview) will be retired on 8 June 2026,...
Startups accuse Microsoft of ‘billing trap’ in Azure AI Foundry after unexpected charges
A growing number of startup founders are raising concerns about unexpected charges incurred while experimenting with...
Open VSX extensions hijacked: GlassWorm malware spreads via dependency abuse
Threat actors are abusing extension dependency relationships in the Open VSX registry to indirectly deliver malware in...
How AI is changing open source
Open source has become less of a “thing” in the last few years. Oh, sure, you’ll find the usual suspects waving their...
Migrating from Apache Airflow v2 to v3
During the 2025 holidays, I had some downtime and decided to migrate one of my pet projects from Apache Airflow 2.10.3...
How to build an AI agent that actually works
Everyone is building “agents,” but there is a large disagreement on what that means. David Loker, VP of AI at...
Microsoft accelerates pace of VS Code development
Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer, the company has been...
Save money by canceling more software projects, says survey
Enterprises should be more ruthless about cancelling projects. That’s according to project management software company...
Databricks launches Genie Code to automate data science and engineering tasks
Databricks has launched Genie Code, a new AI agent, to help enterprise data practitioners automate data science and...
Migrating Python to Rust with Claude: What could go wrong?
Take a wild ride with us, as we use a large language model to convert a Python app to Rust. Also, could Pandas finally...
The AI coding hangover
For the past few years, I’ve watched a specific story sell itself in boardrooms: “Software will soon be free.” The...
Gemini CLI introduces plan mode
Google has added a plan mode to Gemini CLI, its open-source software engineering agent that runs on the command line....
JetBrains unveils AI tracing library for Kotlin and Java
JetBrains has introduced Tracy, an AI tracing library for the Kotlin and Java languages. Announced March 11 and...
[Launched] Generally Available: Summary rules in Log Analytics workspace now support manual “Retry bin”
Summary rules run batch aggregation inside your Log Analytics workspace and re-ingest the summarized results into a...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Storage Mover enables private data transfers from AWS S3 to Azure Blob
Azure Storage Mover now enables direct, secure data migration from AWS S3 data in Virtual Private Cloud to Azure Blob...
Why Postgres® has won as the de facto database: Today and for the agentic future
The AI economy is projected to reach $17 trillion by 2028, fundamentally altering how organizations architect their...