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[Launched] Generally Available: FIPS 140 Level 3 HSMs Premium Key Vault in China
Azure Key Vault Premium is now available in the China Region. This significant milestone marks the first time Azure...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2025
In late-January 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Use database shrink to reduce...
Retirement: Upgrade your Azure HDInsight clusters with TLS versions 1 dot 1 and below by March 31, 2025
Customers that have Azure HDInsight cluster is using TLS version 1.1 or lower are requested to upgrade to clusters...
[Launched] Public Preview: Azure Monitor Integrates Performance Diagnostics for Enhanced VM Troubleshooting
Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, is enhancing the...
[Launched] Generally Available: Support for new custom error pages in Application Gateway
In addition to the response codes 403 and 502, the Azure Application Gateway now lets you configure company-branded...
Sourcegraph unveils AI coding agents
Looking to challenge well-established GitHub Copilot in AI-powered coding assistance, Sourcegraph has announced coding...
Browser Use: An open-source AI agent to automate web-based tasks
Author’s note: The generative AI revolution has sparked an explosion of open-source tools that fundamentally transform...
DocumentDB: A standalone NoSQL database built on PostgreSQL
Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos...
The biggest ideas in software and technology today
One of the coolest things about being a software developer is that you often know what’s behind the curtain. To some...
Async closure support is stable for Rust 1.85
Rust’s leadership team announced progress on the 26 Rust project goals for 2024. Leadership representatives said the...
Is cloud-based AI becoming a monopoly?
The landscape of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is rapidly evolving. A recent report from the Federal...
Ready or not, here it comes: GenAI in 2025
If you’re a software developer right now, it is nearly impossible to avoid chatter about generative AI. You’re...
Bun 1.2 squashes Node.js compatibility bugs
Bun 1.2, an update to the all-in-one runtime and toolkit for building, running, and testing full-stack JavaScript and...
Puppet open source fork OpenVox arrives
The Vox Pupuli collective group has announced the first release of OpenVox, a community-maintained open source...
JetBrains launches AI coding agent
JetBrains has launched an AI coding agent, named Junie, with the ability to quickly solve coding tasks that otherwise...
[Launched] Generally Available: Changes to instance size flexibility ratios for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for M-series
As we continue to offer a wide selection of SKUs for M-series Virtual Machines, we updated the instance size...
Retirement: Resources interacting with Azure Automation using TLS 1.0/1.1 protocol will be blocked from March 1, 2025
Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 are security protocols for establishing encryption channels over computer...
Retirement: Azure Automation will discontinue execution of PowerShell runbooks using AzureRM modules from February 1, 2025
Starting February 1, 2025, Azure Automation will discontinue execution of all runbooks that use AzureRM modules. The...
Retirement: All Azure Automation jobs running on Agent-based Hybrid Worker will be stopped from 1 April 2025
Starting April 1, 2025, all jobs running on agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker will be stopped. Azure Automation...
Stratoshark analyzes cloud applications at a syscall level
Securing cloud applications is both easy and hard. Easy because hyperscale providers such as Microsoft Azure are...