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[Launched] Generally Available: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available on Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 4.6...
[In preview] Public Preview: Unified tooling in the AKS MCP server
Managing AKS MCP servers can be affected by the number of tools and the amount of context required, which can increase...
[In preview] Public Preview: Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS
Users often face security and manageability challenges when diagnostic agents inherit broad user permissions, such as...
[Launched] Generally Available: Quota and deployment troubleshooting tools for Azure Functions Flex Consumption
Azure Functions Flex Consumption introduces new platform‑integrated tools that provide clearer insight into quota...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions .NET 10 support
Azure Functions support for .NET 10 is generally available, enabling production use of the latest .NET runtime for...
[Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning support in Azure government and private cloud
Node auto‑provisioning removes the need for teams to manually size and manage compute resources for Kubernetes...
[Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters in AKS now support LocalDNS
Customers previously could not enable LocalDNS on clusters that used Node auto‑provisioning in AKS, limiting their...
[Launched] Generally Available: Encryption at host & disk encryption sets support in node auto-provisioning
Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters previously did not have support for Encryption at Host and disk encryption...
GitHub readies agents to automate repository maintenance
GitHub is readying a new feature to automate some of the most expensive work in DevOps: the invisible housekeeping no...
Flaws in four popular VS Code extensions left 128 million installs open to attack
Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a...
Mistral AI deepens compute ambitions with Koyeb acquisition
Mistral AI has acquired Paris-based cloud startup Koyeb, marking the model-maker’s first acquisition and entry into...
What is Docker? The spark for the container revolution
Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution...
Let a million apps bloom
Remember the good old days when we had “Internet time”? It was back in the late 1990s, when the dot-coms moved so fast...
Claude Sonnet 4.6 improves coding skills
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, an update to the company’s hybrid reasoning model that brings improvements...
WebMCP API extends web apps to AI agents
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) participants including Google and Microsoft have launched the WebMCP API, a JavaScript...
[Launched] General Availability: Instant access support for incremental snapshots of Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk
Announcing the General Availability of instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and...
Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 targets enterprise agent workflows with expanded multimodal support
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model that the company says is intended to serve as a foundation for...
Working with the Windows App development CLI
In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software...
Why cloud outages are becoming normal
The Microsoft Azure outage that dragged out for 10 hours in early February serves as another stark reminder that the...
Cloud Cloning: A new approach to infrastructure portability
When it comes to cloud infrastructure portability, the reigning solutions just don’t live up to their promise....