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Germany’s sovereign AI hope changes hands
As Europe seeks to assert its technological independence from the US vendors Aleph Alpha, once seen as Germany’s...
[In preview] Public Preview: Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service
Hosted agents run in an isolated execution sandbox that provides a dedicated, secure runtime per agent session....
[Launched] Generally Available: Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (formerly AI Toolkit for VS Code)
Foundry Toolkit for VS Code is now generally available and provides VS Code tooling for Microsoft Agent Framework,...
[Launched] Generally Available: WireGuard In‑Transit Encryption for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
WireGuard in‑transit encryption is now generally available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters using Azure CNI...
Retirement: Support for .NET 8 (LTS) ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10 (LTS)
On November 10, 2026, support for .NET 8 (LTS) will end. Your apps that are hosted on App Service will continue to...
Former OpenAI research scientist launches new AI model for Tencent
Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI...
[Launched] Generally Available: Cascading read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Cascading read replicas are now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL, giving you greater flexibility...
[Launched] Generally Available: CRC Protection
Azure Elastic SAN now supports CRC-32C checksum verification when enabled on the client side for connections to...
Where to begin a cloud career
Cloud computing is a key foundation of modern business, yet many approach learning it in overly complicated ways. New...
Why world models are AI’s next frontier
To many people, AI manifests one of sci-fi’s central plot points: built intelligence or machines that think and act...
The agentic AI frenzy increases as more vendors stake their claims
The AI agent introduction frenzy continued at a torrid pace this week, with OpenAI launching what it called workspace...
[Launched] Generally Available: Capacity Autoscaling
Capacity Autoscaling support is now generally available on Elastic SAN. Customers can avoid the constraints of...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Azure Monitor provides a complete set of services for monitoring the health and performance of different layers of...
Google pitches Agentic Data Cloud to help enterprises turn data into context for AI agents
Google is recasting its data and analytics portfolio as the Agentic Data Cloud, an architecture it says is aimed at...
Offer customers passkeys by default, UK’s NCSC tells enterprises
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for...
How I doubled my GPU efficiency without buying a single new card
Late last year I got pulled into a capacity planning exercise for a global retailer that had wired a 70B model into...
Is your Node.js project really secure?
JavaScript and Node.js teams do not lack security tools. What they still lack is a dependency security workflow that...
How open source ideals must expand for AI
Open source has never been just a licensing model. Rather, it’s also a philosophy about shared effort, shared...
Microsoft taps Anthropic’s Mythos to strengthen secure software development
Microsoft plans to integrate Anthropic’s Mythos AI model into its Security Development Lifecycle, a move that suggests...
Claude Mythos signals a new era in AI-driven security, finding 271 flaws in Firefox
The Claude Mythos Preview appears to be living up to the hype, at least from a cybersecurity standpoint. The model,...