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A brief history of AI
Alan Turing famously thought that the question of whether machines can think is “too meaningless” to deserve...
How MCP is making AI agents actually do things in the real world
You’ve seen them: Those incredible large language models (LLMs) that can chat, write and even generate code. They’ve...
Smoothing out AI’s rough edges
Follow the usual AI suspects on X—Andrew Ng, Paige Bailey, Demis Hassabis, Thom Wolf, Santiago Valdarrama, etc.—and...
Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028
Microsoft is announcing the retirement of the AV36 node type on June 30, 2028. The terms of your current AV36 Reserved...
From answer engine to infrastructure: Perplexity launches Search API for developers
AI-powered search capabilities are continuing to work their way into toolkits as developers seek to speed up,...
Retirement: Entity Linking from Azure AI Language
Microsoft is announcing the planned retirement of Entity Linking from Azure AI Language. We recommend considering a...
Retirement: The Linux Consumption hosting plan of Azure Functions will be retired on September 30, 2028. Migrate to Flex Consumption.
The Azure Functions Linux Consumption hosting plan is being retired. Customers are advised to migrate to the Flex...
Retirement: Upgrade BlobFuse v1 to latest version of Blobfuse v2
We recommend upgrading from BlobFuse v1 to BlobFuse v2, as all future enhancements and innovations related to Azure...
Retirement: Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Beginning on September 30th 2025, Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes will be retired, and customers...
SaaS: The quiet power behind cloud computing
Cloud computing has long been heralded as the backbone of digital transformation, but not all parts of the cloud...
Python and Poetry: 4 tools for keeping Python simple
Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld How to manage Python projects with PoetryElegantly manage Python virtual...
What is infrastructure as code? Automating your infrastructure builds
Infrastructure as code defined Infrastructure as code (often abbreviated IaC) is a practice of writing plain-text...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level
Flexible service level allows you to independently configure storage capacity and throughput, optimizing costs and...
Microsoft Marketplace opens for AI apps, agents
Microsoft has launched Microsoft Marketplace, a unified storefront website for AI apps, agents, and enterprise...
The best new features in Postgres 18
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has officially released Postgres 18, continuing the project’s nearly...
Spec-driven AI coding with GitHub’s Spec Kit
Microsoft and GitHub have made AI assistance a key part of their software development tools. Embedded in the latest...
Introduction to Java records: Simplified data-centric programming in Java
GitHub Copilot-backed app modernization available for Java, .NET
GitHub Copilot app modernization now is generally available via agentic AI tools for Java and .NET, Github said. For...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level
Flexible service level allows you to independently configure storage capacity and throughput, optimizing costs and...
Retirement: The Insights blade in AKS is now called Monitor
The Insights blade in AKS has been renamed to Monitor and relocated from the Monitoring section to the top level of...