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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 38m
Resumable Health-Record Ingestion Without Sacrificing the… by Kevin Gatimu techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Ed…
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Resumable Health-Record Ingestion Without Sacrificing the… by Kevin Gatimu
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 1h
When AI Stops Waiting for Instructions by Ashok Karania techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Pa…
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When AI Stops Waiting for Instructions by Ashok Karania
Microsoft’s Autopilots mark a shift from AI that responds to prompts to persistent agents with identity, initiative and standing responsibilities. As AI...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 2h
Change Analysis in Azure Resource Graph: Your first stop for “What changed?” by Shyam Basnet techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Az…
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Change Analysis in Azure Resource Graph: Your first stop for “What changed?” by Shyam Basnet
  Introduction One of the most common questions during Azure networking troubleshooting is: “Did anything change before the issue started?” Whether we...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 3h
Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app by Alberto Gimeno github.blog/engineering/user-experi…
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Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app by Alberto Gimeno
How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 4h
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS by Josh Black github.blog/engineering/architectur…
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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS by Josh Black
How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 6h
Unicode String Literals with UNISTR in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database by Leonard Lobel lennilobel.sleektech.com/2026/09/22…
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Unicode String Literals with UNISTR in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database by Leonard Lobel
This post explains the new UNISTR function in SQL Server 2025, a small but handy way to embed Unicode codepoints directly into string literals using escape sequences. Before SQL Server 2025, the on…
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 7h
From Camera to Canvas: How Multimodal GenAI Automates Shop Floor… by Matt Kazanowsky techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Az…
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From Camera to Canvas: How Multimodal GenAI Automates Shop Floor… by Matt Kazanowsky
Scenario Across the industry, manufacturing organizations spend significant engineering effort converting tribal knowledge and assembly demonstrations into...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 7h
Who Let the Dog Out? by Anthony Mashford www.azuretechlab.com/2026-09-24-ANF…
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Who Let the Dog Out? by Anthony Mashford
Microsoft Entra Kerberos for Azure NetApp Files Is in Public Preview
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 8h
Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender by Tomer Brand techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Mi…
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Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender by Tomer Brand
AI is transforming the attacker’s operating model, accelerating threats to unprecedented speed and scale. Yet many security operations centers still...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 9h
Azure Container Apps Express is now generally available by Simon Jakesch techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Ap…
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Azure Container Apps Express is now generally available by Simon Jakesch
For many web apps and APIs, a container image should be enough to get started. Developers should not have to choose and configure an environment before the...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 10h
Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud and Azure Local: Much More Than a… by @thomasmaurer.bsky.social www.thomasmaurer.ch/2026/09/microso…
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Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud and Azure Local: Much More Than a… by @thomasmaurer.bsky.social
Discover how Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud serves as a platform for Kubernetes, data services, and local AI beyond just virtualization.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 11h
Microsoft Foundry Prompt Agents vs. Hosted Agents: What Are You Actually Choosing? by Lino Tadros thetrainingboss.com/microsoft-found…
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Microsoft Foundry Prompt Agents vs. Hosted Agents: What Are You Actually Choosing? by Lino Tadros
Compare Microsoft Foundry prompt agents and Hosted Agents, including execution control, tools, workflow state, costs, and when to choose each
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 12h
Getting the best out of Azure SRE Agent by Puneet Guptams techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Ap…
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Getting the best out of Azure SRE Agent by Puneet Guptams
A common question that we get from our customers is "Hey guys, we are excited about SRE agent and we 've created one but whats the best way to configure...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 13h
Microsoft Agent Framework: Hosted Agents in Microsoft Foundry with .NET by Jaliya Udagedara jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2026/0…
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Microsoft Agent Framework: Hosted Agents in Microsoft Foundry with .NET by Jaliya Udagedara
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 14h
Copilot Studio | The Agent Your Flow Can't Call by Mariano Gomez www.theworkbench.blog/2026/09/copil…
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Copilot Studio | The Agent Your Flow Can't Call by Mariano Gomez
Hands-on with AI, Copilot Studio, and the Power Platform, by Mariano Gomez, Former Microsoft MVP (2008-2024).
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 15h
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is coming to Microsoft Foundry by Rashaud Savage techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/az…
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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is coming to Microsoft Foundry by Rashaud Savage
Agentic applications increasingly need to process entire code repositories, large document collections, images, tool results, and long-running conversation...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 16h
What the Azure API Management integration means for Azure Service Bus by Eldert Grootenboer techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Me…
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What the Azure API Management integration means for Azure Service Bus by Eldert Grootenboer
Azure API Management now provides a generally available policy for sending messages to Azure Service Bus. Using the send-service-bus-message policy, an...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 18h
Azure Local: Entra Joined AVD Session Hosts with PowerShell by Cristian Schmitt Nieto schmitt-nieto.com/blog/azure-local-…
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Azure Local: Entra Joined AVD Session Hosts with PowerShell by Cristian Schmitt Nieto
Deploy Entra joined AVD session hosts on Azure Local with PowerShell, configure FSLogix profiles and automate session host configuration with guest scripts.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 19h
New FinOps for AI capabilities: Control spend, measure value, and optimize for… by Ryan Jones techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/ai…
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New FinOps for AI capabilities: Control spend, measure value, and optimize for… by Ryan Jones
Explore new FinOps for AI capabilities that help organizations control spend, measure value, and optimize AI investments for greater business impact.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 19h
Retirement: Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10 by The Azure Updates Team azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=5728…
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Retirement: Support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10 by The Azure Updates Team
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 20h
Your AI Gateway Is the Only Place Governance Actually Sticks by Wael Kdouh waelkdouh.medium.com/your-ai-gatewa…
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Your AI Gateway Is the Only Place Governance Actually Sticks by Wael Kdouh
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 21h
CoreDNS in AKS: service discovery, upstream DNS, and failover by Joji Varghese techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Co…
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CoreDNS in AKS: service discovery, upstream DNS, and failover by Joji Varghese
Table of Contents 1. Where CoreDNS fits in AKS 2. How a pod gets a DNS answer Cluster Service names Names handled by another DNS server LocalDNS can...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 22h
VS Code Simplifies Copilot Inline Suggestions With Unified Model by David Ramel visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2…
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VS Code Simplifies Copilot Inline Suggestions With Unified Model by David Ramel
The VS Code team combined Copilot's completion and next-edit systems to make inline suggestions more continuous and responsive.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 23h
You Get One Exchange Left: Rethinking Azure Commitments Before February 2027 by Madhura Amlekar techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Fi…
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You Get One Exchange Left: Rethinking Azure Commitments Before February 2027 by Madhura Amlekar
Azure gives you two main ways to pay less by committing up front. A reservation gets you the deepest discount, but you are locking in a specific SKU in a...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Elasticsearch Vector Database on Azure: semantic search and RAG without… by Piyush Dash techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Ap…
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Elasticsearch Vector Database on Azure: semantic search and RAG without… by Piyush Dash
With Elasticsearch Vector Database, Elastic's new serverless offering for vector workloads, Azure customers can build semantic search, retrieval-augmented...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Foundry Local with Rust: From Catalog Discovery to In-Process Streaming by Kevin Gatimu techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Ed…
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Foundry Local with Rust: From Catalog Discovery to In-Process Streaming by Kevin Gatimu
The shortest path to local inference is not to begin with a web server, an agent framework, or a full RAG pipeline. Begin with a spike that proves five...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
The one big difference between MySQL and MariaDB you may have overlooked by Lukas Vileikis www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/databa…
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The one big difference between MySQL and MariaDB you may have overlooked by Lukas Vileikis
What's the one big difference between MySQL and MariaDB? Learn what the difference is, why it's important, and what's best for your situation.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Schema Validity Is Not Enough by Adhish Rao techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Ed…
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Schema Validity Is Not Enough by Adhish Rao
A UCL IXN MSc project exploring why schema-valid local SLM robot task proposals still need deterministic governance before they can progress, using Microsoft...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Beyond the ransomware: Tracking Storm-2570’s consistent tradecraft… by Microsoft Threat Intelligence www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bl…
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Beyond the ransomware: Tracking Storm-2570’s consistent tradecraft… by Microsoft Threat Intelligence
Storm-2570 is a ransomware affiliate that uses consistent post-compromise tools and techniques across deployments involving Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis, and BERT ransomware, and provides guidance to help defenders detect and disrupt this activity before ransomware deployment.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work by Mike Hulme azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/desi…
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Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work by Mike Hulme
Learn how you can design your platform for software that acts using Microsoft Foundry and Azure Container Apps Sandboxes.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Transforming Solo Agents to Collaborative Teams: Choosing… by Jon Eric Eubanks techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Ed…
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Transforming Solo Agents to Collaborative Teams: Choosing… by Jon Eric Eubanks
  Building an AI agent is getting easier. Building an agent system that knows which agent should act, what context to share, when the work is...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Expanding access to specialized GPU infrastructure through Dapple… by Trinidad Salazar techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Az…
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Expanding access to specialized GPU infrastructure through Dapple… by Trinidad Salazar
Enterprise AI has entered a new phase. For much of the past decade, the challenge was building enough compute for machine learning. Today, organizations need...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Azure Service Bus sessions: Pub/sub without autoforwarding by Daniel Marbach www.planetgeek.ch/2026/09/21/azure-…
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Azure Service Bus sessions: Pub/sub without autoforwarding by Daniel Marbach
TL;DR: Azure Service Bus does not support autoforwarding from a session-enabled subscription. A direct workaround is to process each subscription as an application input, but that spreads session locks, retries, monitoring, and shutdown across several receive points. A narrowly scoped transport-owned bridge can instead move each ordered subscription stream into one session-enabled endpoint queue. The...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry by Naomi Moneypenny azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gpt-…
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GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry by Naomi Moneypenny
Explore GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Microsoft Foundry, with scalable model options for production AI agents, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
What's Next for VS Code? 10 Open GitHub Issues Offer Clues by David Ramel visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2…
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What's Next for VS Code? 10 Open GitHub Issues Offer Clues by David Ramel
Microsoft's public VS Code issue tracker on GitHub offers an unusually detailed look at features and changes the development team is considering -- including some that could eventually turn up in Insiders, like the brand-new ability to send the same coding task to multiple agents working in isolated Git worktrees and then have a judge agent recommend the best implementation.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Retirement: Azure Communication Services (ACS) standalone services will be retired on September 30, 2028 by The Azure Updates Team azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=5571…
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Retirement: Azure Communication Services (ACS) standalone services will be retired on September 30, 2028 by The Azure Updates Team
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
AKS Flex Nodes Are in Preview: Attaching Your Own Compute to a Managed Cluster by Richard Hooper pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/09/aks-flex-…
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AKS Flex Nodes Are in Preview: Attaching Your Own Compute to a Managed Cluster by Richard Hooper
Reading Time: 18 minutesShare:Microsoft has added flex nodes to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and it’s one of the more interesting preview features I’ve seen land in a while. I picked it up through the AKS docs, had to Read more
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Introducing voice agents in Microsoft Foundry by Yiwen Rong techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/az…
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Introducing voice agents in Microsoft Foundry by Yiwen Rong
Voice is quickly becoming a major way people interact with AI agents. Recent research found that 14% of users already prefer speaking with generative AI...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
How I Learn APIs Quickly Using VS Code REST Client by @fboucheros.bsky.social www.frankysnotes.com/2026/09/how-i-…
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How I Learn APIs Quickly Using VS Code REST Client by @fboucheros.bsky.social
How I use the REST Client extension in VS Code to test REST and GraphQL APIs without leaving my editor
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
How to Add AI to Your Existing .NET Application Without a Rewrite by Stuart Dobson arinco.com.au/blog/how-to-add-ai-to…
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How to Add AI to Your Existing .NET Application Without a Rewrite by Stuart Dobson
Learn how to add AI to an existing .NET application using Azure OpenAI, RAG and Microsoft Agent Framework, without rebuilding your architecture.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
Today I will… debug a production crash by @aaron-powell.com devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio…
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Today I will… debug a production crash by @aaron-powell.com
Learn effective debugging techniques for C# applications and how to tackle performance issues with memory dumps.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
The need for a maintainer mindset in the age of LLMs by Melanie Plageman & Daniel Gustafsson techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AD…
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The need for a maintainer mindset in the age of LLMs by Melanie Plageman & Daniel Gustafsson
For a few years now, people have been predicting the end of software engineering as a profession. Matt Welsh argued in Communications of the ACM in 2023...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 29/09/2026
MCP Servers Explained — Part 1: Understand and Build Your First One by Babulal Ghule techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Mi…
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MCP Servers Explained — Part 1: Understand and Build Your First One by Babulal Ghule
If you have been hearing the term “MCP server” everywhere and quietly nodding along without fully getting it — this post is for you. My goal is simple: by...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/09/2026
Azure IoT Central is evolving: what you need to know by JesusbarMsft techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Io…
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Azure IoT Central is evolving: what you need to know by JesusbarMsft
On September 23, 2026, Microsoft announced guidance that will help Azure IoT Central customers migrate their solutions to use new features of Azure IoT Hub...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/09/2026
Uno Platform 6.7: Your Apps on TVs, Cars, and Watches, Plus More Efficient Skia Rendering by Uno Platform Team platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-6-7/…
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Uno Platform 6.7: Your Apps on TVs, Cars, and Watches, Plus More Efficient Skia Rendering by Uno Platform Team
Uno Platform 6.7 adds Android TV, Android Auto, and Wear OS targets, semantic styles across Material and Simple, Skia damage regions, and OS text scaling.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/09/2026
Retirement: Support for Node.js 22 ends on April 30, 2027 by The Azure Updates Team azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=5727…
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Retirement: Support for Node.js 22 ends on April 30, 2027 by The Azure Updates Team
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/09/2026
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent by Antonio Morales github.blog/security/application-se…
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AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent by Antonio Morales
In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/09/2026
When chat is the wrong UI by Burke Holland github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilo…
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When chat is the wrong UI by Burke Holland
What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases.
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/09/2026
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.1.0 is now generally available by David Levy techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/SQ…
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Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.1.0 is now generally available by David Levy
This release is about making everyday database workloads more predictable. It fixes a collection of issues that could appear under connection failures,...
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/09/2026
Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB supports PostgreSQL 18 by The Azure Updates Team azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=5730…
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Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB supports PostgreSQL 18 by The Azure Updates Team
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