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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

My ACM TechTalk: A Look at AI Security — hallucinations, indirect prompt injection, jailbreaks + mitigations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW6n...

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A Look at AI Security with Mark Russinovich

YouTube video by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Join our session at #SnowflakeBUID, From Vibes to Production: The Art, Discipline, and Pitfalls of Vibe Coding, where we share our experience on how to benefit from the speed of vibe coding, while still applying best practices to deploy production ready software. www.snowflake.com/en/build/ame...

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BUILD

The Dev Conference for AI & Apps

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm a Chrome/Edge web developer now! If you play Wordle like I do but wanted more insight into your past games and trends than the Wordle page shares, you will like Wordle Stat Explorer. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ighph...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

More Rust goodness for security critical code: Microsoft has joined the Open Device Partnership (ODP) and is investing in foundational security capabilities that will ship in every Surface device and is available for the PC ecosystem: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/surface...

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Surface Joins the Open Device Partnership (ODP) | Microsoft Community Hub

Surface joins the Open Device Partnership (ODP) to drive innovation in secure, reliable, and future-ready device firmware—leveraging Rust, modern EC...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New ZoomIt release with image smoothing during both static and live zoom: ZoomIt v9.10 ZoomIt, a screen zooming, recording and annotation utility, adds image smoothing for higher-quality visuals. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...

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Sysinternals - Sysinternals

Library, learning resources, downloads, support, and community. Evaluate and find out how to install, deploy, and maintain Windows with Sysinternals utilities.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Drasi turns 1! 🎉 We launched Drasi to make change-driven systems easier—and now we’re adding GQL support for continuous queries alongside openCypher. This means more flexibility and a future-proof path for graph-based apps. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...

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Drasi at one year: now with GQL for change-driven solutions

Drasi’s first year brings GQL support and community growth, empowering developers to build event-driven apps. Learn more.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In our latest podcast episode of Scott and Mark Learn To, Scott Hanselman and I discuss the Microsoft career path for developers, including how we award Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow titles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfh...

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EPISODE 25 - Scott and Mark Learn To... Level Up: Navigating Career Growth in Microsoft

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Publishing my Wordle stats browser extension that I coded with AI soon!

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To" podcast episode, we discuss the power of AI-assisted coding and go under the hood of LLM tokens and token probabilities with a web chatbot I AI-coded: "Scott and Mark Learn To… Chatbot, Another Vibe-Coded Project by Mark" www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1hl...

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EPISODE 24 - Scott and Mark Learn To… Chatbot, Another Vibe-Coded Project by Mark

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I demoed this at Ignite last year—now it's real. Every server gets a dedicated Hardware Security Module. This fundamentally changes how we secure connected systems. End-to-end hardware-protected keys is now the baseline, not the exception: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureCo...

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Microsoft Azure Introduces Azure Integrated HSM: A Key Cache for Virtual Machines | Microsoft Community Hub

Today we are excited to release the public preview support for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Virtual Machines. As announced last year at Ignite, Azure...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I'm looking forward to Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco!

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Microsoft is advancing the state of the art across all aspects of silicon security. In this post I, together with Omar Khan and Bryan Kelly (NCSA), cover our advancements: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...

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Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems | Microsoft Azure Blog

At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. Learn more.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

In our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To" podcast, Scott and I have fun discussing our approaches to 1:1s, including with peers, people that report to us, and people we report to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWNs...

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EPISODE 22 - Scott and Mark Learn To… What Makes Good 1-1s

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A question I often get from customers is "what's Microsoft's plan to mitigate the threat of quantum computers breaking cryptography". Here's a look at our Quantum Safe Program, which I help lead, and the timelines we've set for ourselves so our systems are ready: www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Communications of the ACM (CACM) published our article, "The Price of Intelligence", which describes three key risks inherent in LLMs that enterprises must consider when designing and operating AI systems: hallucinations, jail breaks, and indirect prompt injection: cacm.acm.org/practice/the...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We've just launched Secure Future Initiative Patterns and Practices, a new set of repeatable, real-world security solutions based on how we protects our own infrastructure. From identity lateral movement to legacy systems, and CI/CD pipelines, this guidance is built to scale. aka.ms/SFI_Patterns...

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Launching Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative patterns and practices | Microsoft Security Blog

Learn more about SFI patterns and practices: a new library of actionable guidance designed to help organizations implement security measures at scale.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Project Radius is the future of cloud native application modeling. Read why I believe that it in my Q&A with @marypcbuk.bsky.social

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Our USENIX ;login; article on Crescendo just dropped! We discovered what might be the most powerful blackbox jailbreak technique - Crescendo is undefeated against all frontier AI models in every harm domain we tested. I'm presenting at USENIX Security on August 14th. www.usenix.org/publications...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🚨 New open-source tool: RefChecker A tool that checks reference accuracy in academic papers. ✅ Parses PDFs, LaTeX, and text ✅ Catches broken DOIs, wrong authors, messed-up URLs ✅ Built with GitHub Copilot & Claude 🔗 github.com/markrussinov...

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GitHub - markrussinovich/refchecker: A tool that validates academic paper references

A tool that validates academic paper references. Contribute to markrussinovich/refchecker development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Scott and I have a great time in our latest podcast episode vibe coding a web site that analyzes our podcast recordings to show us who talks more...my suspicions were confirmed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tST...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We've made major enhancements to Azure virtual machine availability monitoring, including aggregated and individual health views, detailed impact and root cause reporting for disruptions, and trend analysis. Read more in my blog post: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We've taken another step forward in Microsoft's adoption of confidential computing for our most critical workload by migrating the Windows licensing service into confidential virtual machines: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureco...

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 26/06/2025

I love the show @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social learn to. Slightly embarrassingly, I thought it was only available on YouTube and not as a podcast. When Mark literally referred to it as "a podcast" I had my revelation. Here's the links: shows.acast.com/scott-and-ma...

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Scott & Mark Learn To...

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Richard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

What are the latest innovations coming in Azure? @markrussinovich.bsky.social talks on RunAs Radio at runasradio.com/Shows/Show/991 about some of the new hardware in the cloud, and how they helps with extreme optimization for specific workloads!

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Just keynoted the Confidential Computing Summit! My talk on "Defining a Spectrum of Guarantees" proposes new terms ("On," "In," "Transparent" CC) to better describe data protection and drive us towards transparent confidential computing.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

For your weekend viewing, latest episode of the Scott and Mark Learn To podcast series is out. This one is Scott and Mark Learn To Self Promote, where we try to define self-promotion and discuss when it's appropriate and when it's not in a corporate context: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzb...

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EPISODE 18 - Scott & Mark Learn To… Self-Promotion

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I've put together a fun video compilation of the games I've played with Task Manager as a bitmap display on the monster-sized VMs we've released in Azure over the years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73A...

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Task Manager "Game Console" on Azure Memory Optimized Servers

YouTube video by Mark Russinovich

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thrilled to announce that Drasi, a new type of data processing system that enables you to react to changes with simple database queries, has been accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/06...

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Drasi accepted into CNCF sandbox for change-driven solutions - Microsoft Open Source Blog

The Azure Incubations team is proud to share that Drasi has officially been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox. Learn more.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I just finished presenting on the Radius community call. It was awesome to demo the new Radius Resource Types extensibility feature, which enables platform engineers to define their own types. Check out the recording where I demo creating and using them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmBv...

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Radius Community Call - 2025/06/10

YouTube video by Radius Application Platform

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Prompt Injection is a top risk for use of LLMs, where untrusted data can cause a system to misbehave or leak data. We're hard at work on deterministic solutions to prevent or bound the risk, and just published a paper on our innovative information flow control approach: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23643

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Join me in the Radius Community Call: Tues 6/10, 9am Pacific. I’ll share my original vision for Radius, a cloud native app platform, and why the new Radius Resource Types feature is a game-changer for Radius and platform engineering. aka.ms/radius/commu...

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Simone @simoneb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Two things i love to listen to when i'm having an anxious or low day 1)The Stuff You Should Know podcast 2) @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social learn to on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj6...

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EPISODE 17 - Scott and Mark Learn To… Induced Hallucinations

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Milestone moment for generative AI: AI-directed and written research accepted at a tier-1 scientific conference (and the paper coincidentally includes our Crescendo jailbreak research): www.intology.ai/blog/zochi-acl

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Zochi Publishes A* Paper

Studying Intelligence, Fashioning Scientists | Advancing the scientific method through Artificial Scientists.

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Our lastest Scott and Mark Learn To podcast episode is out: in this one we get ChatGPT to make up (funny) things (induced hallucination): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj6...

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EPISODE 17 - Scott and Mark Learn To… Induced Hallucinations

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Ian Carpenter @iancarpenter.dev · 29/05/2025

Thank you @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social for the latest and one of the funniest Scott and Mark Learn To.. Hilarious from the start with bifocal mode, hidden bodies and more. Superb stuff Gents 🙌 youtu.be/IYj6tj3bhsA?...

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EPISODE 17 - Scott and Mark Learn To… Induced Hallucinations

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 28/05/2025

For the finale, @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I solved a real-world problem by gaffer taping a Surface Laptop to a @hellorobot.bsky.social (thanks for the loner!) and taught it to get me a Diet Coke live on stage youtu.be/KIFDVOXMNDc?...

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Scott and Mark Learn to...LIVE | KEY040

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

My Inside Azure Innovation session from Microsoft Build is available for on-demand viewing. See the world's first neural network optical computer, 10,000 containers launch in < 2 minutes, me play space invaders on task manager, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBo...

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Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich | BRK195

YouTube video by Microsoft Developer

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Our Build closing keynote was so fun - watch to find out if we get a robot to fetch Scott his diet cokes:

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Dapr @daprdev.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The Dapr slide deck contains over 150 slides to get you started with your Dapr presentation! Download it from our docs site: docs.dapr.io/contributing...

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Watch the Microsoft Build closing keynote where @scott.hanselman.com and I build an agentic system to control a robot!

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The latest Scott and Mark Learn To podcast episode is out, where we learn to "feedback": www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcE...

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EPISODE 16 - Scott and Mark Learn To… Feedback

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

And here's a physical version of one of them:

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