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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 08/04/2026

The new #Snapdragon X2 and #Nvidia N1X SoCs are absolutely amazing in performance, battery life, *and* price. This is the power of building with the ecosystem instead of against it. The new #Windows laptops in the pipeline coming this year are game changers.

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 25/11/2025

WSL runs microVMs, same tech that was initially developed for running hw-virtualized containers (aka Hyper-V “Xenon” containers) on Windows. It exposes a minimal modern (“born in the cloud”) virtual motherboard, plus state mirroring between the two kernels to keep them in-sync. Really cool stuff.

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 02/12/2025

We've announced a new feature called "Direct Virtualization" at #MSIgnite. We want containers to be 1st-class citizens in #Microsoft #Azure, give container and application orchestrators the ability to run untrusted or confidential workloads securely with hardware virtualization, and give them [1/3]

Comparison of direct virtualization and nested virtualization. In direct virtualization, the guest does not run a nested hypervisor and can give its child VMs direct access to the hardware.

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 25/11/2025

We've announced a new feature called "Direct Virtualization" at Ignite. The only acceptable security boundary in Azure to run untrusted code is virtualization. What if you, as a customer, also want to run code in isolation? Conventional answer is to run... ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio... 15:40

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Inside Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich

Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure. Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and ...

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 02/09/2025

The local church demonstrates extreme selective quoting. 🎵 Imagine there is no hell or heaven ... no religion too... Worship at 10.

Church sign "Imagine all the people living in peace - John Lennon"

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 19/06/2025

Nice! Windows now enforces much higher USB-C feature and performance standards than what USB-IF and USB specs allow. Every USB-C port on every new (24H2) Windows PC supports displays, chargers and data. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

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Ending USB Type-C® Port Confusion: How Windows 11 WHCP Delivers Consistent Performance on Certified Devices

Confused by blank displays or missing features on your USB-C ports? Not all ports are created equal. Learn why even the newest Windows 11 PCs can fail...

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 08/05/2025

Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being “involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.” He’s also put a 20-year deadline on giving away virtually all of his wealth www.theverge.com/news/663322/...

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Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’

Gates said Musk put USAID funding in the “wood chipper.”

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 20/01/2025

it looks like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is notably absent from Trump’s inauguration 🤔

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 07/01/2025

A note of gratitude as we welcome 2025. I've kept this fortune cookie slip in my home office for the past 20 years. It's from our first team lunch after joining Microsoft in late 2004. Finding peace, meaning and purpose in your work is a blessing. May 2025 bring you your own happy new adventures.

Fortune cookie with the text "You will have a happy adventure soon."

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 22/12/2024

I have a basic understanding of how LLMs work, so I realize calling this "intelligence" would be akin to seeing ghosts in a teacup. But from a strictly practical get-stuff-done point of view, GitHub #Copilot surprises me a few times a day by practically reading my mind. Note I only typed "#define".

Code snippet showing GitHub Copilot auto-complete the word "#define" to an entire macro, reading my mind.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate! Max Planck submitted work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900. His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n) Image: AIP

A black and white photo of Max Planck. His arms are crossed and he is looking at the camera. Planck has a substantial mustache and his hair is receding. He is wearing a heavy, dark suit with a high-collared white shirt and a small black bowtie.

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 03/12/2024

As engineers we strive to leave a big, lasting impact. But impact is hard to predict. Our natural tendency is towards big shiny projects aimed at "making the world a better place™". Ironically, invisible incremental improvements often yield higher ROI, and impact is wherever you can find it. 🧵👇

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 26/11/2024

Our team open-sourced OpenVMM & OpenHCL recently. OpenVMM is a type2 virtual machine monitor. OpenHCL is when OpenVMM runs as a paravisor, to provide virtualization services to the guest from within. They already power millions of #Azure VMs. Good resource to learn VMMs. github.com/microsoft/Op...

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GitHub - microsoft/openvmm: Home of OpenVMM and OpenHCL.

Home of OpenVMM and OpenHCL. Contribute to microsoft/openvmm development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 22/11/2024

Microsoft #Ignite sessions are now available to watch on-demand. Everything from Satya's keynote to confidential computing, from AI to #Windows and #Linux platform innovations on #Azure and the edge. ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...

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Join us at Microsoft Ignite and achieve more with the power of the Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Copilot, and AI.

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Immo Landwerth @terrajobst.net · 21/11/2024

The idea that accessibility doesn't help you unless you're disabled is very misguided. I like how our training points out that disability should be thought of as a mismatch between a person's capabilities and their environment, which can apply to anyone.

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Onur Filiz @onur.filiz.dev · 20/11/2024

It's the awesome 90s! 8 and 16 bit "home computers" like #C64 and #Amiga are all the rage. Released in 1993, #Bronx "Faith of Black" was my first full-length graphics demo for the Amiga 500, coded completely in Motorola MC68000 assembly during a high school summer recess.

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Amiga Demo : Faith Of Black / Bronx (1993) (HD 50 fps)

YouTube video by cyberpingui

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