EU To Soon Classify AWS and Azure As Gatekeepers Under DSA
The European Commission is reportedly preparing to provisionally classify Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, bringing cloud infrastructure under the law’s stricter competition rules for the first time. The designation could require greater interoperability and data portability, making it easier for customers to … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Hacked To Deliver Malware To Claude and Gemini Users
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Microsoft has shut down a wave of its own repositories on GitHub, including those related to Azure and AI coding agents, as it investigates a data breach, according to research from cybersecurity researchers and a statement given to 404 Media by Microsoft. Hackers planted malware that would harvest pe … ⌘ Read more
Marie-Laure Lambert: le contournement autoroutier d’Arles est «un projet anachronique»
L’État continue d’aménager le territoire sans tenir compte des impacts climatiques. Une politique sans cohérence avec l’urgence de la transition énergétique, juge la présidente du conseil scientifique du groupe d’expertise sur le climat pour la région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. ⌘ Read more
Multiple redhat-cloud-services npm packages compromised (StepSecurity Blog)
StepSecurity is reporting
that a number of npm packages in the @redhat-cloud-services
scope include malware that runs automatically on every npm
install:
The payload is a multi-stage credential harvester that sweeps
GitHub Actions secrets along with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes,
HashiCorp Vault, npm, and CircleCI tokens, and it is purpose-built to
evade det … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Surprises With Its First Server Linux Distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Flatcar as Azure Container Linux for immutable container hosts. “When Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation, there was this big conspiracy theory that somehow the Linux Foundat … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, glib2, libsoup3, and openexr), Debian (dnsmasq, p7zip, p7zip-rar, python-authlib, and rails), Fedora (chromium, firefox, httpd, and nss), SUSE (java-25-openj9, krb5, libmodsecurity3, and mcphost), and Ubuntu (imagemagick, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-fips, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure-4.15, linux-fips, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gcp-fips, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-fips, linux-oracle, linux-az … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora
Microsoft’s in-house Azure Linux operating system used within Azure and for WSL and other purposes is reportedly pursuing an overhaul where it would be derived from Fedora Linux… ⌘ Read more
Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities
Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform… ⌘ Read more
Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO’s 40-Year-Old Apple II Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example. Russinovich wrote: “We are entering an era of automated, AI-accelerated vulnerability discov … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Japan Raided Over Suspected Violation of Anti-Monopoly Law
An anonymous reader shares a report: Japan’s Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan’s offices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether it improperly restricted customers of its Azure platform from using rival cloud services, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The source said Japan’s antitrust authori … ⌘ Read more
@kiwu@twtxt.net I am trying to read our Information Security Office “mind” to grasp what they want. So far they seem to want to get logs from our BIG-IP F5 load balancers into Azure Sentinel, but the Telemetry Streaming plugin normally used for it is on maintenance mode, with deprecations happening on the F5 and Microsoft side soonish. So, yeah… “fun”. Oh, and they want it on production by tomorrow. LOLz!
Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession’s future skills base.
The paper, Redefining the Engineering Profession for AI, is b … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books
Microsoft pulled a year-old blog post this week after a Hacker News thread flagged that it had encouraged developers to download all seven Harry Potter books from a Kaggle dataset – incorrectly marked as public domain – and use them to train AI models on the company’s Azure platform.
The blog, written in November 2024 … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s Azure Linux Adds 6.12 HWE Kernel, ARM64 Kernel Tuning For More Performance
Microsoft overnight released Azure Linux 3.0.20260204 as the latest release of their in-house Linux distribution widely used within their Azure environment and elsewhere… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Has Many Hyper-V Virtualization Improvements For Linux 6.19
For benefiting their Azure cloud and other users of Hyper-V virtualization at large, Microsoft has rolled out a number of feature additions and improvements for their Hyper-V kernel code in Linux 6.19… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Announces Cobalt 200 CPU With 132 Arm Neoverse-V3 Cores
Microsoft announced the Cobalt 200 processor as their next-generation cloud-native CPU for the Azure Cloud. The Cobalt 200 will feature 132 Arm Neoverse-V3 based cores… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft, Nvidia Commit Up To $15 Billion Investment in Anthropic as Claude Scales on Azure
Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI-rival Anthropic announced strategic partnerships today that will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure and bring up to $15 billion in new investment to the AI startup. Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and contract additional capacity up to … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. Azure’s global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping servic … ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Brings Build Fixes For Google Cloud & Azure, Base Repository Changes
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December… ⌘ Read more
Tech Giants’ Cloud Power Probed As EU Weighs Inclusion In DMA
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure, and Alphabet’s Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms’ market power. The European Commission wants to decide if any of the trio should face a raft of new restri … ⌘ Read more
The Incredible Evolution Of AMD EPYC HPC Performance Shown In The Azure Cloud
Last week the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances reached general availability as powered by the custom EPYC 9V64H CPUs with HBM3 memory. These very interesting EPYC processors for memory bandwidth intensive workloads were announced last year while have finally reached GA with jaw-dropping results for software able to take advantage of the 6.7 TB/s memory bandwidth thanks to the HBM memory. The Azure HBv5 benchmarks last week showed how th … ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted… ⌘ Read more
Benchmarking The AMD EPYC 9V64H: Azure HBv5’s Custom AMD CPU With HBM3
Nearly one year ago Microsoft announced the HBv5 virtual machines powered by a custom-designed AMD 4th Gen EPYC processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM3). Finally today the Azure HBv5 series is reaching general availability for those with memory-intensive HPC applications and other workloads. Microsoft kindly provided Phoronix with HBv5 access in advance to begin testing these new VMs with the AMD EPYC 9V64H CPUs featuring HBM memory, so … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft conducts Windows reorg that sees core engineering teams back under the same roof as feature experience teams
Microsoft is reorganising the Windows teams. Again. For those unaware, the Windows organization has essentially been split in two since 2018. Teams that work on the core of Windows were moved under Azure, and the rest of the Windows team (those that focused on top level features and user experienc … ⌘ Read more
CTO of Microsoft Azure: “USA is Fascist Regime”
Microsoft employees chanting “Go away, Jews!” Then Microsoft employees praising the murder of Charlie Kirk. ⌘ Read more
OIDC: Integrate Kubernetes authentication with Azure AD via OIDC (Part IV)
You want to authenticate Kubernetes users by integrating it with Azure AD using OIDC. This setup involves configuring the following … ⌘ Read more
What’s your go-to message queue in 2025?
The space is confusing to say the least.
Message queues are usually a core part of any distributed architecture, and the options are endless:
Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis {Pub-Sub, Streams}, Cloud Providers {AWS SQS, Kinesis; Google Pub/Sub; Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus}, Pulsar, ZeroMQ… and then there’s the “just use Postgres” camp for simpler use cases.
I’m trying to make sense of the tradeoffs between:
- async fire-and-forget pub/sub vs. sync RPC-like point … ⌘ Read more
** Microsoft Fortifies MSA Signing Infrastructure with Azure Confidential VMs After Storm-0558…**
In the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape, 2023 saw one of the most talked-ab … ⌘ Read more
That moment, when you’re a little pipsqueak self-host(er) with infrastructure you’re trying to protect from potentially rogue customers on Azure …
That moment, when you’re a little pipsqueak self-host(er) with infrastructure you’re trying to protect from potentially rogue customers on Azure Cloud. You file an abuse report, but receive no response or acknowledgment for weeks. Now what? 🤔 Email the CEO! #Azure #Microsoft ⌘ Read more
No, Microsoft Did Not Fire Employees for Holding “Vigil for Palestinians”
Microsoft fired 2 Microsoft Azure employees who boycotted Microsoft – and organized anti-Microsoft protests (while being wildly antisemitic). ⌘ Read more
Code referencing now generally available in GitHub Copilot and with Microsoft Azure AI
Announcing the general availability of code referencing in GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure AI, allowing developers to permit code suggestions containing public code matches while receiving detailed information about the match.
The post [Code referencing now generally available in GitHub Copilot and with Microsoft Azure AI](https://github.blog/ne … ⌘ Read more
Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners
GitHub-hosted runners now support Azure private networking. Plus, we’ve added 2 vCPU Linux, 4 vCPU Windows, macOS L, macOS XL, and GPU hosted runners to our runner fleet.
The post Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners appea … ⌘ Read more
Azure Container Registry and Docker Hub: Connecting the Dots with Seamless Authentication and Artifact Cache
See best practices for using public images and ensuring the security and reliability of your Docker containers. ⌘ Read more
Announcing general availability of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now generally available. Enable secret scanning, dependency scanning, and code scanning on your organization directly in Azure DevOps configuration settings.
The post [Announcing general availability of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps](https://github.blog/2023-09-20-announcing-general-availability-of-github-advanced-security-for- … ⌘ Read more
R to @mind_booster: Dados pessoais. E aqui temos de ir um pouco atrás e pensar na solução escolhida (e as componentes) para este projecto - em particular o Azure Cloud e o ChatGPT - e regressam todas as questões ainda por responder sobre os riscos e como é que isso pode ser compatível com o RGPD.
Dados pessoais. E aqui temos de ir um pouco atrás e pensar na solução escolhida (e as componentes) para este projecto - em particular o Azure Cloud e o ChatGPT - e regressam todas as questões ainda por responder so … ⌘ Read more
Announcing the public preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Actions Importer is now generally available
We’re excited to announce the general availability of GitHub Actions Importer. GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan, forecast, and automate migrations from Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI to GitHub Actions. This product is an extension of the official GitHub CLI and is available for free to any GitHub user starting today. Migrating […] ⌘ Read more
Audit log streaming is now in public beta
If you’re a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, you can now set up a stream of audit log and Git events to Splunk or an Azure Event Hub. ⌘ Read more
io.FS file systems using “os”, in-memory and Azure Blob storage #fs #go #azure ⌘ Read more…
Setting Up Cloud Deployments Using Docker, Azure and Github Actions ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/setting-up-cloud-deployments-using-docker-azure-and-github-actions/
Code Scanning a GitHub Repository using GitHub Advanced Security within an Azure DevOps Pipeline ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-27-code-scanning-a-github-repository-using-github-advanced-security-within-an-azure-devops-pipeline/
Check out the Azure CLI experience now available in Desktop Stable ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/check-out-the-azure-cli-experience-now-available-in-desktop-stable/
How To Deploy Containers to Azure ACI using Docker CLI and Compose ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-deploy-containers-to-azure-aci-using-docker-cli-and-compose/
Running a container in Microsoft Azure Container Instances (ACI) with Docker Desktop Edge ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/running-a-container-in-aci-with-docker-desktop-edge/