Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly breached its own promise: for the second time in eight months the assistant’s retrieval pipeline processed data explicitly labeled as confidential, and — crucially — no existing DLP, EDR, or WAF in the conventional security stack raised an alert.
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Microsoft has pushed the first public Release Candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 into preview with two headline changes that matter to every Windows-centric IT team experimenting with Linux-first development: official Ubuntu 24.04 support for dev/test scenarios and TLS 1.3 enabled by default...
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enterprise evaluation
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