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Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service has introduced a new, opinionated deployment mode — AKS Automatic — designed to dramatically reduce the operational overhead long associated with running Kubernetes at scale. The offering promises an “easy mode” for production-ready clusters with preselected...

Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...

Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement at the Congressional Hackathon that the U.S. House will begin a staged pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot marks a dramatic reversal of last year’s ban and opens a high‑stakes test of how a legislative body adopts generative AI...

Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will pilot Microsoft Copilot for thousands of members and staff — a rapid policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban that converts institutional caution into a high‑stakes experiment in government AI adoption. Background: from prohibition...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

SonicWall has confirmed a cloud‑backup compromise that exposed firewall configuration preference files stored in certain MySonicWall accounts, and customers who used the service are being urged to act immediately to contain and remediate potential follow‑on attacks. SonicWall’s notice —...

Workday and Microsoft quietly stitched together a practical bridge between identity, runtime, and business context for AI agents—an integration that promises to make digital workers first-class citizens in enterprise HR, finance, and security systems while raising new questions about governance...

Cloud providers’ quiet September previews revealed a pivot: enterprises are no longer satisfied with raw model accuracy alone — they want platforms that deliver security boundaries, governance, and predictable operations so generative AI can safely move into production. Background / Overview...

Azure has made a decisive push to lower the operational friction of Kubernetes with the general availability of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic — an opinionated, fully managed mode of AKS that ships production-ready clusters with preselected networking, security, scaling, and...

Cloud providers’ September previews are not incremental checkbox updates; they are a clear signal that enterprises expect AI clouds to be more than high‑performance models — they must be secure, auditable, and operationally mature enough to run production workloads at scale. Background...

Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...

Visier’s Vee has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, a recognition that crystallizes how people analytics and generative AI are moving from dashboards into the everyday flow of work—now embedded inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to bring workforce intelligence...

Law firms have embraced artificial intelligence enthusiastically, moving from curiosity and pilots into widespread experimentation—but the leap from scattered use to fully governed, firm‑wide deployment remains rare, constrained not by model ingenuity but by the legal profession’s obligations...

Law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence at a rapid clip, but according to recent reporting and industry surveys, widespread, fully governed production deployments remain the exception rather than the rule—a reality shaped less by technical immaturity than by ethical, regulatory...

Microsoft’s new Access Review Agent for Entra ID promises to turn one of the most tedious and error-prone identity-governance chores into a guided, AI-assisted workflow inside Microsoft Teams — but the convenience comes with clear prerequisites, operational trade-offs, and governance...

Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...

Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-49734 describes an improper restriction of a communication channel in Windows PowerShell—a flaw in the PowerShell Direct pathway that can let an authorized local attacker elevate privileges on an affected host if the required conditions are...

Former Parallo engineers Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow and Jay Strydom have quietly reassembled to launch Spotto.ai, an AI-native Azure cloud optimisation platform aimed squarely at MSPs and SaaS teams wrestling with runaway cloud bills and fragmented operations. (reseller.co.nz, spotto.app)...

Title: CVE-2025-55242 — "Xbox Certification Bug / Copilot Django" Information-Disclosure: what admins need to know and do now TL;DR Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-55242 describing an information‑disclosure bug that can cause the exposure of sensitive...