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“We built these tools because we believe that AI safety has to become a continuous engineering discipline rather than a periodic checkpoint, and we think the best way to make that happen is to put practical, open tools in the hands of the people doing the building,” Microsoft's AI red team founder Ram Shankar Siva Kumar said in a security blog post.

AGREED: Retire all packages maintained by the deepinde-sig group The decision comes one year after the project called for a security review of the Deepin Desktop Environment, after openSUSE dropped the desktop following a negative security assessment. We reported on that decision at the time. SUSE asked Deepin for feedback, but didn't get good enough answers - for which, some months later, the Chinese project issued an apology.

“When I started in Azure 10 years ago, it was not the majority operating system running on the Azure cloud. It has become the majority operating system running on the Azure cloud in the past 10 years. And today, I think we're really excited to announce that we're going to be having Microsoft's open-source Linux distribution, a supported version of Linux supported by Microsoft, available on Azure, out for anybody to use.”

Our reader managed to run up Bedrock charges totaling $30,141.33 in April 2026, despite using AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (CAD) to avoid any nasty surprises. Thirty-three days before our reader's first use of Bedrock, the threshold in CAD was set to "Absolute ≥ $100 AND Relative ≥ 40%" so alerts should have fired if things got too spendy.

With [CIDR], Microsoft can now trigger a recovery action directly from the Hardware Dev Center (HDC), rolling back a problematic driver to the previously known-good version via the Windows Update pipeline. Partners are not required to take any action. Microsoft handles the recovery end-to-end.

We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server.

DTCC will integrate Chainlink’s Runtime Environment into its Collateral Appchain, targeting a Q4 2026 production launch. The platform automates collateral workflows for a firm that processed $4.7 quadrillion in securities transactions in 2025. Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov says collateral management is the blockchain sector's key application for traditional finance (TradFi). DTCCs Collateral Appchain is built as shared infrastructure designed to modernize how collateral moves between market participants.

There is no technical reason for VMware users to adopt a rival hypervisor, and that no vendor offers a one-for-one replacement for the virtualization pioneer's flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) suite.