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  • Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Pushes Speech-to-Text Toward Production-Grade Accuracy

    Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe this week, its most accurate speech-to-text model to date, and the interesting part is what it does after the words are recognized. The model converts raw audio directly into polished, formatted text: it strips filler words, resolves self-corrections like “let’s meet Tuesday, no, Wednesday”, and auto-formats the output. Conventional speech…

  • Lakebase Branching Lets Copilot Agent Mode Debug Against Production Data Without Touching Production

    Microsoft has put a new capability into public preview for Azure Databricks: copy-on-write branching for Lakebase, wired directly into GitHub Copilot agent mode. In one command, a developer can branch a production Lakebase database, point Copilot agent mode at the branch endpoint, and debug an AI application against realistic data while the production database stays…

  • Azure Sphere OS 26.06 Reaches Production Devices with CVE Fixes Aboard

    Microsoft has released Azure Sphere OS version 26.06 to the Retail feed, which means the update is rolling out automatically to internet-connected Sphere devices right now. It is an OS-only release: there is no updated SDK, so developers do not need to touch their toolchain. Devices that can reach the cloud will pick up the…

  • Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration Reaches General Availability with Private Network Controls

    Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) integration for Azure SRE Agent. The capability allows operations and platform teams to deploy and operate Microsoft’s autonomous site reliability engineering agent entirely within their private virtual network topology. By routing the agent’s outbound management traffic through dedicated subnets, organizations can enforce corporate Network…

  • Snowflake Deprecates Service Account Passwords as Teams Face Credential Mapping

    Snowflake is systematically eliminating single-factor password authentication for legacy service accounts across its data platform. Under the enforcement timeline, automated service accounts designated with the legacy service user type will no longer be permitted to authenticate using static passwords. Instead, data engineering and platform teams must transition automated workloads to public-key cryptography, OAuth flows, or…

  • Avada WordPress Theme Zero-Click RCE Chains Six Flaws into Remote Takeover

    A zero-click remote code execution chain affecting the Avada WordPress theme and its companion Fusion Builder plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable hosts. Tracked collectively as CVE-2026-18431, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. Because Avada stands as one of the most widely sold commercial WordPress themes in history…

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