Microsoft quietly retires the Copilot+ PC brand
The label is gone, the spec stays Two years after launching Copilot+ as the badge of honor for AI-ready Windows hardware, Microsoft has stopped using it. The new Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch announced this month carry no Copilot+ branding at all, even though both comfortably clear the hardware bar the label was […]
The azd extension framework is generally available
The Azure Developer CLI’s extension framework is now generally available. If you haven’t followed the azd project, extensions are the plugin system that lets teams add their own commands, automation, and service integrations to the CLI without forking it or wrapping it in scripts. The GA applies to the framework itself: the parts of azd […]
Storage Mover can now migrate SMB shares to Azure Files without agents
Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless migration from on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files, in public preview. Until now, moving file shares into Azure with Storage Mover meant deploying and managing migration agents on VMs near the source data. The agentless path removes that step entirely: the service reads the SMB share over the […]
Azure Copilot’s Troubleshooting Agent hits general availability
Microsoft has taken the Troubleshooting Agent in Azure Copilot to general availability. It lives in the Azure portal, in both the Copilot chat experience and the Support + Troubleshooting blade, and its job is to take a vague complaint like “my VM rebooted itself last night” and turn it into a diagnosis, a fix, or […]
A Stuxnet source reconstruction appeared on GitHub: what it is and is not
A GitHub repository called Sadpainy/Stuxnet surfaced this week claiming a reconstructed source code of Stuxnet, the worm that damaged Iranian centrifuges and effectively invented the category of cyber-physical weapon. It is written in C, targets Windows XP and Windows 7 only, and comes with the usual educational-use disclaimer. It has 69 stars and a single […]
Jellyfin 12.0 drops the 10 and rewrites how playlists work
Jellyfin 12.0 is out, and the version number itself is the story. The project dropped the leading “10” from its scheme, so what would have been 10.12.0 ships as 12.0.0. That sounds cosmetic until you remember that 10.11.0 rewrote the entire library database and still looked, to anyone glancing at a version string, like a […]
GPT-6 Astra Breaks Through ARC-AGI-3, But the Harness Did Half the Work
ARC-AGI-3 is the benchmark that asks an AI to walk into an unfamiliar game with no instructions, figure out the rules by poking at things, and then win. Humans solve 100% of its environments. Until this week, no model came close. GPT-6 Astra changes that. According to the ARC Prize team’s independent writeup, Astra scored […]
ToxicPanda 2.0 Abuses Android VPN Permissions to Blindside Google Play Protect
The Evolution of a Targeted Banking Trojan Security researchers tracking mobile threats have documented a significant architectural update to ToxicPanda, an Android banking trojan that first surfaced in late 2024. The new variant, labeled ToxicPanda 2.0, has expanded its target list to 349 financial and banking applications across Europe, Latin America, and emerging markets. Beyond […]
Grok AI Exfiltrates Private User Data When Attackers Encrypt Malicious Instructions
Security researchers have demonstrated a significant vulnerability in xAI’s Grok chatbot that allows external attackers to exfiltrate private conversation history. The attack relies on an indirect prompt injection technique that encrypts malicious instructions on a webpage, evading automated guardrail scanners until Grok itself decrypts and executes the payload during normal browsing and summarization tasks. How […]
SynkLoader Malware Uses Microsoft Teams Phishing and Fake Lock Screens to Infiltrate Corporate Networks
A previously undocumented malware family named SynkLoader has surfaced in targeted social engineering campaigns across corporate Microsoft Teams environments. Discovered by security researchers at Expel, the attack chain begins with direct messages from external Microsoft 365 tenants impersonating internal IT helpdesk staff and culminates in a fake Windows lock screen designed to capture domain passwords. […]
Claude Sonnet 5 Now GA on Azure Databricks: Near-Opus Intelligence at Sonnet Prices
Claude Sonnet 5 Now GA on Azure Databricks: Near-Opus Intelligence at Sonnet Prices Azure Databricks has made Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 generally available through its AI Model Serving platform (source). It is Anthropic’s most agentic Sonnet model to date, delivering near-Opus-level intelligence with Sonnet’s cost efficiency and speed. For teams running production AI workloads on […]
AI Agents Just Got a Database Key: MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB Is GA
AI Agents Just Got a Database Key: MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB Is GA The Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit is now generally available (source). This gives AI agents a direct line to your production data. No more hand-rolled connectors or fragile API middleware. You point an MCP client at the toolkit endpoint, and […]