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Retention Hold No Longer Means “Nobody Can Delete This”
Priority Cleanup, now GA for SharePoint Online and OneDrive, removes specific items even when they're covered by a retention policy or label.…
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Cloud HSM Hardware Audit Logs: The Device’s Record, Not the Control Plane’s
Azure Activity Logs show what the control plane asked your Cloud HSM to do. Hardware audit logging is the HSM itself recording…
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AI Writes 75% of DeepMind’s Code and Its Research Isn’t Moving Any Faster
AI writes more than three-quarters of the production code at DeepMind. According to internal metrics shared by engineer Haydn Belfield, it hasn't…
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Cisco Email Gateway Lets Unauthenticated Senders Write Files to the OS—Actively Exploited
An email gateway's entire job is to accept input from people it has never met—that's the design, not a flaw. Now an…
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File-Level Archiving Is GA and Purview Won’t Tell You What It Moved
Retention labels with an archive action can silently move SharePoint files to restricted storage. The compliance portal has no native report to…
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Auth0 TanStack Start SDK Protects Routes With One Middleware, Zero React Server Components
TanStack Start doesn't have React Server Components, despite what Auth0's marketing suggests. That makes the authentication story simpler, not harder—if you know…