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Stolen Device Protection Turns a Known Passcode Into a Dead End
The thief watched the passcode being typed in a pub, stole the iPhone, and should have owned everything. Stolen Device Protection made…
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6.3% Was Survivable. GPT-6 Astra’s 29.2% Is Not.
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Three Things Broke When I Patched 400 Apple Devices for CVE-2026-86950
Apple's emergency patch for CVE-2026-86950 went out to 400 devices in our fleet. The inventory lied, unmanaged devices hid, and compliance rules…
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Azure Communication Services Email Retires September 2028—Exchange Online Won’t Catch What Falls
Two years sounds like plenty of time to migrate off Azure Communication Services Email. It isn't—and the reassuring claim that Exchange Online…
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Microsoft Is Cutting Windows PowerShell 5.1 Loose From the Graph SDK
The access review export doesn't arrive Monday morning, and when you run the task manually it dies with an assembly-loading error you…
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Storm-3068 Turned One Developer Login and a Pipeline Secret Into Azure Control
A single compromised developer account gave Storm-3068 access to source code, then pipeline secrets, then cloud credentials, and finally control of Azure…
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Will Your Functions Apps Go Dark in 2027? Probably Not—That’s the Problem
The September 2027 retirement of Functions v1 on Container Apps is a hard stop—apps won't just lose support, they'll stop running. But…
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Did OpenAI’s Agents Really Go Rogue on the Australian Government?
"Rogue" is a great word for a headline and a terrible word for an incident report. WIRED used it to describe the…
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I Spent a Week Without ‘Edit This Page.’ Here’s My Checklist Now
Microsoft is making Learn documentation repos private, ending external pull requests. Here's the checklist for adapting when you can no longer fix…
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Three Things That Broke When I Moved Our RAG Store Into Azure SQL
Vector indexes for Azure SQL Database hit GA with production SLA support on September 28, making it possible to collapse a separate…