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Critical Azure Cosmos DB flaw threatened cross-tenant database takeover

A critical Gremlin API vulnerability exposed a path to any Cosmos DB instance, including Microsoft’s own services, before the company redesigned the platform.

The database that thinks it’s a phone exchange: how two Brisbanites are rebuilding the data stack on hardware you already own

A two-person Brisbane company reckons the answer is a smaller box, used properly. On a modest 8-core CPU VM, a machine most ...

Which Microsoft businesses are growing and shrinking, according to obscure table in regulatory filing

Overall, for the fiscal year ended June 30, Microsoft's revenue increased 18%, or $50.1 billion, to $331.8 billion. Here is ...
InfoWorld

How to execute queries in parallel using EF Core

EF Core is Microsoft’s flagship ORM (object-relational mapper), the software layer that allows .NET developers to work with relational databases. The DbContext class is the core component of the EF ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Makes SQL Server Migration to Azure Virtual Machines Generally Available

Microsoft makes SQL Server migration to Azure Virtual Machines generally available through Azure Migrate and Azure Arc. Unified Azure portal experience streamlines SQL Server assessment, migration, ...
TechCrunch

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” ...
GitHub

Azure SQL Natural Language to SQL Queries

Once you have Docker and sqlcmd installed, running a SQL Server instance with the needed sample database is as easy as running the following command: sqlcmd create ...
The Verge

Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns

Microsoft’s legal teams are evaluating Anthropic’s new data retention changes. Microsoft’s legal teams are evaluating Anthropic’s new data retention changes. is a senior correspondent and author of ...
The New York Times

Have a Thorny Medical Question? Your Doctor May Be Using A.I. for That.

OpenEvidence, a fast-growing start-up, is using artificial intelligence to help doctors find answers to clinical questions for diagnosis and treatment. OpenEvidence, a fast-growing start-up, is using ...
Business Wire

Elastic Adds Native Prometheus and PromQL Support to Elastic Observability

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced native Prometheus support, including direct ingestion via Remote Write and full PromQL support in Kibana.
News Medical

Study reveals what people ask AI chatbots about health most often

From late-night symptom worries to help with appointments and paperwork, this study shows how people are turning to AI chatbots for far more than simple health facts. Study: Public use of a generalist ...
InfoWorld

Using Azure Copilot for migration and modernization

A new migration agent in Azure Copilot guides you through the process of moving applications to Azure, while drawing on GitHub Copilot agents to update them. Microsoft has given Azure many hats: a ...