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Jesse Houwing summarizes GitHub’s update that GitHub Copilot can now keep inference processing and associated data within US or EU data residency regions, and shows the enterprise/org policy you must enable to restrict Copilot to data-resident models.

Emanuele Bartolesi explains why Remote Desktop is a poor fit for day-to-day development on customer VMs, and shows how VS Code Remote Tunnels restores a normal local-editor workflow while keeping code and execution on the remote machine.

Reenu Saluja breaks down the main Azure hosting options for production AI agents and explains when to use each, with a deeper walkthrough of Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents (deployment, lifecycle management, observability, scaling, and invocation patterns).

sachoudhury explains GitHub Copilot Custom Skills: repo- or user-scoped SKILL.md “runbooks” that Copilot can discover and execute in agent mode to automate multi-step developer workflows (commands, scripts, and report generation).

David Sanchez lays out a practical DevOps playbook for teams adopting AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent), focusing on readiness prerequisites, human–agent collaboration patterns, pipeline changes, governance, and security controls needed to keep quality and accountability intact as non-human contributors scale up.

In this community post, nishantmv breaks down a production-grade Azure serverless architecture for an enterprise facility-management IoT platform, covering a multi-provider telemetry pipeline, template-driven device modeling, an event-driven rule engine, and the security/resilience hardening that made it ready for production.

Allison announces that Dependabot and code scanning can now use OpenID Connect (OIDC) for organization-level access to private registries, reducing reliance on long-lived secrets and enabling short-lived, dynamically issued credentials.

Allison announces new GitHub features that surface deployment and runtime context in repository properties and security alert pages, helping teams automate policy enforcement and prioritize Dependabot and code scanning alerts based on real production risk.

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT) and Tara Overfield summarize the April 2026 .NET and .NET Framework servicing releases, including the updated versions, links to release notes and installers, and the list of security CVEs addressed across supported .NET and .NET Framework versions.

.NET Team announces .NET 11 Preview 3, summarizing what’s new across the runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, and official container images, with links to detailed release notes and downloads.

Kristen Womack explains how `azd update` simplifies keeping the Azure Developer CLI current across Windows, macOS, and Linux, including how to switch between stable and daily release channels.

Gloridel Morales announces April patches for Azure DevOps Server, summarizing key fixes (pull request completion reliability, safer sign-out redirect validation, and GitHub Enterprise Server PAT connection) and showing how to verify the patch is installed.

Allison announces a public preview feature that lets teams link GitHub code scanning alerts to GitHub Issues, making it easier to track and prioritize security remediation work in existing planning workflows.

Joseph Katsioloudes introduces Season 4 of GitHub’s Secure Code Game, a hands-on set of challenges where you exploit and fix vulnerabilities in an agentic AI assistant (ProdBot) to learn real-world AI-agent security risks like prompt-based tool misuse, memory poisoning, and sandbox escape.

GitHub shows how GitHub Copilot CLI can speed up onboarding by scanning a repository and returning a plain-English overview of the codebase from the terminal.

stclarke shares a Microsoft AI announcement introducing MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a production-oriented text-to-image model available in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground, positioned as faster and cheaper than MAI-Image-2 while maintaining “flagship” quality.

Allison summarizes GitHub Secret Scanning updates that expand push protection defaults, improve enterprise fork coverage, and add new API capabilities for alert validity, provider filtering, scan history, and enterprise-wide dismissal request reporting.

ManishChopra outlines six practical integration patterns for building agents and copilots that query Oracle Database@Azure with sub-millisecond proximity to Microsoft’s AI stack, covering options from Copilot Studio connectors to ORDS/PL/SQL, Azure Functions, and Logic Apps, plus the identity/governance controls typically needed for production.

Ismael Mejía Useche and Pooja Yarabothu introduce the “PostgreSQL Like a Pro” video series, focused on practical ways to run and modernize PostgreSQL workloads on Azure—covering AI agent patterns, AI-assisted migrations in VS Code, and performance/resiliency considerations at scale.

Microsoft Developer features Gauri Kasar explaining how Azure Database for PostgreSQL supports resilient, high-performance app deployments, including high availability, read replicas, backup/restore, and elastic clusters for scaling.