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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Allison explains how GitHub’s SBOM export flow moved to an asynchronous model in the Dependency Graph UI and REST API, removing hard timeouts and adding a generate/fetch pattern for reliably downloading SBOM reports from large repositories.
Allison announces that GitHub Copilot’s third-party coding agents (Claude and Codex) now support model selection on github.com, including the currently available Claude Sonnet/Opus and GPT-5 Codex model options, plus notes on required admin policies and repo settings.
Dorothy Pearce introduces GitHub’s free Code Security Risk Assessment, a one-click scan that uses CodeQL to surface vulnerabilities across up to 20 active repositories, and explains how the results help teams prioritize remediation (including where Copilot Autofix may apply).
Allison announces updates to GitHub Code Quality standard findings (public preview), including faster triage features like file-path search, bulk dismiss/reopen, and richer per-finding context, with fix suggestions generated by GitHub Copilot Autofix.
The Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces Capacity Scheduler (preview) for Eventhouse, explaining how teams can schedule minimum capacity across the week to better match predictable real-time analytics patterns while keeping autoscale enabled.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric’s “Analyze data with” entry points are being unified across Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Eventhouse (Preview), embedding Eventhouse Endpoint alongside SQL Endpoint and Notebooks to make analysis more discoverable and consistent.
Allison announces GitHub Copilot data residency for US and EU regions plus FedRAMP Moderate support, outlining what features are covered, which models are available, the pricing uplift for compliant endpoints, and how enterprise/org admins can enable the policies.