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Hey PowerToys fans! We’re back with a fresh release: PowerToys 0.93! As usual, we've squashed a bunch of bugs and made some small quality of life tweaks, but we've also packed in some bigger, exciting changes you'll want to check out. Get the update by checking for updates in...

Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Upgrade to Cassandra v5.0 is now generally available, bringing a host of powerful new features and performance improvements to your cloud-native applications. This release marks a significant milestone for developers and data platform teams...

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download.

Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 7 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!

We’re excited to share that GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest frontier model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio. GPT-5 offers faster responses and even better performance for writing and understanding code. This release brings a new level of capability to your development...

If you’ve ever waded through a swamp of secret scanning alerts wondering, “Which of these are actually dangerous right now?” — this enhancement is for you. Secret validity checks in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (and the standalone Secret Protection experience) add a...

Tracking your trackers with a std::list.

We’re thrilled to announce that Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) is now supported on Azure DevOps, bringing a new level of near real-time security enforcement to your development workflows. 🔐 What Is CAE? Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) is a feature from Microsoft Entra ID...

Reviewed by Imran Masud and Sumit Sarabhai When it comes to working with Microsoft SQL Server in Python, pyodbc has long been the de facto driver. It's mature, trusted and has been serving the community well for years. But as applications scale and Python becomes more...