Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...

Partner with Microsoft to strengthen our products and services by identifying and reporting security vulnerabilities that could impact our customers. The Microsoft Open-Source Bounty Program invites ...

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A threat actor targeting Microsoft 365 and Azure production environments is stealing data in attacks that abuse legitimate applications and administration features. Microsoft tracks the actor as Storm ...

There appears to be a recent epidemic of users hijacking companies’ AI-powered customer service bots to turn them into generic AI assistants. The goal is to get the branded bots to do their bidding, ...

Meta has announced plans to discontinue support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats on Instagram after May 8, 2026. "If you have chats that are impacted by this change, you will see ...

Abstract: Large Language Models(LLMs) often lack domain-specific grounding and may produce generic, hallucinated, or context-insensitive responses, despite their remarkable capability in assisting ...

Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of three distinct prompt engineering strategies—Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Chain-of-Thought—for Python code debugging applications ...

Microsoft has added official Python support to Aspire 13, expanding the platform beyond .NET and JavaScript for building and running distributed apps. Documented today in a Microsoft DevBlogs post, ...

NOTE: This article was published yesterday (30/10/2025), but due to some technical issues it went offline. Microsoft has officially added Python 3.14 to Azure App Service for Linux. Developers can now ...