On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) facilitated the takedown, suspension, and blocking of domains that ...

Azure Functions shipped a serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026. Agents are defined in .agent.md markdown ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 138 security vulnerabilities spanning its product portfolio, although none of them have been listed as publicly known or under active attack. Of the 138 flaws ...

Azure SDK Python packages support for Python 2.7 has ended 01 January 2022. For more information and questions, please refer to #20691 Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database ...

Today is Microsoft's January 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 114 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. This Patch Tuesday also ...

The data industry has arrived at a pivotal juncture that echoes the themes we’ve charted in previous Breaking Analysis episodes, from The Sixth Data Platform through The Yellow Brick Road to Agentic ...

HDInsight added the Managed Identity (MI) option for authenticating SQL databases within its cluster offerings and providing a more secure authentication mechanism. This article outlines the process ...

Using managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions is a secure way to authenticate and authorize your applications to access Azure resources without storing credentials or secrets in your ...

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Any data engineer who works on azure would have come across the terminology "Service Principal" aka "Active Directory App" and at least some of data engineer would have come across the terminology ...