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This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.12.12 and 2026.01.16 registry releases and the Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/whats-new-in-vcpkg-nov-2025-jan-2026
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Today, we're announcing structured outputs on Amazon Bedrock—a capability that fundamentally transforms how you can obtain validated JSON responses from foundation models through constrained decoding for schema compliance. In this post, we explore the challenges of traditional JSON generation and how structured outputs …
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In this post, we demonstrate how to use the CLI and the SDK to create and manage SageMaker HyperPod clusters in your AWS account. We walk through a practical example and dive deeper into the user workflow and parameter choices. Link to article: …
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When Anthropic released their Agent Skills framework, they published a blueprint for how enterprise organizations should structure AI agent capabilities. The pattern is straightforward: package procedural knowledge into composable skills that AI agents can discover and apply contextually. Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor, and …
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In this post, we explore the Amazon Nova rubric-based judge feature: what a rubric-based judge is, how the judge is trained, what metrics to consider, and how to calibrate the judge. We chare notebook code of the Amazon Nova rubric-based LLM-as-a-judge methodology to evaluate and compare the outputs of two different …
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Applications often need access to data without needing access to everything. Social Security numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers are common examples. Storing them is required. Exposing them broadly is not. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through MCP servers like SQL MCP …
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Last time, we had figured out how to prevent the version 5 ListView Win32 common control from resizing columns, but we noticed that the cursor st Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260206-00/?p=112045
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Master the Abstract Factory design pattern in C# with complete code examples, real-world scenarios, and practical implementation guidance for creating families of related objects. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/06/abstract-factory-design-pattern-in-c-complete-guide-with-examples
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OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safety. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-localization
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Sometimes applications need to remove data without actually losing it. Soft delete keeps rows in the database while making them invisible to normal application access. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through MCP servers like SQL MCP Server, where safety and reversibility matter. Lea …
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Associa collaborated with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build a generative AI-powered document classification system aligning with Associa’s long-term vision of using generative AI to achieve operational efficiencies in document management. The solution automatically categorizes incoming documents with …
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In this post, you will learn how to configure and use Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings for media asset search systems, product discovery experiences, and document retrieval applications. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/a-practical-guide-to-amazon-nova-multimodal-embeddings/
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[alert type="important" heading="About the Author"]This is a guest post from Jean-Marc Prieur from Microsoft's 1ES (One Engineering System) team. We help reduce developer toil across Microsoft by making it easy to build services that are secure and compliant from the start, for instance with Aspire …
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The deployment model of .NET Framework 3.5 for future versions of Windows is changing. Starting with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965, .NET Framework 3.5 must be obtained as a standalone installer and is no longer included as an optional Windows component. .NET Framework 3.5 is now available as a standalone …
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag Link to article: …
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Strengthen Identity Security and Eliminate Account Keys Identity is becoming the new security perimeter. As organizations modernize their cloud applications, long‑lived secrets and shared keys introduce unnecessary risk. Azure Cosmos DB now fully supports Microsoft Entra ID for both control plane and data plane access, …
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Last time, we saw how to prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns, but the technique required version 6 of the common controls. What if you're stuck in the dark Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260205-00/?p=112042
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Introduction Log analysis helps you maintain reliable applications by identifying issues, troubleshooting problems, and gaining operational insights. Traditional log analysis struggles with unstructured data and requires hours of manual work to extract meaningful patterns. Generative AI transforms this process by …
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Qodana is a static code analysis tool that brings code inspections and quick-fixes from JetBrains IDEs to the realm of continuous integration. It can be run in the cloud, executed from a Docker container, integrated into CI/CD pipelines, or invoked through a JetBrains IDE. Qodana already offers an impressive suite of …
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