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Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

I'm paranoid about the cloud, OneDrive etc
I have a policy that most stuff I put on the cloud is encrypted (esp backups). Not always practical tho.
I was happy to discover rclone https://rclone.org/ a while ago, & to find out it can set up encrypted containers on OneDrive etc. Readable on both ends, e…

Quantifying Azure RBAC Wildcard Overreach
Christophe Parisel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10755…

Quantifying Azure RBAC Wildcard Overreach
Azure RBAC leverages wildcard permissions to simplify policy authoring, but this abstraction often obscures the actual set of allowed operations and undermines least-privilege guarantees. We introduce Belshazaar, a two-stage framework that targets both the effective permission set problem and the evaluation of wildcards permissions spread. First, we formalize Azure action syntax via a context free grammar and implement a compiler that expands any wildcard into its explicit action set. Second, w…

General Manager of Azure AI at Microsoft Don Scott shares a second consecutive year win in this post on the AI and Machine Learning portion of the official Azure blog. Gartner Group has identified Microsoft as a industry leader in data science and machine learning platforms.
"Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms"

interessanter #trick für #PowerPoint:
"Textstellen in PowerPoint mit dem Textmarker hervorheben – jetzt mit individuellen Farben"

Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…

💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? | Daniel Meppiel
💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? 💥 I recently got it to happen—firsthand. What started as a quick experiment turned into something game-changing. Using VSCode's reusable prompts and the Azure MCP server, GitHub Copilot identified key optimizations for my app's infra in a predictable manner. Then, the Coding Agent implemented them. 📉 The result? An 80% smaller cloud bill. Just like that. In this 2-minute demo (linked below …

A Review of Cloud Computing in Seismology
Yiyu Ni, Marine A. Denolle, Jannes Munchmeyer, Yinzhi Wang, Kuan-Fu Feng, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Amanda M. Thomas, Chad Trabant, Alex Hamilton, David Mencin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11307

A Review of Cloud Computing in Seismology
Seismology has entered the petabyte era, driven by decades of continuous recordings of broadband networks, the increase in nodal seismic experiments, and the recent emergence of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). This review explains how commercial clouds - AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure - by providing object storage, elastic compute, and managed databases, enable researchers to "bring the code to the data," thereby overcoming traditional HPC solutions' bandwidth and capacity limitations. After …

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Souveränität: EU-Kommission liebäugelt mit Ersatz von Microsofts Cloud Azure

Christian Klein, SAP-Chef, warnt: Mit US-Hyperscalern wie AWS, Azure und Google Cloud zu konkurrieren, indem Europa zig Rechenzentren baut, ist „völlig verrückt“. Die Lösung? Nicht Infrastruktur, sondern intelligente KI-Anwendungen machen Europa stark! Die Zukunft liegt in smarter KI, nicht in digitalen Kraftmeiereien gegen US-Riesen. #Golem

SAP-Chef: "Mit US-Hyperscalern zu konkurrieren, ist völlig verrückt" - Golem.de
In Frankreich und anderswo in Europa viele neue Rechenzentren zu bauen, sei eine völlig falsch umgesetzte Souveränität. SAP-Chef Christian Klein schlägt etwas anderes vor.

Bitter Willow & Mountain Pine by the lakeside.
(The beautiful blue backgrounds are the colors of the water)
#NaturePhotography #Photography #BloomScrolling

Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/in-a-blow-to-google…

In a blow to Google Cloud, Replit partners with Microsoft | TechCrunch
Replit is one of the breakout stars of the vibe coding world. This partnership is a good deal for both companies.

Real-Time AI-Driven Pipeline for Automated Medical Study Content Generation in Low-Resource Settings: A Kenyan Case Study
Emmanuel Korir, Eugene Wechuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05212

Real-Time AI-Driven Pipeline for Automated Medical Study Content Generation in Low-Resource Settings: A Kenyan Case Study
Juvenotes is a real-time AI-driven pipeline that automates the transformation of academic documents into structured exam-style question banks, optimized for low-resource medical education settings in Kenya. The system combines Azure Document Intelligence for OCR and Azure AI Foundry (OpenAI o3-mini) for question and answer generation in a microservices architecture, with a Vue/TypeScript frontend and AdonisJS backend. Mobile-first design, bandwidth-sensitive interfaces, institutional tagging, a…

Souveränität: EU-Kommission liebäugelt mit Ersatz von Microsofts Cloud Azure
Die EU-Kommission verhandelt unter anderem mit OVHcloud aus Frankreich über die Ablösung ihrer Cloud-Dienste von Microsoft. Sie will als Trendsetter agieren.

A little tip to all those folks using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud: you're paying ~ 20x more than you need to be paying. If you claim you're using 'special services only provided by __insert name of ripoff cloud provider here__' then you've got your organisation locked into a single provider with the inability to move to a better one. Consider your options very carefully & build vendor-agnostic systems. Dependence on

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15104 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

PecSched: Preemptive and Efficient Cluster Scheduling for LLM Inference
The scaling of transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly expanded their context lengths, enabling applications where inputs exceed 100K tokens. Our analysis of a recent Azure LLM inference trace reveals a highly skewed long-tail distribution of input lengths, with approximately 80% of inputs shorter than 2K tokens. Long inputs constitute only a small fraction. Existing cluster-level LLM scheduling strategies, including First-In-First-Out (FIFO), reservation-based, and pri…

To the person at Microsoft Azure who decided that key vault names must be (a) globally unique and (b) no more than 24 characters:
fuck you.

Microsoft plans to add a "safety" category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02f39b33-fa6e-4bb7-b1f4-8171b50738af

Microsoft to rank ‘safety’ of AI models sold to cloud customers
Tech group’s corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI

I just released nugraph, a #dotnet tool for creating visual dependency graph of NuGet packages.
Installation:
dotnet tool install --global nugraph
Usage for a NuGet package:
nugraph Azure.Core
or for a .NET project:
nugraph ~/Projects/Kerberos.NET/Bruce/Bruce.csproj
Many options are available, everything is documented on https://github.com/0xced/nugraph
Enjoy!
Here's the kind of graph it generates (Azure.Core example).

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Die EU-Kommission verhandelt unter anderem mit **#OVHcloud** aus Frankreich über die Ablösung ihrer Cloud-Dienste von **#Microsoft**. Sie will als Trendsetter agieren und die Datensouveränität in der EU forcieren.

We’re looking for passionate Cloud & AI Solution Engineers to join Microsoft’s Azure Cloud & AI team in a pivotal presale technical role!
✅ Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Software, Development Tools and AI
https://

Dar į temą apie Šved banką:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/scoop-commission-eyes-ditching-microsoft-azure-for-frances-ovhcloud-over-digital-sovereignty-fears/

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
Liangliang Chen, Huiru Xie, Jacqueline Rohde, Ying Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08962

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
This research-to-practice work-in-progress (WIP) paper presents an AI-enabled smart tutor designed to provide homework assessment and feedback for students in an undergraduate circuit analysis course. We detail the tutor's design philosophy and core components, including open-ended question answering and homework feedback generation. The prompts are carefully crafted to optimize responses across different problems. The smart tutor was deployed on the Microsoft Azure platform and is currently in…

Analysts estimate AI services within Microsoft Azure generated $11.5B in revenue in the just-ended fiscal year, up 100% YoY but only ~4% of Microsoft's revenue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-microso

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07849 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
Marcus D:
🎵 Azure Dream
#MarcusD
https://marcusd.net/track/azure-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eNeFaX7FzoCQjN17LEDXV

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
Darren Leniston, David Ryan, Ammar Malik, Jack Jackman, Terence O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05076

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
As distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, batteries and electric vehicles become increasingly prevalent at the edge, maintaining grid stability requires advanced monitoring and control mechanisms. This paper presents a scalable smart grid gateway architecture that enables interoperability between Modbus-based inverters and IEEE 2030.5 cloud-based control systems. The proposed solution leverages Azure cloud services and edge-computing gateway devices to support dynamic configurati…

🔁 Be ready for the unexpected and set up disaster recovery for Azure VMs!
See how to enable replication and disaster recovery to another region:
🔗 #Azure

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

Archetype-Aware Predictive Autoscaling with Uncertainty Quantification for Serverless Workloads on Kubernetes
Guilin Zhang, Srinivas Vippagunta, Raghavendra Nandagopal, Suchitra Raman, Jeff Xu, Marcus Pfeiffer, Shree Chatterjee, Ziqi Tan, Wulan Guo, Hailong Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05653

Archetype-Aware Predictive Autoscaling with Uncertainty Quantification for Serverless Workloads on Kubernetes
High-performance extreme computing (HPEC) platforms increasingly adopt serverless paradigms, yet face challenges in efficiently managing highly dynamic workloads while maintaining service-level objectives (SLOs). We propose **AAPA**, an archetype-aware predictive autoscaling system that leverages weak supervision to automatically classify 300\,000\,+ workload windows into four archetypes (PERIODIC, SPIKE, RAMP, STATIONARY\_NOISY) with 99.8\% accuracy. Evaluation on publicly available Azure Func…

Turn your #Azure cost data into powerful insights! Use the #CostManagement connector in #PowerBI to visualize spend, build custom reports, and track budgets—all in one place. 💰
📈 Start now:

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Blog author and Microsoft employee "JoshMSFT" shares details on Microsoft's new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code.
Feature set includes:
1. Schema Visualization
2. Database aware GitHub Copilot
3. Database Explorer
4. Query History
5. Query Editing with Context-aware IntelliSense
 
"Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft"

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
Alessio Di Santo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00189 https://arxiv.org…

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
This analysis focuses on a single Azure-hosted Virtual Machine at 52.230.23.114 that the adversary converted into an all-in-one delivery, staging and Command-and-Control node. The host advertises an out-of-date Apache 2.4.52 instance whose open directory exposes phishing lures, PowerShell loaders, Reflective Shell-Code, compiled Havoc Demon implants and a toolbox of lateral-movement binaries; the same server also answers on 8443/80 for encrypted beacon traffic. The web tier is riddled with publ…

🚚 Move your #Azure resources across subscriptions or resource groups—without downtime!
Use CLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST API to stay flexible and in control. ⚙️📦 Just update those resource IDs! #CloudManagement
Learn more:

#Microsoft erweitert seine EU-Cloud mit Sovereign Private und Public Cloud – klingt nach digitaler Souveränität, bleibt aber US-kontrolliert. Die Schlüsselverwaltung liegt jetzt beim Kunden, aber die eigentliche Machtfrage bleibt: Wer kontrolliert die #Cloud wirklich? | heise online

Souveränes Azure kommt: So kann nicht einmal Microsoft selbst Daten einsehen
Mehr Datenkontrollen für die Sovereign Public Cloud, eine neue souveräne Private Cloud beim Kunden, lokales M365 – so sollen EU-Kunden Microsoft vertrauen.

💸 Avoid surprise cloud bills with ease! Use #Azure Cost Management’s anomaly detection to monitor usage, get alerts, and automate fixes—before it hits your wallet. 📊🔔 Stay smart, stay ahead. #CloudCosts #FinOps

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Anatoli Kovalev, Narelle Stefanac, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04588

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Australia faces a critical technology skills shortage, requiring approximately $52,000$ new technology professionals annually by 2030, while confronting a widening gap between employer requirements and graduate capabilities. With only $1\%$ of technology graduates considered immediately work-ready, traditional educational pathways alone prove insufficient to meet industry demands. This research examines how industry certifications, such as Microsoft's AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals), can bridge …

Scott Logic Lead Developer Darren Smith shares a report of carbon emission measuring software tools in 2025, their scope, and reviews these in the context of principal cloud service providers' offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS.
"Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)"

Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)
In this post I'll discuss ways of estimating the emissions caused by your Cloud workloads as a first step towards reaching your organisation's Net Zero goals.

At Microsoft, we’re advancing quantum computing at every level. With our newly developed family of 4D geometric codes, and our co-designed quantum work with Atom Computing
, we’re getting closer to making large-scale quantum computing a reality. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AQBlogQEC

Microsoft advances quantum error correction with a family of novel four-dimensional codes - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog
Learn how we're advancing quantum computing by developing 4D error-correction codes that are applicable to many types of qubits.