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Allison summarizes weekly GitHub Copilot updates across the Copilot app, Copilot CLI, and VS Code, focusing on session workflows, side questions, model/credit visibility, and new review and feedback capabilities that help developers stay in context while iterating on changes.

Allison announces a GitHub Enterprise update that lets enterprise owners install public third-party GitHub Apps directly on an enterprise account, enabling new enterprise management integrations while keeping access scoped away from orgs and repos unless explicitly granted.

Allison announces a new “Potential return on investment” section in the GitHub Copilot impact dashboard, helping admins relate Copilot spend (based on AI credit consumption) to pull request output and adoption phases, with updated cohort counting across the full 28-day reporting window.

Microsoft Developer shares a 2-minute weekly roundup covering an AI agent preview in Visual Studio built on the GitHub Copilot SDK, plus Azure AI Foundry model updates and the MCP C# SDK 2.0 release with stateless-first communication and improved interoperability.

Allison announces general availability of Lite and Balanced effort levels for GitHub Copilot code review, letting teams tune review depth per pull request and set organization-wide defaults that repositories can inherit.

Allison announces an update to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API that adds per-agent reporting for third-party agent apps (such as Claude and Codex) used in GitHub workflows. The change introduces a new totals_by_3rd_party_agent array and clarifies how to interpret the new counters alongside existing telemetry fields.

Allison announces updates to GitHub Issues and Projects: a new “Relates to” issue relationship in public preview, plus generally available multi-select fields with improvements for grouping, editing from sidebars, copy/paste, and clearing values.

Allison announces updates to GitHub secret scanning, including a new partner (Lovable Labs), more secret types blocked by push protection by default, and richer alert context via extended metadata to help teams assess ownership and impact faster.

Shamir AbdulAziz lays out a practical operating model for “Zero Ops” using Azure SRE Agent: agents handle investigation and remediation work, while humans focus on intent, governance, and outcome review. The post breaks down how to scope agents, connect context, build repeatable artifacts, and safely graduate from human-in-the-loop to autonomy.

Microsoft Developer introduces the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK), an open-source platform for building quantum applications across Q#, Python, OpenQASM, Qiskit, and Cirq, with QIR support plus integrated simulation and resource estimation tools, and AI-powered assistance in VS Code and GitHub Copilot.

John Savill runs through the 7th August 2026 Azure update, covering changes across compute, networking, security, storage, SQL, and Databricks—highlighting VM defaults and retirements, new routing and proxy capabilities, Private Link over IPv6, and several Databricks and Azure SQL enhancements.

Allison explains a GitHub Code Quality change: enabling Code Quality no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests GitHub Copilot code review on pull requests, and existing auto-created rulesets have had those settings turned off.

GitHub covers stacked pull requests (now in public preview), a security incident involving an OpenAI test model accessing Hugging Face servers, and a pixel-art “Isometric NYC” project built with 3D tiles and image generation models.

John Edward covers a Microsoft Defender update that surfaces AI-generated Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management triage summaries directly in the Defender alert queue, helping SOC analysts and insider risk investigators triage alerts faster while keeping the full investigation workflow in Purview.

Mark Russinovich explains how he used AI-assisted coding to port the long-running Sysinternals ZoomIt tool from Windows to macOS in two days, including a walkthrough of ZoomIt’s core presentation features and a demo of the new Demo Mirror capability for sharing content while staying in PowerPoint Presenter View.

Allison announces a generally available GitHub Copilot enterprise control that lets owners allowlist or denylist Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers via managed settings, helping teams approve trusted MCP endpoints and block untrusted or non-compliant ones across supported Copilot clients.

Allison announces a GitHub organization setting that lets maintainers centrally limit how many open pull requests a user without write access can have at once, helping enforce consistent contribution policies across all repositories.

Yulia Turchin announces a Microsoft Fabric admin change that enables Item Recovery by default for tenants without an explicit setting, providing a built-in recovery window for supported item types and guidance on retention, restore workflows, and OneLake storage billing impact.

sbaynes outlines an Azure-native reference architecture for deploying Fireworks AI open-model inference on Azure AI Foundry, with guidance on moving from prototype to production while tracking latency, token usage, and cost. The post highlights optional platform components for caching, rate limiting, secrets management, and observability.

Jacklyn Carroll explains how slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app speed up common workflows like planning, pressure-testing designs, and delegating multi-step implementation work, with concrete examples you can paste into Copilot to get started.

Mason Torres announces the general availability of Windows Server 2016 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc, explaining how to onboard servers, enroll in ESUs through the Azure portal or Azure Policy, and use Azure services like Update Manager and guest configuration to manage patching and compliance.

goupadhy announces a preview opt-in setting for VNet data gateways in Microsoft Fabric: the modern evaluation engine. The post explains what workloads it applies to (Mashup evaluations), why it matters for refresh and DirectQuery performance, and what metrics and rollout practices to use when validating it in your environment.

James Montemagno gives a first look at using Kimi K3 (Moonshot’s open-weight model) inside GitHub Copilot in VS Code, focusing on what it enables for agentic coding and how developers can start trying it in their editor workflow.

GitHub hosts a “Rubber Duck Thursdays” coworking session focused on coding together, answering questions, and sharing updates about the GitHub platform and open source.

Walker Chabbott announces that the open-weight Kimi K3 model is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, including where it can be selected, how it’s billed under usage-based pricing, and what Copilot Business/Enterprise admins need to do to enable it.

Amaury Levé explains how Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP) reporting helps teams move from a failing CI build to actionable evidence, with inline annotations in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps-only history-based flaky/regression triage, crash-resilient TRX output, and multiple report formats for both humans and automation.

mk_sunitha introduces scheduled User Data Functions in Microsoft Fabric (Preview), showing how teams can run custom, parameterized business logic on a recurring cadence using the Fabric job scheduler, and then monitor outcomes and failures from the Fabric Monitoring Hub.

Ankit Kumar Honey explains how GitHub expanded Dependabot malware advisories from npm to eight package ecosystems by ingesting OpenSSF’s malicious-packages data into the GitHub Advisory Database, including the validation, normalization, deduplication, and safety controls used to keep auto-published advisories resilient.

Visual Studio Code highlights the SynthWave theme extension for VS Code, showing how to give the editor a retro “glow” look and pointing to the extension link for installation.

Strahinja Rodic explains the Azure SQL Managed Instance free offer and demonstrates how to create a free instance in the Azure portal, connect to it, restore a database, monitor the included credits, and upgrade to a paid tier when the offer expires.

Sameen Karim demonstrates GitHub’s stacked pull requests workflow, showing how to split large feature branches into smaller PR layers, work with stacks from the GitHub CLI using the gh-stack extension, and merge an entire stack efficiently while using Copilot to help generate tests.

Mike Hulme explains why Microsoft was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for AI-augmented code modernization tools, and outlines how GitHub Copilot modernization and Azure are positioned to assess, upgrade, and migrate legacy applications with agentic workflows while keeping developers in control.

Dan Hellem announces a small Azure Boards update that shows pull request annotations directly on work item cards, so teams can see code review activity and PR status without leaving the Kanban board or opening individual work items.

Eric van Wijk introduces the new Azure DevOps service connection, which lets pipelines authenticate to Azure DevOps using a Microsoft Entra workload identity (service principal or managed identity) instead of PATs or build session tokens, and shows where and how to use it across YAML, tasks, and scripts.

Fokko at Work demos selected new features in Visual Studio Code 1.132 that affect day-to-day Copilot Chat and editor workflows, including tracking session activity from the chat input, starting side chats with /btw, terminal output reflow, and dictation onboarding/customization, with notes on enterprise policy and plan-based availability.

GitHub takes a closer look at stacked pull requests and how they affect day-to-day developer workflow, especially around review, iteration, and landing changes safely.

Jatin Garg explains how to choose between Microsoft Foundry and PyRIT for AI red teaming, framing the decision around whether you’re testing a model in a managed Foundry/Azure OpenAI surface or attacking a full RAG/agent application with custom endpoints and orchestration.

Dona Mukherjee announces a public preview of Confidential Virtual Machines on Azure Local, explaining how hardware-backed memory encryption and attestation can protect data-in-use on customer-managed edge infrastructure, including how Azure Attestation and Azure Key Vault enable secure key release for sensitive workloads.

EldertGrootenboer explains why some .NET Framework WCF Relay listeners start failing against Azure Relay after TLS 1.0/1.1 retirement, and outlines practical fixes ranging from app config changes to code updates and machine-wide registry settings.

Bruno Capuano, Pranav Senthilnathan, and Tarek Mahmoud Sayed walk through MCP C# SDK 2.0 and what its stateless-first approach means for building .NET AI agents, including standardized HTTP support, multi round-trip requests, and compatibility considerations, plus an overview of Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents for scalable AI solutions.