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Allison announces public preview support for server-to-server authentication in GitHub Copilot. GitHub Apps can use short-lived installation tokens to make SDK requests on behalf of an organization without user credentials. Usage is billed to the organization, with its model policies, budgets, spending controls, and app access controls applied.

Gloridel Morales announces Azure DevOps Server 26H2 RC, bringing an updated Azure Boards interface, pipeline debugging improvements, and a new Test Run Hub. The release supports direct upgrades and a later upgrade to RTW, while Team Foundation Server 2017 extended support ends on January 12, 2027.

dotnet demonstrates how to build an agentic AI companion using the GitHub Copilot SDK, a .NET and Aspire backend, and an M5Stack StackChan robot. The session explores agent behaviors and tool use, then connects the agent to the robot’s display and movements.

dotnet demonstrates how to build a StackChan robot's AI brain using a .NET backend orchestrated with Aspire. The session connects the backend to the physical desk robot, adds services and local observability, and brings the pieces together into an end-to-end interaction.

dotnet demonstrates how to bring an M5Stack StackChan desk robot to life by programming its expressions and movements and connecting it to a .NET backend and dashboard. This hands-on session explores how hardware and .NET services work together to create a first end-to-end interaction with a physical AI companion.

GitHub takes viewers inside Pimoroni’s factory to explore how the hackable GitHub Universe 2026 badge is manufactured. The video follows stencil printing, component placement, and solder reflow, and covers the handheld console’s capacitive touch controls, auto-flipping interface sensors, and custom firmware developed with GitHub Copilot.

Naorbt introduces generally available authoring capabilities for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards. Design Tiles provide context and structure, multi-KPI displays related metrics from one query, and configurable KPI styles show values against thresholds and targets. The article explains how to combine these features into readable operational dashboards.

John Edward explains the upcoming Move to Quarantine action in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2. The article covers supported mailbox locations, required permissions, quarantine policies, and partial failures, helping security teams prepare for the worldwide rollout scheduled from November through December 2026.

Mark Downie outlines the October Visual Studio 2026 update, including comparisons between historical commits and working trees, bulk merge conflict resolution, and a refreshed GitHub Copilot Chat experience. The update also adds opt-in preservation of unsaved work, keyboard-based tab reordering, and searchable Fonts and Colors settings with inline previews.

Daniel Roth outlines Infragistics’ contributions to Blazor, including more than 50 free, MIT-licensed controls and new analyzers merged into ASP.NET Core for .NET 11. He also covers component setup requirements, a scaffolder under review, and a .NET skill that helps AI coding assistants configure Ignite UI applications.

Bruno Van Thournout's Blog explains how .NET 11 Runtime Async replaces compiler-generated state machines with runtime-managed suspension and resumption. The article covers opt-in configuration, cleaner live stack traces, allocation benchmarks, and compatibility checks, while highlighting slower exception paths and why the preview feature should stay out of production defaults.

Visual Studio Code shows how to work with PostgreSQL directly in the editor. The video covers connecting to a database, exploring its tables, and writing SQL without switching to a separate database tool.

goupadhy outlines the October 2026 on-premises data gateway release for Microsoft Fabric, including accessibility fixes, preserved Power Query settings, and improved diagnostics. The update also introduces preview administration APIs for tenant-wide connection control and provides guidance for testing releases and upgrading production gateway clusters safely.

RamyaSharma describes how the Microsoft Intune team used GitHub Copilot modernization to migrate an enrollment service to .NET 8. Engineer-owned plans, progress records, and dependency mappings preserved context across sessions, reduced repeated work, and kept changes reviewable, while internal library mappings and deployment decisions remained manual.

Karthik Uthaman explains how Azure Front Door engineers distinguish legitimate traffic surges from DDoS attacks. Using whiteboard examples, he explores resource-based defenses, traffic contributors in multi-tenant services, and how threat intelligence and JA4 client fingerprints provide signals beyond per-IP rate limiting while helping protect legitimate users.

Christoph Berlin explains how manufacturers can reuse one AI agent across cloud, edge, and fully disconnected environments. Building on a root cause example, he describes shared data contracts, guardrails, and repeatable blueprints that support deployment across many sites, with agent instances managed through a single interface.

praveensri benchmarks Hybrid Logic Apps using SQL Server 2025 for workflow state on a shared on-premises host. The analysis compares throughput, execution latency, database I/O, and lock waiting across two tests, explaining why low CPU usage and faster workflow completion do not establish storage headroom or product-wide capacity.

Visual Studio Code highlights a small celebratory interaction: hitting Done cues confetti. This short focuses on a visual detail in the coding environment rather than a broader technical walkthrough.

Khalid Abuhakmeh compares practical ways to iterate C# lists, including indexed loops, safe removal, spans, and asynchronous processing. Benchmarks on .NET 10 and .NET 11 show where performance differs, while the examples explain when readability, allocation costs, and collection safety should guide your choice.

Allison announces general availability of assisted permissions in GitHub Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and Visual Studio Code. A language model evaluates command, file-path, and URL requests, automatically allowing those classified as clearly safe. Enterprise administrators can control available permission modes and set defaults for new sessions.

Alper explains how Microsoft Fabric’s preview React visualization libraries support analytics apps built with AI coding agents. Using Vega-Lite specifications and shared data, theming, and interaction contracts, the components provide reusable charts and grids with formatting, scrolling, tooltips, and consistent styling rather than requiring each app to recreate these behaviors.

Louis Erbkamm shares how Arnis converts real-world geographic coordinates into playable Minecraft worlds using OpenStreetMap data. The video explores the project's international contributor community and how its sole maintainer uses GitHub Copilot to triage bug reports, review pull requests, and keep the project moving.

Allison announces GPT-6.1 Terra’s general availability in GitHub Copilot for everyday agentic coding and terminal tasks. The model uses provider list pricing under usage-based billing, with gradual rollout across supported clients. Business and Enterprise administrators can control access through model policies and default enablement settings.

Wuyi_Weng walks through running Qwen3.8-27B locally on a 64 GB Lenovo laptop using vLLM, speculative decoding, and OpenCode. Benchmarks and a three-hour coding session show how memory allocation and request concurrency affect performance, while Azure Monitor and Grafana track inference, GPU usage, and operational limits.

sbaynes describes how Microsoft combines AI agents, testing, static analysis, and formal verification to transform large codebases. The article covers Windows toolchain migration, C/C++ modernization into Rust, and specification-driven validation, explaining how small expert teams review shared knowledge and system properties rather than every generated change.

sbaynes describes using the Microsoft Discovery app to adapt insect-monitoring systems for the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest that spreads citrus greening disease. The case study covers grounded AI agents, experimental design, permitting, and synthetic biometric data for preliminary edge classifiers, with scientists reviewing decisions throughout the workflow.

Rena Liu introduces Azure AI Speech LLM 09-2026, adding 25 languages and faster multilingual transcription. The announcement covers recognition improvements, locale selection, phrase lists, and REST API configuration, with automatic service-side deployment requiring no customer action.

Sverre Brandsberg Dahl describes how SLB agile reservoir modeling connects with Azure Data Manager for Energy to run reservoir ensembles at cloud scale. The architecture combines parallel simulation, shared Azure Files storage, OSDU-aligned data services, and Microsoft Entra ID access controls to keep modeling workflows connected to governed corporate data.

Mariyaali introduces preview support for Fabric Data Warehouse in workspace monitoring. Completed distributed queries flow into a workspace-scoped KQL database, where administrators can compare performance, investigate failures, and build dashboards. Shared query identifiers connect workspace telemetry to Query Insights for deeper investigation within the affected warehouse.

FaizaanMerchant explains how Azure Arc connects on-premises Windows and Linux servers to Azure SRE Agent without migrating workloads. The guide outlines the telemetry foundation, approval controls, and rollout steps, with examples covering SQL Server crash diagnosis, patch planning, inventory drift, and configuration assessment.

Cynthia Zanoni and Pooja Yarabothu explain how Microsoft’s PostgreSQL extension brings database exploration, SQL editing, and troubleshooting into VS Code. They show how GitHub Copilot can help interpret schemas and query plans, while emphasizing result verification and careful review of performance recommendations before making changes.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates a PostgreSQL performance troubleshooting workflow, tracing an application slowdown from initial signals to database workload and query evidence. The episode covers Azure Advisor guidance, controlled actions, result verification, and a Database Agent experience that brings issue context and recommendations together while retaining review and approval.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates how the PostgreSQL extension and GitHub Copilot help you explore an unfamiliar database. The episode covers inspecting schemas, tables, views, and functions, visualizing relationships, asking context-aware questions in Copilot Chat, and checking answers against the database to understand its data model.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates a PostgreSQL workflow combining the PostgreSQL extension’s IntelliSense and database context with GitHub Copilot. The video covers drafting, explaining, analyzing, and improving SQL queries, then running them, inspecting results, and exporting data without leaving the editor, while keeping developers in control of the final queries.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates how to bring PostgreSQL workflows into the editor using Microsoft’s PostgreSQL extension. Learn to install the extension, connect to a PostgreSQL database on Azure with Microsoft Entra ID, save connection profiles, and explore database objects without switching tools.

Josef Sin explains what Azure DevOps users should check following the PHP2Shell disclosures. Azure DevOps Services and Server do not use PHP to handle customer requests, but pipeline workloads, agent hosts, containers, and deployed applications may require runtime patches. The guidance distinguishes Microsoft-managed updates from fixes customers must apply themselves.

Jason Chlus and Mads Kristensen explain how Visual Studio 2026 version 18.11 supports standalone Markdown investigation notes and restores unfinished work through the opt-in Hot Exit preview. The walkthrough covers creating notes without a project, enabling session preservation, and understanding why restored edits are not a substitute for saving files.

John Savill examines why AI agents fail beyond the model itself, covering unclear goals, bad context, tool misfires, reasoning errors and lost state. He also discusses hijacking, excessive privileges, limited visibility and an improvement loop for understanding and addressing failures.

Welcome to this week's AI roundup, covering Azure Local's sovereign AI announcements, the LiteLLM supply chain compromise, and Microsoft's controls for agent identity and permissions. Foundry's browser automation tool reaches general availability, while upcoming Foundry workflow and Fabric integration retirements give teams migration deadlines to plan around. We also examine agent development, retrieval, and evaluation examples, alongside research that pairs AI assistance with human oversight and explicit verification, distinguishing available capabilities from previews and planned releases.

Hidde de Smet's Blog compares Bicep and Terraform for Azure, focusing on resource ownership rather than syntax preferences. The guide explains deletion behavior, deployment previews, ARM API coverage, module defaults, and existing-resource adoption, then outlines a disposable pilot for testing each tool against your team's infrastructure requirements.