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2 NEW ASR rules hit GA for Defender for Endpoint 🔥
Microsoft has introduced two new Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules designed to address common attacker techniques that often bypass traditional defenses. These rules focus on preventing machine reboots into Safe Mode—where many security controls are limited—and blocking the use of copied or impersonated Windows system tools commonly leveraged in priv…
Entra 🆔 News #98 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about Entra Agent ID, single sign-on to Linux and more!
👋 Hello! Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest Microsoft Entra news from around the globe 🌍.
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Entra 🆔 News #99 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about linkable identifiers in Entra Sign in logs going GA, public preview of TLS inspection in Entra Internet Access, decommissioning Active Directory and more!
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍
Entra 🆔 News #97 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about GA of Apple Identity Provider in Entra External ID and new capabilities available to determine the approval requirements for an access package.
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
Decommissioning On-Prem AD: Lessons Learned from We Are Era's Successful Migration
How does one go about shutting down active directory? Find out in today's episode with Tobias Binkert from We Are Era and Yusuke Kodama from Microsoft
Tobias Binkert, Head of IT at We Are Era, and Yusuke Kodama, Product Manager at Microsoft (who specialises in cloud-first identity, among many other things), join us to discuss We Are Era’s successful migration from on-premises Active Directory to a fully cloud-native Microsoft Entra ID environment.
This was a nice feel good story but for organizations with dependencies on services for DNS, DHCP and legacy applications as well as having computers joined to AD this story only proves that the journey is that much harder for complex and legacy organizations. It does give a lot to look forward to if you can get past some of the major humps.
Entra 🆔 News #96 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about changes to Authenticator app password autofill, Global Secure Access deployment logs, and more!
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
Microsoft & The Open Agentic Web
In the Age of Agents, Microsoft Wants to Be the Operating System of Everything.
At Build 2025, Microsoft made its thesis loud and clear: the next computing paradigm won’t be app-based. Or even cloud-based. It will be agentic.
This reminds me, a few months ago when I mentioned that the Agentic era does rhyme with that of the web era & then the App era.
There will be individual agents, midsized agents and enterprise Agentic orchestration.
IMHO, MS is genuinely replacing Google end to end in the next generation of the tech stack.
The 750 Billion Cloud Titans - How AI Transformed "Megatrons"
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google's Infrastructure Battle
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Microsoft: Dominating Cloud, AI, and Enterprise Software
Deep Dive into $MSFT: Valuation, Segment Growth, Key Metrics, Profitability, Expenses, Product Launches, Customer Acquisition, Financial Stability, SBC/Revenue, and Shareholder Dilution.
Microsoft: Company overview
Newzoo: Top 20 PC/Console Games by Revenue and MAU (April'25)
This is a great month for Microsoft.
Newzoo tracks the markets of the US, UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, and France.
Microsoft Build 2025 updates for .NET developers
Ted's Tech, May 23rd 2025
Microsoft Build 2025 has wrapped up and I’ve done my best to find something, anything, that might be of interest to .NET/C# developers. It really was tough.
Tremors in the Job Market: Something is shifting
Burberry, Microsoft and Gymshark all announce redundancies.
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Kuwait joins $100 billion AI infrastructure partnership
BlackRock-Microsoft AI investment coalition gains Kuwaiti Backing
#Kuwait #UAE #US #investment - Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund Kuwait Investment Authority has joined the $100 billion AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) as the first non-founder financial anchor investor, strengthening the global coalition between US asset manager
How Microsoft Became A Hub For Israeli Intelligence
Last week Microsoft admitted providing large amounts of AI and cloud storage services to Israel during its genocide of Gaza, but said an internal investigation found no evidence the IDF “used these services to target or harm Palestinians.”
Over three decades ago I switched to using only freely licensed software. All of my computers run on GNU/Linux. (Freely licensed software means free as in right to use, inspect, and distribute, not free as in beer.)
For privacy it has been long obvious that Microsoft does not place a high priority on preserving yours.
But cool games run on WIndows!
Now it is obvious that the price for cool games is too damn high. Killing defenseless residents of an open air prison is morally repugnant. Stop using Microsoft products which do not respect either your freedom or sense of moral justice.
I have long been a member of the Free Software Foundation, https://www.fsf.org. I encourage all to visit and to switch to software freedom.
“Far from being harmless, these people are the architects of harm.” Their creations are a disgusting waste of human creativity and intelligence. It is very well-documented, as you lay out, that many of the tech leaders in “startup nation” make their bones in elite units. Here is the state of Israel bragging about the pipeline https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/our-soldiers/startup-soldiers-from-the-idf-to-high-tech-success/ Independent of the details of the specific surveillance and weapons systems they create, both programmers and investors make key connections and gain experience in an apartheid system propped up by force.
These military opportunities are not available to Palestinian citizens of Israel, and of course not to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, or the diaspora. Moreover, these opportunities wouldn’t exist without a massive military. No Israeli supremacy = no requirement for Israeli Jewish military = no special opportunities for a portion of the population = innovation driven by civilian needs, rather than ‘defense.’
Here is a 10-minute podcast from the WSJ, again lauding Unit 8200’s ‘illustrious’ alums. https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/this-israeli-army-unit-has-become-an-incubator-for-tech-startups/ This explores links to Microsoft and others https://www.newarab.com/news/how-us-tech-giants-armed-israel-ai-sparking-warfare-debate Here, from “If I die” poet Refaat Alareer is a disappointed review of https://electronicintifada.net/content/spyware-expose-lets-israel-hook/38161 of Pegasus. There are many more explorations of how this unit works to seed tech startups.
Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails
After days of disruption by pro-Palestine activists at its Build developer conference, No Azure for Apartheid said, Microsoft made it impossible to send emails containing "Palestine" or "Gaza."
Microsoft has quietly implemented a policy blocking employee emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” or “genocide” on its internal Exchange servers, according to No Azure for Apartheid, a group of pro-Palestine Microsoft employees. The automated filter, which silently prevents such emails from reaching r…
How about "Zionist entity" or "martyr" or "Free Speech" or "1st Amendment"?
Perhaps Microsoft wishes to be considered complicit in future Nuremberg trials on this genocide?
More reason to have stricter control and guard rails over these “tech-bros”. This reflects really bad on Microsoft. Including Bill Gates, his philanthropic history in helping get children vaccinated has no merit now. If he as one of the major owners/founder of Microsoft is happy to support this in the business. Even knowing that he's not part of the day to day running of the business, but he still has massive sway and pull in what happens at Microsoft. The current CEO Jay Parikh cares more about money and business interest than being a socially just/moral company. Poor form Microsoft. Poor Form. And super complicit. Also if Microsoft has nothing to hide than please Microsoft release your “internal investigation report” that found Microsoft’s operations did not cause harm to civilians in Gaza. I will bet significant money they will never release that report to the public. They know it will never pass public scrutiny.
How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence
By ¡Do Not Panic! - May 23, 2025
8 Things You Need To Know About Agentic Web
we discuss Microsoft strategy unveiled through their recent announcement at Microsoft Build
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When A Tesla Looks Like an Attacker
A case study in why anomaly detection isn't enough
I want to walk through a case where traditional anomaly detection and UEBA systems fall short.
UPDATE: Microsoft Purview pricing options for protecting AI apps and agents
AI is transforming how we work—and how we govern and protect data.
Securing the Keys to the Kingdom: Ensuring MFA for Microsoft Entra Privileged Roles with PowerShell
Ensuring MFA for Microsoft Entra Privileged Roles with PowerShell
Welcome to this practical guide focused on a cornerstone of identity security:
Is Microsoft Stretching Too Far Or Just Getting Started?
Microsoft just made another big move in its ongoing quest to be a leader in the AI race. The company recently announced a new lineup of Surface devices powered by its custom-built AI chips and introduced the long-awaited Copilot+ PCs. Essentially, the AI-native laptops are built from the ground up.
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