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Securing Microsoft Copilot

Purview DLP & Insider Risk with Alan Cox [Microsoft MVP]
The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence into the workplace has brought about a paradigm shift in how we handle data. While Microsoft Copilot offers unprecedented productivity gains, it also raises critical questions about data security, over-sharing, and corporate governance. In a recent episode of the
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How Microsoft Is Securing AI Agents in Entra - Conditional Access, Zero Trust & the "Block" Debate

Why Your AI Agent Has No Login Pattern
AI agents can make decisions and act faster than any human — which means your old identity security playbook no longer holds. In this episode of Entra Chat, [host name] sits down with Nikhil, a 10+ year Microsoft identity veteran from the Authentication Stack and Identity Protection team, to break down how Microsoft Entra, Conditional Access, Defender, …
Merill Fernando5 LIKES




I’m Hosting a Free Writing Workshop in LA, June 30th!

In Partnership with Microsoft. Omg!
Exciting announcement: I will be hosting a free newsletter-writing workshop in East Hollywood on June 30th, in partnership with Microsoft Surface!!!
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Clare Frances
wowwwwww yay
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Deb
If only I was in LA! What a treat







Microsoft Scout is not just another AI assistant

Built in 57 days on open-source foundations, it quietly redefines what a personal agent at work can actually do.
Something shifted this week. Not in the usual, incremental way that AI tools tend to improve, but in a way that made it genuinely difficult to focus on anything else. Microsoft Scout, announced at Microsoft Build and already available to frontier customers, is an agent that reads your Teams messages, opens your browser, runs Python scripts, schedules me…
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Josh Igoe
Very nice article. What I wonder is the cost... it will be free for now, then once we get going how much will compute be. It's useful no doubt! Cost benefit needs sorting
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Omar Shahine
Hey. Wanted to mention memory should persist across installs. Are you seeing something different.




OpenAI x Microsoft

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Quantum Zeitgeist Weekly Digest

Microsoft Surprises and QNT (Quantinuum) lists on the stock market
Welcome to this week’s quantum technology digest. This collection summarizes ten recent developments across the field, from hardware advancements to key business milestones and emerging security measures. The past week demonstrates continued and diverse progress in building practical quantum computers and preparing for a post-quantum world.
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Stop Building Fabric Like Snowflake or Databricks

Why Architecture Matters More Than Capacity Size in Microsoft Fabric
One of the most common reasons organizations fail to realize the promised cost savings of Microsoft Fabric has nothing to do with the platform itself. The problem is often the architecture.
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Microsoft Celebrates Pride While Making Bank From the Trump Administration

The software company, along with its subsidiary LinkedIn, is ostensibly going all in on Pride. But as they ditch DEI and LGBTQ hate speech protections, is it just pinkwashing?
Julius Shan remembers sitting at his desk last August and opening an email that caught him by surprise: “Please find attached the memo terminating your employment with Microsoft, effective immediately.”
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Bryce Johnson
While I understand feeling the need for corporate sincerity when it comes to assuring LGBTQ rights, I can't help but pragmatically, perhaps even cynically accept that our rights as a frequently maligned minority are always at high risk of erosion. It could be that Microsoft is simply trying to make money-- it could be that they are trying to play politics while sincerely maintaining a longstanding commitment to LGBTQ rights-- maybe there's elements of both. Either way, I am glad that in the face of enormous pressure they haven't abandoned their commitment to us altogether.
In the meanwhile, it sucks and is stressful, but we need to remember that in a world that is built by and for cishet people, we will probably always be on the underside of society. While we can and should fight for broader acceptance, the likelihood is that the road to it will be a very long one, with many backslides like we are experiencing under Trump, and truthfully may never be fully realized. A little grit, patience and radical acceptance as a community will help us go a long way toward weathering the orange storm.
Besides, I am not sure I *want* complete acceptance by society. So long as there's a power structure, there's a need for people to resist it-- and power is often built on the control of the deepest of human relationships and identities. Queerness by its nature serves as a tremendously powerful check on power.
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Jessica Johnson
Hypocrites! Microsoft I mean.