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⚡️ Rider 2025.2 EAP 7 Adds New Debugging Features for Games Rider 2025.2 EAP 7 brings updates for game debugging with changes that help manage low-level exception messages. The new features work with engines like Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Keeping Terraform State Safe in Azure Blob Storage If a team loses its Terraform state file or if the .tfstate is not encrypted or is public, everything in the cloud can be at risk. A leak or loss of this file can lead to a serious security problem for the whole group. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Copilot in Visual Studio Gets Smarter Default Model Copilot in Visual Studio now uses GPT-4.1 as its default model instead of GPT-4o. Tests show faster replies, better suggestions, and improved work speed. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Azure DevOps Sign-In Does Not Need ARM Token Azure DevOps has stopped using the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) resource when people sign in or refresh access tokens. Azure DevOps tokens no longer need ARM, so administrators do not have to let users bypass ARM-based Conditional Access policies. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Handling Stacked Branches in Git The text explains how to work with stacked branches in git, including what to do when one stacked branch is merged and how to manage updates to the main branch. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ EF Core Query Optimization Steps A slow EF Core query on Postgres was made much faster by filtering rows, reducing JOINs, picking only needed columns, and cutting requests. Other steps included avoiding too many sub queries and measuring before making changes. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Microsoft to Show New Developer Workflows at VSLive! Conference Mads Kristensen from Microsoft will show new workflows that have not been shown to the public before. The event will take place at the VSLive! developer conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond from August 4 to 8. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Using AI for Better Teamwork: Insights from Yina Arenas Yina Arenas, Vice President of Product at Azure AI Foundry, shares ideas on using AI to improve how people from different parts of a company work together. She leads efforts to help developers shape new ways of working with AI. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ GitHub Copilot for Azure Adds Agent Mode GitHub Copilot for Azure has launched with a new Agent Mode after first appearing at Ignite 2024 as a private preview. It now works as an independent operator for DevOps tasks. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Microsoft Named Leader in Serverless Development Platforms Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave report for Serverless Development Platforms for Q2 2025. This report looks at innovation, wide use, and real-world results with Serverless Compute on Azure. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ VS Live! Redmond 2025 Keynote Announcement The main speaker for VS Live! Redmond 2025 has been announced. The event will take place from August 4 to 8 at the Microsoft Conference Center and aims to bring developers and toolmakers together for hands-on learning. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ How to Stop Windows App Screen Capture Some Windows programs show private data. You can stop Windows from taking and saving screenshots of your app by using SetWindowDisplayAffinity with the WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE flag. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Refactoring Song Recommendations with F# Combinators This article is part of a series about different ways to design with functional programming. It shows how F# combinators can be used to handle song recommendations by working with tasks in a sequence. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ F# Weekly #25, 2025 – 7 Reasons F# Sucks This issue of F# Weekly lists seven reasons why some people do not like F#. The newsletter was published as the 25th issue in 2025. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Microsoft Made Quantum Computers More Accurate: Errors Decreased by a Thousand Times Microsoft has announced a family of new four-dimensional geometric codes that provide a significant improvement in the accuracy of quantum computing. These codes require up to five times fewer physical qubits to create logical ones, support one-time error correction, and achieve error reduction of up to 10⁻⁶, accelerating the approach to a practical quantum advantage. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ IDC Study Finds 306% ROI Using Ubuntu Linux on Azure An IDC study reports that using Ubuntu Linux on Azure gave users a 306% return on investment over three years. Participants said Azure made their Ubuntu tasks work better and helped with new technology. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Native Vector Type Now Available in Azure SQL Native vector support in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance will reach General Availability this summer. The new VECTOR data type lets users create, store, and search for high-dimensional vector embeddings inside their database. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ DCsv2-Series Azure VMs Retirement in 2026 Microsoft Azure will retire DCsv2-series virtual machines on June 30, 2026. These VMs are used for Intel SGX-based confidential computing and will not be available after that date. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Microsoft Launches New Azure L-series v4 Storage-Optimized VMs In June 2025, Microsoft made three new Azure virtual machine families under the L-series v4 generally available. These VMs have local NVMe SSD storage up to 23 TB, higher CPU, better network and remote storage speeds, and use the new Azure Boost SSDs and platform. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Azure Site Recovery Adds Support for Trusted Launch VMs Azure Site Recovery now works with Trusted Launch virtual machines. Trusted Launch helps guard Azure Gen2 VMs from malware like rootkits and bootkits by using Secure Boot, virtual Trusted Platform Module, and measured boot. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!