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⚡️ Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) in AI Systems: Autonomous Machine Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is evolving at a rapid pace, with machine learning techniques becoming more sophisticated and efficient. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Azure Functions Cost Considerations and Optimization Azure Functions is a powerful serverless compute service that enables organizations to build event-driven applications with minimal infrastructure management. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Azure Regions: Interactive Map of Global Datacenters This Microsoft Azure Regions Interactive Map shows the locations of each of the Microsoft Azure cloud regions plotted on a map. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Unity CEO Announcement on Layoffs 80 Level received the text of a letter sent by Matthew Bromberg to Unity employees announcing the cuts and outlining the company's strategy for the future. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Microsoft Previews Copilot AI for Open-Source Eclipse IDE Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ New restrictions on package loading As Visual Studio transitions its core packages and services to an async loading/retrieval model, we've identified bugs in both the initial async implementation and the existing synchronous package loa... ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Securing DeepSeek and other AI systems with Microsoft Security  A successful AI transformation starts with a strong security foundation. With a rapid increase in AI development and adoption, organizations need visibility into their emerging AI apps and tools. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ New Features for Enhanced Razor Productivity! The Extract to Component refactoring and the Roslyn tokenizer are two new features designed to help improve your productivity in Razor files. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Database and AI: solutions for keeping embeddings updated In the previous article of this series, it was discussed how embeddings can be quickly created from data already in Azure SQL. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ The Empowered Customer with Richard Reukema How do customers take control of their data from merchants? Carl and Richard chat with Richard Reukema about his book The Empowered Customer. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Ships: 'Meet GitHub Copilot Free' New GitHub Copilot AI features range from AI-enhanced feature search to edits across files, new shortcuts and expansion of slash commands, along with much more. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Announcing Generative AI for Beginners – .NET Introducing a new practical course designed for the .NET community to explore the world of Generative AI. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Simplify your .NET data transfers with the new Azure Storage Data Movement library This post announces the new and improved Azure Storage Data Movement library for .NET. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Azure for mission-critical workloads in healthcare: EHR and beyond  In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, digital transformation is no longer a luxury but a necessity. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025  We’re always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ DocumentDB is Gaining Momentum in the Open-Source Database World In the short amount of time since we unveiled DocumentDB, our open-source document database platform powering the vCore based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and the feedback has been nothing short of ph... ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ dotInsights | February 2025 Did you know? The GC.KeepAlive() method in the .NET Framework is not used to prevent garbage collection of an object for the entire method scope, as you might think. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ External REST Endpoint Invocation in Azure SQL Managed Instance is now in Public Preview External REST Endpoint Invocation is available in Azure SQL Managed Instance with the Always-up-to-date update policy configured. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ First preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 1, marking the initial preview of our next update to Visual Studio. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!

⚡️ Announcing the end of support for Node.js 18.x in the Azure SDK for JavaScript After July 10, 2025, the Azure SDK for JavaScript will no longer support Node.js 18.x. Upgrade to an Active Node.js Long Term Support (LTS) version to stay secure and up-to-date. ♻️ Subscribe for free now!