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Microsoft Azure Introduces Azure Integrated HSM: A Key Cache for Virtual Machines | Microsoft Community Hub Today we are excited to release the public preview support for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Virtual Machines. As announced last year at Ignite, Azure...

I demoed this at Ignite last year—now it's real. Every server gets a dedicated Hardware Security Module. This fundamentally changes how we secure connected systems. End-to-end hardware-protected keys is now the baseline, not the exception: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureCo...

US electric grids under pressure from energy-hungry data centers are changing strategy As Big Tech’s data centers continue to grow threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are considering bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power emergencies.

This is something to keep an eye on as demand from pop up data centers that provide no real value to the community (like crytoptomining) continue to proliferate faster than power production can come online.

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The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying.

Political violence has no place in this country and should never become the norm.

I’m sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.

Resharing for all the math majors out there!

For those asking, my American Revolution lecture course is free online here:

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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

YouTube video by Microsoft Developer Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich | BRK195

My Inside Azure Innovation session from Microsoft Build is available for on-demand viewing. See the world's first neural network optical computer, 10,000 containers launch in < 2 minutes, me play space invaders on task manager, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBo...

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Interesting article.
Interesting question.

I'll show up for this.

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.

Me: Hi wife, here are some flowers for V-day. I hope you like them.

Wife: [Takes one look] You got those at the grocery store?

Me: Ummm...Yes?

Wife: Oh good! They're really lovely but I don't want you spending eighty bucks on flowers for me. Grocery store flowers are fine!

Me: 💜💜

Hey @jackboxgames.com here's a new one for the #Dictionarium.

I worry about overpromoting, but screw it. KITEMASTER comes out at the end of May. I’m super proud of this one.

What else do y’all have coming?

Harlan Ellison’s Unfinished Business In 1973, the legendary science fiction author announced The Last Dangerous Visions. Fifty-one years later, it has finally appeared.

Reading a lot lately about the posthumous publication of Harlan Ellison's white whale, THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS, a project hitting shelves 50 years late. This is the best of the pieces I've read — an analysis of Harlan, a history of the project, a fan appreciation, and a tour of his wild home.

When your dauly driver is so heavy that you actually need to pay attention to weight limits on bridges and the like, it puts a different spin on things.

“We’ll lose a generation of scientists”: Yale braces for Trump’s NIH grant suspension President Trump directed federal science agencies to cancel all scheduled meetings, effectively suspending NIH research grants.

“We’ll lose a generation of scientists”:
Yale braces for Trump’s NIH grant suspension
Trump directed federal science agencies to cancel all scheduled meetings, effectively suspending NIH research grants

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Regex is too hard for even OpenAI o1: it thought for over three minutes and then produced regex that didn't work. Looks like regex is a good test for AGI.

wow the entwives have really fallen on hard times to be out here hustling like this

Learn about the risks of hallucination, jailbreaks and prompt injection and current mitigations in our ACM Queue paper:

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

Ok this is really funny.

I test every new frontier model’s alignment using Crescendo. Just tested o1 and succeeded easily on all the harmful tasks I test, like getting instructions for homemade ricin, writing a white nationalist manifesto, and role playing an AI that wants to destroy humanity:

Announcing General Availability: Windows Server Management enabled by Azure Arc | Microsoft Community Hub Windows Server Management enabled by Azure Arc offers customers with Windows Server licenses that have active Software Assurances or Windows Server licenses...

Did you know Windows Server Management with Azure Arc is now GA? And you have PaYG or SA licensing, it doesn't even cost! Azure Update Management, Change Tracking, Best Practices, all included! #MVPBuzz #MSIgnite #SysAdmin #AzureArc

Reminder that my standalone fantasy KITEMASTER comes out on April 22, and is available to pre-order from your local independent bookstore. (ISBN: 978-1647101596)

I'm super-proud and excited about this one.

And there are tons of other good books coming out for you to pre-order while you're at it.

Expanding Microsoft Copilot access in education Microsoft Copilot will be available to all faculty users & higher education students ages 18 & above. Learn about Copilot access in education.

Microsoft Copilot Access in Education

„GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 at no additional cost […] chat prompts and responses in Copilot are not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to them“

#blueLZ #lernenmitKI #MicrosoftEDU

'AI Granny' is happy to talk with phone scammers all day | TechCrunch On Thursday, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Called “dAIsy,” it mimics an older

An AI use case that I can get behind! techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/a...

I agree that it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. Sometimes, however, they look so ridiculous that a picture is necessary.