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R2 – R2 Data Catalog now supports automatic snapshot expiration

R2 Data Catalog now supports automatic snapshot expiration for Apache Iceberg tables. In Apache Iceberg, a snapshot is metadata that represents the state of a table at a given point in time. Every mutation creates a new snapshot which enable…

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Google Cloud Platform

GCP Release Notes: December 17, 2025

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Feature You can now use Gemini 3.0 Flash (Preview) when you call generative AI functions in AlloyDB, such as AI.GENERATE. Use the model name gemini-3-flash-preview. For more information, see Use Gemini 3.0 models. Feature You can build…

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support

Today, AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded to Australia (Sydney) Region, and now supports AS2805 functionality. This expansion represents the service's thirteenth AWS Region worldwide. With AS2805 capabilities customers can migrate more payment workloads to AWS while maintaining operability with other…

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Amazon Web Services

Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn…

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Exchange Online Microsoft 365 apps

(Updated) New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Sharing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files through email [MC882252]

Message ID: MC882252 (Updated) Updated December 17, 2025: After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.Coming soon to new Microsoft Outlook: Users will be able to share Microsoft…

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Amazon Web Services

AWS announces enhanced custom line item controls for AWS Billing Conductor

Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor customers gain greater flexibility when using custom line items. Customers can now create service-specific custom line items scoped at either one AWS service or to a set of selected AWS service and can choose how…

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Microsoft Teams Pauses Its Minimized Meeting Rollout in July on (Updated) Microsoft Teams: New search experience for cloud files in the file attach picker [MC1318124]9 July 2026
[…] Cloud file search in the attach picker. Users can now search for OneDrive and SharePoint files directly inside the…
Microsoft Teams Pauses Its Minimized Meeting Rollout in July on MC1419802: Microsoft Teams Adds Speaker-Focused Layout for Sharing Content in Events9 July 2026
[…] Speaker focused layout for Teams events. Organizers using the “Manage what attendees see” experience now see a new Speaker…
Nieuwsradar EdTech – 2 jul 2026 - De Leertechnoloog on (Updated) Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot to become generally available [MC1319212]2 July 2026
[…] Microsoft 365 Copilot Learning Agent algemeen beschikbaar: AI-leercoach voor medewerkers in de werkp… […]
Mike on Anthropic Claude Sonnet is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot [MC1247880]17 April 2026
Really interesting update. It feels like the bigger story here is not just that another model has been added, but…
Mike on Copilot entry point changes in Excel [MC1282571]17 April 2026
This is a helpful breakdown of what looks like a small UX change on the surface but has very real…

MC1323266: Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Power BI Data Grounding for User Questions

MC1280564: Microsoft Purview Pauses Migration Tool for Moving Classic Glossary Terms to Unified Catalog

MC1319216: Microsoft Teams Adds In-Meeting Toggle to Control Meeting AI (Copilot, Facilitator, Recap)

MC1422061: Microsoft Entra ID Retires Custom Controls in Conditional Access and Shifts to External MFA

MC1422054: Microsoft Planner Adds Task Details Side Pane for Faster Editing

MC1421966: Outlook Mobile Adds Option to Set and Edit Work Location from Calendar

MC1422057: Microsoft Teams Mobile Calendar Requires Updated EWS Allow List Configuration in Exchange Online

MC1421920: Microsoft Retires Surveys Agent and Moves Copilot Experience to Forms

MC1401303: Microsoft Teams Adds Events Templates with Optimize for Large Audience Option and Policy-Based Controls

MC1422058: Copilot Dashboard Adds Viva Pulse Survey Insights for Adoption and Engagement Analysis

R2 – R2 Data Catalog now supports automatic snapshot expiration

GCP Release Notes: December 17, 2025

AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support

Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances

(Updated) New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Sharing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files through email [MC882252]

AWS announces enhanced custom line item controls for AWS Billing Conductor

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