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Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). With a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz, Hpc8a instances deliver…

Modern Workspace Pro 14 March 2026No Comments

Amazon Web Services

AWS Firewall Manager launches in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

AWS Firewall Manager announces that it is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS Firewall Manager helps cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and managing rules.…

Modern Workspace Pro 14 March 2026No Comments

Microsoft 365 suite

(Updated) Outlook: retiring “Contact Masking” (hide suggested recipients) – March 31, 2026 [MC1234566]

Message ID: MC1234566 (Updated) Updated March 13, 2026: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. [What’s changing] In Outlook, users can hide a suggested recipient while addressing an email. For example, selecting the X next to a name…

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Copilot extensibility: Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents model upgrade to GPT‑5.2 [MC1251203]

Message ID: MC1251203 [Introduction]Microsoft 365 Copilot Declarative Agents are being upgraded to the GPT‑5.2 model. This update improves quality and reliability for agent scenarios such as reasoning, multi‑step workflows, tool calling, structured output generation, and document analysis. As with GPT‑5.1,…

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Microsoft Entra

(Update)Microsoft Entra ID: General Availability of passkey profiles and migration for existing Passkeys (FIDO2) tenants [MC1221452]

Message ID: MC1221452 (Updated) Updated March 13, 2026: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience.[Introduction]Starting in March 2026, Microsoft Entra ID will introduce passkey profiles and synced passkeys to General Availability (GA). This update allows administrators to…

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Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Engage | Email sender domain migration from @yammer.com to @engage.mail.microsoft [MC1251200]

Message ID: MC1251200 [Introduction]As part of the final phase of the Viva Engage rebranding, we’re updating the email sender domains used for Viva Engage communications. This change ensures a consistent and secure brand experience across all surfaces and completes the…

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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…
AI Logo Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 14, 202617 February 2026
It’s exciting to see Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR updates rolling out globally. I’m curious if there are any significant…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 13, 202615 February 2026
Security bulletins like the one for CVE-2025-13292 are always a bit concerning, but it’s reassuring to know Google is actively…
Nano Banana AI on GCP Release Notes: February 12, 202614 February 2026
This migration tool seems like a great step for those looking to modernize their infrastructure. Being able to move App…