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AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines

Starting today, public certificates issued from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) have a maximum validity period of 198 days, compared to previous validity period of 395 days. With this change, ACM-issued public certificates will be compliant with new Certification Authority Browser…

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Google Cloud Platform

GCP Release Notes: February 18, 2026

App Engine flexible environment .NET Feature Support for .NET 10 runtime is in General Availability. Bigtable Announcement New best practices are available for securing generative AI agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Google Cloud databases. This guide covers key…

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Microsoft Teams

New device settings experience in Teams on the web [MC1234663]

Message ID: MC1234663 [Introduction] We’re introducing an improved device settings experience in Microsoft Teams on the web, designed to make it easier for users to configure audio and video devices before or during meetings. This update consolidates speaker, microphone, and…

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Power BI

Tenant Default Change – Workspace Admins Will Be Allowed to Enable Monitoring [MC1234653]

Message ID: MC1234653 [Introduction] To help organizations gain better operational visibility into Microsoft Fabric workloads while maintaining centralized governance, Microsoft is enabling the tenant setting “Workspace admins can turn on monitoring for their workspaces” by default. This change reflects customer…

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Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest…

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Clean Rooms announces support for remote Apache Iceberg REST catalogs

AWS Clean Rooms now supports catalog federation for remote Iceberg catalogs. This capability simplifies clean room setup by providing direct, secure access to Iceberg tables stored in Amazon S3 and cataloged in remote catalogs—without requiring table metadata replication. Organizations can…

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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…