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GitHub hosts a Rubber Duck Thursday livestream AMA, inviting developers to connect with the GitHub team and stay up to date through GitHub’s official channels.

Fokko at Work explains how to cut GitHub Copilot token usage in Visual Studio Code after the shift to usage-based billing, sharing five practical tweaks that reduce AI credit consumption without sacrificing output quality.

Authorised Territory demonstrates how to build a .NET agent that generates an answer, has a second model judge it against criteria, and retries automatically until it passes or hits an iteration limit, using Microsoft Agent Framework with local models running in Ollama.

Allison summarizes what’s new in CodeQL 2.26.3, including improved GitHub Actions security queries and expanded JavaScript/TypeScript modeling (with Vue and Vue Router support), plus smaller modeling updates for C/C++ and Ruby that reduce false positives and improve alert accuracy.

SupriyaKashyap explains the generally available billing persona model for PowerTable within Fabric Planning in Fabric IQ, including how Viewer, Stakeholder, and Planner roles are assigned dynamically per session and how each role maps to 30-day session metering and capacity consumption attribution.

Sumiran23 announces the general availability of Customer-Managed Key (CMK) REST APIs for Microsoft Fabric workspaces, enabling teams to programmatically assign, inspect, rotate, and reset workspace encryption using keys stored in Azure Key Vault, with tenant-wide visibility for governance and auditing.

goupadhy explains how to choose the right connectivity pattern for Microsoft Fabric data integration workloads, focusing on when to use VNet data gateway, On-premises Data Gateway (standard mode), or direct cloud connections based on where your data sources live and whether private network boundaries must be crossed.

Christopher Harrison explains how to use the GitHub Copilot app’s My work pane to keep pull requests, issues, and Copilot agent sessions organized, including built-in views, custom filters, and ways to start new sessions directly from work items.

Ran Rosin summarizes why Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Frost Radar positions Microsoft as a leader in cloud workload protection, and uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to illustrate the shift from pre-deployment scanning to runtime security that connects posture, identity, workload telemetry, and SOC response across multi-cloud and AI workloads.

Sajeetharan Sinnathurai explains how recent Azure Cosmos DB developer tooling updates bring GitHub Copilot into the VS Code Query Editor with schema-aware query generation, consent-based schema sampling and execution, optional MCP support via Cosmos DB Shell, and local/CI testing using the Cosmos DB Emulator.

dotnet discusses how .NET MAUI development is changing in 2026, focusing on AI-assisted workflows and how to customize GitHub Copilot for mobile and desktop app development, alongside team-driven productivity enhancements across building, testing, design, and release.

dotnet outlines the future direction of ASP.NET Core and Blazor in .NET 11, focusing on the themes and priorities shaping upcoming web development capabilities on the platform.

Microsoft Developer explains how Azure SQL Hyperscale’s architecture supports elastic scaling, predictable performance, and cost-efficient operation while staying SQL Server compatible, and shows how to build modern SQL-based apps using JSON APIs, REST-style data access, vector search, and SQL MCP for AI agent integration.

Microsoft Developer presents a demo-heavy session showing how to build AI applications securely on top of SQL and Microsoft’s data platforms, from Azure to Microsoft Fabric, with practical examples developers can reuse.

misha-bansal announces GA for two Azure Virtual Machines CPU configuration features: disabling SMT/Hyper-Threading and choosing constrained vCPU counts per VM size. The post explains where the options apply, what performance and licensing scenarios they target, and how billing works for these settings.

John Savill explains what an AI “harness” is and why it matters when working with large language models, focusing on how models behave (including their lack of native memory) and how the harness provides the surrounding logic and context needed to make an LLM useful in real applications.

GitHub kicks off season 2 of The GitHub Podcast with new co-hosts and a recap of standout season 1 moments, including discussions on Electron performance, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and common maintainer pain points, plus a round of weekly open source project recommendations.

Bill Ticehurst walks through installing the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) across Windows, macOS, and Linux, including the VS Code extension, Python packages, virtual environments, Jupyter support, and optional components like QDK Chemistry so you can start building and testing quantum applications.

Allison announces a new Trends tab in the organization-level GitHub Code Quality dashboard, letting teams track open findings over time and identify which repositories are improving or need attention.

The Visual Studio Code Team shares the VS Code 1.135 Insiders release notes page, with links to the commit log and closed issues for tracking progress as features land in the Insiders build.

Rajasekharvemula outlines a practical approach to deploying an Azure Landing Zone with a repeatable pipeline using Azure DevOps and Terraform, covering Git workflow, CI validation, environment promotion, governance via Azure Policy, identity/RBAC automation, monitoring setup, and Terraform state management in Azure Storage.

Chris Noring explains how to govern GitHub Copilot spend in an enterprise by separating seat assignment, cost-center attribution, included AI credit boundaries, paid-usage budgets, and per-user limits. The article walks through a practical end-to-end model with two cost centers (Business and Developers) and shows how to avoid common misunderstandings.

Bruno Capuano and Joshua Yue discuss routing and failover patterns for Microsoft.Extensions.AI, explaining the design decisions behind a resiliency approach Joshua built at Microsoft and how .NET teams can apply it to keep AI features running when a model or provider becomes unavailable.

Allison announces enterprise managed settings for GitHub Copilot for JetBrains, giving admins centralized controls over plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry configuration, and Copilot agent permission modes across an enterprise Copilot plan.

artigulwadi announces an August 2026 Azure Copilot update that lets customers invoke specialized Azure Copilot agents directly (instead of starting from a single general chat), with new admin controls for enabling agents per tenant and clarified pricing for the agent portfolio.

Allison announces new GitHub Enterprise controls for incident response that let admins revoke or deauthorize credentials by token type (PATs, SSH keys, OAuth tokens, and GitHub App user tokens), with UI and REST API support plus audit logging and user notifications.

Visual Studio Code highlights an “auto-reload” tip aimed at speeding up the edit-refresh loop when working on web content like HTML.

lily-ma explains how to extend Azure SRE Agent with MCP servers by hosting them in Azure Connector Namespace, then wiring them into the agent’s connector experience. The post includes an end-to-end example using Azure Developer CLI (azd), managed identity auth, and access policies to connect a hosted SQL MCP server.

Teodora Sutilovic outlines what’s new in the small form factor infrastructure preview (version 2607) for Azure Local, including multi-NIC and extra disk support modeled in Azure Resource Manager, Just-in-Time access via Entra PIM with SSH certificates, and safer OS updates using an A/B image-swap rollback model.

Microsoft Defender Experts and Microsoft Security Research break down how MacSync Stealer rotates domains while keeping consistent request and execution patterns, and show how to hunt the campaign using durable behavioral pivots across endpoint and network telemetry.

VMRoman announces a preview update to Microsoft Fabric’s data agent: visual answers in conversations now render using Fabric Visuals (the same visualization foundation used across Fabric). The post explains what changed, why consistent visuals matter, which prompts trigger charts, and the currently supported chart types and data sources.

dotnet presents a practical session on modernizing legacy .NET applications using Visual Studio 2026 and GitHub Copilot, covering assessment, upgrade planning, and AI-assisted fixes for compatibility and dependency issues in real-world, multi-project solutions.

samimodak announces the public preview of Azure DNS Traffic Manager linked records, which let Azure DNS link record sets directly to Azure Traffic Manager profiles. The post explains how this removes the trafficmanager.net CNAME hop, enables zone-apex load balancing, and improves DNSSEC compatibility and operational safety.

Mason_Torres explains how to onboard large Windows and Linux server estates to Azure Arc using non-interactive authentication and automation, focusing on two scalable approaches: Ansible for Linux fleets and Group Policy for domain-joined Windows Server environments.

Microsoft Developer shows how to build an AI-powered application using the GitHub Copilot SDK (the same engine used by Copilot in the CLI), including connecting the app to tools and applying practical patterns to keep AI behavior reliable and under control.

dotnet explains how .NET developers can get more dependable results from modern AI by adding context through agentic workflows, including MCP tools, skills, and custom agents, and then connects those ideas to building cross-platform apps with Uno Platform across web, desktop, and mobile.

dotnet explains how to use GitHub Copilot to build migration tooling that makes moving between package versions (or to different libraries) more deterministic and reliable, including practical techniques for combining Copilot-assisted coding with .NET to reduce migration friction.

Microsoft Developer demonstrates a terminal-first workflow using GitHub Copilot CLI to turn a rough idea into a concrete plan, code edits, and a reviewable set of changes without leaving the command line.

Anna Hoffman recaps the year’s updates across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, with a focus on developer tooling. She also covers themes like security, performance, availability, CI/CD, containers, and how AI and vectors are shaping the SQL ecosystem, plus a look at roadmap direction.

torreyt announces general availability of What-If for Azure Deployment Stacks, explaining how stack previews differ from standard template what-if and how the results can be stored as a first-class Azure resource for review and approvals.