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azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Ingest OTLP data into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure Monitor now has public preview support for native OTLP ingestion. You can send telemetry from OpenTelemetry-instrumented apps and platforms directly to Azure Monitor using the OpenTelemetry Collector.

security: Governing AI agent behavior: Aligning user, developer, role, and organizational intent

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-03-24

The report discusses how to govern AI agent behavior by aligning user, developer, role, and organizational intent for secure enterprise AI adoption.

github: Faster incremental analysis with CodeQL in pull requests

GitHub

2026-03-24

CodeQL pull request scans for C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Ruby are now incremental, which improves scan speed. GitHub had already sped up pull request scans earlier this year.

github: Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available in JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse

GitHub

2026-03-23

Gemini 3.1 Pro is now in public preview for Copilot Enterprise, Business, Pro, and Pro+ users. It can be accessed in GitHub Copilot Chat and in JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse.

github: Push protection exemptions from repository settings

GitHub

2026-03-23

GitHub now lets repository admins manage secret scanning push protection exemptions from a repository’s settings. Before this change, exemptions were only configurable through organization- and enterprise-level security configurations.

dotnet: Generative AI for Beginners .NET: Version 2 on .NET 10

.NET

2026-03-23

Microsoft announced Version 2 of Generative AI for Beginners .NET, a free course rebuilt for .NET 10. It adds Microsoft.Extensions.AI, updated RAG patterns, and new agent framework content across five lessons focused on production-ready AI apps.

security: Case study: How predictive shielding in Defender stopped GPO-based ransomware before it started

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-03-23

Microsoft Defender blocked a human-operated ransomware attack that used Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to disable defenses and deploy encryption at scale. Predictive shielding hardened 700 devices in time, preventing any GPO-based encryptions and blocking most of the attempted impact.

dotnet: Ten Months with Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime

.NET

2026-03-23

The .NET team reports on ten months of using GitHub Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime and summarizes lessons from cloud-AI-assisted development. The post is a data-driven retrospective rather than a feature release.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2026

Azure Updates

2026-03-20

Azure SQL preview updates in mid-March 2026 add changes aimed at reducing storage, I/O, and memory use while improving performance without requiring index maintenance jobs. The provided note is truncated and does not include the full list of enhancements.

azure: Retirement: Azure SQL Elastic query - Shard_Map_Manager mode

Azure Updates

2026-03-20

Azure SQL Elastic Query using the Shard_Map_Manager external data source type reaches end of support on March 31, 2027. Existing workloads can keep running, but this mode will no longer receive updates or support.

k8s: Announcing Ingress2Gateway 1.0: Your Path to Gateway API

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-20

Ingress2Gateway 1.0 is a stable migration assistant for moving from Ingress to Gateway API, with expanded Ingress-NGINX annotation support and more detailed warnings for unsupported or lossy translations. The release emphasizes controller-level integration tests and safer migration workflows, including manual review, validation in a dev cluster, and gradual traffic shifting.

github: Copilot usage metrics now resolve auto model selection to actual models

GitHub

2026-03-20

Copilot usage metrics now map activity that was previously shown as “Auto” to the actual model used when auto model selection is enabled. This gives clearer model-level reporting in Copilot usage data.