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commandline: Disposable agents, durable memory: The architecture behind Squad

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-05-27

The article describes Squad, a file-backed agent-team architecture built around human oversight. It emphasizes inspectable memory, explicit orchestration, and moving governance rules from prompts into code.

commandline: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-05-27

Microsoft describes the Agent Framework as a layered SDK that supports different agent architectures. It highlights agent loops, workflows, and harnesses as the main building blocks for both simple assistants and more complex multi-agent systems.

commandline: Introducing Microsoft’s EngThrive framework: Understanding developer productivity in the agentic AI era

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-05-27

Microsoft introduced EngThrive, a framework for measuring developer productivity in the agentic AI era. It evaluates engineering work across Speed, Ease, Quality, and Thriving.

commandline: How Excel got agentic: An interview with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-05-27

Microsoft says it used two years of research to add agentic capabilities to Excel, based on an interview with Director of Science Mukul Singh. The piece positions this work as part of bringing research into product, with implications beyond Excel.

security: From poisoned search results to GPU mining: A cryptojacking campaign abusing ScreenConnect and Microsoft .NET utilities

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-05-26

Microsoft describes a cryptojacking campaign that uses SEO poisoning and malicious sites promoted through AI chatbots to lure victims into installing ScreenConnect, then abuses Microsoft .NET utilities to enable GPU mining on high-performance PCs.

github: Copilot Memory has more controls for deletion, scope, and the Copilot CLI

GitHub

2026-05-26

GitHub updated Copilot Memory with better deletion controls, a repository-level disable option, and additional memory controls in Copilot CLI. The feature remains in public preview.

github: GitHub Code Quality: Repository Enablement API

GitHub

2026-05-26

GitHub Code Quality now has a Repository Enablement API in public preview. It adds two new endpoints to programmatically enable and configure Code Quality on individual repositories.

github: Target Copilot models to organizations with model rules

GitHub

2026-05-26

GitHub added targeted Copilot model rules for enterprise owners. This lets them control which Copilot models are available to each organization, instead of applying the same model availability across the whole enterprise.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager integration with Virtual WAN

Azure Updates

2026-05-26

Azure Virtual Network Manager now supports integration with Azure Virtual WAN in public preview. You can use an Azure Virtual WAN hub as the hub in Azure Virtual Network Manager hub-and-spoke connectivity configurations.

k8s: Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-05-26

Kubernetes will correct several older CVE records on June 1, 2026 so they no longer imply fixed versions for issues that remain unfixed by design. The update affects CVE-2020-8561, CVE-2020-8562, CVE-2021-25740, and a formatting update for CVE-2020-8554; admins may see new scanner findings after the records are corrected.

dotnet: Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer

.NET

2026-05-26

The post is a brief .NET Blog entry about getting more out of GitHub Copilot as a .NET developer. It points readers to easy ways to start using Copilot more effectively, but provides no technical details in the excerpt.

dotnet: Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover

.NET

2026-05-26

Material 3 support is now available for .NET MAUI apps on Android. The post explains how to enable it, what changes are included now, and what is still planned.