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azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager is in public preview. It provides a unified, goal-driven way to design, assess, and improve application resiliency across Azure.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server: DuckDB extension

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports installing the DuckDB extension. The update notes that the feature is generally available.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Advanced full-text search in Azure DocumentDB

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure DocumentDB public preview adds advanced full-text search features: fuzzy search, proximity search, expanded language support, and BM25 ranking. It combines these text search capabilities with vector search in a single database.

ai: Expanding the Reach of Document Translation – New Capabilities Announced at Microsoft Build

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft announced new Document Translation capabilities in Azure Translator, available in Foundry Tools, with support for translating images, PDFs, Office files, DITA, and XLIFF. The post also mentions future LLM-powered document workflows.

ai: Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft announced Foundry Managed Compute, a GPU platform-as-a-service for running open-source and custom AI models in Microsoft Foundry. It uses the same endpoint, SDKs, and billing as frontier models.

ai: Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft introduced Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service to help move hosted agents from deployed to production-ready. It targets common issues such as missing required information in conversations before the agent takes action.

ai: Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft says agent memory is being updated to better support production use, with a focus on reliability, transparency, and consistent task execution. The article frames memory as more than personalization, emphasizing learned procedures, recovery from repeated failures, and improved confidence over time.

ai: Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry is adding new Toolbox capabilities, including Skills, to help teams discover, manage, and secure tools for production agent workflows. The update is aimed at scaling agents from small-scale use to production execution.

ai: From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry shifts focus from agent creation to distribution, emphasizing the enterprise problem of getting AI agents into users’ hands and operating in business workflows. The post frames deployment and adoption of agents as the new bottleneck after rapid progress in agent development.

security: Preinstall to persistence: Inside the Red Hat npm Miasma credential-stealing campaign

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft reports a large-scale npm supply chain attack affecting over 90 versions of @redhat-cloud-services packages. The malicious code targets CI/CD and developer systems to steal GitHub, cloud, and local credentials, and propagates by republishing trusted packages.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure Monitor’s Simple log alerts are now generally available. The feature adds a simplified way to create log-based alerts for monitoring and alerting.

ai: Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools is described as a comprehensive content AI service for ingesting documents, audio, images, and video and extracting key information for grounded generative AI and agentic solutions. It combines Azure Document Intelligence’s traditional AI with LLM-based content capabilities.