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November (5)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: .NET 10

Azure Updates

2025-11-12

Microsoft announced .NET 10 is generally available, delivering a faster, more secure, and more capable platform for modern development. The release improves performance, productivity, and security across the stack, and C# 14 adds language refinements for more natural, expressive coding.

dotnet: Announcing .NET 10

.NET

2025-11-11

Microsoft announced .NET 10, describing it as the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release to date, with platform-wide updates and new features across areas like ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, and Aspire.

security: ​​Securing our future: November 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative ​​

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-11-10

Microsoft published a November 2025 progress report for its Secure Future Initiative, reporting steady progress across all areas and engineering pillars. The initiative’s mission is to accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and lead the industry toward a safer digital future, with the report underscoring Microsoft’s continued commitment to security.

security: ​​Whisper Leak: A novel side-channel attack on remote language models

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-11-07

Microsoft disclosed a new side-channel attack called "Whisper Leak" that enables attackers to infer conversation topics from interactions with remote language models even when communications are encrypted. The finding was published on the Microsoft Security Blog.

security: ​​Learn what generative AI can do for your security operations center

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-11-04

Microsoft Security Blog published an e-book that shows how generative AI can improve Security Operations Centers (SOCs) by reducing alert fatigue, speeding triage, enabling proactive threat hunting, and helping teams get ahead of cyberattacks.

October (7)

azure: Retirement: Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis will be retired on September 25, 2028

Azure Updates

2025-10-23

Microsoft announced the planned retirement of the Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis service, with full support provided through September 25, 2028.

azure: [In development] Private Preview: New planned datacenter region in Malaysia (Southeast Asia 3)

Azure Updates

2025-10-17

Microsoft is planning a new Azure datacenter region in Malaysia called Southeast Asia 3, currently in private preview. The region will host Microsoft's most comprehensive and strategic cloud services and represents an expansion of Azure's digital infrastructure footprint in Southeast Asia. The announcement did not include detailed timelines or exact service availability.

security: Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-16

Microsoft has been recognized again as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), according to a post on the Microsoft Security Blog.

dotnet: Announcing the .NET Security Group

.NET

2025-10-14

Microsoft announced the .NET Security Group, a program that gives partners early access to CVE information and coordinates delivery of .NET security patches so distributors can ship fixes at the same time as Microsoft.

security: Microsoft raises the bar: A smarter way to measure AI for cybersecurity

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-14

Microsoft introduced ExCyTIn-Bench, an open-source benchmarking tool that evaluates how effectively AI systems perform real-world cybersecurity investigations, aiming to standardize measurement and improve AI-driven defensive capabilities.

security: Building a lasting security culture at Microsoft

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-13

Microsoft frames building a lasting security culture as a strategic priority and a call to action: security is people-centered, every employee has a role, and embedding secure practices into how people think, work, and collaborate creates a unified, proactive, and resilient defense for Microsoft and its customers.

security: Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-10-06

Microsoft’s Incident Response team works effectively amid the disorder caused by fast-moving threat actors, treating compromised environments, missing data, and shaken confidence as the starting point for investigations, as described in the Microsoft Security Blog post "Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos."