On this week's episode, Cyrus provides an overview of Azure Local a new service which builds on the existing Azure Stack HCI service, whilst David introduces Richard to Radius, which is a cloud-native application platform that enables developers and IT operators to collaborate on delivering and managing cloud-native applications.

Richard then highlights some changes to the Azure Bastion Service and the deprecation of the Azure AD API service. We then cover some general IT news or interesting items we discovered over the last week, including a potential new Christmas No 1

Show Notes

Azure Local https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/local/?msockid=2db0be1eba176e053806ab29bbf76ff3
Radius https://docs.radapp.io/
Azure Bastion Premium https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/enhance-your-security-capabilities-with-azure-bastion-premium
Azure AD API - End of Life https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/identity/action-required-azure-ad-graph-api-retirement/4090533

News / Interesting Stuff

Microsoft dangles $10K for hackers to hijack LLM email service https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/microsoft_llm_prompt_injection_challenge/
To fab or not. https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/gelsinger_departure_intel_future
Girl band or boy band?! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidrrowley_microsoft-christmas-pop-activity-7270727842861092864-dyGx
MarS - A unified financial market simulation engine in the era of generative foundation models https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mars-a-unified-financial-market-simulation-engine-in-the-era-of-generative-foundation-models/
Microsoft AI Chips https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-launches-two-data-center-infrastructure-chips-speed-ai-applications-2024-11-19/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Microsoft Hacking Event https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/19/24299999/microsoft-zero-day-quest-hacking-event-ai-cloud-security?utm_source=chatgpt.com