When you install or run certain applications on Windows, you may see a prompt asking you to install the Windows Desktop Runtime. What is Windows Desktop Runtime? Why is it needed? Is it safe? Let’s ...

Shorter validity of API keys for package publication is intended to strengthen NuGet's security. It affects both existing and ...

Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.

Microsoft has equipped its Agent Framework with a stable, “batteries-included” harness. This is intended to transform large ...

Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

Wiz Research disclosed Wednesday that a chain of vulnerabilities in Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin query engine — which the firm named CosmosEscape — allowed any attacker with a standard Cosmos DB account ...

Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, has been observed compromising the sign-in portals ...

Contrast CVE Shield operates inside the running application, where it detects, monitors and prevents exploitation of known ...

Unity 7 was announced at Unite Seoul 2026 with a zero-rebuild upgrade path from Unity 6, CoreCLR performance gains delivering up to 90% faster shader builds, realtime global illumination via Surface ...

Preview 6 of Microsoft’s .NET 11 software development platform is now available, with improvements across the runtime, libraries, frameworks, and C# and F# programming languages. Announced July 14, ...