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Azure Firewall explicit proxy reaches GA

Selected applications and browsers can send HTTP and HTTPS egress to Azure Firewall through standard proxy settings without rerouting a whole subnet.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Networking Blog

Hugging Face releases a library of WebGPU kernels

Hugging Face’s new kernel library packages browser GPU building blocks with tests and benchmarks, giving local AI developers a reusable starting point.

SOURCE / Hugging Face

BOMHort joins the OpenSSF Sandbox

The Kubernetes-native BOMHort project joins OpenSSF, combining SBOM ingestion, OSV refreshes, VEX handling, license policy, and ClickHouse analytics.

SOURCE / OpenSSF

Azure Deployment Stacks What-If reaches GA

Stack updates can now produce a persistent preview showing create, modify, delete, and detach actions at resource, subscription, or management-group scope.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Governance and Management Blog

Kubeflow graduates at the CNCF as a Kubernetes AI platform

CNCF graduated Kubeflow, recognizing the Kubernetes-native project’s maturity across data preparation, training, fine-tuning, inference, and model serving.

SOURCE / Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud Native Buildpacks graduates at the CNCF

CNCF graduated Cloud Native Buildpacks, recognizing the source-to-OCI image toolkit’s production adoption, governance, and maintained build workflow.

SOURCE / Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance reaches GA

The managed hardware-backed router provides up to 200 Gbps tiers, dual-stack forwarding, zone resiliency, and built-in Azure Monitor metrics.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Networking Blog

AWS releases aws-bench in research preview

The open-source aws-bench preview pairs cloud tasks with known resource states, giving agent developers a repeatable evaluation starting point.

SOURCE / AWS

Lambda adds self-managed S3 code storage

Lambda can reference deployment code in customer-owned S3 storage, making artifact retention and bucket permissions part of the release contract.

SOURCE / AWS

Trivy 0.72 broadens detection and VEX handling

Trivy 0.72 adds Bottlerocket matching, bundled .NET runtime detection, richer Java license discovery, repository VEX loading, and safer temp paths.

SOURCE / Aqua Security / Trivy

Sigstore keeps Rekor v1 as its public default

Sigstore changed its Rekor rollout plan: the public-good service will keep v1 as default while modern clients can opt into production Rekor v2.

SOURCE / Sigstore

Gemini 3.5 Flash gained built-in computer use

Google integrated screen-based browser, mobile and desktop interaction into its main Flash model for custom automation agents.

SOURCE / Google

Azure Boost previews Guest RDMA in UK South

Guest VMs can use RDMA through Azure Boost for low-latency, high-throughput communication, beginning with preview availability in UK South.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Compute Blog

Azure previews Lasv5 and Laosv5 local-storage VMs

The AMD EPYC Turin-based VM families increase local NVMe capacity, network bandwidth, size range, and processor performance for storage-heavy workloads.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Compute Blog

OpenTelemetry graduates within the CNCF

CNCF graduation recognizes OpenTelemetry’s project maturity and governance while the maintainers continue work on interoperable telemetry standards.

SOURCE / OpenTelemetry

ECS adds pause points to service deployments

ECS deployment pause hooks let teams add approval and validation stages, with explicit timeout behavior becoming an important release-policy decision.

SOURCE / AWS

Azure Integrated HSM reaches GA on selected AMD v7 VMs

The same-node hardware cache and crypto offload is generally available for Windows Trusted Launch guests on selected AMD D- and E-series v7 VMs with at least 8 vCores.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Compute Blog

Azure previews in-place regional-to-zonal VM migration

Regional VMs and flexible scale-set instances can move into an availability zone while retaining resource identity, disks, NICs, and addresses.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Compute Blog

Mistral puts Workflows into public preview

Mistral’s orchestration preview pairs a hosted control plane with customer-run workers, making failure recovery and approval handling key pilot questions.

SOURCE / Mistral AI

Azure previews full caching for Ephemeral OS disks

A new placement mode keeps the complete operating-system disk on VM-local storage, reducing steady-state dependence on remote disks.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Compute Blog

OpenTelemetry Profiles reaches public alpha

OpenTelemetry’s profiling signal entered public alpha, giving implementers a shared data model and OTLP path while keeping stability expectations explicit.

SOURCE / OpenTelemetry

Mistral adds speech generation with Voxtral TTS

The new voice model supports multilingual generation and voice adaptation; released weights have different usage terms from the hosted service.

SOURCE / Mistral AI

Lambda Managed Instances adds Rust support

Rust functions can now run on Lambda Managed Instances, making concurrency behavior and workload measurement central to adoption decisions.

SOURCE / AWS

Microsoft opens a waitlist for Copilot Health

Copilot Health’s March announcement describes a dedicated health-information experience, initially aimed at English-speaking adults in the United States.

SOURCE / Microsoft AI

GitHub releases REST API version 2026-03-10

A new dated REST API contract gives integrators a controlled migration point, with breaking changes isolated behind an explicit version header.

SOURCE / GitHub

Vite 8 replaces its dual bundlers with Rolldown

Vite 8 makes the Rust-based Rolldown bundler its unified development and production pipeline, with compatibility shims and migration guidance.

SOURCE / Vite

Meta and WRI release Canopy Height Maps v2

Meta and WRI’s forest mapping release pairs a revised model with global maps, giving geospatial teams a new baseline to validate locally.

SOURCE / Meta AI

Azure Compute API will always return a VM security type

A new Compute API version removes nullable securityType responses, requiring clients to treat Standard as an explicit value rather than an omission.

SOURCE / Microsoft Azure Compute Blog