Hacker News with Generative AI: Azure

Microsoft conducts audit in Israeli use of Azure/AI, finds no harm to Gazans (theverge.com)
Microsoft says it has found no evidence that the Israeli military has used its Azure and AI technology to harm Palestinian civilians or anyone else in Gaza.

Microsoft, Azure, AI, Israel, Gaza

9 points by bhouston 7 days ago | 5 comments

Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11, 2025 (microsoft.com)
Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs. Subscribe to notifications to stay informed.

APIs, Microsoft, Azure, Cloud Computing

4 points by croes 8 days ago | 1 comments

Knowledge Library MCP (devpost.com)
Knowledge Library MCP (KL MCP) is a multi-modal application leveraging Azure AI Agent Service to locate documents—text and images—and deliver conversational insights via bots. It enhances search with live data integration and Responsible AI principles, designed for scalable, professional-grade querying.

Azure, Artificial Intelligence, Search, Knowledge Management, Conversational AI

5 points by thstart 56 days ago | 1 comments

Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets (binarysecurity.no)
Binary Security found the undocumented APIs for Azure API Connections. In this post we examine the inner workings of the Connections allowing us to escalate privileges and read secrets in backend resources for services ranging from Key Vaults, Storage Blobs, Defender ATP, to Enterprise Jira and SalesForce servers.

Cloud Security, Azure, APIs, Security Vulnerabilities

137 points by hland 72 days ago | 64 comments

Azure Data Studio Retirement (microsoft.com)
We’re announcing the upcoming retirement of Azure Data Studio (ADS) on February 6, 2025, as we focus on delivering a modern, streamlined SQL development experience.

Azure, Software, Databases, Microsoft, Retirement

4 points by daigoba66 106 days ago | 0 comments

DocumentDB: Open-Source Announcement (microsoft.com)
We are excited to announce the official release of DocumentDB—an open-source document database platform and the engine powering the vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, built on PostgreSQL.

Open Source, Databases, Microsoft, Azure, PostgreSQL

6 points by Hixon10 118 days ago | 1 comments

Azure Space (microsoft.com)
An interactive exploration of the infrastructure and power of the Azure cloud in space

Azure, Space, Cloud Computing, Microsoft

9 points by geox 137 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down? (ycombinator.com)
Looks like Azure is experiencing a major outage, but I cannot find anything about it. If you look at downdetector.com you'll notice reported outages from OpenAI, Microsoft 365, XBox Live, Walmart, the list goes on.

Technology, Online Services, Downtime, ChatGPT, Azure

146 points by franze 148 days ago | 141 comments

Azure GPT-3 got replaced by a creepy Chinese state censored model by ByteDance (reddit.com)
Azure GPT-3 got replaced by a creepy Chinese state censored model by Bytedance

Azure, Generative AI, China, Censorship, ByteDance

9 points by rlevy 149 days ago | 3 comments

An EPYC Exclusive for Azure: AMD's MI300C – By George Cozma (chipsandcheese.com)
At SC24 we stopped by the Azure Booth to check out their new HBv5 VMs powered by the AMD EPYC 9v64H CPU.

AMD, Azure, Cloud Computing, Servers, CPUs

41 points by rbanffy 171 days ago | 14 comments

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Processors, Hardware, Cloud Computing, Azure

44 points by rbanffy 184 days ago | 6 comments

AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner (learn.umh.app)
Why We Recommend Hetzner to Try Out the UMH: it is at least 4x–10x less expensive than AWS and Azure for similar VM instances.

Cloud Computing, Cost Comparison, AWS, Azure, Hetzner

131 points by JeremyTheo 214 days ago | 138 comments

Ask HN: Azure Ran Out of Capacity? (ycombinator.com)
We tried provisioning a database in US EAST. We were denied. We submitted a support request. We were told they could not provision the database due to high demand in that region (what??). We pivoted to US EAST 2 and am now getting blocked trying to deploy an App Service.

Cloud Computing, Azure, Serverless, Databases

11 points by scottndecker 232 days ago | 7 comments

Microsoft performs operations with multiple error-corrected qubits (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series of announcements related to its Azure Quantum Cloud service. Among them was a demonstration of logical operations using the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet.

Quantum Computing, Microsoft, Azure, Cloud Computing

8 points by gmays 253 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft and Quantinuum create 12 logical qubits (microsoft.com)
Microsoft and Quantinuum applied Azure Quantum’s qubit-virtualization system to Quantinuum’s H2 trapped-ion quantum computer to create 12 highly reliable logical qubits. Additionally, the teams demonstrated the emerging capabilities of reliable quantum computing by using two logical qubits, integrated with an AI model and cloud high-performance computing (HPC), to accurately estimate the ground state energy of the active space of an important catalytic intermediate.

Quantum Computing, Microsoft, Azure, AI

6 points by swernli 255 days ago | 0 comments

Overspent Azure Credits (ycombinator.com)

Azure, Cloud Computing, Cost Management

7 points by waterdolphin 283 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work (ycombinator.com)

Cloud Computing, AWS, GCP, Azure, Work

74 points by michal_kluczek 289 days ago | 50 comments

Azure Down? (status.microsoft)

Azure, Cloud Computing, Downtime, Service Outages

93 points by vb-8448 297 days ago | 20 comments

Microsoft 365 and Azure outage takes down multiple services (bleepingcomputer.com)