From a Rather Good Idea to Proper Scale Building Cloud Spires Without the Dreadful Bill Creating digital products these days is rather like assembling flat-pack furniture from that well-known Swedish retailer, but having rather mislaid the instructions. It presents a splendid opportunity to spend twice what one had initially intended. Fortunately, there are ways to…
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Multi-Agent AI with Microsoft: Ambitious, Useful… and Definitely Messy
Microsoft has rolled out a beefed-up architecture for multi-agent AI systems via Azure AI Foundry. Cool move. Here’s what it is, what it tries to solve, what the catches are — and what you should really check before betting your team budget on it. What Microsoft is Offering Connected Agents + Multi-Agent Workflows: The idea…
Break the Chain: Why FIDO2 Is Killing Passwords for Good
Hey, let’s be honest: passwords are over. SMS‑codes, pushpopups, totp tokens, great in theory, weak in real‑life fights. bad guys surf that weakness like it’s a goldmine. phishing got too smart, MFA fatigue is real, and attackers no longer brute-force, they social-engineer the hell out of u. that’s where FIDO2 crashes in like a hero,…
Implementing Azure Cognitive Services: Architectural Principles, Security, and Performance
So let’s talk about Azure Cognitive Services, it is a suite of Microsoft cloud-based APIs that allows developers to integrate AI capabilities such as image recognition, speech processing, and text analytics into applications without the need to build or train models. This article explores the architectural structure, scalability, authentication mechanisms, performance benchmarks, and real-world use…
Microsoft Research? They’ve been cooking up some wild stuff lately in AI.
First up, Orca 2. no, it’s not a killer whale, though it definitely kills in performance. It’s a compact large language model, trained to mimic the reasoning and dialogue of way bigger models — but on a budget. Think ChatGPT-4’s little cousin who watched everything the big one did and learned to throw punches just…
Microsoft multimodal AI
Hi, seriously, not enough folks ask about the real magic under the hood of multimodal AI. and lemme tell you, Microsoft’s doing some next-level wizardry with models like kosmos-2 and florence. buckle up, it’s gonna be a bit geeky, a bit messy, but totally worth it. so. what even is multimodal ai? easy. it’s an…
To work with AI Explorer in Windows 11, you will need the ARM64 platform and 16 GB of RAM
Now, regarding the requirements for the operation of the yet-to-be-announced AI Explorer feature in Windows 11, this information was extracted from the code for build 26100, which is presumably the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of Windows 11 24H2. Apparently, the AI Explorer feature will only function on new devices equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite…
Copilot for Microsoft Teams Meetings and Events
Copilot is an AI-powered tool that helps capture important conversation points during meetings and webinars. Each participant with a Copilot license can ask questions that are only visible to them, allowing them to learn more about the conversation and who said what. Copilot also provides real-time recommendations for follow-up actions, making it easier for everyone…