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> Netflix raised prices > Disney+ raised prices > HBO Max raised prices > Amazon just removed 4K from standard plan > YouTube Premium now $15.99/month > Family plan hit $26.99 > Average American spends ~$828/year on streaming We are paying MORE, getting LESS, and watching ads anyway. They didn't kill cable. They became it.

Stop clicking through 15 menus just to find one Azure blade 🛑55,000+ Microsoft pros use cmd.ms to skip the portal fatigue. I just launched a massive V2 rewrite: ⚡️ 100% keyboard-driven 🎯 Jump to any blade instantly 🔍 New Purview + Security commands

Do you exclude MFA on joined/registered devices? If so, do you require MFA for device join/registration? I see this often because these controls aren't considered at the same time, and that's how we get this gap: Attacker steals user/pass -> register device -> no MFA required

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft launches a free Python library that converts ANY document to Markdown Introducing Markitdown. Let me explain. 🧵

The quality of photos we’re already getting from the moon is incredible

🔥🤖 M365 Connector for Claude – Why SecOps Must Care Monitoring the M365 Connector for Claude is critical because when ResultType=0, it means an Entra Global Admin has granted permissions, enabling Claude to directly access SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, and Teams—a governance decision with major security implications that SecOps must track closely. Meanwhile, ResultType=90095 shows end users attempting to use the connector without the admin grant, signaling demand, shadow IT risk, and adoption pressure. By watching both signals, defenders gain visibility into where governance decisions meet user behavior, ensuring connector risks are managed before they escalate. KQL Code: github.com/SlimKQL/Detect… #Cybersecurity #M365ConnectorClaude #Entra #Governance

🚨‼️ CRITICAL: Ubiquiti UniFi Network Application vulnerabilities were just disclosed CVE-2026-22557 CVSS 10.0 Remote path traversal vulnerability allowing an attacker to access and manipulate files, leading to account takeover. No authentication required. CVE-2026-22558 — CVSS 7.7 Authenticated NoSQL Injection allowing privilege escalation.

Autism: “The spectrum has become so accommodating that I fear that it has now been stretched so far that it has become meaningless and is no longer useful as a medical diagnosis.” Problem is that psychologists, and increasingly a flood of master’s level therapists have come to rely on the autism diagnosis to support their practice. Their livelihood. I suspect schools face a similar reliance on autism diagnoses for extra funding. Furthermore: Parents love it because their child gets extra services. Students love it because it makes them special. Drug companies love it because they profit from drugs. Psychologists are supposed to be the gatekeepers on diagnoses, but we are not doing very well at it.

This case against TicketMaster/Live Nation was supposed to go to trial this week. The DOJ, through multiple administrations, has been preparing for years. Trump just settled it instead, after firing the head of the antitrust division. There is apparently no amount of corruption too obvious to scare Trump away from it.

LINUX : Makes the OS faster and more configurable MacOS: Makes the OS easier to use and more dependable Windows:

PSA: In 1 week, Exchange Online requires trusting DigiCert Root G2 CA chain to avoid disruption xf.ms/DigiCertRootG2

🚨 Anthropic dropped a FREE 33-page playbook revealing Claude's very own cheat code: The 'Skills' folder. Spend 30 minutes building it, and you’ll never have to explain your process again. Top-tier users don't just type commands, they build systems. Playbook link in 🧵↓

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-droppe…

“I’m a Full Stack engineer “ The stack:

"Gamers are asking for the pause button back." "But the AI assistant we gave them can help them solve the puzzle!" "No like, they just want the ability to pause the game in general." "But AI?" "no sir." "AI..." "Stop."

A code error temporarily allowed Copilot Chat to expose confidential emails and files in its responses. The bug enabled the AI to include content from protected emails and files (especially in Sent Items and Drafts) that were safeguarded by sensitivity labels and DLP policies. Microsoft has confirmed the issue and is deploying a fix.

Look.. it's a Conditional Access policy simulator built by an infra architect guy who got tired of squinting at What If results 🫠 Shiny graphs yay! 🔗ca.haakonwibe.com No sign-in needed, click Sample Data and play around. Or connect to your own data - all's in browser.

Wanna watch videos without G**gle watching you? YouTube is accessed by over 2.7bn people worldwide every month and hosts more than 800m videos. Read on to learn how you can access video content, both on and off YouTube, without going through Google... 1/9

"More fiction has been written in Excel than in Word." -- Morgan Housel

📚 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗱++ 𝗛𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 Heads up, defenders: a supply chain compromise targeting Notepad++ has been linked to state-sponsored activity. Here's a Sentinel KQL to help you hunt for potentially affected endpoints—filtering by DeviceName, suspicious version numbers, and outbound traffic to notepad-plus-plus[.]org. 🫡 notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-… #CyberSecurity #ThreatHunting #NotepadPlusPlus #SupplyChainAttack #sentinel