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Autonomous crop-spraying aircraft are leading the way in pilot-free flying.

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana.

Organizations running Windows-based workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) face increasing pressure to modernize as support timelines for older Windows Server versions approach retirement. To help customers prepare, AKS now offers GA support for Wind Source:: Azure

You can now accelerate your containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Azure Container Registry (ACR) with Artifact streaming. Artifact streaming will allow you to scale your workloads without having to fully wait for images to be pul Source:: Azure

Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container estate from a single workflow. This mak Source:: Azure

Palo Alto Networks is bolstering its flagship security platform with the acquisition of Console and its AI-native IT service management and automation technology. According to Palo Alto, the Console technology will expand the agentic AI capabilities of its security operations platform, Cortex, allowing security teams to investigate alerts, prioritize work, and automate actions more quickly across their networked environments.

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVM) offer strong security and confidentiality for tenants. CVM for Azure Linux in AKS is now generally available and enables node pools with CVM to target the migration of highly sensitive container workloads to AKS without Source:: Azure

When it comes to AI and the mainframe, customers are moving from experimental to operational approaches and feeling comfortable enough to use AI to provide system insights and recommend actions, a new study finds. Mainframe professionals are increasingly adopting generative AI tools to recommend actions, according to the 2026 BMC Mainframe Survey, and implementing AI technologies remains a top priority for 45% of respondents.

AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account, matching the Amazon S3 bucket quota configured for your account. Previously, AWS Backup for Amazon S3 supported up to 1,000 buckets per account. With this launch, AWS Backup supports backing up all general purpose buckets in your account. Existing backup plans and configurations continue to work with no changes required if you are using default AWS Backup managed policies.

Now generally available, Amazon Quick lets you build custom applications by simply describing them in natural language. Create project trackers, customer dashboards, and training portals in minutes instead of months. Whether you’re a product manager, finance lead, HR partner, or ops analyst, you can now turn ideas into fully functional apps without writing any code. Tell Quick what you need, and it builds a live, connected application with real-time data from your existing business systems.