Azure Linux

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft’s first general-purpose Linux Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM. Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump. Microsoft shipped Azure Linux 4.0 into public preview at Build 2026, and for the first time you can run it on any Azure virtual machine, not just as the host underneath Azure Kubernetes Service.

Azure Linux Desktop

Azure Linux "Desktop": A Build 2026 mashup of wslc, WinUI Reactor, and Azure Linux 4.0 A nifty Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window, wiring together the wslc container API, WinUI Reactor, Azure Linux 4.0, .NET 10, with a pinch of nostalgia. I wanted to try out some of the cool stuff that came out of Microsoft Build 2026. Azure Linux "Desktop" is a small Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window.

Microsoft Build: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more

Microsoft’s Build event is under way in San Francisco, USA, with the expected focus on agentic AI but also a few surprises, such as Unix-style Coreutils for Windows. CEO Satya Nadella presented Project Solara, based on future devices which "are not meant to run traditional apps. They are designed for agents," according to applied science group leader Steven Bathiche; it is as much aspiration than specific plans and whether it is dream or nightmare is open to question.

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the Microsoft...

Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers

Cisco is preparing to make the open-source SONiC network operating system available on its Nexus 9000 series datacenter switches. This move extends SONiC support beyond hyperscalers to general enterprise customers, allowing them to run the open NOS on their hardware. Cisco stated this will offer customers flexibility, enabling them to choose between SONiC for AI or non-AI clusters while retaining existing infrastructure options.

ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload

GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

Microsoft’s GitHub has disabled over 70 repositories after they were reportedly compromised by a worm in the latest open source supply chain attack. The code shack took down 73 repos within the space of 105 seconds after its alarms were tripped on Friday, June 5, after detecting signs of the Miasma worm infecting its projects, according to StepSecurity’s co-founder and CTO, Ashish Kurmi. Users reported issues quickly on Friday, after visits to those repos all resulted in the same message...

AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS

Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow

An autonomous AI agent inside your Obsidian vault. You describe a task, it plans, searches, reads, writes, and reports back. Every action is visible.