The first version of Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) relied on Microsoft Entra ID for authentication; the current version doesn't. We strongly encourage the use of the newest version. Windows: 1.1.* (ADE ...

Microsoft has officially unveiled Azure Linux 4.0, the latest version of its open-source Linux distribution designed for cloud infrastructure, enterprise workloads, and modern data centers. Formerly ...

Microsoft has posted Azure Linux 4 ISO files in the project’s GitHub repository, giving administrators a local test path for the company’s Azure-optimized Linux distribution outside Azure. ISO files ...

You can now install Azure Linux on your own server. Azure Linux may prove a competitor to mainstream enterprise Linux distros. Is Windows Server long for this world ...

Author and project developer Hayden Barnes has built Azure Linux Desktop as an experimental Windows app that boots a full Azure Linux desktop inside a window. Barnes’s June 6 prototype puts ...

Secure new laptops and desktops in 24 hours with practical security, encryption, and hardening steps for Windows, macOS, and Linux to protect data and privacy. Pixabay, geralt Security checklist for ...

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Microsoft used the Open Source Summit North America 2026 event to position open-source infrastructure and hardened Linux distributions as foundational components for emerging AI-native and agentic ...

The Linux Kernel Crypto API provides kernel-level cryptographic operations accessible to both kernel modules and user-space applications through AF_ALG sockets. User-space applications communicate ...

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...