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Designing Azure silicon on Azure silicon: EDA workloads on Cobalt 200

Discover how Microsoft is accelerating electronic design automation (EDA) workloads with Azure Cobalt 200 VMs. Explore early performance results demonstrating faster simulation, verification, and static timing analysis, along with the benefits of scalable cloud infrastructure for silicon design and development. The post Designing Azure silicon on Azure silicon: EDA workloads on Cobalt 200 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

Five Ways NVIDIA Co-Design Maximizes the Value of Every Byte in the AI Factory

In an AI factory, high bandwidth memory (HBM)is the fastest, most expensive, and most contested memory tier. Every byte spent on a redundant weight copy, an... In an AI factory, high bandwidth memory (HBM)is the fastest, most expensive, and most contested memory tier. Every byte spent on a redundant weight copy, an idle session’s KV cache, or a recomputed prefix is a byte that is not being used to produce tokens. The question is no longer how much memory a GPU has, but how much useful work each

Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub

GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes. The post Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Email threat landscape: Q3 2026 trends and insights

Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a sharp rise in email-based phishing activity at the end of Q3 2026 (July – September), even as QR code phishing declined, CAPTCHA-gated phishing recovered, and malicious messages spoofing familiar business-service sender domains exposed risks associated with security overrides. The post Email threat landscape: Q3 2026 trends and insights appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Statehouse wins give Democrats new power to push clean energy

Democrats erased the GOP’s trifecta edge and gained new power over energy policy.

Show HN: Stroq – a local audit of what your coding agent did and why

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Secret scanning upgrades detectors, adds SpaceX as partner

This update expands secret scanning’s detection coverage: New partner: SpaceX is now a secret scanning partner. New detector: GitHub now detects starlink_public_api_v2_secret. Upgraded detectors: Alibaba, AWS, Google, OpenVSX, Pydantic Services,… The post Secret scanning upgrades detectors, adds SpaceX as partner appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Reflex: an architecture for building mobile apps with agents