Build 2022: New frontier of collaboration with External Identities

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It’s a new year and a fresh start for Build 2022 at Microsoft. After a couple years of feeling disconnected from each other, it is so great to be collaborating in a hybrid environment. With this new frontier of collaboration… Continue reading Build 2022: New frontier of collaboration with External Identities

Beneath the surface: Uncovering the shift in web skimming

Web skimming campaigns now employ various obfuscation techniques to deliver and hide the skimming scripts. It’s a shift from earlier tactics where attackers conspicuously injected the malicious scripts into e-commerce platforms and content management systems (CMSs) via vulnerability exploitation, making this threat highly evasive to traditional security solutions.

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(De)ToxiGen: Leveraging large language models to build more robust hate speech detection tools

It’s a well-known challenge that large language models (LLMs)—growing in popularity thanks to their adaptability across a variety of applications—carry risks. Because they’re trained on large amounts of data from across the internet, they’re capable of generating inappropriate and harmful language based on similar language encountered during training.   Content moderation tools can be deployed to […]

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Partnering people with large language models to find and fix bugs in NLP systems

Advances in platform models—large-scale models that can serve as foundations across applications—have significantly improved the ability of computers to process natural language. But natural language processing (NLP) models are still far from perfect, sometimes failing in embarrassing ways, like translating “Eu não recomendo este prato” (I don’t recommend this dish) in Portuguese to “I highly […]

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New Office 365 Tab Behavior in the On-premises Exchange Admin Center

With the release of Exchange Server H1 2022 CUs, we have changed the experience of Exchange hybrid customers accessing Office 365 tab in the Exchange admin center (EAC) for their on-premises Exchange servers. Specifically, we have removed the tab becau… Continue reading New Office 365 Tab Behavior in the On-premises Exchange Admin Center

Updating web.config file for ASP.NET Core apps hosted on a Linux App Service

Working with our customers recently, I came across a situation wherein I had to enable stdout logs for an ASP.NET Core application which was hosted on a Linux App Service. For a Windows App Service, we can simply use App Service Editor, to make both st… Continue reading Updating web.config file for ASP.NET Core apps hosted on a Linux App Service