Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET ...

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Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

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Understand the key advantages of Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core for building real-world web applications Learn how features like dependency injection, configuration, and environment awareness improve ...

Spotify racked up its highest quarterly net adds of monthly users to date in Q4 2025 — reaching a total of 751 million monthly active users, a gain of 38 million in the period. Its paid-subscriber ...

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Despite all the online hate surrounding Windows 11, the OS has managed to reach one billion users faster than Windows 10. Windows 11 launched in October 2021 for the general public, and we gave it a 6 ...

This article describes how to authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID without setting up Azure Arc for your on-premises SQL Server 2022 and later versions. Microsoft Entra authentication is a cloud-based ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft patched a vulnerability that was flagged with the "highest ever" severity rating received by an ASP.NET Core security flaw. This HTTP request smuggling bug (CVE-2025-55315 ...