Adam Brewer

@IowaStateU alum, now @Microsoft Customer Security Director. Love @CycloneATH, @RedSox, sports, running, cuisine, tech. Tweets are mine. He/him.

[tae kim @firstadopter]

This almost sounds bullish for the AI compute trade and makes it seem all the mainstream media hand-wringing was completely misplaced. Crazy.

[tae kim @firstadopter]

It amazes me how disingenuous the average financial reporter is these days when they don't even mention the obvious hyperscaler capex-to-FCF cycle or the surging AI compute profit growth when putting out their sensational "oh no! freak out about current FCF" AI skeptic narratives

[Wall St Engine @wallstengine]

Microsoft $MSFT on enterprise AI architecture:

“You’ve got to keep your harness separate from the model.”

“That means any given model, at any given time, is swappable.”

“You can’t depend on any one model.”

“You can’t be subject to the refusals of one model.”

“You can use frontier models. You can use multiple of them. You can use low-cost models, and train your own model when you don’t want to use any external model.”

[tae kim @firstadopter]

Microsoft with great Azure guidance for the current quarter: +45% growth y/y.

They printed 43% vs. 40% est. for Azure in the Q4. Great performance! Stock up 8.6%.

"We see as customer demand continues to exceed supply. Even with the strong close to Q4, we continue to expect H1 growth to accelerate."

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today, we are announcing a series of updates that give customers frontier-grade security at half the cost.

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash is our first cybersecurity model, built ground up to find the most challenging vulnerabilities in complex code bases. When combined with MDASH, it delivers world-class performance at 50 percent of the cost of leading models.

We are bringing this capability to market through Project Perception, a complete agentic security offering grounded in real-world signals and security workflows. Teams of specialized agents work together to simulate attacks, detect and triage/investigate, and fix and remediate.

This is the benefit of building the harness, context/signals, and action space separate from one model family. By combining specialized models and data with the right agents, tools, security context, and harness, we can advance the frontier of cost to outcome.

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

If you break out of your isolation env, get onto the Internet, crack into Huggingface, and steal the answer sheet for your cybersecurity exam, I, for one, would say that you have passed.

[FOX Sports PR @FOXSportsPR]

Best finish for the best tournament. Ever.

38,937,000 viewers watched the @FIFAWorldCup 2026 Final Sunday afternoon on FOX - the most-watched soccer telecast in U.S. history. 🏆⚽️📺

🏔️ Peak audience: 51,685,000 viewers from 5:45-6 PM ET

Full Details: https://t.co/JAAl1yiDeJ

[NFL @NFL]

Breece the Beast 😤

@BreeceH | @nyjets

[Scott Dochterman @ScottDochterman]

Iowa State’s athletic profile has a true BC/AD split: before Jamie Pollard and after Jamie Pollard.

Not always beloved, but nobody fought harder for ISU or pushed the program forward like Pollard, from his hires to financial growth.

https://t.co/s2SpeZF8h7

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

Lots of bad information out there --let's clear it up.

• Recent workforce changes were made to restructure the XBOX business because it is not healthy. They were not made to replace employees with foreign workers.
• The H-1B figures being referenced are Microsoft-wide visa renewals and new hire applications. They are not specific to XBOX and represent a small percentage of Microsoft's overall workforce. And the majority of roles impacted were not American roles.
• XBOX is the largest employer of American workers in the gaming industry and the largest American gaming company.
• And Asha is an American born, raised, and educated CEO, from Wisconsin.

[Alex Gookin @_AlexGookin]

Plenty will be written about Pollard's quirks and the way he operated, but Iowa State is light-years ahead of where it was when he took over, and there's no separating that from his tenure. The impact of what he built is going to be felt for a long time. Thank you, Jamie.

[Microsoft News and Stories @MSFTnews]

Microsoft’s datacenter water-use effectiveness has improved by nearly 90% since our first-generation designs. Learn more about the innovations driving water efficiency across our datacenter fleet. https://t.co/21AHmzImN9

[Lauren Goode @LaurenGoode]

Incredible quote. From @hugolowell's latest dispatch, on Trump, Anthropic's Fable, and @NotTomBrown apparently not being a weirdo

[Adam Brewer @ajbrewer]

The #1 rule of NFL locker rooms around the league is: "don't be a distraction".

This guy was obviously willing to be a distraction to Texas Tech and College Football as a whole. I'm not surprised that nobody wants to touch him.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Brendan Sorsby's attorney Jeffrey Kessler has signaled to FOS that they will challenge the NFL's decision to not hold a supplemental draft for the quarterback.

“This is an unlawful act in violation of the CBA. The player is going to bring this to the NFLPA.”

[Adam Brewer @ajbrewer]

Those who are great and aspire for more greatness want to be coached hard. Finding people to tell you how great you are isn't hard; finding someone who can make you better is difficult to find.

This is what growth mindset is all about.

[Pistols Firing @pistolsguys]

Audi Crooks shares a story about #okstate coach Jacie Hoyt showing her a lowlight reel during her visit.

“Man, that’s really gutsy of you to sit here and show me everything that I’m doing wrong, but I really appreciate that.”

[Alex Volkov @altryne]

.@satyanadella just put the whole "water" debate to rest.

Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant!

[Clark Report @CClarkReport]

She’s an absolute psycho

[Matt Zorich @reprise_99]

The @MsftSecIntel team, including @sherrod_im and all our other researchers have been on a total heater lately with content. Some of my favourite recent blogs you should check out if you haven't yet:

Inside an AI‑enabled device code phishing campaign - showing how AI was used to weaponize device code phishing at scale - https://t.co/k4eRTnCNlu

Undermining the trust boundary - how an existing systems management platform was used to move laterally and deploy web shells - https://t.co/DkkLNea62X

A MacOS focused cyber campaign by Sapphire Sleet, where they tricked users into running malware to steal crypto and harvest credentials - https://t.co/Q1mjbFuPmy

More - https://t.co/HBO3zcDUEo

[ASHA @asha_shar]

Excellent work @WeArePlayground. Congrats to the entire Forza team!

[Adam Brewer @ajbrewer]

What a delightful Easter Egg. I remember when tech used to be whimsical instead of Jony Ive's serious all-white world all the time.

[Digital Trends @DigitalTrends]

Gamers just discovered the new Steam Controller has a hidden Wilhelm scream easter egg when it hits the floor. Somehow, this makes dropping a $99 controller slightly less painful. Video: YourstoOpen, jefftroidvania, RF3D-196 /… #gaming #videogames #steam #technology #technews