Periodic reminder that even Microsoft recommends disabling Device code flow
The primary two areas I see this used are Teams phones / Conference room type equipment and administrative CLI tools, and you should still block by default and exclude as needed
https://t.co/Xzgt5JIaJW
🔆 Tip 👉 Did you know that Google Chrome on macOS has a built-in passkey manager?
Use it to quickly view and manage all the passkeys on your FIDO2 security keys.
For World Passkey Day, we published the Passkey Benchmark 2026.
The goal was simple: look beyond the hype and understand what passkey adoption actually looks like in practice.
3 takeaways most teams underestimate:
Updated my PowerShell script "Invoke-ADLabBuildOut.ps1" so it now creates AD sites, subnets, and site links (based on the created sites).
This script takes a newly built AD lab environment and makes it look like a production environment along with common security issues.
https://t.co/FmWBVVXUYN
Microsoft is making moves again.
A quiet little Python tool just shot to the top of GitHub’s trending charts.
100,000+ stars.
It’s called MarkItDown.
And it does something deceptively simple:
It turns almost any file into clean Markdown.
PDFs. Word docs. PowerPoints. Excel files. Images.
Drop a file in. Get structured Markdown out.
Sounds small.
It’s not.
Because one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI workflows — especially RAG systems — is getting messy, real-world documents into a format models can actually use.
And real-world documents are brutal.
PDFs are chaotic.
Word docs are full of hidden formatting junk.
PowerPoints are messy and often image-heavy.
Spreadsheets can be a nightmare to parse cleanly.
That’s where this gets interesting.
MarkItDown strips away the friction and gives you something LLM pipelines can actually work with.
In other words: less preprocessing, less pain, faster AI implementation.
Even better, this isn’t some random side project.
It’s an official Microsoft open-source tool.
Free. Commercially usable. Practical.
I tested it on a 200-page PDF.
A few seconds later, I had Markdown that was shockingly clean.
And that’s what big tech does at its best:
They take an annoying, universal problem that everyone has been duct-taping together…
and turn it into a simple standard.
That’s why this matters.
It’s not just a file conversion tool.
It’s infrastructure for the next wave of AI applications.
Get it here: https://t.co/UDzes0sbDs
🚨 Want to learn how to build + ship AI and Data Science projects (that businesses actually want)?
On April 29th, I am hosting a free workshop to help you get started with AI + DS projects in Python.
Register here (500 seats): https://t.co/ZgiybFazCD
🚨 The future of AI agents is HERE—but OAuth 2 needs an upgrade to keep up!
🔥 Microsoft wants to collaborate with the community to make AI agents secure, autonomous, and trustworthy.
Let’s dive into why this matters. 🧵👇
#AI#Cybersecurity#Microsoft
And there it is - Passkey in Microsoft Authenticator!
If you'd like to set up Passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator, follow along. I'll provide a script to grab all existing AAGUIDs from your environment so we can configure this for testing without breaking existing keys :)
The Microsoft Entra Application Proxy Connector is updated to v1.5.3829.0 with a few improvements.
📛It is also rebranded as the Microsoft Entra Private Network Connector to emphasize its use in Microsoft Entra Private Access.
🔖See release notes FMI!
https://t.co/SRIB31yMZD