Top Links* Keynote Schedule Changes and Jeff Fritz Talks Aspire (TechBash 2025) * UPDATE! Aspire Roadmap ’25 – 9.5 has shipped! (Maddy Montaquila) * Data API builder 1.6: Advanced Behaviors with Special HTTP Headers (Jerry Nixon) * Integrating Azure AI Foundry with Copilot Studio: A Strategic and Technical Overview (Peter De Tender) * An Introduction to Passkeys – The Future of Authentication (Maarten Balliauw) * Copilot now included with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & OneNote | Microsoft 365 & Office 365 | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman) * How to Master GitHub Copilot: Build, Prompt, Deploy Smarter (April Yoho)

Web & Cloud Development* Taking SVG “screenshots” of HTML elements (Axel Rauschmayer) * Dockerfile for a .NET 9 Web API Application (Bryan Hogan) * Adding Intelligent Chatbots to React Projects (Hassan Djirdeh) * Leader Election and Virtual Actors in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller) * Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26 (Juan Diego Rodríguez) * Capture JavaScript Integrity Metadata using CSP! (Scott Helme) * Yes, you should upgrade to TypeScript 5.9 — here’s why (Chizaram Ken) * FHIR RLS – Record Location Service (John Moehrke)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Sharpnado.Tabs 4.0: Pure MAUI Touch Effects Across All Platforms (Jean-Marie Alfonsi) * .NET MAUI RC1 Brings Diagnostics and Experimental Android CoreCLR Support (Edin Kapić) * Exploring Popup & Dialogs: Promotions, Cart Updates, Personalized Offers (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET* How to Use Master Reports in Your C# .NET Application (Chelsea Devereaux) * Hidden Costs of Boxing in C#: How to Detect and Avoid Them (Ali Hamza Ansari) * Fixing Overload Resolution For Parameter Arrays in C++/CLI (Tanveer Gani) * How can I enumerate the overflow icons in the Notification Area without showing them? (Raymond Chen)

AI Your AI is a Genie, Not a Guru: How to Supervise Your New Assistant (Gil Zilberfeld) * Docker MCP Toolkit: MCP Servers That Just Work (Oleg Selajev) * Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry: Unlock frontier intelligence and business-ready capabilities (Azure AI Foundry Team) * Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform and Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Enabling Claude Code to work more autonomously (Anthropic Team) * VibeGame: Exploring Vibe Coding Games (Dylan Ebert) * Gemma explained: EmbeddingGemma Architecture and Recipe (Henrique Schechter Vera, Juyeong Ji & Sahil Dua) * Introducing parental controls and Building OpenAI with OpenAI and* Empowering teams to unlock insights faster at OpenAI (OpenAI Team) * AI is the asbestos of the web (Chris Ferdinandi) * AI Story Builders now supports GPT 5 and GPT 5 Mini (Michael Washington) * Introducing the Vonage Documentation MCP Server (Chris Tankersley) * Apple’s Foundation Models framework unlocks new intelligent app experiences (Apple) * Gavin Newsom Signs First-In-Nation AI Safety Law (BeauHD) * vLLM or llama.cpp: Choosing the right LLM inference engine for your use case (Harshith Umesh) * Introducing Claude Agent in JetBrains IDEs (Ivan Moiseev) * The D&D Blueprint: How Role-Playing Engines Can Guide Next-Gen AI (Ivan Pelivanovic) * MCP Bridge – Local Tools to Cloud APIs (Johnny) * Edge AI for Student Developers: Learn to Run AI Locally (Lee Stott) * Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock: Anthropic’s most intelligent model, best for coding and complex agents (Matheus Guimaraes) * DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half (Russell Brandom) * Flow State to Free Fall: An AI Coding Cautionary Tale (Sreeram Venkatasubramanian) * Greater AI choice in GitLab Duo: Claude Sonnet 4.5 arrives (Tim Zallmann)

Design, Methodology & Testing* Agile is Out, Architecture is Back (Craig Adam) * The Hidden ROI of Technical Due Diligence in Software Investments (Chris Woodruff) * Using Git insteadOf to Automatically Replace HTTPS URLs with SSH (Gérald Barré) * Making your code base better will make your code coverage worse (Jared Toporek) * Why the Frontend Should Embrace Platform Engineering (Loraine Lawson) * 100X Faster: How We Supercharged Netflix Maestro’s Workflow Engine (Jun He, Yingyi Zhang & Ely Spears) * Spelungit: When git log –grep isn’t enough (Phil Haack) * CodeQL zero to hero part 5: Debugging queries (Sylwia Budzynska)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Swift 6.2 Released with Improved Concurrency, Safer Raw-Memory Access, Wasm Support and More (Sergio De Simone) * Unlocking Dynamic Experiences with Client-Side custom signals conditions in Firebase Remote Config (Athira Manu & Sumit Chandel)

Screencasts & Videos* How to Build Powerful RAG Applications with Azure SQL DB & OpenAI (Frank LaVigne) * IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 280 – “Make IoT Great This Time” (The Things Conference Episode) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew) * Recording: How To Run AI Agents Natively In Your Database (Oren Eini) * Azure SQL DB & OpenAI: Building Powerful RAG Applications | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Indira) * Setting up Figma Remote MCP in Warp and Using Agent Profiles and Using Project Rules (Warp Team) * Answering Your GitHub Spec Kit Questions (Den Delimarsky) * Lessons from Billions of Breached Records with Troy Hunt (SSW TV) * The Impact of Organizing Around Business Value (Mike Cottmeyer) * Your New AI Pair Programmer: A Guide to Vibe Coding with MongoDB with Pete Johnson (MongoDB Team)

Podcasts* InfoQ Podcast: The Hidden Vulnerability of The Open Source Software Supply Chain: The Underlying Infrastructure (Brian Fox) * Merge Conflict Episode #482 – 1 Day Apps (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger) * Modern JavaScript Testing: Integration, Contract Testing & AI Tools – JavaScript Jabber #692 (Charles Max Wood) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – As your AI gets smarter, so must your API (Phoebe Sajor) * Practical AI Podcast Episode #330 – We’ve all done RAG, now what? (Rajiv Shah & Daniel Whitenack) * Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #114 – .NET 10, TUnit, GPT-5 and more discussing software maturity – with Rick, Oscar & Jelle (Rick Van Den Bosch, Oscar Van Tol & Jelle Fremery) * Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #491 – A Very Analytical Approach to the Job Search w/ Jerome Hardaway (Taylor Desseyn) * Grammar Girl Podcast – Can you use ‘epicenter’ for positive things? The etymology of ‘bro.’ Mukwonago, Oconomowoc. (Valerie Fridland & Mignon Fogarty) * Syntax Podcast Episode #941 – Is Responsible AI Possible? with Dr. Sarah Bird of Microsoft (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * When To Stop Helping Agile Teams To Change—A Real Life Story | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Tom Molenaar) * The PowerShell Podcast – From Sysadmin to Security at Microsoft with Thomas Rayner (James Petty) * The Changelog News Podcast Episode #163 – Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (Jerod Santo) * Meta Cast – Trusting Your Gut: The Vanishing Skill of Modern Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson) * Meta Tech Podcast Episode #78 – AssetGen: Generating 3D Worlds With AI (Pascal Hartig, Mahima & Rakesh) * Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #245 – From Consumer Chatbots to Enterprise Guardrails: Securing Real AI Adoption (Anton Chuvakin) * Talk Python to Me #521 – Red Teaming LLMs and GenAI with PyRIT (Michael Kennedy) * Python Bytes Podcast #451 – Databases are a Fad (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)

Community & Events* Microsoft is bringing its Windows engineering teams back together again (Tom Warren) * Codemash 2026 Sessions Announcement (Amanda Stamper) * Here, take my card… (David Neal) * MVP Champ Spotlight- Derk van der Woude (Brooke Lynn Weenig)

Database* SQL Query Memory Consumption in SQL Server 2025 (Mehdi Ghapanvari) * How to Capture Running Queries in SQL Server (prakashkc) * Stop Using INTs for Primary Keys (Unless You Really Know Why) (Piyush Doorwar) * Learn T-SQL With Erik: Writing Smarter While Loops (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams Important update about the future of Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways and* Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways: Enabling learning for customers (Jessie Hwang) * Microsoft is Bringing “Vibe Working” to Office Apps (Paul Thurrott) * Building Agent Mode in Excel (tmobrien)

Miscellaneous Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6760 (Beta Channel) and* Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6760 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski) * FCC Mistakenly Leaks Confidential iPhone 16e Schematics (BeauHD) * Anker’s fastest airline-friendly power bank is now available (Andrew Liszewski) * YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement (Jay Peters) * Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos (msmash) * Trump’s Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ (Tim De Chant)

More Link Collections* Interesting links of the week 2025-40 (Michael Eaton) * Daily Reading List – September 29, 2025 (#637) (Richard Seroter) * The .NET News Daily Issue #292 (Jasen) * AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS X-Ray and more (September 29, 2025) (Matheus Guimaraes) * Reading Notes #667 (Frank Boucher) * Xbox September Update: ROG Xbox Ally, Gaming Copilot, Aggregated Library, and More (Mike Nelson)

The Geek Shelf Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link