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Initially planned to end on January 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Dedicated Host and Azure App Service has been extended until further notice.

You may continue exchanging your compute reservations for different instance series and regions until we notify you again, which will be at least 6 months in advance. In addition, any compute reservations purchased during this extended grace period will retain the right to one more exchange after the grace period ends. The extended grace period allows you to better assess your cost savings commitment needs and plan effectively. For more information about the exchange policy change, see Changes to the Azure reservation exchange policy.

Launched in October…

A dedicated host can encounter issues caused by user configurations or underlying host infrastructure. Host ‘Redeploy’ will simplify the process to move an Azure Dedicated Host and its associated Virtual Machines (VMs) from the current node to a different node of the same hardware generation. This could be considered as user-initiated service healing.

After redeploy all the properties of the host will remain unchanged except for ‘Asset Id’ and also any data on the VMs temporary disks would get deleted.

As part of the public preview we are enabling this capability in all regions of the Azure public cloud and users would be able to redeploy their hosts using Portal or CLI.
Support through powershell and support in soveriegn clouds is coming soon.

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Google updated its Safe Browsing feature. Now, Chrome users can receive real-time updates on dangerous websites. In the past, Safe Browsing updated its database of harmful sites every 30 to 60 minutes.

But since many harmful sites are only active for a short period, often less than 10 minutes, this was not effective enough. Now, Google’s servers will update the Safe Browsing list constantly, offering immediate protection against new threats. Google claims this method will reduce phishing site encounters by a margin.

Privacy has been a key focus in this update. Real-time Safe Browsing employs various privacy-preserving techniques to ensure Google does not learn the specifics of the sites users visit.

This feature has been released on Chrome’s desktop and iOS versions, with…

Palworld, named by its famous name for its enemies’ similar style and patterns – has experienced an incredible rise in the 3 weeks since it went public. It became one of world’s biggest gaming history with which multiplayer is now known as “Pokemon”. Since the argument that Palworld is not a rip-off of Pokemon remains to be debated among fans and Nintendo’s lawyers, what could still lie? The game has gone on its impressive success in terms for which it earned Microsoft support moving forward.

In a recent post in Xbox Wire, it announced that Microsoft will work with Pocketpair to assist developers of Palworld in developing the necessary resources.

“On Xbox, I’m working with Pocketpair to get the support for games like this,” said Windows in a blog post….