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Purview retention policies can now archive inactive SharePoint files into Microsoft 365 Archive. What MC1472601 and MC1325441 change, the Copilot indexing trade-off, and what to configure before the rollout reaches your tenant.

An error budget is the unreliability an SLO allows. Learn to calculate it, track burn rate, set multiwindow alerts in PromQL and write an error budget policy. Sejal Pandey works on content and growth at Last9, writing about observability, reliability, and SRE practices.

I built GitBench because I was curious about how well models did git things. It turns out that it was a good idea because some models will surprise you. Some of the frontier models were remarkably bad and some cheap open models punched above their weight class. But, as they say, “the times they are a changin’”. Before I go too deep into the latest results, you may want to read up on GitBench and what it is and why I built it in the previous blog post.

A practical comparison of the best observability tools in 2026: Last9, Datadog, Grafana Cloud, New Relic, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, Coralogix and SigNoz. Sejal Pandey works on content and growth at Last9, writing about observability, reliability, and SRE practices.

On July 27, 2026, the Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, entered into force and rewrote the EU AI Act's timeline. The high-risk obligations that were due to apply on August 2, 2026, including Article 73 serious-incident reporting, now apply from December 2, 2027 for standalone high-risk systems (Annex III) and August 2, 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products (Annex I). Not everything moved.