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The basic reason is that a group mailbox doesn't have an account and the Outlook Mail API only supports mailboxes that are linked to an account. When you look at the current usage of group mailboxes, it doesn\u2019t seem like there\u2019s much data to mine. Maybe the need for Graph API support for group mailboxes isn\u2019t such a big thing?", "date_published": "2026-09-09T09:00:00+02:00", "tags": [ "M365", "Admin" ] }, { "id": "https://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-partners-with-mistral-ai-to-improve-chip-manufacturing/?utm_source=rss", "url": "https://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-partners-with-mistral-ai-to-improve-chip-manufacturing/?utm_source=rss", "title": "Samsung partners with Mistral AI to improve chip manufacturing", "content_text": "On-premises AI models will analyze complex design data, predict manufacturing defects, and accelerate yield stabilization across advanced logic and memory fabs. Read more...", "date_published": "2026-09-09T08:56:01+02:00", "tags": [ "Tech Press", "News" ] }, { "id": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/microsoft-patches-record-974-flaws.html", "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/microsoft-patches-record-974-flaws.html", "title": "Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Windows Zero-Days", "content_text": "Microsoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016, 62 in SQL, and 22 in Developer Tools. Of these, over 110 shortcomings have been assigned a critical severity rating.", "date_published": "2026-09-09T06:41:29+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "CVE" ] }, { "id": "https://www.neowin.net/news/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-can-shop-send-emails-and-negotiate-on-your-behalf/?utm_source=rss", "url": "https://www.neowin.net/news/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-can-shop-send-emails-and-negotiate-on-your-behalf/?utm_source=rss", "title": "Meta's new Muse AI agent can shop, send emails, and negotiate on your behalf", "content_text": "Meta is officially entering the autonomous AI agent arena with Muse, a new consumer-focused personal assistant powered by its Muse Spark frontier model. 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Excluded are 174 third-party/open-source CVEs and 23 Chromium/Edge CVEs, as well as nine Microsoft mitigated vulnerabilities in applications like Azure, Entra, and Copilot Studio where no customer action is required.", "date_published": "2026-09-09T05:27:36+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Enterprise", "News" ] }, { "id": "https://www.csoonline.com/article/4219968/cisco-bundles-fixes-for-multiple-vulnerabilities-some-critical-into-one-patch-2.html", "url": "https://www.csoonline.com/article/4219968/cisco-bundles-fixes-for-multiple-vulnerabilities-some-critical-into-one-patch-2.html", "title": "Cisco bundles fixes for multiple vulnerabilities, some critical, into one patch", "content_text": "Cisco is looking to get ahead of attackers with a new set of more than a half-dozen fixes, some of them critical, for its IOS XR Linux-based network operating system (OS). As part of its regular testing, Cisco\u2019s software engineering team flagged \u201cmultiple internally-discovered vulnerabilities,\u201d the company said. These flaws could allow attackers to perform remote code execution (RCE) and gain root access on a router, thereby allowing them to intercept traffic. Other potential risks could", "date_published": "2026-09-09T04:22:40+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Enterprise", "News" ] }, { "id": "https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33322", "url": "https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33322", "title": "ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10086, (Wed, Sep 9th)", "content_text": "(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.", "date_published": "2026-09-09T04:00:02+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Analysis", "Patch Tuesday" ] }, { "id": "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/released-september-2026-exchange-server-security-updates/ba-p/4554411", "url": "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/released-september-2026-exchange-server-security-updates/ba-p/4554411", "title": "Released: September 2026 Exchange Server Security Updates", "content_text": "Microsoft has released Security Updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in: Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) Exchange Server 2019 Exchange Server 2016 SUs are available for the following specific versions of Exchange Server: Exchange SE RTM Exchange Server 2019\u00a0CU14\u00a0and\u00a0CU15 (to access, organization must be enrolled into the Period 2 ESU program) Exchange Server 2016\u00a0CU23 (to access, organization must be enrolled into the Period 2 ESU program) The September 2026 SUs address vulnerab", "date_published": "2026-09-08T22:40:02+02:00", "tags": [ "Exchange", "M365" ] }, { "id": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/beyond-the-benchmark-how-an-adaptive-approach-drives-scientific-discovery/", "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/beyond-the-benchmark-how-an-adaptive-approach-drives-scientific-discovery/", "title": "Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery", "content_text": "For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple hypotheses, validating them against evidence, learning from what does not work, and adapting their approach as new information becomes available. The post Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.", "date_published": "2026-09-08T22:00:00+02:00", "tags": [ "Azure", "Cloud" ] }, { "id": "https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Advancing-the-Microsoft-Fabric-SQL-Query-Editor/ba-p/5364033", "url": "https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Advancing-the-Microsoft-Fabric-SQL-Query-Editor/ba-p/5364033", "title": "Advancing the Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor", "content_text": "The Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor is the home for web-based SQL development in Fabric. It gives developers a workspace to explore warehouse data, write and run SQL, among many more capabilities. That work rarely starts and ends with a single query. Developers navigate large schemas, author and refine SQL, inspect results, share findings, and connect validated work to downstream analytics and operational workflows. As warehouses and teams grow, each of those steps can introduce friction, from", "date_published": "2026-09-08T21:00:00+02:00", "tags": [ "Fabric", "Data", "Analytics" ] } ] }