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Bitcoin is holding flat around sixty-four thousand three hundred dollars as traders wait on the US jobs report. Brent crude climbed overnight after Hormuz talks stalled, reviving inflation fears that have kept crypto range-bound all summer. The payrolls print could be the catalyst that breaks the standoff either way.
Shifting to identity security, Microsoft has made passkeys the default authentication method in Entra ID, while retiring SMS and voice-based sign-in options. The move reflects a broader industry push away from one-time codes, which remain vulnerable to SIM-swapping and phishing. For enterprises, the trade-off is stronger security against a real migration burden for legacy workflows.
And on the infrastructure side, Microsoft has launched a dedicated AI Gateway tier inside Azure API Management, now in public preview. The new tier puts models, MCP servers, and tools at the center of the control plane, letting architects route traffic across Foundry, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and OpenAI through a single endpoint. The open question is exactly where governance responsibility ends and the developer's problem begins.
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