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test(release): use entitled Gemini live model (#153189)

Highlights this week include:

• Public Preview: HTTP/3 over QUIC support in Azure Application Gateway by The Azure Updates Team - Azure Application Gateway offers a public preview of HTTP/3 over QUIC support, enabling faster connections, lower latency, and enhanced resilience for contemporary web services and APIs.
• Public Preview: Azure Payments HSM v2 by The Azure Updates Team - Azure Payments HSM v2 provides enhanced security with dedicated hardware isolation and advanced key management for protecting sensitive financial data while offering full administrative control.
• Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot by Stephen Toub - GitHub Copilot migrated its agent runtime from TypeScript to 800,000 lines of Rust, using AI to complete the rewrite in months rather than years.
• Automating Azure VM Image Baking and Validation with Packer and Azure DevOps by Prakhar Sharma - Packer and Azure DevOps pipelines ensure image quality by validating the final gallery version rather than just the temporary build VM.
• How and Why We Bought 4x DGX Sparks by Alex Ellis - OpenFaaS deploys local DGX Sparks to process sensitive Kubernetes dumps and avoid the privacy risks inherent in third-party inference services like data retention and legal subpoenas.

Logging is crucial for app monitoring, extending beyond exceptions to include diagnostic events like request timing and connection details. Spargine offers three HTTP listeners—HttpEventListener, HttpEventListenerAsyncLocal, and HttpRequestsObserver—each providing various levels of detail to help troubleshoot performance issues and improve logging for .NET applications.

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) The WSJ says the Hugging Face might not be all that it was cracked up to be 2) The bots were told to hack? 3) Was this all a false flag for an effective altrust takeover? 4) Was this a smoke screen to conceal bad financial numbers from the AI labs? 5) Alex: Actually, maybe we should take these issues seriously? 6) Ranjan: They why aren't the labs being more transparent 7) Astra-6's crazy instructions to alter its personality in training 8) Anthropic hits $100 million in ARR 9) The IPOs will go on 10) The frontier AI business shows signs of slowing

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