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2.7.2: Add admin protection error message for shadow admin scenarios (#40170)

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  • Add admin protection error message for shadow admin scenarios

When Windows Admin Protection is enabled, the elevated process runs as a
shadow admin with a different SID, so distributions registered under the
real user are not visible. Surface an informational message in two cases:

  1. Launching a distribution by name that is not found (WSL_E_DISTRO_NOT_FOUND)
  2. Listing distributions when none are registered (WSL_E_DEFAULT_DISTRO_NOT_FOUND)
  • formatting

  • Show admin protection message for non-elevated users too

When Admin Protection creates a shadow admin, distros registered under
the real user are invisible to the shadow admin and vice versa. Remove
the elevation check so the informational message appears for both
elevated and non-elevated callers.

Co-authored-by: Copilot 223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com


Co-authored-by: Ben Hillis benhill@ntdev.microsoft.com
Co-authored-by: Copilot 223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com

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DIY To Power Our Planet: An (Mini) Earth Day Field Guide

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DIY To Power Our Planet: An (Mini) Earth Day Field Guide

Earth Day 2026 isn’t about lofty pledges or abstract policy—it’s about what you can build, hack, repair, and share today. The theme, “Our Power, Our Planet,” shares some key tenets of Maker culture, elevating tools over talk, prototypes over promises, and communities over complacency. Its a distillation and an exhortation to do what we can, […]

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Daily Reading List – April 22, 2026 (#769)

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Amazing first day of Google Cloud Next. Keynotes were fun and had a ton of productive customer chats.

[blog] Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘26. Great roundup of what we’re announcing today, and why it matters.

[blog] The new Gemini Enterprise: one platform for agent development, orchestration, and governance. You deserve nice things! We’ve juiced-up our platform for building agents and doing work.

[blog] Gemini Enterprise for the agentic task force: introducing long-running agents, agentic collaboration spaces, advanced governance, and more. This post goes deeper into the Gemini Enterprise app and how we all can do more productive and interesting work.

[blog] Announcing Spanner Omni: Your infrastructure, Google’s innovation. The best data service in the cloud available … anywhere? Yup, you can now bring Spanner with you to run on any infrastructure.

[blog] What’s new with Databases: Powering the agentic future. Plenty of new and exciting things from our Data team.

[blog] What’s new in Cloud Run at Next ‘26. We haven’t let up on our serverless investment, and it’s a one-horse race right now. Cloud Run continues to introduce valuable and innovative capabilities.

[blog] What’s new in GKE at Next ‘26. Kubernetes is already a fundamental component for many companies, and with this AI surge, it’s finding new ways to be useful.

[blog] What’s next in Google AI infrastructure: Scaling for the agentic era. Compute, networking, and storage are still the bread-and-butter of a hyperscaler, and ours should be second-to-none.

[blog] Inside the eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive. Big improvements, and two distinct systems.

[blog] Level Up Your Agents: Announcing Google’s Official Skills Repository. Fantastic work from my team here. We built a foundational set of agent skills you can use with your favorite agentic harness.

[article] 15 principles for managing up. Really good. “Managing up” has a bad rap, but it’s important to effectively and clearly communicate with the boss.

[article] Eclipse Foundation offers enterprise-grade open source alternative to Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace. Already popular, this registry has over 10k extensions. I’m glad Google is a supporter.

[blog] Introducing the Builders Hub from the Google Developer Program. Tremendous work from my team to build this new experience. It pulls together more of Google’s dev products into a single place.

[article] SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B. Wouldn’t have predicted that, but it also makes sense given the ambitions of those involved.

[blog] A Guide to 5 Agent Payment Protocols. It’s wild there are five of these already. But they don’t completely overlap. This post tries to separate the use cases for each.

[article] Employers say they struggle to find workers with the right AI skillset. This is specific to graduate hires. Universities need to quickly reset to ensure their churning out people who have the skills the market is willing to pay for.

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Building agents that reach production systems with MCP

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Gates Foundation To Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the Gates Foundation's staff. "Early this year, Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman commissioned an external review to assess past foundation engagement with Epstein, and our current policies for vetting and developing new philanthropic partnerships," the foundation said in a statement. "That review is underway, and we expect the board and management will receive an update this summer," it added. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news earlier on Tuesday, said Suzman told staff in a memo, "this is a challenging time for our organization in many ways, but it also highlights the critical importance of taking the tough actions now." The WSJ also reports that the Gates Foundation will eliminate up to 500 jobs, or about 20% of its staff, by 2030. It said the foundation has a 2026 budget of about $9 billion, but plans to cap operating expenses at $1.25 billion. Further reading: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong

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Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership

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Microsoft has started teasing a new Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership, just a day after lowering prices of its Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscriptions. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says the company is partnering with Discord again "as we continue to make Game Pass more flexible for our players."

It's not immediately clear what the latest Discord and Xbox partnership will result in, but given it's a Game Pass one it's likely related to some perks for subscribers of Xbox Game Pass. At the moment Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can get a month of Discord Nitro as part of the subscription, and it's possible that Microsoft and …

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