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markrussinovich.bsky.social
CTO of Microsoft Azure, author of novels Rogue Code, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, Windows Internals, Sysinternals tools. Opinions are my own.
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We believe topological qubits provide the only path to quantum computers large enough to solve real problems. The Majorana 1 is the world's first topological quantum processing unit (QPU), and a major step toward a system of 1 million qubits:

Podcast alert: Scott and Mark Learn To....Zoomit! We have a Zoom Off to see who can zoom the screen with Zoomit best:

Do you want to learn how to be a better public speaker? Join @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I in this episode of "Scott and Mark Learn To" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jr...

Microsoft Threat Intelligence's latest research uncovers a multiyear global operation by a subgroup within the Russian state actor tracked as Seashell Blizzard. Learn more about the advanced techniques and global reach of this threat.

Just 7 days remain until Rust Nation UK 2025! Prepare yourself for an unforgettable experience. The final countdown has begun. We're excited to have @markrussinovich.bsky.social as one of our Keynote speakers There's still time to secure your ticket!! buff.ly/3y02Grr #rustnationuk25 #rustlang

Learn how hyperlight can create virtualization-based sandboxes for WASM applications:

"9 SysInternals tools that should be built into Windows" www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

AI hallucinates, as today's Google Superbowl ad demonstrates and our article, The Price of Intelligence, explains: queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

Uh huh.

The latest episode of our podcast, "Scott and Mark Learn to...", is out: public speaking! @scott.hanselman.com and I share each of our tips based on our experiences in another fun one:

The latest episode of our podcast, "Scott and Mark Learn to...", is out: public speaking! Scott Hanselman and I share each of our tips based on our experiences in another fun one:

Nice analysis of the implications of DeepSeek R1:

Azure will be 15 years old next month. Listen to Scott Hanselman and I discuss a little bit of its history in our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To..." podcast episode:

DeepSeek R1 is now available in Azure and Github:

Zoomit is now in PowerToys along with other awesome utilities, and is also open source!

Regex is too hard for even OpenAI o1: it thought for over three minutes and then produced regex that didn't work. Looks like regex is a good test for AGI.

Learn about the risks of hallucination, jailbreaks and prompt injection and current mitigations in our ACM Queue paper:

Here's the real Zero Day trailer:

I've been asked a few times since the title is the same as my first novel's and the premise is similar, a cyberattack on the US that wipes computers, but no, I'm not involved or getting royalties: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOfB...

Great insights from MIcrosoft's AI red team applicable to any enterprise developing generative AI systems: "3 takeaways from red teaming 100 generative AI products"

High order human cognition process information at around 10 bits/second - yes, 10 *bits*. Surprising that no one has done this analysis before: arxiv.org/pdf/2408.10234

A fantastic episode of prob my favorite podcast going right now: @scott.hanselman.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social Learn To… youtu.be/Ypcog_lv0DA?...

ee how our partnership with AMD gives our latest HPC VM types 7TB (yes, TB) of memory bandwidth in my latest appearance on the Microsoft Mechanics show, complete with demos:

New episode of @shanselman and Mark Learn To...Find Joy in Hobbies. Find out what we do in our spare time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypco...

I've been using a new 15" ARM64 Surface Laptop for a week and it's the best laptop I've ever had. Extremely responsive, longest battery life, sleek formfactor, and the x86 compatibility is completely seamless. www.microsoft.com/en-us/surfac...

OpenAI published a paper on "deliberative alignment" they used in o1 to make it safe and compliant. Unfortunately, it's not effective against Crescendo. Here's an example from the paper and three steps to get violating content using Crescendo: openai.com/index/delibe...

Llama3.1-70B has memorized the start of Moby Dick, but when it diverges from the original it interjects something about slot machines. Wonder how this got into its training;

ChatGPT's code for the War Games simulator:

short link! youtu.be/NMNZE22nSQI?... directly to Mark's talk and demo at Ignite.

You can use commands in ChatGPT to update and view its memory: Add memory: to=bio <text of memory> List memory: to=bio list Remove a memory: to=bio remove #N

ZoomIt v9 with LiveDraw is out! Draw and annotate windows and the desktop while you interact with them: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...

Great recap of my Ignite talk on Azure innovations by Simon Bisson at InfoWorld:

Phi-4, the latest in our Phi line of industry leading small language models (SLM) is out. It's performance with just 14B parameters on many tasks is competitive with 70B frontier models:

ZoomIt LiveDraw is coming on Monday!

Welcome to the family New Zealand. #Microsoft announces the latest new region for #Azure #Microsoft365 & #AI. This time its New Zealand North with AZs for resiliency and with 100% carbon free energy is now open: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/update... techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

The next episode of our Scott and Mark Learn To podcast series is out. In this one, we learn how to...take a dump!

Premiering tomorrow: EPISODE 6 - Scott & Mark Learn To... Take a Dump. https://buff.ly/3ZwJETv #podcast #devcommunity #programming #productivity #debugging #windowsdev #sysinternals

I test every new frontier model’s alignment using Crescendo. Just tested o1 and succeeded easily on all the harmful tasks I test, like getting instructions for homemade ricin, writing a white nationalist manifesto, and role playing an AI that wants to destroy humanity:

We've always been a fan of blueskies.

Read about the AI trends we see for 2025:

In the latest episode of our podcast, "Scott and Mark learn to..", @scott.hanselman.com and I talk about undocumented APIs, including why they exist and how I reverse engineered undocumented Windows APIs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMW...

Thanks to LLMs, I no longer have to ever relearn regex. That alone is worth $20/month.

My session with @scott.hanselman.com on responsible AI (with a lot of often humorous irresponsible AI demos) is now posted: My session on responsible AI (full of irresponsible AI) with Scott Hanselman is now posted:

This is a fun conversation with me, Aaron Fulkerson (CEO of Opaque Systems) and Mark Papermaster (AMD CTO) about developments and trends in confidential computing:

Yes, Scott and Mark Learn...skin care! Another fun podcast episode, this one nothing to do with technology: