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2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard

April 23, 2026 · 31 min

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Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid software that’s written with AI.

 

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