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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 10, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
Windows 11 ships enforced sandboxes for AI agents as an open-source tool hands agents a decompiler
Microsoft Execution Containers reached general availability on October 7, the same day REA gave coding agents reverse-engineering tools through the Model Context Protocol, and Sophos says agents now close half of its managed detection cases.
At its October 7 Windows and Surface event, Microsoft moved Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) from preview to general availability, as the Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data reported. Developers declare which files, network destinat…
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