The Insider News

Ars Technica[^]:

It has long been assumed that the extinct humans were purely carnivorous and that the dietary differences from anatomically modern humans might have been responsible for their demise. But new evidence suggests that as well as enjoying a high meat intake, Neanderthals also had a significant plant element as part of their diets.

Uncrustify[^]:

The goals of this project are simple: Create a highly configurable, easily modifiable source code beautifier.

ReadWrite[^]:

As big as Internet of Things could be, the only real way to measure its value is by developer counts, not sensor counts.

WinBeta[^]:

Microsoft will no longer send security bulletins, security advisories and security bulletin revisions to people via emails. The software giant has notified users, those that have subscribed to security updates, that the company will no longer push such updates to their email inboxes.

Venture Beat[^]:

At the peak of Microsoft’s browser war with Netscape in 1996, a small two-man team by the name of V_Graph approached Microsoft with a novel browser component that could integrate web content into custom applications. They called their product “web widgets.”

The Verge[^]:

According to new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Facebook altered the News Feeds for hundreds of thousands of users as part of a psychology experiment devised by the company's on-staff data scientist. By scientifically altering News Feeds, the experiment sought to learn about the way positive and negative effect travels through social networks, ultimately concluding that "in-person interaction and nonverbal cues are not strictly necessary for emotional contagion."

Windows IT Pro[^]:

There was a conversation on an email discussion list over the past couple days where one individual running WSUS to patch computer reported that Windows 8.1 was not shown correctly as a targeted system. Instead, it was being reported as version 6.2.