The Insider News

Slash Gear[^]:

Italy’s Borexino detector has confirmed a decades-old theory, finding the first-ever evidence of a carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle that produces neutrinos in our Sun.

Slash Gear[^]:

Microsoft is instead embracing some of these rival platforms, with rumors of a deeper integration with Android that would let its mobile apps run directly on Windows 10 by 2021 at the earliest.

MS Power User[^]:

Workplace Analytics, which is available as part of Office 365 enterprise plan as an add-on, makes use of Office 365 email and calendar metadata, including to/from data, subject lines and timestamps to create set of behavioural metrics that can be used by the managers to know what’s going on in an organization.

NDepend[^]:

C#9 record and C#9 init property are really nice addition to the language. As explained in C#9 records: immutable classes, both are syntactic sugar that don’t require any change at IL level nor runtime levels.

IEEE Spectrum[^]:

When the human body is the communications channel, it’s hard to hack the data

Techcrunch[^]:

The Weezer frontman on moonlighting as a computer science student

Ars Technica[^]:

1,500 Xbox users have downloaded the “retail” version of RetroArch, dev says.

Tech Republic[^]:

The pandemic has sent more people to seek out coding courses as a means of upskilling and future-proofing themselves in times of economic uncertainty.

Bleeping Computer[^]:

An unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices received a free and temporary fix today through the 0patch platform.

TechXplore[^]:

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle has taken both sentiments to heart and this week unveiled a system that offers extreme condensation of lengthy computer-science reports to slash the time it take to review such literature.