The Insider News

Infoworld[^]:

The decline of OS X Snow Leopard has accelerated in the last three months, perhaps because users have realized that Apple has stopped patching the 2009 operating system for the Mac.

Microsoft Security Response Center[^]:

Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the private preview of Microsoft Interflow, a security and threat information exchange platform for analysts and researchers working in cybersecurity. Interflow uses industry specifications to create an automated, machine-readable feed of threat and security information that can be shared across industries and groups in near real-time. The goal of the platform is to help security professionals respond more quickly to threats. It will also help reduce cost of defense by automating processes that are currently performed manually.

OneDrive blog[^]:

With OneDrive, we want to give you one place for all of your stuff: your photos, videos, documents and other files. Of course, to do this, we need to make sure you actually have enough storage space for everything, particularly given that the amount of content everyone has is growing by leaps and bounds.

Ars Technica[^]:

Stripped down package means there will be three independent versions of OpenSSL.

Neowin[^]:

Microsoft would like its customers to consider Bing as a service that competes head-to-head with Google. And if you live inside the US, that's a true statement but for those who live elsewhere, it has been a second-class service since its inception - but a new job posting states that is about to change.

The Verge[^]:

Two months ago, security experts and web users panicked when a Google engineer discovered a major bug — known as Heartbleed — that put over a million web servers at risk. The bug doesn't make the news much anymore, but that doesn't mean the problem's solved. Security researcher Robert David Graham has found that at least 309,197 servers are still vulnerable to the exploit.

InfoQ[^]:

Any model is provisional and we need to keep challenging them to find their weak spots, Eric Evans stated in his keynote at this year's DDD Exchange conference yesterday in London when walking through and challenging his own fundamental assumptions of Domain-Driven Design, DDD. Eric excludes misassumptions from his analysis, e.g. that OOP is mandatory or that tactical building blocks like repositories have to be used, neither which are real assumptions of DDD.

Forbes[^]:

The worst kept secret is that employees are making less on average every year. There are millions of reasons for this, but we’re going to focus on one that we can control. Staying employed at the same company for over two years on average is going to make you earn less over your lifetime by about 50% or more.

Ars Technica[^]:

EFF says open Wi-Fi tool promotes efficiency, neighborliness, and privacy.

io9[^]:

Do you spend more than seven hours a day parked in front of a computer monitor? Results from a newly published study suggest you could be stripping your "tear film" of a component that helps keep your eyes clean, lubricated and healthy.

.NET Framework blog[^]:

We’ve recently shipped new collection types on NuGet with our Immutable Collections package. NuGet allows us to ship prerelease and experimental versions of libraries to gather feedback from the community. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays will talk about his intern project: an experimental NuGet package containing advanced collection types.