The Insider News

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.

Techcrunch[^]:

The surprise hit of Google I/O was without a doubt Cardboard. Google’s paper product — or phone-based VR viewer — made its debut during yesterday’s keynote, and today, David Coz, the project’s founder, revealed its origins.

The Verge[^]:

Google wants to make the experience of using Chromecast more social. To do that, it's opening up the $35 device to everyone in your living room, regardless of whether or not they're connected to your Wi-Fi network.

The Mouse Trap[^]:

It's rare that you come across a bug so subtle that it can last for two decades. But, that's exactly what has happened with the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm.

.NET Framework blog[^]:

The free, virtual and community-driven dotnetConf is on. Point your web-browser to dotnetConf.com. No registration, manager approval or anything required! The virtual conference is two days long.