The Insider News

Tech Xplore[^]:

Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have for the first time demonstrated an organic battery. It is of a type known as a 'redox flow battery," with a large capacity that can be used to store energy from wind turbines and solar cells, and as a power bank for cars.

ZDNet[^]:

Microsoft reckons experimental architecture CHERI would have had a big impact on the number of bugs fixed in 2019.

Beta News[^]:

New research reveals that IT and cloud teams spend 44 percent of their time on routine work, just keeping things running, at a cost of $4.8 million a year.

ZDNet[^]:

Intel recommends updating to Linux kernel 5.9 to mitigate a serious flaw Google found in the Linux Bluetooth stack.

functionize[^]:

The truth is, most software systems don’t have automated tests for everything. What should we prioritize?

Motherboard[^]:

Jozef Jarosciak just put millions of early Usenet posts on a browsable archive for the first time.

Naked Security[^]:

Every time that critical patches come out for any operating system, device or app that we think you might be using, you can predict in advance what we’re going to say. Patch early, patch often.

Microsoft AI[^]:

Microsoft researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can generate captions for images that are, in many cases, more accurate than the descriptions people write.