The Insider News

ZDNet[^]:

Sandboxie is now a free download. Source code to be open-sourced at a later date.

The New Stack[^]:

Proponents of free and open source software (FOSS) have moved to the next phases of open source adoption, widening FOSS usage within the enterprise as well as gaining the “digital transformation” benefits associated with open source and cloud native best practices.

ZDNet[^]:

Simjacker attack abuses STK and S@T Browser technologies installed on some SIM cards.

Science[^]:

Solar panels are great for powering devices during the day. But they don’t work after the sun goes down. Now, a new technology that takes advantage of the cold darkness of space may do the trick.

Hackaday[^]:

A lot of programming languages these days feature lambda functions, or what I would be just as happy to call anonymous functions.

Apple Insider[^]:

Apple apparently isn't settling on just Face ID and Touch ID for biometric identification, and is continuing work on identifying a palm placed on a device to authenticate a user.

Venture Beat[^]:

Google.org is today releasing a report that details how social impact startups, nonprofits, government policymakers, and academics can use machine learning to address some of humanity’s biggest problems.

Reuters[^]:

Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago in a deal that may create a legal precedent for other large tech companies present in the country.

Build Azure[^]:

Microsoft announced they are going to be hosting the first Microsoft Linux conference, named WSLconf 1, on March 10 – 11, 2020.

Engadget[^]:

Only 56 percent of all emails were unsolicited in Q1 2019!

Venture Beat[^]:

Recognizing activities and anticipating which might come next is easy enough for humans, who make such predictions subconsciously all the time. But machines have a tougher go of it, particularly where there’s a relative dearth of labeled data.