The Insider News

SD Times[^]:

Companies today are expanding their collaboration efforts beyond workplace chat groups and creating software delivery teams through activities like pair programming, or group hackathons. One longtime software engineer and scrum master thinks that companies can go a step further — creating collaborative groups through improv.

ZDNet[^]:

Microsoft is adding several new management features to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and its Intune mobile-device management service later this year.

Bleeping Computer[^]:

This fall, Microsoft plans to release a new Windows Defender feature called Controlled Folder Access, which blocks and blacklists unauthorized apps from making changes to files located inside specially-designated folders.

The Verge[^]:

For all the benefits that the iPhone helped deliver, our current level of unprecedented digital connection has left quite a few critics dismayed and concerned over our screen addiction and our inability to go even a few minutes without unlocking our devices.

Windows Developers[^]:

Create a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) game for one of the categories below by December 31, 2017 and you’ll get the chance to win cash prizes and show off your game to the world.

UPI[^]:

Scientists file patent for innovative brewing technique that incorporates a live strain of good bacteria into the brewing process.

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After a few other failed approaches, and six months in, I decided to try out a neural network. I settled on using TensorFlow, an immense library produced by the Google Brain Team. TensorFlow can run on a CPU, but for a huge speed increase I tapped the parallel computing power of the graphics processing unit in my US $700 GTX1080 Ti Nvidia video card.

Digital Trends[^]:

Back in the 1980s, people working on bringing the graphical user interface to PCs adopted the metaphor of the desktop to help people understand how to use their personal computers. Here in 2017, the technology exists to let us expand our computer interfaces out beyond our machines, and onto our real life desks.

.NET blog[^]:

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Jaxenter[^]:

The output of this process is a composite repository of open source software and a new release of the Eclipse IDE.

Techcrunch[^]:

The description of the Petya infections hitting computers worldwide as “ransomware” may be a misnomer, security analysts suggest.

Ars Technica[^]:

A small Canadian firm has acquired an injunction against Google from the Supreme Court of Canada that is being called the first global de-indexing order.

BBC News[^]:

European aerospace giant Airbus and its partner, OneWeb, have begun the production of a satellite mega-constellation.