The Insider News

CNet[^]:

CEO Satya Nadella knew the culture at the world's largest software maker needed a fix. Employees and investors are sold. Now he's got to convince the rest of us.

.NET blog[^]:

Bing’s front-end stack is written predominantly in managed code layered in an MVC pattern. Most of the business logic code is written as data models in C#, and the view logic is written in Razor.

Fast Company[^]:

A security flaw in a pacemaker made by Medtronic makes it possible for hackers to take control of the device and deliver malware to the computers implanted in someone’s chest.

SFChronicle[^]:

Some claims reflect extreme differences in estimated values. In one appeal filed in 2015, Apple said that a cluster of properties in and around Apple Park in Cupertino that the assessor valued at $1 billion was worth just $200. In another, property that the assessor valued at $384 million was, in Apple’s view, worth $200, according to an appeal application.

Microsoft Research[^]:

We present FASTER, a new concurrent key-value store designed for point lookups and heavy updates.

Packt[^]:

On 31st July 2018, Eric Holmes, a security researcher gained access to Homebrew’s GitHub repo easily

LA Times[^]:

Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies such as ethereum dried up faster than expected, the Santa Clara company said.

The Programming Languages Enthusiast[^]:

I believe that if we are to solve our security problems, then we must build software with security in mind right from the start.

The Verge[^]:

Google has updated the help page for its Location History feature to acknowledge the fact that the company still tracks users through use of its services like Google Maps, weather updates, and browser searches.

Science Daily[^]:

Technologies and organizations should be redesigned to intermittently isolate people from each other's work for best collective performance in solving complex problems.

Ars Technica[^]:

The last few Windows Insider preview builds of Windows 10 have offered few new features and have instead focused on fixing bugs.

TechXPlore[^]:

Engineers have developed printable metal tags that could be attached to everyday objects and turn them into "smart" Internet of Things devices.

Phys.org[^]:

The internet key exchange protocol IKEv1, which is part of the protocol family, has vulnerabilities that enable potential attackers to interfere with the communication process and intercept specific information.

Bloomberg[^]:

Bitcoin touched below $6,000 and dozens of smaller digital tokens including Ether retreated as this month’s sell-off in cryptocurrencies showed few signs of letting up.