The Insider News

InfoQ[^]:

While most of the attention is on big ticket items such as default interface methods and nullable references, many small features are also be considered for C# 8. Here is a sampling of things that may make it into future version of C#.

The Observation Deck[^]:

Let me preface this with an apology: this is a technology love story, and as such, it’s long, rambling, sentimental and personal. Also befitting a love story, it has a When Harry Met Sally feel to it, in that its origins are inauspicious…

The Verge[^]:

A British satellite, designed to test out ways to clean up debris in space, just successfully ensnared a simulated piece of junk in orbit using a big net.

Ubuntu[^]:

This will give an optimum experience when running Ubuntu Desktop as a guest on a Windows 10 Pro desktop host.

ZDNet[^]:

A little-known Windows feature will create a file that stores text extracted from all the emails and plaintext-files found on your PC, which sometimes may reveal passwords or private conversations.

Newsweek[^]:

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team led by Bettina Posselt from Pennsylvania State University, detected a strange emission of infrared light emerging from a region around the snappily-named star, which could indicate the existence of never-before-seen features.

Science Daily[^]:

Computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight in real-time the relevant regions of the image being described.

IEEE Spectrum[^]:

Moore’s Law is over, ushering in a golden age for computer architecture, says RISC pioneer

Hackaday[^]:

Google will now let you code your web pages in Basic. Known as WWWBasic, this is — of course — a Javascript hack that you can load remotely into a web page and then have your page use Basic for customization.

Engadget[^]:

Government Payment Service Inc -- the company thousands of local governments in the US use to accept online payments for everything from court-ordered fines and licensing fees -- has compromised more than 14 million customer records dating back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity reports.

Visual C++[^]:

Together with the use of Clang as a viable compiler for production use on Windows for multiple web browsers, all of this leaves the question of how you can benefit from Clang tooling.