The Insider News

IEEE Spectrum[^]:

A prototype archiving system called Olive lets vintage code run on today’s computers

Network World[^]:

ICANN will soon begin implementing DNS Root KSK rollover to bolster internet’s address book

Infoworld[^]:

The compiler framework that powers Rust, Swift, and Clang offers new and revised tools for optimization, linking, and debugging

The Verge[^]:

European regulators are taking a preliminary look at Amazon’s third-party data collection practices as part of an early antitrust probe.

Harvard Business Review[^]:

It’s surprisingly hard for organizations to kill existing initiatives, even when they don’t align with new strategies. Instead, leaders keep layering on initiatives, which can lead to severe overload at levels below the executive team.

Arne Mertz[^]:

With the new C++ standards, we got a lot of features that feel like “quality-of-life” features. They make things easier for the programmer but do not add functionality that wasn’t already there.

Techcrunch[^]:

Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach.

Bad Astronomy[^]:

I’ve been hoping for this news for a long, long time: Astronomers have found a planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani A.

CBC[^]:

UBC research shows brains work harder to pick physical activity over relaxation

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.