The Insider News

Raymond Chen[^]:

The cluster of Microsoft buildings 16 through 18 were the home of the Microsoft Office team for many, many years. When they moved to Building 37, all of the machines in the old build lab were powered down and moved to the new build lab in Building 37.

Bloomberg[^]:

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates spoke out against protectionism in technological research around topics like artificial intelligence, arguing that open systems will inevitably win out over closed ones.

Futurism[^]:

Romoser believes that various Mars rovers have already captured images of both living and fossilized insects on the Red Planet.

Business Insider[^]:

Cook said that privacy is a factor that must be present throughout the development process when creating new products — it's not something you can "bolt-on" after-the-fact.

JetBrains[^]:

A while ago, I was studying the output of IntelliJ IDEA’s static analyzer for Java code and came across an interesting case.

Futurism[^]:

So far, physicists have identified four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force.

But now, researchers have found new evidence for a fifth force of nature — and it could help us finally unravel the mystery of dark matter.

TechSpot[^]:

Researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs discovered the spam emails, which come with an 'Install Latest Microsoft Windows Update now!' or 'Critical Microsoft Windows Update!’ subject line. Microsoft, of course, doesn’t send out Windows updates through email.

recode[^]:

A new study of artificial intelligence suggests better-paid, better-educated workers might be more impacted by automation than previously thought.

IT Pro Portal[^]:

IT operations teams and security teams within a company don’t communicate as well as they could, which makes the entire organisation more vulnerable to cyber-threats than it should be.

The Register[^]:

IBM, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have partnered with the Open Invention Network (OIN), a company formed to protect Linux from patent threats, to take on "Patent Assertion Entities", also known as patent trolls.

Venture Beat[^]:

On the one hand, there’s an understandable desire to standardize — a set of approved languages can help reign in maintenance costs and long-term viability. But equally, many of us recognize the benefits of using whichever language the developer feels allows them to express themselves most eloquently.