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Ars Technica[^]:

Change will bring smaller downloads and quicker checking for updates.

ZDNet[^]:

The nation state has a single point of failure fiber, recently installed in 2011, and could spell disaster for dozens of other countries.

Microsoft publishes a list of known good declaration files for popular npm packages to npm, under the scope @types: https://www.npmjs.com/~types
The 1.7 release of VSCode helpfully tries to automatically load type declarations for any npm package you use by requesting the equivalent declaration package under @types. When the package exists this is fine, because it's cached in our CDN.
What they forgot to consider is that most CDNs don't cache 404 responses, and since there are 350,000 packages and less than 5000 type declarations, the overwhelming majority of requests from VSCode to the registry were 404s. This hammered the hell out of our servers until we put caching in place for 404s under the @types scope.
We didn't start caching 404s for every package, and don't plan to, because that creates annoying race conditions for fresh publishes, which is why most CDNs don't cache 404s in the first place.
There are any number of ways to fix this, and we'll work with Microsoft to find the best one, but fundamentally you just need a more network-efficient way of finding out which type declarations exist. At the moment there are few enough that they could fetch a list of all of them and cache it (the public registry lacks a documented API for doing that right now, but we can certainly provide one).

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Though Atlas Recall is a unique product, it's similar to Google's ecosystem that saves and tracks everything you do. When you're logged in to Google services, it collects and saves your activity, from where you go via Google Maps, to appointments you make with Google Calendar. You can search these services to find personal data.

But Atlas Recall takes that behavior and applies it to literally everything you do with your computer.

"The platform wars are over, nobody won, and no one will ever win them again," Ritter told CNNMoney. "We now have diverse sets of apps and platforms and services, and we move fluidly between all of them. What we want is something that works the way we use our devices and data."

Ars Technica[^]:

One of the more compelling alternatives is a particle called an axion. Axions were first proposed to solve a different problem in physics, one involving the forces that pulls quarks and gluons together to form things like protons and neutrons. But if axions exist and have mass, they would seem to have the properties needed to produce the effects we ascribe to dark matter.

Jaxenter[^]:

In short, Gitless promises to solve some of Git’s core issues and help ease programmers’ work.

Engadget[^]:

We know that Russia wants to give Microsoft products the boot, but now it's clearer as to why.

Microsoft Research[^]:

Our goal is to enable machines to better understand human communication. An important question is, what does the word “understand” mean here?