The Insider News

IEEE Spectrum[^]:

Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase their query to a large language model (LLM) or AI art or video generator to get the best results (or sidestep protections).

Tech Radar[^]:

Developers are still spending too much time on troubleshooting application performance issues, rendering them incapable of spending enough time on innovation and other productive work, new research has claimed.

The Register[^]:

The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS.

Windows Latest[^]:

The app is developed by a small group of Microsoft engineers based in Asia, and it’s now getting a big update with an improved “Files Cleanup,” which lets you free up space more easily.

sotogreco[^]:

Navigating the Multilingual Landscape of Software Development

BBC[^]:

The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?

yield code();[^]:

Developing software in teams is not the be-all end-all solution. In fact, there are some issues that arise strictly from the fact that we have a team.

The Verge[^]:

Microsoft has quietly started testing an intriguing change to the Windows 11 Start menu that could introduce a floating panel full of “companion” widgets.

Security Boulevard[^]:

Despite overall generous salaries, a lack of raises and falling cybersecurity budgets are leading to dissatisfaction among chief information security officers (CISOs) when it comes to compensation.

Hack a day[^]:

Make creative retro game sprites on the Commodore 64 with generative AI.

Yuxuan Shui[^]:

I had free access to GitHub Copilot for about a year, I used it, got used to it, and slowly started to take it for granted, until one day it was taken away