The Insider News

Too slow exception[^]:

We can often hear that allocation of objects is “cheap” in .NET. I fully support this sentence because the most important part is its continuation – allocation is cheap but allocating a lot of objects will hit you back as sooner or later garbage collector will kick in and start messing around.

Windows Developer[^]:

With the new Windows Desktop Program, developers now have a convenient, one-stop portal to view their desktop application analytics or access the data via an API.

European Commission - Press release[^]:

The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €997m for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets. Qualcomm prevented rivals from competing in the market by making significant payments to a key customer on condition it would not buy from rivals. This is illegal under EU antitrust rules.

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In 2011, Qualcomm signed an agreement with Apple, committing to make significant payments to Apple on condition that the company would exclusively use Qualcomm chipsets in its "iPhone" and "iPad" devices. In 2013, the term of the agreement was extended to the end of 2016.

Inverse[^]:

A new era of computing just got closer, as researchers have created the design and run the first ever practical test for an artificial synapse that could let computers replicate some of the brain’s most powerful and intricate functions.

Phys.org[^]:

Two exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says.

Path Sensitive[^]:

Let’s face it, programming books suck. Those general books on distributed systems or data science or whatever can be tomes for a lifetime, but, with few exceptions, there’s something about the books on how to write code in a language/framework/database/cupcake-maker, the ones with the animal covers and the cutesy sample apps, they just tend to be so forgettable, so trite, so….uneducational.

ZDNet[^]:

25 years ago, the first release of Mosaic web browser appeared and the web, as you know it, began.

NPR[^]:

A new NPR/Marist poll finds that 1 in 5 jobs in America is held by a worker under contract. Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the American workforce.

Windows CLI for Developers[^]:

Windows 10 Insider builds & Windows Server now include a beta release of the OpenSSH client and server for you to try! Each are available as independent optional features that you can choose to install if you want to be able to employ SSH from the Windows command-line.

Phys.org[^]:

Since the internet became mainstream less than 20 years ago, faith in traditional institutions and consumption of traditional media has also been displaced by faith in newer, digital institutions and consumption of newer, digital media, according to the 15th annual Digital Future Report recently produced by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future.

Techcrunch[^]:

Some major product news from veteran anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo: Today it’s launched revamped mobile apps and browser extensions that bake in a tracker blocker for third party sites, and include a suite of other privacy features intended to help users keep surfing privately as they navigate around the web.

The Verge[^]:

A man at an electronics store in China decided to give a smartphone battery his own litmus test by biting it. The battery ruptured and caused a small explosion.

MS Power User[^]:

After receiving significant pushback from privacy authorities in Europe and other regions, Microsoft has been steadily refining their approach to collecting data from your PC.