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Microsoft on the issues[^]:

As part of international Safer Internet Day, in the spirit of the theme Together for a Better Internet, Microsoft is releasing the latest results from its sixth annual study Civility, Safety and Interaction Online – 2022, and a newly updated Digital Civility Index (DCI) score.

Ars Technica[^]:

Microsoft does still want you to know that your PC is unsupported when it doesn't meet the system requirements.

The Verge[^]:

Graphics giant Nvidia will no longer be spending $40 billion to acquire Arm, parent company SoftBank has announced, citing “significant regulatory challenges.”

We started work on WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface. The goal of WASI is to create a very modular set of system interfaces. These include all of the low level kinds of interfaces that you'd expect from a system interface layer. It also includes some of the higher level ones too, like neural networks in crypto, and we expect many more of these higher level APIs to be added.

These interfaces need to follow capability based security principles to ensure that we maintain the integrity of the sandbox. For the most part, these interfaces also need to be portable across the major operating systems. Although we are ok with system specific interfaces for some narrowly scoped use cases. It was when we started trying to make this portability work that we started getting into some problems.

These problems started coming to light when we were thinking about a pretty core concept in many operating systems, the filesystem. A lot of code today depends on the filesystem. That code uses the filesystem for lots of different tasks. It's where you persist data. It's where you share data between two different programs running in different processes. It's where you put the code for executables. It's where configuration lives. It's where assets get stored.

Tech Republic[^]:

A survey by Neosec finds that APIs are central to almost every business to improve collaboration and innovation and shorten time-to-market.

CodeSubmit[^]:

Using your own products is a great way to gain customer insights, drive innovation, and stay ahead of the competition. Here's how to get your company's dogfooding program off the ground.

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In that scenario, the U.S. would not only mint the coins and print paper bills but also issue digital cash, or a central bank digital currency (CBDC), that would be stored in apps or "digital wallets" on our smartphones.