Assorted links for Thursday, August 15:
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Assorted links for Monday, August 12:
- Adding .NET Aspire to your existing .NET apps
But .NET Aspire is not just about cutting-edge technology and green-field apps; it’s also about making your current applications more straightforward. With .NET Aspire, you can streamline the startup process, improve monitoring, and increase the reliability of your applications.
- Announcing Rust 1.80.1
- .NET Cancellation by Stephen Cleary:
- Networking improvements in Windows Server 2025
- Machine Learning in Content Moderation at Etsy
Assorted links for Wednesday, August 7:
- US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year
- Securely design your applications and protect your sensitive data with VBS enclaves
Virtualization Based Security (VBS) is the core feature of Windows used to the high value secrets stored within Windows (e.g., Credential Guard). VBS utilizes the Hyper-V hypervisor to create an environment that is higher privileged than the rest of the system kernel. Like VM isolation, the hypervisor sets memory protections in the second level address tables and IOMMU tables to isolate this environment from the rest of the system kernel.
- Apple signs on to Biden’s responsible AI guidelines
Apple now joins 15 other major tech companies, including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, in committing to responsible AI development and rollout.
- N3199: Improved
__attribute__((cleanup))Throughdefer: A proposal for adeferkeyword in C. See alsodeferreference implementation for C. - The C++ Object Lifecycle
Assorted links for Tuesday, August 6:
- A GitHub token leak could have put the entire Python language at risk
- This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved? – can we design a better
diff? - DCPerf: An open source benchmark suite for hyperscale compute applications
- Investigation of a Cross-regional Network Performance Issue
- Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
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Assorted links for Wednesday, July 31:
- Meta’s approach to machine learning prediction robustness
- Advancing responsible practices for open source AI
- AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning engineers moving fast
- systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage
- GNU C Library 2.40 Released With New C23 Features & New Performance Tunables
Assorted links for Tuesday, July 30:
- Add AI to Your .NET Apps Easily with Prompty
- Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
- AT&T failed to test disastrous update that kicked all devices off network
- No More Blue Fridays: It used to be that reliability was achieved by moving code out of kernel mode and into user mode. eBPF suggests an alternative: allow code to run in kernel mode, but in a sandbox.
Assorted links for Monday, July 29:
- rr
rr aspires to be your primary C/C++ debugging tool for Linux, replacing — well, enhancing — gdb. You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time.
- How we improved availability through iterative simplification
- Introducing Bazel 7.2’s Output Service protocol
One of the exciting new features in Bazel 7.2 is support for the Bazel Output Service which allows Bazel to lazily materialize outputs when you access them with normal filesystem operations. This allows you to maintain visibility to the entire output tree while still saving network bandwidth.
- How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy
- What’s new in .NET Aspire 8.1 for cloud native developers!