The Insider News

Universe Today[^]:

One group of scientists thinks that we may already have detected technosignatures from a technological civilization’s Dyson Spheres, but the detection is hidden in our vast troves of astronomical data.

The New Old Thing[^]:

In other words, take the existing component and run it before making any changes to it at all. Does it work?

Microsoft C++[^]:

We are very excited to announce C++ support for AI-Powered Rename Suggestions from GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022.

Neowin[^]:

Outlook for Windows and the web now show the full sender addresses for any email messages that are put into the Junk folder.

OpenAI[^]:

We are launching our newest flagship model and making more capabilities available for free in ChatGPT.

DevClass[^]:

Microsoft has improved the C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with support, Aspire integration and easy SDK acquisition – but developers are complaining of “terrible quality”.

ShiftMag[^]:

Adding features is faster and easier in good code than bad code.

The Verge[^]:

Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default.

Ars Technica[^]:

Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators.

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.