The Insider News

Stephen Wolfram[^]:

“What is this a picture of?” Humans can usually answer such questions instantly, but in the past it’s always seemed out of reach for computers to do this. For nearly 40 years I’ve been sure computers would eventually get there—but I’ve wondered when.

ZDNet[^]:

EU researchers believe censorship and site-blocking is not an effective method against piracy.

Venture Beat[^]:

Microsoft today announced Bing will start rolling out mobile friendliness ranking changes “in the coming months.” The company shared the news and laid out exactly how its search engine determines which webpages to label as “Mobile-friendly.”

SD Times[^]

The Node.js and io.js forks of the open-source JavaScript runtime platform have announced official plans to merge development under the Node.js Foundation.The merger was put to a vote on GitHub by io.js developer Mikeal Rogers, who initially proposed the merger in February, and the io.js technical committee voted to approve the merger yesterday.

Fog Creek[^]

We’ve interviewed Cal Evans, author of ‘Culture of Respect’, and we discuss how to find, hire, and retain Developers. He gives tips on where to find great developers, how to write job ads which appeal to them and how best to interview them.

Infoworld[^]:

C++, C#, and Visual Basic .Net make the biggest popularity gains in May's Tiobe index.

Infoworld[^]:

Bot traffic surpassed humans this year, now accounting for 59 percent of all site visits, according to a new report.

OpenSource.com[^]:

Have you noticed that the more frequently a particular open source community tells you to RTFM, the worse the FM is likely to be?

Wall Street Journal[^]:

The Internet giant is flipping common corporate security practice on its head, shifting away from the idea of a trusted internal corporate network secured by perimeter devices such as firewalls, in favor of a model where corporate data can be accessed from anywhere with the right device and user credentials.

Network world[^]:

Touchpoint Group is planning to develop "the world's angriest artificial intelligence machine," which is named Radiant after a sci-fi supercomputer that could predict future behavior.

Developer Media[^]:

In an April 2015 survey of over 450 CodeProject members, 31 percent of respondents said they develop for connected devices.

Modern CPP[^]:

If Standard C++ is so great, why isn’t anyone using it to write Windows apps with the Windows Runtime? Because Standard C++ is not enough.

Beta News[^]:

One year ago, a European court ruled that Google should comply with requests from individuals to remove certain results from search results; it became known as the Right To Be Forgotten. Twelve months after the initial ruling, Google has published a new transparency report that shows it rejects more requests than it complies with.

CNet[^]:

A study has found that a large percentage of Americans are a little foggy on what cloud computing actually is.