Category: DPL Reading List

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing – “With both Visual Studio for Windows and for Mac, Microsoft has emphasized the importance of user feedback in the development process. Both the point releases and the major updates are guided…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers – “Researchers at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab say that ASUS, one of the world’s largest computer makers, was used to unwittingly install a malicious backdoor on thousands of its customers’…

An Exclusive Look at an Original iPhone Prototype – “At first glance, the red iPhone M68 prototype board looks like a motherboard you’d find inside a PC from more than 10 years ago. It’s roughly the same size, but the components are a little different. Apple developed this particular board, an engineering validation test (EVT)…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. The World Wide Web Turns 30: Our Favorite Memories from A to Z – “Over the past 30 years, major portions of the web have come and gone. They’ve made us laugh and cringe, let us waste time and find friends, and…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Stressed at Work? Mentoring a Colleague Could Help – “So if mentoring is to help mentors, organizations need to account for the resources allocated to mentoring and allow flexibility for those mentoring relationships to grow. Those that commit to mentoring might be…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Microsoft puts mixed reality, high-speed 3D rendering, and Kinect vision into cloud – “The Azure Kinect Developer Kit (DK) bumps up the specs substantially when compared to the old Xbox accessory; it includes a 12MP RGB camera, 1MP depth camera, and 360-degree…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Nasty code-execution bug in WinRAR threatened millions of users for 14 years – “The vulnerability was the result of an absolute path traversal flaw that resided in UNACEV2.DLL, a third-party code library that hasn’t been updated since 2005. The traversal made it…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Mozilla to use machine learning to find code bugs before they ship – “Clever-Commit analyzes code changes as developers commit them to the Firefox codebase. It compares them to all the code it has seen before to see if they look similar…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Marc Andreessen shares the 4 realities facing every entrepreneur today – “In our first episode, we sat down with a serial entrepreneur turned investor who needs no introduction: Marc Andreessen. Marc highlighted how building a successful company takes far more than a…

Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. The Mac turns 35 today, and here’s a nifty 1985 recap of year one – “But for all the initial hoopla, it’s worth remembering that the Mac was not an instant blockbuster. During its first year, according to Steven Levy’s seminal Mac…