Visual Studio Magazine

Using Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...

Open-source tool decrypts all private data collected by Windows Recall on Copilot PCs

Alexander Hagenah previously exposed issues affecting Windows Recall with his TotalRecall tool, prompting Microsoft to ...

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure

Mozilla is the latest legacy tech brand to make a play for the enterprise AI market. But the company behind Firefox and ...

DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses

The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say ...
The New York Times

Is Strait of Hormuz Open Again? Maybe, but Few Ships Are Using It.

There were conflicting reports about the status of the vital shipping waterway in the cease-fire with Iran. By Pranav Baskar and Shirin Hakim As the cease-fire between the United States and Iran ...
The New York Times

A Bid to Use Force to Open Strait of Hormuz Hits Roadblocks at U.N. Security Council

Several permanent members of the Security Council opposed the resolution, drafted by Bahrain in coordination with its Gulf neighbors, officials said. By Farnaz Fassihi and Vivian Nereim Farnaz Fassihi ...
Wall Street Journal

U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight

WSJ’s Shelby Holliday breaks down the training, equipment and operations of the Marine Corps’s expeditionary units as several get deployed to the Middle East amid a war with Iran. Photo: Lance Cpl.
Bleeping Computer

Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open

Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. The assistant also created ...
Sports Illustrated

Bears Would Be Using Their Imagination with One Possible DB Selection

Bears coordinator Dennis Allen likes talent and not necessarily positional expertise, and with one player they showed interest in they would get exactly that. One trouble with mock draft simulations ...
Los Angeles Times

California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes — a step toward healing a 175-year-old broken promise

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new California policy aims to bring at least 7.5 million acres under the care of tribes, representing the ...
Purdue University

Massive Open Online Courses

Often arranged as courses with quizzes and assignments, they make the content of higher education available to everyone. MOOCs are hosted on many different platforms; however, we have chosen to use ...
MarketWatch

Here’s where traders expect crude-oil prices to open after this weekend’s attack on Iran

Crude-oil markets won’t officially open for a few more hours, but traders are already using prediction markets like Kalshi to take bets on where prices will settle on Monday. Contracts that would pay ...