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Tuesday, April 11, 2017 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com Advertisements Industry News 21 things we miss about old computers Prepare the nostalgia center of your brain -- it's about to be tickled. Source: Den of Geek The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews Time to try the "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" style of hiring. Source: The New York Times WikiLeaks reveals Grasshopper, the CIA's Windows hacking tool *tin foil hat goes back on* Source: The Next Web Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s Pepperidge Farm remembers. Source: Ars Technica Major Banks and Parts of Federal Gov't Still Rely On COBOL, Now Scrambling To Find IT 'Cowboys' To Keep Things Afloat *tips hat at bank clerk on way to servers* "Ma'am." Source: Reuters Source: xkcd Developer News After 25 Years, 'Lost' OS/2 2.0 Build 6.605 Finally Re-Discovered The 6.605 pre-release fell between 6.149 and 6.167 -- and "It is not known what possessed IBM to assign it a completely out-of-sequence number." Source: OS/2 Museum High-speed Hyperloop track ready for first trial run The radical mode of transport is being designed to hit speeds of up to 800mph Source: The Telegraph IPv6 attacks bypass network intrusion detection systems Defending against such IPv6 tunnelling attacks is very difficult with current NIDS. Source: itnews Microsoft Claims Windows 10 Saves Enterprises 28% More Than They Claimed Last Year "Using that pretend company" eh? My pretend company installed Windows 10, saved a million percent, then saved the world with one killer guitar solo. Source: Computer World Farmers Look For Ways To Circumvent Tractor Software Locks Does Apple make tractors now? Source: NPR Science and Technology There's an 'Earth-like' planet with an atmosphere just 39 light-years away "If the technology can detect an atmosphere today, then it bodes well for being able to detect and study the atmospheres of even more Earth-like planets in the not-too-distant future" Source: The Washington Post Code Project Discussions - Your say! So I think Edge might finally be a good browser. Thoughts? Source: CodeProject © 2017 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click Unsubscribe. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use Insider@codeproject.com