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Covers:  Technology especially Microsoft, cloud, open source, software development, devops, mobile, occasionally audio
Doesn't Cover: Fishing, politics, cooking, gardening
Tech journalist. Currently writing mostly for The Register on software development, DevOps, cloud computing etc

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Microsoft delivers cross-platform .NET MAUI release candidate with go-live license * DEVCLASS

Microsoft delivers cross-platform .NET MAUI release candidate with go-live license * DEVCLASS

Microsoft has made available the release candidate of .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), complete with a go-l…

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Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 - so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'ne...

Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 - so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'ne...

Updated The maintainers of OpenSSH, the widely used toolkit for connecting securely to servers and devices ov…

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Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps: It's a landmark for Windows development, but it has taken...

Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps: It's a landmark for Windows development, but it has taken...

Hands On Microsoft has pushed out a preview of WinUI for desktop applications, making it possible for develop…

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Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'

Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'

Ryan Dahl, Bert Belder and Bartek Iwańczuk have slid open the doors to Deno 1.0, the first production release…

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Windows 8 Release Preview - in-depth review

Windows 8 Release Preview - in-depth review

Microsoft's reimagining of Windows is nearly done. The Windows 8 Release Preview, now available for download,…

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About Tim Anderson

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Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8: is AI becoming a commodity?

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Last week Moonshot AI introduced Kimi K3, with the promise that “the full model weights will be released by July 26 2026;” while Alibaba said on X that “Qwen 3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon”. These are capable LLMs (large language models), and the open weights promise means that developers will be able to download them from Hugging Face and run them locally.
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No Mono in Microsoft’s cross-platform MAUI framework on .NET 11 – and a quick hands-on

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By Tim Anderson Verified
| ITWriting Blog
Microsoft has released preview 6 of .NET 11, for which release is expected in November, including a big change to MAUI (Multi-platform App UI): it now runs only on .NET Core, rather than the Mono runtime. Principal product manager David Ortinau reports that “your app builds and runs on CoreCLR, the same runtime behind ASP.NET Core, your cloud services, and desktop .NET.” According to Ortinau, performance is generally faster than Mono on iOS and Mac Catalyst.
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JetBrains Resharper for Visual Studio Code adds C# debugging support

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By Tim Anderson Verified
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One of the oddities of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is that it is free to use for almost anything other than the company’s own .NET platform. That is, there is nothing to stop developers from coding in C# with VS Code and using the .net command-line tools without paying Microsoft for a license; but the official C# Dev Kit extension requires a license for teams of 6 developers or more: For personal, academic, and open-source projects, C# Dev Kit can be used at no cost.
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