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Microsoft announced the new MSTest SDK built on top of the MSBuild Project SDK system. This SDK improves the experience of testing with MSTest. There are such features as easier usage of MSTest Runner extensions, support running tests in Native AOT mode and better default suggestions.

Microsoft and IBM have open-sourced on git the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. In addition to the source code for MS-DOS 4, the public git repository contains unreleased beta Multitasking DOS binaries, the ibmbio.com source, and the scanned PDFs of the Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 (MT-DOS) documentation.

This week's Java roundup for April 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: the release of WildFly 32; JEP 476, Module Import Declarations (Preview), JEP 474, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default, and JEP 467, Markdown Documentation Comments, proposed to target for JDK 23; Hibernate ORM 6.5; and JobRunr 7.1.

Netflix engineers recently published how they use Elasticsearch Percolate Queries to "reverse search" entities in a connected graph. Reverse search means that instead of searching for documents that match a query, they search for queries that match a document, powering dynamic subscription scenarios where there is no direct association between the subscriber and the subscribed entities.

Opening up the operating system that powers its Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, Meta aims to create a larger ecosystem and make it easier for developers to create apps for larger audiences.

Microsoft has released an updated version of the Reliable Web App (RWA) Pattern for .NET. This update focuses on improving production infrastructure and network security in response to user feedback, making Azure migration easier for .NET web apps.

Celebrating its 20th year, Devnexus 2024 was held from April 9-11, 2024, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks on tracks such as: Agile; Architecture; Artificial Intelligence; Cloud Technology; Core Java; Jakarta EE; Core Java; and Security.

During the recent Google Next '24 conference, Google unveiled Axion, its first custom Arm-based CPUs designed for data centers. Utilizing the Arm Neoverse V2 CPU architecture, the new processor will be available to customers later this year.

At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castle Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making tools help with the ever-increasing data volumes as long as ethical principles are considered, allowing decisions to be challenged.

JetBrains IDE Services aims to help enterprises manage their JetBrains tool ecosystem more efficiently and boost developer productivity at the enterprise scale through the integration of AI, remote collaboration, and more.

This week Microsoft released Preview 6 of the .NET Aspire project. Significant changes have been implemented to enhance the security and reliability of the platform. This release, version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1, introduces several noteworthy additions, like changes related to templates, components, dashboard, testing and more.

When Microsoft engineer Andres Freund noticed SSH was taking longer than usual, he discovered a backdoor in xz utils, one of the underlying libraries for systemd, that had taken years to be put in place. The backdoor had found its way into testing releases of Linux distributions like Debian Sid, Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide but was caught before propagating into more highly used stable releases.

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The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential to contribute to the cloud-native ecosystem.

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