Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5, improved diagnostics and debugging tools

Microsoft has just released its 5th consumer technical preview of Visual Studio 2015, introducing numerous new additions to its popular software development tools. Similar to the way the software ...
Security Boulevard

Web Single Sign-On: Understanding WS-Federation

Master WS-Federation for enterprise SSO. Learn how Passive Requestor Profiles bridge legacy ASP.NET, SharePoint, and ADFS ...
BBC

MPs fear data centre boom could derail Miliband's net zero plans

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has said it's important to take data centres into account Ed Miliband has been urged to explain whether a planned boom in energy-hungry data centres have been factored ...
Bleeping Computer

QNAP warns of critical ASP.NET flaw in its Windows backup software

QNAP warned customers to patch a critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability that also impacts the company's NetBak PC Agent, a Windows utility for backing up data to a QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) ...
CSOonline

Critical ASP.NET core vulnerability earns Microsoft’s highest-ever severity score

The Kestrel web server flaw allows request smuggling attacks, but the actual risk depends on the application code and deployment. Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that ...
E&E

PJM tries to ease threats to grid from supersize data centers

Under the proposal, the mid-Atlantic grid would turn off power to data centers before ordering rolling blackouts in an emergency. The potential threat to grid reliability from supersize AI data ...
Reuters

US household net worth rebounds to record high in second quarter, Fed data shows

Sept 11 (Reuters) - U.S. household wealth rose to a record $176.3 trillion in the second quarter on the back of a resurgent stock market and climbing property prices, data from the Federal Reserve ...
The New York Times

U.S. Labor Market Stalled This Summer, With August Data Adding to Slowdown

Employers added only 22,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.3 percent. Revised data also showed that employment fell by 13,000 jobs in June, the first net loss since ...
E&E

How data centers can learn to turn off and help the grid

Using less electricity as a response to high demand had been a nonstarter for big tech companies. That might be changing. For years, calculating the power needs for data centers has revolved around ...