J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga is a seminal work of fantasy that spawned one of the best film trilogies ever created. Tolkien's story of good vs. evil is built around timeless themes of ...

Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, deputy editor at So Yummy and senior lifestyle editor at Hunker. Over the past 10+ years, Anna has also written for the ...

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...

Repeated prompts to enter your Git username and password are a frustrating annoyance developers can live without. Unfortunately, if your Git installation has not been configured to use a credential ...

Since the breaking changes in #116677, we observed test failures, so I've investigated what has changed. While supporting null in JSON files is a welcome addition, I realized it wasn't implemented ...

A publicly accessible configuration file for ASP.NET Core applications has been leaking credentials for Azure ActiveDirectory (AD), potentially allowing cyberattackers to authenticate directly via ...

In .NET 10 Preview 7, Microsoft has introduced two key features aimed at improving developer productivity and performance. The new XAML Source Generator for .NET MAUI generates XAML code at compile ...

What if you could seamlessly integrate a powerful command-line tool with a server designed to handle complex data extraction workflows? Imagine automating the collection of structured data from ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

The latest .NET preview release includes user-defined compound assignment operators for C# 14 and an extension to JIT compiler escape analysis in the .NET runtime. Microsoft has launched the fifth ...