The Microsoft source code breach may be much bigger than we thought. Lapsus$ has made the source code for over 250 Microsoft projects available online in a 9GB torrent. According to the group, the torrent itself contains 90 percent of the source code for Bing and 45 percent of the source code for both Bing Maps and Cortana. [TECHRADAR]
Suffer from Ctrl+S fatigue? Visual Studio have a feature for you. Starting with 17.2 Preview 1, the new autosave feature will help with this. Use Visual Studio Search (Ctrl+Q) and look for “autosave”. That will take you to the Environment\Documents page in Tools\Options. [DEVBLOGS.MICROSOFT]
Almost 37 years after its launch, someone found an Easter egg in Windows 1.0. An intrepid and incredibly dedicated user has uncovered a hidden dialog inside Windows 1.0. That's right, the very first version of the operating system, released way back in November 1985. [TECHRADAR]
Swift 5.6 released. Swift 5.6 includes a number of enhancements to the type system, improved interaction with pointers, and adds the ability to run new plugin commands using the package manager. For a quick dive into some of what’s new in Swift 5.6, check out the playground put together by Paul Hudson. [SWIFT]
Google's annual developer conference I/O 2022 has been announced. Developers can join online during May 11 and 12, where there will be opportunities to grow their knowledge and skills through workshops, tutorials, codelabs, etc. Plus there will be the chance to network with other developers and Google experts. [IOGOOGLE]
PhpStorm 2021.3.3 is released. Notable updates in this build include the fixing of IDE freezes and hangs when indexing WSL projects, the ability to generate file name of file templates, and more. [JETBRAINS]
Java 18 brings new features to accelerate software development. With Java 18, Oracle is introducing a series of incremental features, many of which focus on easing application development. [ITPROTODAY]