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1. Introduction AI coding agents/assistants such as GitHub Copilot have become common in modern software engineering workflows. Their strengths—rapid pattern completion, context-aware suggestions, and the ability to learn style from local code—stem from broad training on large corpora of public, general-purpose code. They perform best when the languages, libraries, and idioms requested by developers align with patterns they have seen many times before. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) break this assumption. DSLs are deliberately narrow, domain-targeted languages with unique syntax rules, semantics, and execution models. They often have little representation in public datasets, evolve quickly, and include concepts that resemble no mainstream programming language. For these reasons, DSLs expose the fundamental weaknesses of large language models when used as code generators. While AI coding agents excel at generating code for mainstream languages, recent research shows their accuracy ...

For the past few articles (starting with conversion between CF_ OEM­TEXT and CF_ TEXT ), we've been looking at how Windows performs text conversion among its three clipboard text formats: CF_ UNICODE­TEXT , CF_ TEXT , and CF_ OEM­TEXT . A lot of the weirdness dates back to adding Unicode support to what originally supported only 8-bit code page-based encodings. You might take away from this that the clipboard text conversion system is a mess, and you should simply avoid putting text on the clipboard. But really, all the problems boil down to inconsistent conversions to and from the 8-bit formats. If you stick with CF_ UNICODE­TEXT , then everything works great! For over two decades, Windows has been pushing application developers to move to Unicode, with support for 8-bit code pages being retained for backward compatibility with old programs that haven't had a chance to update. So don't be an old program. Be a new program that uses Unicode, specifically the UTF-16LE enc...

Today, AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded to Australia (Sydney) Region, and now supports AS2805 functionality. This expansion represents the service's thirteenth AWS Region worldwide. With AS2805 capabilities customers can migrate more payment workloads to AWS while maintaining operability with other companies utilizing this standard. Australia, New Zealand and several other countries rely on Australia Standards 2805 (AS2805) as a consistent approach for managing cryptography between organizations for card payments. Historically, these companies required Hardware Security Modules (HSM) to perform these operations in a compliant, compatible manner. AWS Payment Cryptography now provides equivalent functionality for node-to-node use cases in an elastic, scalable service, eliminating the operational burden of procuring and managing standalone hardware. Customers can leverage the service’s use of PCI-certified HSMs as part of their overall compliance programs while using APIs that...

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. M8gb offer up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth to provide higher EBS performance compared to same-sized equivalent Graviton4-based instances. M8gn are ideal for network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF). M8gb are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance such as high performance databases and NoSQL databases. M8gn instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 768 ...

DirectX12 shipped in 2015 with a simple goal: give developers more control so games run faster, look better, and scale across Windows PC and console. Over the last decade, DirectX 12 delivered on that promise. We added features and made it easier for developers to focus on gameplay & graphics by providing more flexibility and achievable performance wins. We built technologies that dramatically reduce load times and deliver consistently high frames for a polished gaming experience in the most demanding of titles. Our platform’s continuous evolution brought advanced visuals previously unimaginable into the mainstream. Today, DirectX 12 sits at the heart of many AAA titles and modern game engines, powering some of the most visually stunning games ever made. Happy 10 th birthday DirectX 12, here are some of the biggest milestones that made games better! A Decade of “Closer to the Metal” Innovation: DirectX 12 Ultimate: Unlocking Realism, Control, & Performance (2018-2020) Direct...

Aspire 13.1 - Our holiday gift to you 🎁 Before we head off for the holidays, we wanted to leave you with one more release. Aspire 13.1 is packed with improvements to make your AI coding assistants first-class citizens in your development workflow, along with CLI enhancements, dashboard refinements, and streamlined Azure deployments. Check out the full What's New for all the details! Without further ado, let's dive into the highlights. 🛠️ CLI quality-of-life improvements Several enhancements make the CLI experience smoother: Channel persistence : When you run aspire update --self and select a channel, your selection is saved globally. Future aspire new and aspire init commands use this channel by default. Automatic instance detection : Running aspire run when an instance is already running? Aspire 13.1 detects it and offers to terminate: An Aspire application is already running for this AppHost. Do you want to stop it and start a new instance? [Y/n] No more hunti...

Email is a key part of how people get things done, whether it’s booking a reservation, confirming a package delivery, or managing a cab reservation. But as inboxes become increasingly cluttered, important transactional information often gets buried. Users are forced to open multiple emails, search through text, and manually look for key details such as reservation times, delivery status, or order confirmations. Let's think about business travel, When users are flying out for meetings, training, or conferences, they shouldn’t have to dig through a crowded inbox to find flight details, hotel confirmations, or car service information. Technology should simplify this experience—so everything they need is right at their fingertips. With schema.org markup, senders can structure email content in a format that can enable Microsoft Outlook to surface key information more intelligently helping users to always stay on top of their bookings, deliveries, and other critical details. What is S...