Hackernews posts about Omicron
Omicron is a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2 that was first detected in November 2021 and has been classified as a Variant of Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to its rapid global spread and potential impact on public health.
- A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (devblogs.microsoft.com)
- Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users (www.theregister.com)
- Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry (www.righto.com)
- Microsoft redesigns BSOD, drops QR code, frowning face, blue colour (www.windowslatest.com)
- Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities (www.microsoft.com)
- Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (www.righto.com)
- Microsoft marks 50 yrs: Copilot says half a century is 25 yrs; feels much longer (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft Celebrates 50 Years (news.microsoft.com)
- Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft turns 50: 4 employees recall their early years (www.seattletimes.com)
- Majorana 1 – Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough (datacentremagazine.com)
- Microsoft's Newest Acquisition (www.neystadt.org)
- Delicious irony: Euro alliance put Microsoft's €1M to open source cloud fed tech (www.theregister.com)
- Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one (heyopenspot.com)
- Show HN: Real time EDA made simple (github.com)
- Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free (opensource.microsoft.com)
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf] (www.microsoft.com)
- Playwright Tools for MCP (github.com)
- The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code (devblogs.microsoft.com)
- How Async/Await Works in C# (2023) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
- PowerToys Command Palette Utility (learn.microsoft.com)