The C# team is redesigning the `unsafe` keyword to enforce stricter memory safety contracts, expanding it from marking pointer usage to any code the compiler cannot validate as safe. This change, plan…
The ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code (error 7) originated in MS-DOS, where it indicated that the memory arena headers—used to track allocated and free memory blocks—had become corrupted, as the system d…
Microsoft engineers developing AI agents are adopting a new methodology called Agentic-Agile development to address the failures of prompt-driven and spec-driven approaches for large-scale projects. T…
At Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026, engineers from OpenAI, Vercel, and Walmart shared case studies demonstrating that database performance failures are almost always design failures, not capacity issues. An…