Developer tidbits for the weekend – smaller news of the week

Small but interesting news tidbits from the news buffet about React Native, Perl, JavaScript, ASP .NET Core, State of Web Dev ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft announces end of support for ASP.NET Core 2.3

Microsoft will stop providing security patches, bug fixes, and technical support for ASP.NET Core 2.3 on April 7, 2027.

The Laptop That Refuses To Die: Inside Framework's Mission To Fix Tech

Framework takes a different approach with its laptops. From modular technology to Linux support, the company is challenging ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Ships Production-Ready Agent Framework 1.0 for .NET and Python

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...
IEEE

TACG: A Topic-Aware Community-Guided Framework for Context-Aware Influence Maximization

Abstract: Influence maximization (IM) aims to identify a small set of influential nodes that can maximize the propagation of information in a social network. Many studies have selected seed nodes ...