Google's Opal just quietly showed enterprise teams the new blueprint for building AI agents

Building on lessons from an internal agent SDK called “Breadboard”, the agent step is not just another node in a workflow — ...
Visual Studio Magazine

How I Built a 'Journalist' AI Agent in VS Code to Replace Me

Having long ago seen the handwriting on the wall for the journalism profession with the debut of GenAI, I decided to just cut to the chase and build my replacement now.
InfoQ

ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1 Brings New Blazor Components, Improved Navigation, and WebAssembly

Microsoft has released ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1, introducing new Blazor components like EnvironmentBoundary, Label, ...

Want your Linux looking more like Windows? KDE Plasma makes it easy - here's how

If you'd like to use Linux, but want to have the good old Windows 11 theme, fear not; with the help of KDE Plasma, you can ...

Microsoft is adding images to Notepad, and users are wondering why

Microsoft is reportedly working on yet another "advanced" Notepad feature that has little to do with basic text editing.
IEEE

ZRID-Net: Zero-Reference Real-World Image Dehazing Framework via Deep Self-Decoupling and Reverse Knowledge Transfer

Abstract: This paper investigates one of the most challenging problems in single image dehazing: how to restore haze-free scenes solely from the input observed image without relying on paired or ...
IEEE

DEA-Net: Single Image Dehazing Based on Detail-Enhanced Convolution and Content-Guided Attention

Abstract: Single image dehazing is a challenging ill-posed problem which estimates latent haze-free images from observed hazy images. Some existing deep learning based methods are devoted to improving ...