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The two languages currently play a major role in Microsoft’s products. C is deeply embedded in the Windows kernel and many low-level system components, including the Win32 APIs, while C++ is widely ...

Rust is becoming equal to assembler and C in programming the Linux kernel – at least officially, as there is still a lot of work to be done in practice. Rust is set to shed its "experimental phase" ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 63 new security vulnerabilities identified in its software, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, four are rated ...

Meta has introduced KernelLLM, an 8-billion-parameter language model fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 Instruct, aimed at automating the translation of PyTorch modules into efficient Triton GPU kernels. This ...

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

ABSTRACT: The Negative Binomial Multiple Change Point Algorithm is a hybrid change detection and estimation approach that works well for overdispersed and equidispersed count data. This simulation ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

SecurityWeek talked to David Weston, VP enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, to discuss Windows kernel access and safe deployment practices. Simplistically, back in February 2024, CrowdStrike ...