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A recently disclosed weakness in the Expat XML parser (libexpat) — tracked as CVE-2025-66382 — can be triggered by a specially crafted XML file of roughly 2 MiB and causes dozens of seconds of CPU time in vulnerable library versions up through Expat 2.7.3, creating an algorithmic-complexity...

A newly published vulnerability in the Go standard library — tracked as CVE-2025-61724 — exposes a classic performance pitfall: the Reader.ReadResponse function in net/textproto could be coaxed into excessive CPU consumption when it constructs response messages composed of a large number of...

Microsoft’s announcement strikingly expands the boundaries of what’s possible with software-as-a-service (SaaS) billing and licensing, marking a shift from the industry’s rigid, “one-size-fits-all” subscription rates toward a new paradigm: partners can now craft private offers that give buyers...

Microsoft's Classic Outlook client has recently been causing significant headaches for users, with reports surfacing since late 2024 about mysterious spikes in CPU usage that degrade system performance markedly. The issue, now acknowledged by Microsoft, sees the application consuming between 30...

I guess Wusers could be divided into a) naive users who need a machine to performs tasks b) curious users who want to know whats going on inside the works If you are a) then when problems occur you ask the IT guy to fix it. If you are b) like most of viewers here then you open Pandora's box to...

The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser pipeline. However, its history and evolution is far from a simple story. Over the past three years, we’ve embarked on an in-flight refactoring of the DOM in Microsoft...

For years our customers have been in the trenches against cyberattacks in an increasingly complex digital landscape. We’ve been there with you, as have others. And we aren’t going anywhere. Forces often seek to undermine and disrupt technology and people, attempting to weaken the very devices...

It’s been suggested here that the reason people don’t like Windows H8 is because they’re “afraid of change” or worse yet, that they don’t possess the mental capacity to either understand how to use it or realize how good it is to begin with. Personally, I don’t use it because it’s junk. So...

I have a 20 year Diary in Excel 2010 which I spent over 1,000 hours on. It is complex. I have over 5,000 lines and over 15,000 cells which are all color coded and fonts coded. Because of the complexity of the spreadsheetI have to do everything manually. I can't go and correct any fonts are color...

Greetings comrades! I am interested in this seemingly simplistic, yet overly complex perplexity that is... Quickstart icon limitations. I cannot exceed 8 quickstart icons when I drag the desktop icons to the taskbar, although it seems to *take it* it doesn't actually add the icon to the...

Windows 7 sharing is the most complex crap to deal with... Here is my problem... I have multiple computers on a local network, dealing with only Windows 7 Ultimate. One is acting as a file server, others are workstations. The server has a 2nd hard drive, totally dedicated to files that are...

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Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Review "Don't wait for your hard drive to crash. The disaster already happened." What starts out as a demonstration and review turns into a massive waste of time and disaster when it comes to the Acronis line of products. Avoid disaster altogether and skip the...

Google I/O Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said that only about 20 per cent of Google's employees are still using Microsoft Windows, and that all of those users are on Windows 7. He stressed, however, that he is not sure of the exact percentage. Rumors had indicated that within the...

The great Link Removed is back!! Link Removed Yuri is a logician, computer scientist, and inventor of abstract state machines. He currently works in Microsoft Research (he's a member of Wolfram Schulte's RiSE team). This is the third and final part in our introductory series of lectures...

Link Removed is back on C9!! Link Removed Yuri is a logician, computer scientist and inventor of abstract state machines. He currently works at Microsoft Research (he's a member of Wolfram Schulte's RiSE team). This is the second part in a series of lectures exploring the fundamental...

If you've spent any time on C9 over the years, then you've probably met some of the people from the RiSE team in Link Removed and are familiar with at least some of the great technologies they've developed. RiSE, which stands for Research in Software Engineering, is a rock star research group...

Greg Meredith, a mathematician and computer scientist, has graciously agreed to do a C9 lecture series covering monadic design principles applied to web development. You've met Greg before in a Link Removed. The fundamental concept is here is the monad. Greg has a very novel and conceptually...

For being the fastest growing server product at Microsoft, SharePoint is still largely misunderstood. There’s no question its one of Microsoft’s most important enterprise products, contributing more than $1 billion to the company’s coffers. Yet, as CEO Steve Ballmer himself...

This is a very sophisticated software program. You can make your "Sim" resemble anyone you want. They can do complex things, it's shocking.......Link Removed