robustness

A small but important Linux kernel fix was published upstream to correct a missing error check in the Freescale Management Complex bus driver (fsl-mc): maintainers added a check for the return value of platform_get_resource to prevent a NULL pointer dereference, and the issue has been logged as...

Large language models are propelling a new era in digital productivity, transforming everything from enterprise applications to personal assistants such as Microsoft Copilot. Yet as enterprises and end-users rapidly embrace LLM-based systems, a distinctive form of adversarial risk—indirect...

Language models (LMs) have made headlines with their astonishing fluency and apparent skill at tackling math, logic, and code-based problems. But as routines involving these large language models (LLMs) grow more entrenched in both research and real-world applications, a fundamental question...

In the rapidly evolving field of computer vision, achieving high accuracy and robustness has traditionally necessitated models with billions of parameters, extensive datasets, and substantial computational resources. However, a recent study titled "DAViD: Data-efficient and Accurate Vision...

In the mid-1990s, as Microsoft prepared to launch Windows 95, the company faced a significant challenge: ensuring the new operating system was compatible with the vast array of existing software. To address this, a Microsoft development manager took an unconventional approach. He drove to a...

The disclosure of a critical flaw in the content moderation systems of AI models from industry leaders like Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta has sent ripples through the cybersecurity and technology communities alike. At the heart of this vulnerability is a surprisingly simple—and ostensibly...

Just discovered this and recorded a very boring instance of Spider Solitaire, but at least it works. Not sure how robust it is at this point, nor if it even works on third party games, but I thought it was at least interesting that it was included natively. I thought maybe some real gamers might...

Today’s Internet of Things landscape is a modern day Tower of Babel – a proliferation of communication protocols and data formats across the device ecosystem that make it difficult for devices to “speak the same language” and work together in harmony. This reality makes it difficult for us to...

In this episode, Link Removed guest hosts and is joined by Link Removed, who shows off many of the improvements in XAML tooling in both Visual Studio 2015 and Blend for Visual Studio 2015. Some of these improvements are specific to Windows Universal Apps, but many are available to all XAML...

Today inspirational project shows off another way the Kinect is being used in new, exciting and unanticipated ways... Computational Hydrographic Printing (SIGGRAPH 2015) Link Removed Link Removed Abstract: Hydrographic printing is a well-known technique in industry for transferring color...

Y'all are making far too big a deal over the Start screen. I used the DP for months; now the Beta non-stop since 29/2. Hardly ever visit Start. The lack of the old Start Menu & Windows orb is completely meaningless. The OS works just fine, as is. Between the following, there is noise & a...

Hi. I have a small office network consisting of around seven computers. They are connected via a Netgear ProSafe GS108T switch and all are connected at gigabit speed. They are all accessing a single Access database on a CPU that acts as a dedicated server. I'm currently upgrading all the...

been fighting with 7 for a while now since i have a msdn account the main issues is i have a gigabit network and no speeds to show it current testing has been copying 50, 100, 750 meg and 1 gig files from a home server to windows 7 seeing maybe 11 megs at the fastest all copying is done with...