White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages

Image: Midjourney The White House Office of the National Cyber ​​Director (ONCD) urges tech companies today to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the number of memory safety vulnerabilities. Such vulnerabilities are coding errors or weaknesses within software that can lead to memory management issues when memory can be accessed, written, allocated, or allocated. They occur when software accesses memory in unintended or unsafe ways, resulting in various security risks and issues such as buffer overflow, use after free, use of uninitialized memory, and double free that attackers can exploit. Successful exploitation…Continue Reading

Programming Language of 2023 Goes to C#

TIOBE Software has declared C# the programming language of 2023 based on its long-running popularity index. The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows year-over-year trends in programming languages ​​based on search engine volume. In January 2024, the top three programming languages ​​were Python, C and C++. However, they all lost popularity over 2023 in TIOBE’s proprietary ranking system. Other major changes between January 2023 and January 2024 are as follows: C# had the most growth year-over-year at +1.43%. JavaScript rose from 7th to 6th place. PHP rose from 10th to 7th place. Visual Basic falls from 6th to 8th place. SQL…Continue Reading

Making big models do small jobs with application programming interfaces

Overview of TaskMatrix.AI. Credits: Intelligent Computing (2023). DOI: 10.34133/icomputing.0063 A research team at Microsoft has designed an efficiency tool called TaskMatrix.AI that can be used to accomplish a wide variety of specific AI tasks. TaskMatrix.AI connects general-purpose foundation models like GPT-4, the model behind ChatGPT, with specialized models suitable for certain tasks—much like a human project manager. This research was published in Intelligent Computing. Foundation models and specialized models usually have different mechanisms and, thus, are not easily compatible. Rather than modifying and integrating existing models, TaskMatrix.AI bridges the gaps between them through application programming interfaces, or APIs, which enable…Continue Reading