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RSS bugPrecision Considerations for Analysis Services Users
White Paper While this appears to be a bug, it actually is due to the fact that Analysis Services caches query results and the imprecision that is associated with approximate data types. This white paper covers accuracy and... [02 Oct 2009]
DebugAdvisor: A Recommender System for Debugging
White Paper In large software development projects, when a programmer is assigned a bug to x, she typically spends a lot of time searching (in an ad-hoc manner) for instances from the past where similar bugs have been debugged,... [16 Sep 2009]
WordPress blogs under spam, malware attack
News The worm can be tough to catch, as Mullenweg explains: "It registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin,... [07 Sep 2009]
Google Chrome getting on better with Apple's Snow Leopard
News Jonathan Conradt, a Chrome engineering program manager, said in a blog post that programmers fixed a garbled text bug to make the browser compatible with Snow Leopard. Google released an update for Chrome to fix... [01 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up Given the sensitivity in Redmond around Windows 7 it's hardly a surprise that as soon as a few people started spreading the word online that the OS had a pretty hefty bug, the Microsoft PR machine swooped in to redress... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft denies Windows 7 bug has 'showstopper' status
News Microsoft said on Wednesday it's looking into reports of a potential bug in the final version of Windows 7. Sinofsky wrote on the site: "While we appreciate the drama of 'critical bug' and then the... [06 Aug 2009]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Technical Overview
White Paper Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 provides many new features, bug fixes, and security improvements. As Red Hat's flagship product, it provides enterprise readiness and compatibility across updates. The preservation of... [05 Aug 2009]
Apple plugs iPhone SMS flaw
News The attack was enabled by a memory corruption bug in all iPhone operating systems. Apple has plugged an SMS flaw that could enable an attacker to take complete control over an iPhone. Researchers Charlie Miller and... [03 Aug 2009]
Firefox reaches one billion - browser wars in full swing
News Microsoft's 200 million statistic doesn't include updates such as bug patches and security fixes. At about 8:00(PDT) on Friday, Firefox crossed the billion-download threshold - a notably large number for Mozilla's... [03 Aug 2009]
Flash hole fix coming next week, says Adobe
News The bug used in the exploit has been around since December 2008. Adobe said Thursday that it will issue fixes next week for a critical hole in Flash that is being exploited in attacks against Adobe Reader version 9 on... [24 Jul 2009]
Adobe probes Flash zero day bug after exploit found
News The authors of the exploit have managed to take a bug and turn it into a reliable exploit using a heap spray technique," Patrick Fitzgerald writes on a Symantec Security blog post. The bug itself has... [23 Jul 2009]
Google fixes up Chrome flaw gruesome twosome
News Other bug fixes include updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, updates to Google Gears, and getting forward and backward navigation to work even when site redirection is involved. New versions of Google Chrome are out,... [20 Jul 2009]
Microsoft on the hunt for Windows Home Server update testers
News An earlier Power Pack update, released last year, fixed an important data corruption bug. Microsoft has launched beta testing of a new update to its Windows Home Server product. In a blog post the software maker said... [20 Jul 2009]
Oracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News Authentication is needed to exploit the bug, but a successful attack could result in complete control of a database, Oracle said. Oracle has released fixes for 33 security flaws that affect hundreds of products across... [16 Jul 2009]
Apple goes on a security Safari with browser patches
News The second bug is an input validation problem with WebKit's handling of parent and top objects. Apple has released an update for its Safari 4 web browser, which fixes two serious vulnerabilities that could allow an... [09 Jul 2009]
