Tag: Debugging Tools

  • Schneier on Security: Apple’s New Memory Integrity Enforcement

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/apples-new-memory-integrity-enforcement.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Apple’s New Memory Integrity Enforcement Feedly Summary: Apple has introduced a new hardware/software security feature in the iPhone 17: “Memory Integrity Enforcement,” targeting the memory safety vulnerabilities that spyware products like Pegasus tend to use to get unauthorized system access. From Wired: In recent years, a movement…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/gemini-images-preview/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Feedly Summary: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Gemini 2.0 Flash has had image generation capabilities for a while now, and they’re now available via the paid Gemini API – at 3.9 cents per generated…

  • Slashdot: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/0519242/ai-models-still-struggle-to-debug-software-microsoft-study-shows Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study by Microsoft Research highlights the limitations of popular AI models, such as Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini, in successfully debugging software. Despite advancements, AI still falls short…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: debug-gym

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/31/debug-gym/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: debug-gym Feedly Summary: debug-gym New paper and code from Microsoft Research that experiments with giving LLMs access to the Python debugger. They found that the best models could indeed improve their results by running pdb as a tool. They saw the best results overall from Claude 3.7…

  • Cloud Blog: Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ttd-instruction-emulation-bugs/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs Feedly Summary: Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic Executive Summary This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft’s Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications. TTD relies heavily on accurate…

  • Hacker News: AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers

    Source URL: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-programmers Source: Hacker News Title: AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a personal account of a software developer’s dependency on AI tools, particularly in programming contexts. It critically examines how reliance on AI can erode foundational coding skills, understanding,…

  • Docker: Docker 2024 Highlights: Innovations in AI, Security, and Empowering Development Teams

    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-2024-highlights/ Source: Docker Title: Docker 2024 Highlights: Innovations in AI, Security, and Empowering Development Teams Feedly Summary: We look at Docker’s 2024 milestones and innovations in security, AI, and more, as well as how we helped teams build, test, and deploy more easily and quickly than ever. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:**…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps

    Source URL: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces Steel.dev, an open-source browser API designed for building AI applications and agents that automate web interactions. It highlights the benefits of a containerized…