Microsoft veteran says the Task Manager was under 80 KB because small was fast and fast mattered

Microsoft veteran Dave Plummer shares why the original Task Manager was lean, fast, and designed to stay calm when Windows ...

Task Manager's creator says it used to be 50 times smaller because 'in that time and place, small was fast and fast mattered'

The Microsoft vet notes that Task Manager is now around 4 megabytes, which is around 50 times bigger. Naturally, Task Manager ...
IEEE

Federated Learning for System-Aware In-Device Task Scheduling in IoT

Abstract: This demo work presents a federated learning-based scheduling mechanism for real-time, system-aware execution of offloaded tasks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The proposed solution ...
IEEE

Enhancing OmpSs-2 Suspendable Tasks by Combining Operating System and User-Level Threads with C++ Coroutines

Abstract: This paper explores three methods for implementing suspendable tasks within task-based programming models: OS threads (pthreads), User-Level Threads (ULTs), and C++ coroutines. We enhance ...
Geeky Gadgets

Meet AutoDream : Claude Code’s Clever New Trick for Memory Management

Anthropic’s new AutoDream feature introduces a fresh approach to memory management in Claude AI, aiming to address the challenges of cluttered and inefficient data storage. As explained by Nate Herk | ...
Ars Technica

Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more ...
The Hacker News

North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that's distributed via malicious ...
Maine Campus

University of Maine System establishes Mitchell Name Review Task Force, requests public commentary

In early February, a representative from the University of Maine System (UMS) confirmed that a renaming process was being considered for programs associated with former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, who ...