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AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before

Opinion The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.
Microsoft

Coordinate-Free Visual Grounding for GUI Agents

One of the principal challenges in building VLM-powered GUI agents is visual grounding, i.e., localizing the appropriate screen region for action execution based on both the visual content and the ...
GitHub

[gui] java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.awt.Rectangle.equals(Object)" because "this.bounds" is null

Program args : -Xms128M -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=70.0 -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dswing.aatext=true -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Djdk.util.zip ...
Forbes

Micron Increased QLC SSD Performance With Its Adaptive Write Technology

SSDs are the primary storage technology for PCs, industry applications and data centers. In data centers that means they are where data frequently accessed is stored. This is because the provide ...
SiliconANGLE

Researchers uncover weak encryption in SAP user interface for Windows and Java

SAP SE today addressed two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in its SAP Graphical User Interface client applications following their discovery in coordinated research by Pathlock Inc. and Fortinet Inc.
The Hacker News

Citrix Bleed 2 Flaw Enables Token Theft; SAP GUI Flaws Risk Sensitive Data Exposure

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed two now-patched security flaws in SAP Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Windows and Java that, if successfully exploited, could have enabled attackers to ...
GitHub

Cannot Invoke java.awt.Image.getWidth(java.awt.image.ImageObserver because retVal is Null

Upon launching launcher_WINDOWS.bat, the following error appears. Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.awt.Image ...
Microsoft

OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent

The recent success of large vision language models shows great potential in driving the agent system operating on user interfaces. However, we argue that the power multimodal models like GPT-4V as a ...