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OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it?

A product consolidation raises bigger questions about where OpenAI is really headed.

By Gyana Swain

Mar 20, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

PyTorch library makes models faster and smaller

Torchao is a PyTorch native library that makes machine learning models faster and smaller for training or inference by leveraging low-bit dtypes, sparsity, and quantization.

By Paul Krill

Oct 1, 2024 1 min

Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning Software Development

JRuby 10 due to arrive in early-2025

The next version of the Ruby language implementation for the JVM will be compatible with the upcoming Ruby 3.4.0 release and Rails 7.1 and later.

By Paul Krill

Oct 1, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Ruby

Large language models hallucinating non-existent developer packages could fuel supply chain attacks

LLMs could be exploited to launch waves of “package confusion” attacks, first major study into package hallucination finds.

By John E. Dunn

Sep 30, 2024 5 mins

Cyberattacks Generative AI Software Development

Explained: How Salesforce Agentforce’s Atlas reasoning engine works to power AI agents

AI agents created via Agentforce differ from previous Salesforce-based agents in their use of Atlas, a reasoning engine designed to help these bots think like human beings.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 30, 2024 6 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning

Microsoft gives enterprises new reasons to adopt Fabric

At its European Fabric Community Conference last week, Microsoft released a volley of incremental updates to woo enterprises to its data platform.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 30, 2024 7 mins

Business Intelligence Data Engineering Data Warehousing

Microsoft adds safety tools to Azure AI Studio

Falling for prompt injection attacks and infringing copyright are just two of the dumb things artificial intelligence may do; Microsoft is offering new tools to help enterprises mitigate such risks in their AI applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 27, 2024 4 mins

App Testing Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Ruby on Rails streamlines deployment with Kamal 2

Ruby on Rails 8, now in beta, comes preconfigured with Kamal 2 for fast and easy deployment in a Docker container to any Linux system.

By Paul Krill

Sep 27, 2024 3 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Ruby Web Development

Kobiton preps AI-enabled testing tools for mobile apps

Kobiton announced it will release an AI issue aggregation engine in early 2025 that will identify related errors and other commonalities across test sessions.

By Paul Krill

Sep 27, 2024 2 mins

App Testing Artificial Intelligence Mobile Development

Meta introduces Llama Stack distributions for building LLM apps

Llama Stack distributions package multiple Llama Stack API providers to ease the end-to-end development of generative AI applications for developers.

By Paul Krill

Sep 26, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Tabnine AI agents generate, validate code for Jira issues

New Tabnine agents allow the AI programming assistant to generate code from requirements in Jira issues and validate human- or AI-generated code for those requirements.

By Paul Krill

Sep 26, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Eclipse working group to address cybersecurity, AI regulations

The Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group will assist open source participants with adhering to global regulatory requirements such as the EU's Cyber Resilience Act.

By Paul Krill

Sep 25, 2024 3 mins

Application Security Development Tools Open Source

Google suite leverages conversational AI for customer support

Google's new Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI offers omnichannel support, a multimodal approach, and uses an organization's internal resources to increase response accuracy.

By Paul Krill

Sep 25, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Software Development

OpenAI Academy to help train developers, offer free credits

The program will also offer developers technical guidance and support via OpenAI’s generative AI experts.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 24, 2024 2 mins

Engineer Generative AI IT Skills and Training

Java 23 highlights crypto performance and security

Security-related enhancements include crypto performance updates, new debugging options, and additions to Kerberos and PKI.

By Paul Krill

Sep 24, 2024 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Security

Gleam language reaches 1.5 release

Productivity enhancements, such as better compile-time messages, are highlighted.

By Paul Krill

Sep 24, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

JavaScript community challenges Oracle’s JavaScript trademark

An open letter with more than 10,000 signatures accuses Oracle of abandoning the JavaScript trademark and urges the company to set it free.

By Paul Krill

Sep 20, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Technology Industry

Microsoft unveils Python Data Science Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code

New extension pack bundles VS Code extensions for Python language support, Jupyter notebooks, data wrangling, and the GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant.

By Paul Krill

Sep 20, 2024 2 mins

Data Science Development Tools Python

Deno 2.0 moves to release candidate stage

Major upgrade to Node.js rival introduces major changes to global variables, new dependency management features, and tweaks to the permission system.

By Paul Krill

Sep 19, 2024 4 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks TypeScript

New Arm partnerships extend AI performance from edge to cloud

Integration with PyTorch and ExecuTorch brings Arm computing performance to the machine learning stack for developers.

By Paul Krill

Sep 19, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning Python

Swift 6 arrives with improved concurrency, data-race safety

Along with performance improvements, the latest version of the language developed by Apple expands Linux and Windows access and C++ interoperability.

By Paul Krill

Sep 18, 2024 3 mins

Swift

Oracle CloudWorld 2024: 10 key takeaways from the big annual event

The cloud services provider’s announcements this year focused on providing developers and enterprises with new ways to take advantage of generative AI in their operations.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 18, 2024 8 mins

Databases Development Tools Engineer

C++ Alliance takes aim at C++ memory safety

Safe C++ Extensions proposal would provide C++ developers with memory-safe implementations of essential data structures and algorithms, along with features that prevent common memory-related errors.

By Paul Krill

Sep 17, 2024 3 mins

C++ Programming Languages Software Development

JDK 23: The new features in Java 23

Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more.

By Paul Krill

Sep 17, 2024 9 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

AWS hands OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation

Open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana will be supported by the newly formed OpenSearch Software Foundation, whose members include AWS, Uber, Canonical, and Aiven.

By Paul Krill

Sep 16, 2024 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Open Source

Decoding OpenAI’s o1 family of large language models

According to OpenAI, o1 performs similarly to PhD students on challenging benchmark tasks in physics, chemistry, and biology, and even excels in math and coding.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 13, 2024 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

What’s in the cards for MariaDB?

Its new owners are releasing few details about future plans, but the new CEO does specialize in prepping firms for acquisition.

By Paul Barker

Sep 12, 2024 6 mins

Databases Open Source

JFrog Platform adds runtime security for containers

JFrog Runtime Security integrates with JFrog Artifactory to identify the source and owner of vulnerable packages and prioritize remediation.

By Paul Krill

Sep 12, 2024 2 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Kubernetes and Containers

Microsoft moves .NET 9 to release candidate stage

Due for a production release in November, the forthcoming framework emphasizes WebSocket API improvements and updates to the .NET MAUI VS Code extension.

By Paul Krill

Sep 12, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

Kong API platform adds service catalog

Update to Kong Konnect platform provides a system of record for all APIs, new cloud gateways on AWS and Azure, and enhancements for connecting with generative AI models.

By Paul Krill

Sep 12, 2024 3 mins

APIs Cloud Computing Devops

Node.js adds built-in API for on-disk caching

The latest JavaScript runtime update also supports requiring code coverage thresholds are met before a process can exit.

By Paul Krill

Sep 11, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

TypeScript 5.6 now generally available

Update of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript disallows nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullishness or truthiness.

By Paul Krill

Sep 11, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

Oracle Code Assist moves to beta

Available through the Oracle Beta Program, the Oracle Code Assist beta is optimized for Java and application development on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

By Paul Krill

Sep 10, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Oracle’s HeatWave data analytics service gets new gen AI features

Other updates include enhancements to HeatWave Lakehouse, HeatWave on AWS, HeatWave AutoML, and MySQL HeatWave.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 10, 2024 5 mins

Databases Generative AI

Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

The partnership follows similar deals with Microsoft and Google over the past 12 months.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 10, 2024 1 min

Amazon Web Services Databases

Rust 1.81 stabilizes Error trait

Stabilization of the Error trait in Rust core allows the usage of the trait in #![no_std] libraries. Sort algorithms also were improved in the latest Rust release.

By Paul Krill

Sep 9, 2024 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

C language slumps in Tiobe popularity index

Longtime leading programming language for systems development dropped to fourth in the Tiobe index for September, its lowest position ever.

By Paul Krill

Sep 9, 2024 3 mins

C Language Programming Languages Software Development

Salesforce previews new XGen-Sales model, releases xLAM family of LLMs

The XGen-Sales model, which is based on the company’s open source APIGen and its family of large action models (LAM), will aid developers and enterprises in automating actions taken by AI agents, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 6, 2024 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Open Source

Visual Studio Code 1.93 shines on profiles

New Profiles editor provides a unified interface for creating new profiles, editing and deleting existing profiles, and importing and exporting profiles.

By Paul Krill

Sep 6, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Vue JavaScript framework boosts reactivity system

Server-side rendering also improved in Vue 3.5 upgrade, with async components able to control hydration.

By Paul Krill

Sep 5, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

Angular 19 to make standalone the default for components

The standalone feature lets developers build apps that do not depend on NgModule and is now the recommended way to write Angular code.

By Paul Krill

Sep 4, 2024 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

InfluxData makes performance, storage improvements to InfluxDB 3.0

Improvements to InfluxDB include improved ingest performance, unlimited data cardinality, and exceptionally low latency querying.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 4, 2024 3 mins

Databases

Qt moves forward on toolkit for .NET-C++ interoperability

A work in progress, the Qt/.NET toolkit implements C# interfaces in C++ and offers event notification and object-lifecycle management. implements C# interfaces in C++ and offers event notification and object-lifecycle management.

By Paul Krill

Sep 4, 2024 2 mins

C++ Development Tools Microsoft .NET

Couchbase Capella gets columnar support on AWS

Couchbase is also offering a free tier for Capella without any time limits to lower barriers to entry for developers.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 3, 2024 5 mins

Databases

Microsoft .NET Aspire boosts integrations, testing

.NET Aspire 8.2 features onboarding and testing improvements and makes progress toward build support planned for the upcoming 9.0 release.

By Paul Krill

Aug 30, 2024 2 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft .NET Software Development

Quest Software updates erwin data modeling and data intelligence tools

The tools provide advanced data intelligence, data quality, and data modeling capabilities aimed at helping customers ensure the AI readiness of their data, the company said.

By Paul Krill

Aug 30, 2024 2 mins

Data Quality Generative AI Machine Learning

TypeScript 5.6 enters release candidate stage

With the RC, Microsoft has renamed a number of new types and reverted a change to how the TypeScript language service searched for tsconfig.json files.

By Paul Krill

Aug 29, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit adds .NET 8, NativeAOT support

Version 8.3 of the platform-agnostic toolkit and MVVM library for .NET development also brings performance improvements and bug fixes.

By Paul Krill

Aug 29, 2024 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Microsoft cuts BinaryFormatter from .NET 9

Citing security concerns, the company removed all in-box dependencies on BinaryFormatter and replaced the implementation in the planned .NET 9 application platform.

By Paul Krill

Aug 28, 2024 2 mins

Microsoft .NET