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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

Visual Studio Code adds multiple tabs selection

Beginning with VS Code 1.90, users can select multiple tabs and apply actions to multiple editors at once.

By Paul Krill

Jun 6, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Microsoft adds WinUI support to MSTest

Code analyzers for Roslyn also have been enhanced with new rules in latest upgrade to the testing framework for .NET.

By Paul Krill

Jun 5, 2024 2 mins

App Testing C# Microsoft .NET

Quarkus Java framework adds dev extensions for observability

Latest update to the Kubernetes-native Java stack introduces dev extensions for Grafana, Jaeger, OTel, and VictoriaMetrics.

By Paul Krill

Jun 4, 2024 2 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

Databricks to acquire storage platform maker Tabular

While Snowflake is talking up its use of Iceberg to promote interoperability, Databricks is buying Tabular, the tool built on Iceberg’s table format by Iceberg’s creators.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 4, 2024 5 mins

Data Management Open Source Technology Industry

Snowflake updates its Horizon governance suite

The updates include a new Internal Marketplace and AI-powered Object Descriptions using Copilot.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 4, 2024 2 mins

Data Governance Data Warehousing

Snowflake adds AI & ML Studio, new chatbot features to Cortex

The new chatbot features include Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, and updates to Cortex Coast Guard.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 4, 2024 6 mins

Data Warehousing Generative AI

Snowflake updates developer tools, adds observability features

Snowflake expects the updates and observability features to simplify devops and accelerate development.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 4, 2024 3 mins

Data Warehousing Devops

Google launches Google Developer Program

New program will provide Gemini AI coding assistance, Project IDX workspaces, and other new tools, training, and community resources for software developers.

By Paul Krill

Jun 4, 2024 2 mins

Cloud Computing Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Visual Studio rolls out new Extension Manager

Updated Extension Manager, on by default in Visual Studio 17.10, allows users to view detailed descriptions of extensions without leaving the IDE.

By Paul Krill

Jun 3, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

With its plan to make its Polaris data catalog open source, Snowflake hopes the new offering will be seen as vendor-neutral, boosting its attractiveness when compared to Databricks’ Unity Catalog.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 3, 2024 5 mins

Data Management Data Warehousing

Deno adds support for private NPM registries

Deno 1.44 also brings performance boosts, the ability to run Next.js applications, and the ability to connect to gRPC services.

By Paul Krill

May 31, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

The Python report: News for Python developers

Here's your monthly mix of Python stories just for developers, including news, tutorials, and weird tidbits from around the web.

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 31, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Technology Industry

Nutanix announces AI partner program, GPT-in-a-Box 2.0

GPT-in-a-Box is a full-stack platform for running generative AI workloads that integrates Nvidia NIMs and the Hugging Face LLM library.

By Paul Krill

May 30, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

JetBrains stabilizes Compose Multiplatform resources API

Declarative UI framework for multi-platform Kotlin apps also upgrades iOS support to beta and Web support to alpha.

By Paul Krill

May 29, 2024 2 mins

Kotlin Mobile Development Web Development

Azul CEO sees Java’s AI future as bright

Exec Scott Sellers says Java will eventually compete with Python in the AI space, and says removing sun.misc.Unsafe from Java is long overdue.

By Paul Krill

May 29, 2024 4 mins

Careers Generative AI Java

JetBrains releases RustRover IDE for Rust development

RustRover provides a built-in toolchain for testing, running, debugging, and analyzing Rust code, with optional AI assistance via plugin and subscription.

By Paul Krill

May 24, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Rust Software Development

Angular 18 arrives with server-side rendering improvements

Major update also introduces zoneless change detection and moves Material 3, deferred views, and built-in control flow from developer preview to stable.

By Paul Krill

May 23, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

EDB unveils EDB Postgres AI

EDB Postgres AI combines a PostgreSQL database, a data lakehouse, and other components to support transactional, analytic, and AI workloads.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 23, 2024 6 mins

Analytics Databases Generative AI

Microsoft Build 2024: 6 takeaways for developers, data professionals

Copilots and the Copilot stack bagged most of the headlines as Microsoft rolled out new chips, accelerators, and software updates for AI workloads.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 23, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

Azure Copilot: An AI assistant for Azure ops and troubleshooting

Microsoft has added new skills to its LLM-powered Copilot in Azure and opened up access to everyone.

By Simon Bisson

May 23, 2024 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Microsoft Azure

JetBrains debuts Kotlin 2.0.0 with K2 compiler performance boost

The Kotlin language update features the open source Kotlin dataset, which supports LLM development and improves the quality of AI code generation for Kotlin.

By Paul Krill

May 23, 2024 3 mins

Kotlin Programming Languages Technology Industry

.NET Aspire cloud development stack launches

Microsoft's new cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications unites tools, templates, and NuGet packages and includes an App Host for orchestration within the app model.

By Paul Krill

May 22, 2024 2 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft .NET Software Development

MariaDB plc: Shareholders speak, but execs are quiet

With losses in decline, the next step will be to hear what plans its new owners have for the open source RDBMS provider.

By Paul Barker

May 22, 2024 4 mins

Databases Open Source

Snowflake acquires TruEra’s AI observability platform

The acquisition would help Snowflake deliver evaluation and monitoring capabilities for LLM-based applications and machine-learning models for customers.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 22, 2024 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

Microsoft’s Power Platform updates hint at the future of enterprise coding

Copilot-powered security tools, simplified developer collaboration, and easier integration of voice-activated generative AI into mobile apps are among the changes on show at Build.

By Evan Schuman

May 22, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

C# 13 enhances params, introduces extension types

Forthcoming update to the C# language extends params parameter support and introduces a new type that supplies extension members for an underlying type.

By Paul Krill

May 21, 2024 2 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Microsoft Build 2024: Cosmos DB for NoSQL gets vector search

Other database updates include the availability of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI and the addition of Copilot capabilities to Azure SQL DB.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 2024 2 mins

Databases Generative AI

Microsoft Copilot Studio to build AI agents

Low-code tool kit for creating custom copilots will also gain connectors that allow copilots to use various data sources including public websites.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft Azure AI gains new LLMs, governance features

At Build 2024 Microsoft also announced that the Azure AI Studio toolkit for building generative AI applications is generally available.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 2024 6 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Microsoft unveils third-party extensions for GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot Extensions from DataStax, Docker, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, and others will be available in the GitHub Marketplace.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft Fabric adds real-time intelligence, workload development kit

Fabric updates announced at Build 2024 also include Snowflake and Databricks integrations and the general availability of Copilot for Power BI.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 2024 6 mins

Business Intelligence Data Integration Machine Learning

IBM previews watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications

The generative AI-based code assistant is aimed at accelerating Java application lifecycle with capabilities, such as code generation, code explanation, and test generation.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Java

GitLab unveils GitLab 17, AI for devsecops

GitLab Duo Enterprise will bring AI assistance to finding and fixing vulnerabilities and other aspects of the software development life cycle.

By Paul Krill

May 20, 2024 2 mins

Build Automation Development Tools Devops

JetBrains releases Aqua IDE for test automation

Polyglot IDE understands Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and SQL and supports the Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright testing frameworks out of the box.

By Paul Krill

May 20, 2024 2 mins

App Testing Development Tools Software Development

Ruby steps toward frozen string literals

Beginning with Ruby 3.4.0, string literals in files without a frozen_string_literal comment will behave as if they were frozen.

By Paul Krill

May 16, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Ruby Software Development

IBM builds out Qiskit quantum computing platform

IBM is extending its quantum development software into a full stack that includes middleware, serverless functions, and AI coding assistance.

By Paul Krill

May 16, 2024 2 mins

Quantum Computing Software Development Technology Industry

Google pitches WebAssembly for Flutter, Dart

Google announces Flutter 3.22 and Dart 3.4 releases focused on WebAssembly improvements and integration.

By Paul Krill

May 15, 2024 3 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

Google unveils PaliGemma, announces Gemma 2

PaliGemma is an open vision-language model designed for tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and object detection.

By Paul Krill

May 14, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Oracle extends support for Java 11, Java on Solaris

Oracle will support JDK 11 including JDK 11 on Solaris through at least January 2032, the company confirmed in its Java SE Spring 2024 roadmap update.

By Paul Krill

May 14, 2024 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Technology Industry

7 application security startups at RSAC 2024

VC-backed up-and-comers zero in on devsecops, the software supply chain, and securing the software development life cycle.

By Victor Garza

May 14, 2024 7 mins

Application Security Devops Security

Red Hat extends Lightspeed AI to Linux, OpenShift

Lightspeed will apply generative AI toward automating the operation of OpenShift clusters and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.

By Paul Krill

May 10, 2024 2 mins

Devops Generative AI Technology Industry

OpenAI unveils specs for desired AI model behavior

First draft of Model Spec documents how OpenAI wants its generative AI models to behave in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.

By Paul Krill

May 9, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

GitHub takes aim at software supply chain security

GitHub Artifact Attestations, based on Sigstore, signs and verifies the integrity of software artifacts in GitHub Actions workflows.

By Paul Krill

May 9, 2024 2 mins

Application Security Build Automation Devops

Red Hat’s Podman AI Lab supports developer adoption of genAI

The Podman Desktop extension features sample apps and a developer playground for exploring LLM use cases.

By Paul Krill

May 8, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Software Development Technology Industry

Red Hat launches RHEL for AI

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI is designed to serve as a foundation model platform that allows users to more seamlessly develop and deploy generative AI models.

By Paul Krill

May 8, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Deno boosts language server performance

Language server enhancements in Deno 1.43 speed up auto-completion performance and improve memory consumption.

By Paul Krill

May 7, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Oracle unveils AI-powered coding assistant

Oracle Code Assist will be fine-tuned with Oracle software development practices and coding patterns from Java, SQL, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and other technologies such as NetSuite SuiteScript.

By Paul Krill

May 7, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Technology Industry