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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

Google API brings LLMs to Android, iOS, web apps

Experimental MediaPipe LLM Inference API allows developers to run large language models ‘on-device’ across platforms.

By Paul Krill

Mar 8, 2024 2 mins

Mobile Development Technology Industry Web Development

Swift language achieves data-race safety

Swift 5.10 can enforce full data isolation in concurrent code, preventing threads from reading and writing to the same memory at the same time.

By Paul Krill

Mar 8, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Software Development Swift

LinkedIn open sources lakehouse tool OpenHouse

The tool is already in use at LinkedIn with more than 3,500 managed OpenHouse tables in production, serving more than 550 daily active users.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 8, 2024 5 mins

Data Management

Swift achieves data-race safety

Swift 5.10 can enforce full data isolation in concurrent code, preventing threads from reading and writing to the same memory at the same time.

By Paul Krill

Mar 7, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Software Development Swift

Netlify AI analyzes failed deployments

AI-enabled deploy assist in Netlify’s Composable Web Platform diagnoses deployment failures and build errors and suggests fixes.

By Paul Krill

Mar 7, 2024 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Web Development

TypeScript soothes type narrowing pain point

TypeScript 5.4, now generally available, preserves type refinements in function closures following last assignments.

By Paul Krill

Mar 7, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

GitHub Enterprise Server adds deployment rollout controls

Latest version of self-hosted platform for software development also introduces automation of pull request merges.

By Paul Krill

Mar 6, 2024 2 mins

Software Development Version Control Systems

Salesforce unveils low-code AI toolkit for CRM

Einstein 1 Studio allows Salesforce admins and developers to customize the Einstein Copilot conversational AI assistant and embed AI functionality into CRM apps.

By Paul Krill

Mar 6, 2024 1 min

Generative AI No Code and Low Code Salesforce

Java developers wanted, report says

2024 Java Developer Productivity Report finds most companies plan to add Java developers this year, though most tool budgets not rising.

By Paul Krill

Mar 6, 2024 2 mins

Careers Java Software Development

Cloudflare announces Firewall for AI

Firewall for AI will analyze user prompts to large language models to identify attempts to extract data or otherwise exploit a model, Cloudflare said.

By Paul Krill

Mar 5, 2024 2 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Generative AI

Gleam language available in first stable release

Now available in v1.0.0, Gleam is a small, simple, opinionated, type-safe programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes.

By Paul Krill

Mar 5, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

Leadtools adds Excel API, MAUI support

Update to the document and image processing toolkit provides an API for creating, editing, and saving Excel worksheets programmatically.

By Paul Krill

Mar 5, 2024 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

JetBrains Compose Multiplatform debuts UI testing API

Upgrade to the declarative UI framework also improves the API for sharing and accessing resources in common Kotlin code.

By Paul Krill

Mar 1, 2024 2 mins

Kotlin Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

Biden executive order protects personal data

Order authorizes prevention of large-scale data transfers to countries of concern including China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

By Paul Krill

Mar 1, 2024 3 mins

Data Governance Security Technology Industry

GitHub rolls out push protection on public repos

With push protection, GitHub’s secret scanning blocks users from pushing secrets to a repository, while giving them the option to bypass the block.

By Paul Krill

Mar 1, 2024 1 min

Application Security Software Development Version Control Systems

Couchbase Server and Capella to gain vector support

Couchbase is working to provide vector similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation capabilities in its database offerings before May.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 1, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

Stack Overflow opens API to Google’s Gemini

Overflow API will allow the generative AI model to mine the Stack Overflow knowledge base when providing coding assistance to developers in Google Cloud.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 29, 2024 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

OpenJDK proposal would streamline Java records creation

Derived records creation would allow Java developers to create new records from existing records and eliminate the need for explicit wither methods.

By Paul Krill

Feb 29, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Google delivers Gemini LLM support to BigQuery data warehouse

BigQuery’s update will make it easier to prepare data for AI with speech-to-text and document processing.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 29, 2024 2 mins

Data Warehousing Databases Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud adds vector support to all its database offerings

Cloud service providers, including Google Cloud, are in a race to add vector support and other AI-related features as they try to get the first-mover advantage.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 29, 2024 5 mins

Databases Google Cloud Platform Technology Industry

High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

The company’s annual Open Source Security and Risk Analysis report finds widespread use of open source components with high-risk vulnerabilities.

By Paul Krill

Feb 28, 2024 2 mins

Application Security Open Source Software Development

ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia expand StarCoder2 coding LLM

The open-access, royalty-free model supports over 600 programming languages and comes in three sizes for greater resource efficiency.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 28, 2024 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Programming Languages

Visual Studio Code adds voice dictation

February 2024 release of Microsoft’s code editor also introduces multi-cursor inline suggestions and GitHub Copilot-powered renaming suggestions for symbols.

By Paul Krill

Feb 27, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

GitHub ships GitHub Copilot Enterprise

An edition of GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant that can be customized to an organization’s codebase is now generally available.

By Paul Krill

Feb 27, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

White House urges developers to dump C and C++

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

By Grant Gross

Feb 27, 2024 5 mins

Application Security C Language Programming Languages

Deno shrinks deno compile binaries

Deno 1.41 promises to reduce the size of ‘deno compile’ binaries by half and introduces an official build for Linux ARM64.

By Paul Krill

Feb 27, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

TypeScript soothes type narrowing pain point

TypeScript 5.4, now available in a release candidate, preserves type refinements in function closures following last assignments.

By Paul Krill

Feb 26, 2024 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

Rust developers concerned about complexity, low usage

The biggest worries for the future of Rust among users are too much complexity and too little usage in the tech industry, the 2023 State of Rust Survey finds.

By Paul Krill

Feb 23, 2024 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

JetBrains IDEs preview new terminal

Available in version 2024.1 IDEs, the new terminal eases navigation among commands and beefs up command completion capabilities.

By Paul Krill

Feb 23, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Rust users concerned about complexity, low usage

The biggest worries for the future of Rust among users are too much complexity and too little usage in the tech industry, the 2023 State of Rust Survey finds.

By Paul Krill

Feb 23, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Programming Languages Rust

Java virtual threads hit with pinning issue

The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released.

By Paul Krill

Feb 22, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Azure IoT Central’s reported retirement plans remain mysterious

Azure IoT Central is a big cog in the IoT machine, but will it stay that way? Microsoft said the system alert of the deprecation of the platform was ‘presented in error.’

By Jon Gold

Feb 22, 2024 3 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

GitHub Copilot makes insecure code even less secure, Snyk says

Developer security firm warns that Copilot and other AI-powered coding assistants may replicate security vulnerabilities already present in the user’s codebase.

By Paul Krill

Feb 22, 2024 2 mins

Application Security Development Tools Generative AI

Google stresses safety with Gemma open models

Gemma open models are free to be used, altered, and redistributed by developers and researchers who agree to do so responsibly.

By Paul Krill

Feb 21, 2024 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Can MariaDB’s enterprise business be saved?

Poor financial health has taken a heavy toll on MariaDB PLC and shaken its customer base. An acquisition might not be enough to reverse the damage, experts said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 21, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Technology Industry

Can MariaDB’s commercial business be saved?

Poor financial health has taken a heavy toll on MariaDB PLC and shaken its customer base. An acquisition might not be enough to reverse the damage, experts said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 21, 2024 5 mins

Databases Technology Industry

Fast-growing Zig tops Stack Overflow survey for highest-paid programming language

The popular alternative to C will get professionals the biggest paycheck, while Python remains the favorite of non-pros and learners.

By Elizabeth Montalbano

Feb 21, 2024 3 mins

C Language Golang Python

Graal Cloud Native adds Google Cloud Platform support

Oracle-backed Micronaut framework for building cloud-native Java microservices already provided APIs and libraries for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Amazon Web Services.

By Paul Krill

Feb 20, 2024 2 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Technology Industry

ngrok unveils API gateway-as-a-service

API gateway brings additional capabilities to the ngrok platform including traffic routing, JWT authentication and authorization, rate limiting, and request/response manipulation.

By Paul Krill

Feb 20, 2024 1 min

APIs Software Development Technology Industry

Dart language upgrade shines on Wasm, generative AI

Dart 3.3 lays the groundwork for compiling Flutter apps to WebAssembly, while new SDK integrates Gemini API for building AI features into apps.

By Paul Krill

Feb 16, 2024 2 mins

JavaScript Mobile Development Web Development

Astral unveils ‘extremely fast’ Python package installer

Rust-based uv package manager promises to be a drop-in replacement for pip and up to 115x faster than pip when running with a warm cache.

By Paul Krill

Feb 16, 2024 1 min

Development Tools Python Software Development

Visual Studio adds AI-generated Git commits, previews AI chat

Microsoft has made Visual Studio 17.9 generally available and introduced a preview of Visual Studio 17.10. Both bring support for new GitHub Copilot capabilities.

By Paul Krill

Feb 15, 2024 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Oracle Autonomous Database adds AI conversation support

Upgrade may help Oracle establish a lead against rivals such as AWS, Google, IBM, and Snowflake in providing an autonomous cloud database, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 15, 2024 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Technology Industry

Perforce will absorb data virtualization firm Delphix

Delphix’s data management capabilities are the latest addition to Perforce’s devops portfolio.

By Jon Gold

Feb 15, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Devops

Advanced profiling proposed for Java Flight Recorder

Skogsluft project would introduce profiling features that span Java and native code execution and provide more precise and flexible profiling options.

By Paul Krill

Feb 14, 2024 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Microsoft kicks off .NET 9

Major update to Microsoft’s development platform, now available in a first preview, will focus on the development of cloud-native and AI-powered applications.

By Paul Krill

Feb 14, 2024 2 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET