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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

Yugabyte adds multiregion Kubernetes support to YugabyteDB 2.18

The new updates include a new intelligent performance advisor that optimizes indexes, queries, and schema for the self-managed, database-as-a-service Yugabyte Anywhere.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 24, 2023 3 mins

Databases Open Source Software Development

Microsoft updates Power Automate’s Cloud Flows with Copilot

Other updates to Power Automate include Action SDKs for Desktop Flows and Work Queues for managing bots.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 23, 2023 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development Technology Industry

Why Microsoft is combining all its data analytics products into Fabric

The integration of its existing products such as Synapse and Power BI will help enterprises combine workloads while reducing IT integration overhead, complexity and costs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 23, 2023 8 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

Red Hat puts Podman container management on the desktop

Open-source GUI tool allows developers to create, deploy, and manage containers running locally or in remote Kubernetes clusters.

By Paul Krill

May 23, 2023 2 mins

Software Development

JetBrains adds iOS support to cross-platform UI framework

JetBrains’ Compose Multiplatform allows developers to build cross-platform user interfaces in Kotlin, and share them across Android and iOS or Windows and macOS.

By Paul Krill

May 19, 2023 2 mins

Kotlin Libraries and Frameworks Mobile Development

Visual Studio updates shine on C++, Git, Wasm, and DX

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements.

By Paul Krill

May 19, 2023 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Azul Systems boosts Java startups with CRaC

The OpenJDK Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint project allows a running application to pause, snapshot its state, and then restart later, even on a different machine.

By Paul Krill

May 18, 2023 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Ruby previews pure Ruby JIT compiler

Ruby 3.3.0 brings significant performance improvements to YJIT and previews RJIT, an experimental just-in-time compiler that doesn’t require a C compiler at runtime.

By Paul Krill

May 17, 2023 2 mins

Programming Languages Ruby Software Development

GitHub owns up to service issues, multiple outages

Over the past four months, GitHub has experienced 16 disruptions in its services, blog posts from the company showed.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 17, 2023 4 mins

Development Tools Open Source Version Control Systems

Biggest Golang challenges are error handling and learning, Go developers say

Go Developer Survey finds that error handling and learning best practices are the biggest challenges to using Go, now that generics has been added to the language.

By Paul Krill

May 16, 2023 2 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

CockroachDB now supports Microsoft Azure, multiregion deployments

With the addition of support for Microsoft Azure, CockroachDB will now support all three major public cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 16, 2023 4 mins

Databases Open Source

Google’s Dart 3 and Flutter 3.10 bring big changes

Dart 3 introduces sound null safety, major new language features, and a Wasm preview, while Flutter 3.10 fleshes out the Material 3 widget toolkit and support for macOS and iOS targets.

By Paul Krill

May 12, 2023 3 mins

Mobile Development Technology Industry Web Development

Developer-focused portal Stack Overflow lays off 10% of staff

The job cuts are a result of the company’s renewed focus on profitability due to macroeconomic concerns, according to CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 11, 2023 2 mins

Generative AI IT Jobs Technology Industry

How is Creatio integrating ChatGPT into its Atlas low-code platform?

The integration of the ChatGPT connector into Creatio’s offerings will allow developers to build applications faster and help in customer-centric use cases such as providing assistance in writing emails and supporting customer support executive

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 11, 2023 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence No Code and Low Code Software Development

Google unveils PaLM 2 AI language model

The next-generation large language model boasts advanced multilingual, code generation, and reasoning capabilities, and is already being used in Bard and other Google AI tools.

By Paul Krill

May 10, 2023 2 mins

Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Technology Industry

Google’s Vertex AI machine learning platform gets generative AI tools

The new updates to Google Cloud’s machine learning service will help the company square up against rivals such as Microsoft, AWS and IBM.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 10, 2023 5 mins

Generative AI Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning

Google’s Duet AI to take on Amazon CodeWhisperer, GitHub Copilot

The new generative AI engine aims to help developers code, and offers assistance to administrators, cloud operators, data engineers, and security professionals for daily tasks.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 10, 2023 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx

The generative AI platform comes with a suite of tools for tuning large language models, a data store built on lakehouse architecture, and an AI governance toolkit.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 10, 2023 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Next.js rearchitects router for smoother server-side rendering

Now stable in Next.js 13.4, the new App Router builds on React Server Components and React Suspense to improve data fetching, page loading, and the developer experience.

By Paul Krill

May 9, 2023 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Visual Studio Code 1.78 debuts profile templates for Python, Java, Angular

The April 2023 release of Microsoft’s programming editor also features new default color themes.

By Paul Krill

May 6, 2023 2 mins

Java JavaScript Python

Databricks doubles down in India with staff hires, new R&D hub

The company, which has a global workforce of 5,000 people, will increase its staff count in India by 50%, a top executive said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 5, 2023 4 mins

Careers Generative AI IT Jobs

DataStax’s new LunaML to support Kaskada deployment

Kaskada, acquired by DataStax in January, offers an open-source based unified events processing engine aimed at helping enterprises build real-time machine learning applications.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 4, 2023 2 mins

Databases Machine Learning

ServiceNow, Hugging Face’s free StarCoder LLM takes on Copilot, CodeWhisperer

The free large language model, which was jointly developed by the two companies under the BigCode Project, was trained on licensed source code covering over 80 programming languages.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 4, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Databricks acquires AI-centric Okera to aid data governance in LLMs

Databricks intends to integrate Okera’s capabilities with its own data governance layer inside its lakehouse offering, dubbed Unity Catalog.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 4, 2023 3 mins

Data Governance Generative AI Technology Industry

Mojo language marries Python and MLIR for AI development

New programming language aims to combine full Python compatibility with low-level programming features, along with the ability to harness GPUs and other AI accelerators.

By Paul Krill

May 4, 2023 2 mins

Machine Learning Programming Languages Python

Angular 16 previews new reactivity model

TypeScript-based web framework shows off improvements to reactivity, server-side rendering, hydration, and a faster esbuild-based build system.

By Paul Krill

May 4, 2023 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

How Oracle is taking on AWS, Snowflake with Autonomous Data Warehouse updates

The updates include a 75% cut in storage pricing, a new low-code Data Studio, and adoption of Databricks’ open source Delta Sharing protocol and Apache Iceberg.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 3, 2023 7 mins

Cloud Computing Databases

Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel adds Copilot Chat sample app

Semantic Kernel SDK and sample app promise to ease the development of intelligent assistants based on AI large language models.

By Paul Krill

May 3, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development Technology Industry

Kinetica taps ChatGPT for natural language SQL database queries

Natural language queries made to the database are routed through ChatGPT's API to produce a SQL query syntax that can be run to generate results, Kinetica says.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 2, 2023 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

Deno 1.33 debuts built-in key-value database

Currently in beta, Deno KV is a strongly consistent key-value database integrated into the open-source Deno runtime and designed for JavaScript, with the ability to store any JavaScript structured serializable value.

By Paul Krill

May 2, 2023 3 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

GCC 13 compiler collection backs C++ 23, Go 1.18

Highlights of the major GCC release include support for C 23 and C++ 23 features and full support of Go 1.18 user packages, but not generic programming.

By Paul Krill

May 1, 2023 2 mins

C Language C++ Golang

Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit 8.2 shines on MVVM

Custom attributes for [RelayCommand], new property change hooks for [ObservableProperty] fields, MVVM code fixers, and MVVM source generator optimizations are also featured in the update.

By Paul Krill

Apr 28, 2023 2 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Amazon Corretto, Java 17 adoption soar, New Relic reports

New Relic’s 2023 State of the Java Ecosystem Report finds that Amazon has surpassed Oracle as the leading JDK vendor, while use of Java 17 has increased four-fold.

By Paul Krill

Apr 26, 2023 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Mendix aims to add generative AI to its low-code platform by year-end

The company has been trying out GPT-based features for its low-code platform, planning to add capabilities to streamline app development and offer guidance on best practices.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 25, 2023 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

EnterpriseDB to offer new Oracle to Postgres migration service

The new migration service will ensure faster migration while providing a “zero risk” guarantee that allows enterprises to not pay for the entire cost of migration if expectations are not met, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 25, 2023 3 mins

Databases

OpenJDK proposals would bolster Java integrity, encryption

One proposal would restrict Java APIs to maintain the strong encapsulation that assures the integrity of code and data, while a second would introduce a Key Encapsulation Mechanism API.

By Paul Krill

Apr 25, 2023 3 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Google’s Bard AI to take on GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer

Google’s generative AI offering is now capable of helping developers write and debug code in 20 programming languages including Python and Typescript, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 24, 2023 3 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning Technology Industry

Linux Foundation launches TLA+ language foundation

TLA+ is a high-level programming language used to model complex, concurrent, and distributed programs and systems. It was created by Leslie Lamport and is backed by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle.

By Paul Krill

Apr 21, 2023 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Programming Languages Technology Industry

Why generative AI will turbocharge low-code and no-code development

The evolution of generative AI models will further lower barriers to using low-code and no-code development tools, and potentially lead to the birth of a whole new class of intelligent developer technology.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 21, 2023 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI No Code and Low Code

Node.js 20 introduces permissions model

The Node.js Permission Model allows developers to restrict access to the file system, child processes, and worker threads during execution.

By Paul Krill

Apr 19, 2023 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Oracle expands availability of Java 8 performance pack

The Java 8 Enterprise Performance Pack, a performance boosting drop-in replacement for JDK 8 workloads on Linux, is now available via public download.

By Paul Krill

Apr 19, 2023 1 min

Java Programming Languages Technology Industry

Cosmonic WebAssembly PaaS connects with Kubernetes

Cosmonic has launched an open beta of its platform as a service for WebAssembly developers and added Kubernetes integration to the platform.

By Paul Krill

Apr 18, 2023 2 mins

Cloud Computing PaaS Web Development

After job cuts, MariaDB faces uncertain financial future

In addition to laying off 26 staffers out of its 340-strong workforce in February, the company warns that revenue won't be enough to support operations for the next 12 months, and is looking for financing.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 18, 2023 3 mins

Databases Technology Industry

Android Studio Flamingo upgrades UI tooling

Latest version of Android Studio uses Jetpack Compose and Material 3 for new projects by default, introduces live editing for UIs as an experimental feature.

By Paul Krill

Apr 15, 2023 2 mins

Development Tools Mobile Development Technology Industry

IBM acquires SaaS-based PrestoDB provider Ahana

IBM’s will join the Presto Foundation and aid in the development of PrestoDB.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 14, 2023 3 mins

Databases SQL Technology Industry

Open source FerretDB offers ‘drop-in replacement’ for MongoDB

FerretDB 1.0 is a stateless proxy that converts MongoDB protocol queries to SQL, using PostgreSQL as the database engine.

By Paul Krill

Apr 14, 2023 2 mins

Databases Software Development

AWS’ Bedrock offers foundation models to build generative AI apps

The new AWS cloud service, Amazon Bedrock, is designed to let enterprises select foundation models for building their own generative AI applications for targeted use cases and commercial use.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 13, 2023 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Why did Databricks open source its LLM in the form of Dolly 2.0?

Open-source based large language models like Dolly are in high demand as enterprises want to use them for targeted or specific use cases, analysts said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 13, 2023 7 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning Open Source

Microsoft unveils C# 12 language enhancements

Three new features for C# 12 are available in the latest .NET 8 and Visual Studio 17.6 previews.

By Paul Krill

Apr 12, 2023 2 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Programming Languages

OpenJDK proposal would make Java easier to learn

Flexible main methods and anonymous main classes would help students write basic programs much more concisely and reduce the ceremony of writing simple programs.

By Paul Krill

Apr 12, 2023 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development