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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

Low-code development technologies market forecast to hit $44.5 billion by 2026

Hyperautomation and the move to optimize business processes are fueling uptake and sales for low-code development technologies, which will grow by 19% over the next four years to reach $44.5 billion by 2026, Gartner says.

By Apurva Venkat

Dec 14, 2022 4 mins

No Code and Low Code Technology Industry

PHP 8.2 introduces read-only classes

Major update to the popular scripting language also features performance and syntax improvements and new stand-alone types.

By Paul Krill

Dec 13, 2022 2 mins

PHP Programming Languages Web Development

Visual Studio Code 1.74 boosts remote development

November 2022 release of the code editor previews a remote tunneling capability that allows developers to securely connect to their VS Code machine from any device anywhere.

By Paul Krill

Dec 9, 2022 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

GitHub Copilot for Business plans unveiled

GitHub’s AI-based coding assistant is now available for businesses at a monthly cost of $19 per user.

By Paul Krill

Dec 9, 2022 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Version Control Systems

GitHub bolsters NPM access control

New granular access tokens allow NPM package maintainers to restrict which packages, scopes, and organizations a token has access to.

By Paul Krill

Dec 7, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Version Control Systems

C++ overtakes Java in language popularity index

Java ranked fourth in the December 2022 Tiobe index of programming language popularity, the lowest Java has ranked in the history of the index.

By Paul Krill

Dec 6, 2022 2 mins

C++ Java Programming Languages

AWS re:Invent 2022 roundup: Data management, AI, compute take center stage

This week at its re:Invent conference, AWS launched new services and features across its storage, compute, analytics, machine learning, database, and security services, and made a foray into supply chain management.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 2, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Machine Learning

Informatica data science framework connects with Amazon SageMaker

Informatica INFACore promises to simplify the creation of data pipelines for building and deploying machine learning models in Amazon SageMaker Studio.

By Paul Krill

Dec 1, 2022 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Analytics Machine Learning

AWS updates its machine learning service SageMaker

At re:Invent 2022, the cloud services provider updated its managed machine learning service to include new notebook and governance features.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 1, 2022 4 mins

Machine Learning

Angular 16 to improve server-side rendering

Runtime performance and asynchronous activities also due for attention in planned upgrade to the popular web framework.

By Paul Krill

Nov 30, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

AWS simplifies data management, analytics with new services

A major theme at re:Invent 2022 was Amazon's efforts to ease data management, as AWS announced new ETL capabilities and features for collaboration, searching and cataloging.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 30, 2022 6 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Database Administration

Amazon Omics aims to optimize biological data analysis at scale

The bioinformatics service, made generally available at AWS re:Invent, is designed to help researchers and scientists store and accelerate analysis of genomic and other related biological data types for precision medicine.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 30, 2022 3 mins

Analytics Cloud Storage Data Management

AWS adds AI features to Textract, Transcribe and Kendra

At re:Invent 2022, the cloud services provider also updated its HealthLake and CodeWhisperer services.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 30, 2022 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

AWS Lambda kickstarts Java functions

AWS Lambda SnapStart cuts Java startup times by initializing Java functions ahead of time and caching a snapshot of the initialized execution environment.

By Paul Krill

Nov 30, 2022 1 min

Amazon Web Services Java Serverless Computing

AWS Glue upgrades Spark engines, backs Ray framework

Serverless data integration service in the Amazon cloud also adds support for built-in Pandas APIs and the Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake formats.

By Paul Krill

Nov 29, 2022 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Data Integration Python

AWS SimSpace Weaver tackles large-scale spatial simulations

The new managed compute service allows enterprises to run complex, 3D simulations with more than a million objects, AWS said at re:Invent.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 29, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

Starburst Galaxy gets data discoverability updates

At AWS re:Invent 2022, the company also announced support for AWS Lake Formation via Starburst Enterprise suite to help joint customers implement data mesh architecture.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 29, 2022 3 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing SQL

Wasmer 3.0 revamps API, memory management

Server-side WebAssembly runtime also simplifies the way engines work, supports running WAPM packages from the CLI, and supports creating native executables for any platform.

By Paul Krill

Nov 28, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Software Development Web Development

Alation’s Connected Sheets brings data governance to spreadsheets

Connected Sheets, which can be accessed via the company’s Data Catalog, can be used to import or feed governed data from various sources into spreadsheets including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 28, 2022 3 mins

Data Governance No Code and Low Code Software Development

ML.NET 2.0 enhances text classification

Upgrade to Microsoft’s machine learning framework for .NET improves model building for text classification, introduces a sentence similarity API, and adds more AutoML capabilities.

By Paul Krill

Nov 23, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning Microsoft .NET

IBM sues Micro Focus for mainframe software copyright infringement

IBM alleges that software partner Micro Focus copied its proprietary file format and broke a contract with the company, in a suit filed Monday in the Southern District of New York.

By Jon Gold

Nov 22, 2022 3 mins

Careers Intellectual Property Software Development

Swift language plans for 2023 emphasize concurrency and generics

Builders of the Apple-developed Swift language intend to also move the language forward in C++ interoperability and add a Swift parser.

By Paul Krill

Nov 22, 2022 3 mins

C++ Programming Languages Swift

Angular 15 arrives with standalone APIs

The new standalone APIs, now graduated from developer preview, allow Angular developers to build applications without using NgModules.

By Paul Krill

Nov 18, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

TypeScript 4.9 intros operator for finding coding mistakes

New ‘satisfies’ operator validates that the type of an expression matches some type, catching many possible errors.

By Paul Krill

Nov 16, 2022 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Web Development

Deno stabilizes NPM compatibility

With Deno 1.28, developers now can import more than 1.3 million NPM modules, as well as run NPM scripts and CLIs and execute NPM packages with subcommands.

By Paul Krill

Nov 16, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Alteryx updates its Designer Cloud UI, adds data lakehouse support

The data engineering cloud platform, acquired as part of the Trifacta buyout early this year, has been updated to offer a more Alteryx-like UI experience.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 16, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management Databases

SAP Build wields low-code for business apps, workflow automation

Cloud-based visual low-code and no-code development environment allows non-developers to create web apps, mobile apps, and automated business processes by dragging and dropping pre-built components.

By Paul Krill

Nov 16, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing No Code and Low Code Software Development

TigerGraph Cloud adds graph analytics, machine learning tools

The updated graph database-as-a-service (DBaaS) will come with visual analytics and machine learning tools, made accessible via the TigerGraph Suite.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 15, 2022 3 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Machine Learning

Java, Python top most wanted list for employers

Java, Python, SQL, C++, and JavaScript programming skills are most in demand in the workplace, says the HackerRank developer skills report.

By Paul Krill

Nov 14, 2022 2 mins

Java Python SQL

GitHub Codespaces freely available to all GitHub users

All GitHub users can use the GitHub-hosted development environments free for up to 60 hours per month. Codespaces also added JetBrains IDE, JupyterLab, and GPU support.

By Paul Krill

Nov 11, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Version Control Systems

GitHub faces lawsuit over Copilot AI coding assistant

Class-action complaint contends that training the AI system on public GitHub repos violates the legal rights of creators who posted the code under open-source licenses.

By Paul Krill

Nov 10, 2022 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development Version Control Systems

Data lake upstart Upsolver takes aim at Databricks

The San Francisco-based startup has released a SQL-based, self-orchestrating data pipeline platform, claiming it will go to go toe-to-toe with Databricks’ Delta Live Tables.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 9, 2022 2 mins

Analytics Data Science Data Warehousing

GitHub sees a surge in IaC adoption

The annual 'State of the Octoverse' report notes an increase in infrastructure-as-code adoption and the growing role of operations in open source development, among other trends.

By Paul Krill

Nov 9, 2022 2 mins

Open Source Technology Industry Version Control Systems

Neo4j 5.0 improves on scalability, performance, and agility

The fifth version of the leading native graph database has been released with additional features such as an Ops Manager and the ability to continuously provide updates to self-managed users.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 9, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Computing Databases

Visual Studio Code 1.73 shines on Command Center, merge editor

October 2022 release of Microsoft’s code editor also features auto-updates for Markdown links, new Python extensions, Dev Container templates, and more.

By Paul Krill

Nov 9, 2022 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Microsoft .NET 7 makes its official debut

Now available in a production release, .NET 7 brings performance enhancements, a new version of C#, container and cloud-native tooling, and sweeping improvements to .NET MAUI and other .NET libraries and frameworks.

By Paul Krill

Nov 8, 2022 3 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

OpenJDK considers async stack traces for Java

Proposal would define an API to collect stack traces asynchronously and include information on both Java and native stack frames.

By Paul Krill

Nov 4, 2022 2 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

IBM bolsters BI offerings with Business Analytics Enterprise suite

The suite, which includes the new IBM Analytics Content Hub, is designed to let enterprises access analytics and planning tools from multiple vendors in a single dashboard, IBM said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 4, 2022 2 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Cloud Computing

Microsoft Java introduces compiler optimization

Microsoft Build for OpenJDK adds an experimental compiler optimization that promotes scalar replacement of objects involved in object allocation merges, easing garbage collection and improving performance.

By Paul Krill

Nov 2, 2022 2 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

Grafana Labs’ Phlare, Faro to simplify profiling, app observability

Grafana Labs is adding two new products—Phlare and Faro—to its observability stack to optimize infrastructure profiling and application observability.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 2, 2022 5 mins

Devops

Azul detects Java vulnerabilities in production apps

Azul Vulnerability Detection promises to eliminate false positives without impacting performance, by drawing on monitoring and detection capabilities inside the Azul JVM.

By Paul Krill

Nov 2, 2022 1 min

Application Security Devops Java

How to deal with application downtime

Meta just suffered two major outages in a week: What can organisations do to ensure their customers aren’t confronted with service outages?

By Charlotte Trueman

Nov 1, 2022 4 mins

Mobile Development Software Development

Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.5.7 highlights Kubernetes

Enhancements in Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.5.7 include faster deployments, improved container runtime setup, and more.

By Paul Krill

Oct 31, 2022 2 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

Deno runtime backs inlay hints for coding

The latest Deno runtime automatically pulls in TypeScript types via NPM, and it updates to the V8 10.8 JavaScript engine.

By Paul Krill

Oct 28, 2022 2 mins

JavaScript Web Development

Oracle aligns GraalVM development with Java development

Oracle aims to broaden the adoption of GraalVM by eliminating differences in release schedules, development processes, and features between GraalVM and Java.

By Paul Krill

Oct 28, 2022 2 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

Next.js 13 hones routing, layouts, rendering

Latest upgrade to Vercel’s React framework for building web apps also debuts an ‘extremely fast’ Rust-based bundler called Turbopack.

By Paul Krill

Oct 27, 2022 3 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

DataStax to offer Stargate V2 data API gateway via Astra DB

The new version of the open-source data API gateway comes with a gRPC API that will enable developers to scale Cassandra data limitlessly, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 26, 2022 2 mins

APIs Databases Open Source

InfluxDB’s next-gen time-series engine is built on Rust, supports SQL

The new time series engine is capable of responding to queries faster, supporting data analysis of massive database workloads.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 26, 2022 4 mins

Databases Rust SQL

Ubuntu 22.10 shines on MicroPython, microcontrollers

Latest update to Canonical’s Linux distro revs Ruby, Go, GCC, and Rust toolchains and supports MicroPython on microcontrollers such as the Raspberry Pi Pico W.

By Paul Krill

Oct 25, 2022 2 mins

Python Software Development Technology Industry