Category: Software Category

April 25, 2024

Salesforce today announced the general availability of its conversational AI assistant along with a library of pre-programmed ‘Actions’ to help sellers customers get the most out of the Copilot. At its World Tour NYC today, Salesforce announced the general availability […]

April 25, 2024

Remember the good old days when you could escape from a never-ending meeting by simply leaving your laptop behind? “Hey guys, I have to get going but I’ll jump back on with my phone,” and then you “forget” to jump […]

April 23, 2024

At the Cloud Next Conference, Google unveiled its enterprise-focused AI Code completion and assistance tool, Gemini Code Assist, which is available in public preview for Apigee API Management and Application Integration. Earlier, the company offered a similar service under the […]

April 22, 2024

If you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Thierry Carrez, the vice chairperson of the OSI, for […]

April 22, 2024

Some developers and business leaders believe that low-code is only for small, lightly used applications such as replacing spreadsheets and building dashboards. “These tools, in general, aren’t well suited to more advanced applications,” says Steve Jones, devops advocate at Red […]

April 19, 2024

The Performance and reliability team of Expedia has recently open-sourced its container-startup-autoscaler (CSA). It is a Kubernetes controller leveraging the In-place Update of Pod Resources feature to dynamically adjust CPU and/or memory resources of containers during startup based on user-defined […]

April 18, 2024

We live and work in browsers. It’s where we spend most of our time — and it’s where we waste most of our time as well. Web browsing is slow, inefficient, and full of time-sapping annoyances. But it needn’t be […]

April 18, 2024

Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project. The value proposition of upstreaming includes harnessing the strength of an open-source community […]

April 16, 2024

During Google Cloud Next, Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution. This managed API Broker service in the Google Cloud allows users to design, secure, deploy, monitor, […]

April 15, 2024

Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021, we’ve generally been fans of the company’s modular, repairable, upgradeable laptops. Not that the company’s hardware releases to date have been perfect—each Framework Laptop 13 model has had quirks and […]

April 10, 2024

If you’ve spent much time wading around this warbly ol’ web of ours lately, you might be feeling a teensy sense of unease over your internet browsing history. The reason, in case you’ve been living under a metaphorical boulder for […]

April 8, 2024

There’s significant buzz and excitement around using AI copilots to reduce manual work, improving software developer productivity with code generators, and innovating with generative AI. The business opportunities are driving many development teams to build knowledge bases with vector databases […]

April 4, 2024

Communicating quality gaps, holding space for good testing, and writing automation are some of the ways that testers contribute to software teams. According to Maaret Pyhäjärvi, we need to think about testing, not testers. Collaboration and having conversations between team […]

April 3, 2024

Last month, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension, built upon the C# Dev Kit and C# extensions, offers a toolkit tailored for Unity development within Visual Studio Code, accessible on Windows, […]

April 3, 2024

In an official blog post, Microsoft announced that organizations will have three options to extend update support for Windows 10: the traditional 5-by-5 activation, Windows 365 subscription-based activation, and cloud-based activation. The first option will be available for $61 per device […]

April 2, 2024

Early in 2023 ChatGPT took the world by storm. There has been a mixture of fear and excitement about what this technology can and can’t do. Personally I was amazed by it and I continue to use ChatGPT almost every […]

April 2, 2024

2023 has been a breakout year for developers and generative AI. GitHub Copilot graduated from its technical preview stage in June 2022, and OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022. Just 18 months later, according to a survey by Sourcegraph, 95% […]

April 1, 2024

Months after unbundling the apps in the European Union, Microsoft is taking the Office and Teams breakup worldwide. Reuters reports that Microsoft will begin selling Teams and the other Microsoft 365 apps to new commercial customers as separate products with […]

March 29, 2024

In December 2023, delegates from almost 200 countries met in Dubai for the UN’s climate-change conference, COP28, to discuss the pressing need to reduce emissions, as reported by IEEE in this article.According to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder, and […]

March 27, 2024

The open-source Dagger project, which aims to be “CI/CD as code that runs anywhere,” recently released version 0.10. This release introduces custom Dagger Functions, a feature that simplifies CI scripts while expanding possibilities for developers seeking cleaner, more efficient pipelines. […]