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February 8, 2024

Google’s announcement confirms weeks of rumors that Bard was being renamed. The company unveiled the Gemini AI large language model, a direct competitor to OpenAI’s GPT LLMs, in December, and it is now changing Bard’s name to fall into the […]

February 7, 2024

One reason Python is a prime choice for web development is the breadth of web frameworks available in the language. Among the most popular and useful is Flask, which lets you start simple (“one drop at a time”) but grows […]

February 6, 2024

Cisco today announced the launch of a Webex video conferencing app designed for the Apple Vision Pro. The app is designed to provide an immersive meeting experience that fills the space around the user. The Webex app supports Personas, allowing […]

February 6, 2024

Salesforce-owned MuleSoft has released the Anypoint Flex Gateway Policy Development Kit (PDK). The PDK allows developers of every skill level to quickly build policies to detect and protect sensitive data sent to APIs, the company said. Now a feature of […]

February 5, 2024

Another update to the Astro web framework for content-driven websites has arrived. Only weeks since the release of Astro 4.2, Astro 4.3 brings more control over HTML file output and adds experimental domain support for different international (i18n) locales. Astro […]

February 2, 2024

Visual Studio Code 1.86, the January 2024 release of Microsoft’s code editor, introduces a voice command, “Hey Code,” that starts a session with Copilot Chat. The new release also brings per-window zoom levels. Unveiled February 1, Visual Studio Code 1.86 […]

February 2, 2024

JEP 455, Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 23. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Amber, proposes to enhance pattern matching by allowing primitive type patterns […]

February 1, 2024

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]

February 1, 2024

Test automation can support continuous mobile software development, by reducing manual testing efforts, minimizing human errors, and accelerating the release cycle. Burak Ergören shared his experiences from automating their mobile testing at QA Challenge Accepted 2023. Ergören mentioned that with […]

February 1, 2024

Microsoft’s November release of .NET 8 brought all kinds of great new features. One of the nice improvements introduced in ASP.NET Core 8 is IExceptionHandler, an interface that makes it easier to handle exceptions gracefully in ASP.NET Core web applications. […]

February 1, 2024

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will […]

February 1, 2024

During an October event, Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon X Elite SoC, stating that its new computing platform would be the most “intelligent,” powerful, and efficient processor built for Windows. In December, Qualcomm said that its Arm chip is faster than […]

January 31, 2024

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.29 named Mandala last month. The latest release introduces new features such as load balancer IP mode for services, mutable pod resources for Windows containers, and nftables for the kube-proxy. Some features […]

January 31, 2024

Creating content and sharing our lives online has become the norm, but not everybody can just sit down at their computer and put together high-quality video footage. Editing can be complicated even for advanced users. With Wondershare Filmora, it doesn’t […]

January 30, 2024

Stability AI released two sets of pre-trained model weights for Stable LM 2, a 1.6B parameter language model. Stable LM 2 is trained on 2 trillion tokens of text data from seven languages and can be run on common laptop […]

January 30, 2024

TypeScript 5.4, a planned update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant from Microsoft, has reached beta availability. New capabilities include preserved narrowing within function closures created after the last assignment and a NoInfer type to block inferences to valid but […]

January 29, 2024

This week’s Java roundup for January 22nd, 2024 features news highlighting: WildFly 31.0.0, Eclipse Store 1.1.0, BellSoft Liberica Native Image Kit, multiple Quarkus and JHipster Lite releases and Jakarta EE 11 updates. OpenJDK After its review had concluded JEP 455, […]

January 29, 2024

Open-source multi-platform device management vendor Fleet recently introduced Windows support to its existing software, which already enables IT to manage Linux and Apple devices within a single console. The multi-platform upgrade comes as many companies continue to manage their way […]

January 26, 2024

Intel recently released the new “Game On” version of graphics drivers for its Arc GPUs. Game On drivers are designed to deliver an optimized experience for the latest games, but the new 31.0.101.5186 release can significantly boost older titles as […]

January 26, 2024

Microsoft recently announced the 1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), a significant rewrite of the prior QDK, emphasizing speed, simplicity, and a browser experience for developers. QDK is mostly rewritten in Rust, which compiles to WebAssembly for […]