Tag: application software

July 17, 2024

Mozilla released Firefox 128 a week ago, introducing some improvements for local text translation, UI, DNS proxies, and more. The list of changes for the new browser also includes a note about Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA), an experimental API designed […]

July 11, 2024

Platform engineering is about accelerating and empowering developers to deliver more product value faster over time. According to Jessica Andersson, most companies don’t invest in platform engineering until they reach a certain size. At QCon London she presented how their […]

July 5, 2024

Version 8 of QuestDB, an open-source time series database designed for high-performance and efficient handling of time series data, has been released. This release includes a new VARCHAR data type as a default (over STRING) that aims to provide better […]

July 3, 2024

The latest update of Visual Studio Code is previewing an alternative visualization of incoming and outgoing changes. The update also includes a new tool that enhances environment discovery for Python installations. Introduced July 3, Visual Studio Code 1.91, also known […]

July 2, 2024

Most of you should be familiar with the movie Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. There are so many things in this movie to entertain us: vibrant colors, locations, sun, water, an all-star cast, etc. If you think of moviemaking, […]

July 1, 2024

Your generative AI project is almost certainly going to fail. But take heart: You probably shouldn’t have been using AI to solve your business problem, anyway. This seems to be an accepted fact among the data science crowd, but that […]

June 25, 2024

The chatbots will be powered by Google’s Gemini family of large language models, according to The Information’s report. There’s no word on who the virtual celebrities will be based on. This has all been done before, of course. Meta has […]

June 24, 2024

Data volumes continue to expand at an exponential rate, with no sign of slowing down. For instance, IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will grow to 12.8 ZB by 2026. To watch 12.8 ZB worth of […]

June 21, 2024

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo didn’t mince words when explaining the rationale behind this step during a press briefing. “Russia has shown it has the capacity and the intent to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect and weaponize the personal […]

June 20, 2024

Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 updates to public beta testers, with the betas coming a few days after the initial iOS and iPadOS 17.6 developer betas. Public beta testers can get the […]

June 20, 2024

With Apple releasing its own Passwords app with iOS 18, 1Password wants to ensure it’s still the go-to option for everyone’s passwords, two-step verification codes, and other sensitive information stored with end-to-end cryptography. This is why the company is unveiling […]

June 18, 2024

It’s alleged that Adobe fails to adequately disclose that cancelling one of its subscription in the first year can result in an early termination fee that can amount to hundreds of dollars. “In fact, if consumers cancel during that (annual) […]

June 14, 2024

Historically, application and system development have driven network infrastructure expansions, but we could soon see a reversal that warrants planning today. The sea change in network evolution is the introduction of the Wi-Fi 6 (and beyond) network protocol, which breaks […]

June 13, 2024

A recent Windows 10 and Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update includes fixes for a potentially dangerous Wi-Fi vulnerability. Discovered within the Windows Wi-Fi Driver, CVE-2024-30078 allows malicious actors a vector for remote code execution (RCE). Despite a non-urgent sounding severity […]

June 12, 2024

Microsoft’s approach to Windows 10 has been chaotic lately. The company looks like it’s ramping up development of new Windows 10 features this summer — all while insisting it will end support for the OS in October 2025. Whether you’re […]

June 11, 2024

Google has killed off the Google Pay app. 9to5Google reports Google’s old payments app stopped working recently, following shutdown plans that were announced in February. Google is shutting down the Google Pay app in the US, while in-store NFC payments […]

June 6, 2024

Oracle Linux has recently launched UEK-next, an offering that combines upstream Linux kernels with Oracle Linux patches. This allows users to preview and test the latest Linux features and hardware support before they are officially released in Oracle Linux. Beginning […]

June 6, 2024

Every so often, Apple adds a brand new app to its suite of first-party software for the iPhone. It sounds like the latest addition will make its debut next week. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple will show off the […]

June 5, 2024

The cloud will become a cornerstone of enterprise operations as IDC estimates that by 2025, there will be over 750 million cloud-native applications globally. Additionally, over 90% of organizations anticipate employing a multi-cloud approach over the next few years. Considering […]

June 5, 2024

Asana is developing an AI “teammate” feature that embeds generative AI (genAI) into the flow of work for users of its work management app. The teammates — created using “trigger and action” format in Asana’s existing workflow automation tools — […]