Tag: software category

November 20, 2023

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. And like the Holy Grail, it has been elusive. But based on our work with companies from a range of industries, we think we may have figured out a […]

November 14, 2023

Parallel execution is being added to the Rust compiler front end to significantly reduce compile times, according to a November 9 announcement of the parallel rustc working group. Currently in an experimental stage, the parallel front end is due to […]

November 9, 2023

Apple today introduced a new firmware update for the AirPods Pro 2, including both the Lightning model and the new USB-C model. The new firmware is version 6B32, up from the 6A305 firmware introduced in October. Apple does not provide […]

November 2, 2023

The EU’s AI Act, the first comprehensive law regulating the use of artificial intelligence, is expected to be adopted within the next couple of years. The United States recently joined the EU in answering the mounting calls for the regulation […]

November 1, 2023

At its annual Snowday conference on Wednesday, cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake unveiled new development interfaces and machine learning features for its Snowpark developer framework. The new tools, which are mostly in preview, include Snowflake Notebooks, Snowpark ML Modelling API, […]

October 30, 2023

Formal systems verification, which mathematically proves that code is secure in all circumstances, is a relatively new technology. Software is getting more complex and harder to get right using traditional software testing techniques. Making software correct, safe, and secure is […]

October 17, 2023

JetBrains previewing Writerside, an authoring and publishing tool that helps developers and writers produce technical documentation. Introduced in an early access status on October 16, Writerside allows developers and writers to collaborate on product documentation, API references, developer guides, tutorials, […]

October 12, 2023

When working with dependency injection and inversion of control in ASP.NET Core applications, you might often need a IoC container that is simple or lightweight to avoid unnecessary complexity or unnecessary overhead. Most IoC containers consume a lot of resources—not […]

October 6, 2023

Java Development Kit 22, due to arrive in March 2024 as the next planned version of Java Standard Edition, is off and running. The first feature, a foreign function and memory API, has been officially proposed to target the release. […]

October 5, 2023

C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension for “editor first” C# development, has reached general availability, Microsoft announced on October 4. The extension leverages C# language services and helps developers manage and test their C# code. An integrated solution […]

October 4, 2023

Python 3 was by far the choice over Python 2 in a late-2022 survey of more than 23,000 Python developers, but the percentage of respondents using Python 2 actually ticked up compared to the previous year. Results of the sixth […]

September 29, 2023

Version 2.14 of Linkerd, a service mesh and graduated CNCF project, has been released, with improved enterprise multi-cluster support, full Kubernetes Gateway API conformance, and many other changes. Following the recent 2.13 release, which brought circuit breaking and dynamic request […]

September 29, 2023

ChatGPT and Dall-E (OpenAI), Stable Diffusion (Stable Diffusion), Midjourney (Midjourney), Bing Chat, Bing Image Creator, and Copilot (Microsoft), Google Bard and Google SGE (Google), Claude (Anthropic), LLaMa and Meta AI (Meta), and Adobe Firefly (Adobe). These are just some of […]

September 22, 2023

Computer scientists have developed a new tool that enables quicker and more accurate detection of money laundering, with the ability to scan 50 million transactions in less than a second. Researchers from the Department of Informatics have designed an entirely […]

September 11, 2023

Last week, the European Union (EU) announced the first set of gatekeeper tech companies and gatekeeper services, and we’ve already discussed what it means. For example, iMessage isn’t a gatekeeper yet, so it doesn’t have to support Google’s RCS. But […]

September 11, 2023

The Register reports that IBM Software’s Kareem Yusuf, senior VP for product management, and Dinesh Nirmal, senior VP for products, gave employees the bad news in an internal blog published last week. “If we want to maintain the flexibility of […]

September 11, 2023

Old and current versions of Android are affected by a peculiar bug in the way the OS calculates storage space usage on mobile devices. Android specialist Mishaal Rahman, who discovered the issue earlier this year, noted that even in the […]

August 15, 2023

Zenhub is offering an early access preview of Zenhub AI, a cloud-hosted service that incorporates AI into Zenhub’s software project management platform, with the intent to simplify day-to-day processes and enable faster shipping of code. Zenhub AI assists in ancillary […]

July 31, 2023

There are specific fonts that are considered almost universal for many purposes. Consider the following list: Times New Roman Arial Black Arial Comic Sans MS Courier New Impact Verdana You don’t have to be a font geek (insert Brick Heck […]

July 27, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its generative AI service, Amazon Bedrock, to include new foundational large language models and tools. Amazon Bedrock, which was released in April this year and is yet to be made generally available, will now […]