Canonical has announced the release of a new Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, also codenamed as Noble Numbat, introduces several new features that will be appealing for developers. “20 years in the making. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS brings together the latest advancements from the Linux ecosystem into a release that is … continue reading
Node.js 22 is now available with a number of new features, such as support for “require()” for synchronous ECMAScript (ES) module graphs, which is currently an experimental feature. When the experimental module is enabled and “require()” tries to load an ES module, if it is both explicitly marked as an ES module and is fully … continue reading
IBM has unveiled its intention to acquire HashiCorp in a huge $6.4 billion acquisition that is expected to close later this year. IBM says that the goal with this acquisition is to create “a comprehensive end-to-end hybrid cloud platform.” HashiCorp’s portfolio includes a number of popular tools, including Terraform for infrastructure as code provisioning, Vault … continue reading
The API management company WSO2 has announced updates across several of its products: WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (WSO2 APK), and WSO2 Micro Integrator. The WSO2 API Manager control plane was updated to now be able to manage both itself and WSO2 APK. This allows WSO2 APK APIs to benefit from the … continue reading
The database company Snowflake is adding another large language model (LLM) into the AI ecosystem. Snowflake Arctic is an LLM designed for complex enterprise workloads, with cost-effectiveness as a key highlight. It can efficiently complete enterprise intelligence tasks like SQL generation, coding, and instruction following, meeting or exceeding benchmarks in those areas when compared to … continue reading
New Relic is hoping to provide customers with a better understanding of the health and state of their AI applications with the introduction of New Relic AI monitoring. “New Relic AI monitoring brings the power of observability to engineers working on AI by providing the necessary insights to debug, monitor, and improve AI applications, ensuring … continue reading
Amazon has announced several major updates to Amazon Bedrock, its platform that provides developers with access to foundation models (FMs) from AI companies such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon. Amazon Bedrock is a managed service, handling the underlying infrastructure for these models so that developers can build generative … continue reading
The testing company mabl has announced that it now offers automated mobile testing capabilities in its platform, which already offered testing for web and APIs. It was designed to give full coverage of all the unique functionalities of varying mobile devices and their operating systems. With this new new offering, tests are created through a … continue reading
Over half of organizations feel that their cybersecurity and cloud skills are lacking, according to the 2024 Technical Skills Report by Pluralsight, a company that provides upskilling resources. For this year’s report, the company surveyed 1,400 executives and IT professionals. Sixty-five percent of the respondents said that their company was lacking cybersecurity skills and 52% … continue reading
SmartBear has announced that its API development platform SwaggerHub has been integrated with Stoplight, an API design company that SmartBear acquired last summer. According to the company, Stoplight helps simplify the API development process by providing an intuitive interface for design. This makes API design accessible to non-technical users and streamlines the process for technical … continue reading
GitLab has announced that its AI assistant GitLab Duo Chat is now generally available as part of the GitLab 16.11 release. GitLab Duo Chat can answer questions about issues, epics, code, errors, CI/CD configurations, or the GitLab platform itself. It can also refactor existing code and generate tests. For instance, a developer onboarding onto a … continue reading
Meta has revealed the next generation of Llama, which is an open-source large language model (LLM) family developed by the company. The Llama 3 models are considered by Meta to be “the best open source models of their class, period,” the company claimed in a blog post. It has released the first two models in … continue reading
STORM is an open-source project that can research and develop a full report of a topic, complete with sources. It originated from a paper out of Stanford. According to the Stanford researchers, there is a disconnect online between “the vast amounts of accessible information and what an individual can realistically assimilate.” They explained that while … continue reading
Red Hat is expanding its Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain solution with new offerings that will enable customers to ensure software components are verified and secured. The first new addition is Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer, now generally available, which allows developers to cryptographically sign and verify application artifacts with a keyless certificate authority. … continue reading
