MIT announces $1 billion commitment to advance computing and AI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced new plans today to reshape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and computing. The university is investing $1 billion to tackle global opportunities and challenges from computing and AI. According to the university, this is the largest investment made by an American academic institution, and this will help make …
Report: Stricter password policies help prevent fraud
In the midst of National Cybersecurity Month, researchers from Indiana University (IU) have revealed the results of a study that shows that requiring longer minimum passwords helps prevent fraud. When users sign up for services, oftentimes they will reuse the same password. If that site or service is breached, that means that password is potentially …
Microsoft partners with DIF and W3C on Decentralized Identity
As our lives become increasingly digital at home and at work, Microsoft wants to make sure users have the proper privacy, security and control of their data. The company is actively collaborating with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Credentials Community Group to provide an Decentralized Identity (DID) solution, …
SD Times news digest: Google releases Oboe, Qt Creator 4.8 Beta released, and kaazing.io launches
The Android team has announced a production-ready version of Oboe, which is a C++ library that can be used to create real-time audio apps with low latency. According to the team, developers can use Oboe to create an audio stream in only three lines of code. Benefits of Oboe include a convenient C++ API, fast …
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DARPA wants to teach machine learning systems common sense
Machine learning systems are more advanced than they ever have been, but a critical component is still missing: machine common sense. Machine common sense is “the basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things that are shared by nearly all people and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people without need for debate.” DARPA …
Transitioning from DevOps to Rugged DevOps: Avoiding the pitfalls
As many as four out of five companies leveraging a DevOps approach to software engineering do so without integrating the necessary information security controls, underscoring the urgency with which companies should be evaluating “Rugged” DevOps (also known as “shift left”) to build security into their development life cycle as early as possible. Rugged DevOps represents …
SD Times news digest: Mozilla’s Responsible Computer Science Challenge, Qordoba’s $11.5 million round of funding, and New Relic acquires CoScale
Mozilla is calling on professors to integrate ethics into computer science courses and has announced a competition called the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. As part of the challenges, professors will work to conceptualize, develop, and pilot curricula that integrates ethics with computer science, and hopefully scale that to universities across the country. The challenge is …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Skip
Built by a team of veteran open-source contributors within Facebook, Skip is described by the developer team as “a programming language to skip the things you have already computed.” After three years, the project has left active development and has been open sourced. The team wrote that the statically-typed language is experimental, with a goal …
Apigee API monitoring, extensions and hosted targets now available
API management provider Apigee is releasing a number of new capabilities to give users more control and visibility into APIs. Apigee was acquired by Google in 2016, and these new capabilities are designed to enable organizations to easily access Google Cloud services. The company announced the general availability of Apigee API monitoring, Apigee extensions and …
Microsoft joins Open Invention Network, issuing 60,000 patents to the organization
In an effort to help shield the Linux community from patent trolls targeting open-source technologies, Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization that amasses patents and provides legal and licensing support for Linux and other open-source projects. With its joining of the OIN, Microsoft has provided 60,000 of its software patents to …
SD Times news digest: Snowflake raises $450 million, Google’s ActiveQA TensorFlow, and Looker 6
Snowflake has raised $450 million in equity financing from its existing investors as well as Meritech Capital. “Demand for the data warehouse built for the cloud has exceeded our most optimistic expectations. Our customers love Snowflake and we continue to see unprecedented interest and growth from both new and current customers. To meet that demand, …
Riverbed announces new application and network performance management capabilities for the cloud
Application performance management (APM) is evolving beyond monitoring just the health and performance of an application and expanding to include the network. Network performance management (NPM) is meant to manage and monitor the performance of a computer network. In the latest release of Riverbed’s SteelCentral, it is targeting both APM and NPM with new capabilities. …
Big bang theory? Not for cloud-native development
Know your apps, know your workloads, know your team. In the third installment of this occasional series on cloud migration, Don Boulia, GM of IBM Cloud Developer Services, and guest Chris Condo, principal analyst at Forrester Research, discuss how cloud-native development teams can find more success through innovation, automation, and culture shifts. How can cloud-native …
MongoDB acquires cloud database platform provider mLab
MongoDB has announced a new acquisition to help strengthen its position among developer communities. mLab is a San Francisco-based cloud database service. According to MongoDB, mLab has had experience with developer-centric startup communities, and this new acquisition will help deepen MongoDB’s relationship and involvement with developers. mLab was first launched in 2011 as a Database-as-a-Service …
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APM is Getting Personal!
Most development teams are practicing some form of DevOps these days. Regardless of the extent of that practice, speed is the ultimate measure for success. Another earmark of a successful DevOps practice is the empowerment of smaller teams. Gone is the idea of consolidating complicated toolsets into the hands of a small Center of Excellence …
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Connecting Jenkins Pipelines to the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform for DevSecOps
RECORDED EVENT: For many, the transition to DevOps starts small, in a single team or a new project and often involves pieced-together open source solutions with little to no security. To scale effectively, deploying daily, hourly or even more frequently, is a requirement, which is why Jenkins is a popular choice by development teams to …
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The Importance of Citizen Developers to Business
While citizen developers are not full-time developers, they are at the heart of modern businesses today. They see what your business needs to grow, how to increase productivity, and thanks to new trends like low-code, they are equipped with the ability to develop apps that do just that. Low-code enables non-programmers to scour data, learn …
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Case Study: Software Usage Analytics Help Build Better Solutions for Creative Users
According to its VP of development and strategy, “We are absolutely hooked on Revulytics data. It’s one of the first dashboards I fire up every morning to know exactly what’s going on, so we’re aware of problems sooner, and opportunities, too.” More than 5,000 organizations and 100,000 professionals around the world rely on Extensis software to …
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Case Study: Usage Intelligence Helps Modernize Applications in Half the Time
CNC Software Cuts its Flagship Product Redesign from 36 to 18 months and significantly reduces cost using Software Usage Analytics “Our entire redesign took 18 months. But it would easily have taken double that time without Revulytics software usage analytics to support our decision-making.” In industries ranging from automobile manufacturing to consumer goods to medicine, …
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Moving to Modern C++
Many safety-critical developers use C++03 alongside a coding standard (such as MISRA). But they want to take advantage of new language features in C++11 and C++14. And they can’t move to modern C++ unless they have a compatible coding standard. Learn how the AUTOSAR coding guidelines make it possible to adopt modern C++ — and ensure …
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