Adobe has announced its intention to acquire the popular design platform Figma for $20 billion. Since much of Adobe’s business revolves around helping people create digital content, the addition of Figma will help them “usher in a new era of collaborative creativity,” Adobe said. Figma was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, … continue reading
The White House issued a memorandum that requires each federal agency to comply with the NIST Guidance when using third-party software on the agency’s information systems and to inventory all software subject to its requirements within 90 days. As part of the new guidance that follows the executive order “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” issued in … continue reading
Vonage, the cloud communications company, today announced Vonage AI Studio, a low code/no code tool for designing, creating, and deploying customer engagement solutions that operate in natural language using AI. According to the company, Vonage AI Studio helps to improve customer engagement through personalized and automated interactions across voice, SMS, and messaging apps such as … continue reading
The software company Progress has announced the release of updates to several of its major tools, including Progress Telerik, Progress Kendo UI, and Progress Telerik Test Studio as part of its R3 2022 release. It also announced the launch of Progress ThemeBuilder Pro, which allows developers and designers to implement design systems in web applications. … continue reading
ScaleOut announced version 2 of its ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service with a focus on building powerful digital twin applications. The upgrade includes wider support for C# digital twin development, integrated timers, automatic initialization of digital twin applications from file-based data, and new capabilities for real-world applications. Developers can now create digital twin models in … continue reading
Google is trying to make authentication easier and safer for developers by introducing new features to the Google Identity Services (GIS) library. “For developers, our focus has always been to offer a frictionless experience that makes it easier for users to onboard and return to partner platforms, while also helping developers create a trusted relationship … continue reading
The deployment automation company, Octopus Deploy, today announced a ServiceNow Change Management integration and early access to its DevOps insights for DORA metrics. Both of these enhancements are intended to assist enterprise teams in improving DevOps outcomes. These capabilities help enterprise DevOps teams deploy software by eliminating error-prone manual processes that come with software change … continue reading
In recent years, hackers have become very sophisticated in the ways they attack upstream development pipelines by introducing vulnerabilities into the software supply chain. The popularity of open source makes those repositories a low-hanging fruit to target. In an SD Times Live! Event titled “Threat Landscapes: An Upstream and Downstream Moving Target,” Theresa Mammarella, developer … continue reading
The threat modeling and security cloud infrastructure company, ThreatModeler, has announced the general availability of ThreatModeler 6.0. This release offers users multiple new capabilities intended to improve the threat modeling process for both security and DevOps teams. With this update comes a complete redesign of the platform’s interface, workflows, model building, and reporting based on … continue reading
The AI-powered independent data layer Mapped now has a no-cost, self-service Starter Plan offering for software development and data science teams. With the new plan, software developers and data scientists can automate data extraction and standardization. Mapped simplifies the data integration process into a single API and with the latest launch, enables application developers to … continue reading
The monitoring company Sumo Logic today announced new capabilities that will provide developers with the ability to get faster insights into the performance of their applications. These updates are being spread across a number of Sumo Logic’s offerings, including Real User Monitoring, Unified Entity Model, and Intelligent Alert Management. Real User Monitoring updates include insights … continue reading
If you are a developer, there is a good chance that in your professional life you have been required to develop authentication and authorization management systems for an application from scratch. In fact, there’s a good chance you’ve even had to rebuild it several times in a very short period, based on the evolution of … continue reading
