One of Google’s security research initiatives, Project Zero, has successfully managed to detect a zero-day memory safety vulnerability using LLM assisted detection. “We believe this is the first public example of an AI agent finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software,” the team wrote in a post. Project Zero is … continue reading
Symbiotic Security today launched the industry’s first real-time security for software development that combines detection and remediation with just-in-time training – incorporating security testing and training directly into the development process without breaking developers’ workflows. Backed with $3 million of seed funding from investors including Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo Capital, Factorial Capital, and others, the company has introduced its software-as-a-service … continue reading
Building a career as a software developer can be valuable, but can be a competitive field to break into, especially in 2024 when over 130,000 layoffs have occurred at tech companies already. While not all 130,000 may have been software engineers, they have not been immune from the cuts. One way developers can set themselves … continue reading
In today’s rapidly evolving observability and security use cases, the concept of “shifting left” has moved beyond just software development. With the consistent and rapid rise of data volumes across logs, metrics, traces, and events, organizations are required to be a lot more thoughtful in efforts to turn chaos into control when it comes to … continue reading
Parasoft, a leader in AI-powered software testing, has made another step in strategically integrating AI and ML quality enhancements where development teams need them most – such as using natural language for troubleshooting, or checking code in real time. In their campaign to create reliable, customizable testing solutions, their investment in AI serves a singular … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that GitHub Copilot is now integrated with Data Wrangler, an extension for VS Code for viewing, cleaning, and preparing data. By integrating GitHub Copilot capabilities into the tool, users will now be able to clean and transform data in VS Code with natural language prompts. It will also be able to provide … continue reading
The API management platform WSO2 has announced a slew of new updates aimed at helping customers manage APIs in a technology landscape increasingly dependent on AI and Kubernetes. The updates span the releases of WSO2 API Manager 4.4, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (APK) 1.2, and WSO2 API Microgateway 3.2, which are all available today. … continue reading
The database company Aerospike has announced the latest version of its Kubernetes Operator with new features that improve backup and scalability. The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator (AKO) enables users to simplify management and monitoring of their Aerospike databases. AKO 3.4 incorporates the recently launched Aerospike Backup Service (ABS), which allows for easy management of backup jobs … continue reading
Product-led growth (PLG) has become the golden standard for SaaS companies aiming to scale rapidly and efficiently. In fact, a 2024 survey from ProductLed.com found that 91% of respondents are planning to invest more resources in PLG initiatives this year. As an advocate for this approach personally, I’ve witnessed firsthand the transformative power of putting … continue reading
IBM is releasing a family of AI agents (IBM SWE-Agent 1.0) that are powered by open LLMs and can resolve GitHub issues automatically, freeing up developers to work on other things rather than getting bogged down by their backlog of bugs that need fixing. “For most software developers, every day starts with where the last … continue reading
