The UI company Infragistics has announced that it is open sourcing over 50 of its Ignite UI components, spanning Angular, React, Blazor, and Web Components. According to the company, many of its components were already free to use, but making them open source provides developers with the opportunity to freely modify and extend them. It … continue reading
The FinOps Foundation has announced the latest version of the FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS), aiming to solve problems related to splitting shared resource costs, tracking contract commitments accurately, and verifying data freshness. FOCUS 1.3 adds new allocation-specific columns to enable teams to expose how they are splitting costs of shared resources, such … continue reading
The Java vendor Azul has announced that it is acquiring Payara, a company that provides solutions for Jakarta EE-based applications. The two companies have been collaborating in various ways for the past eight years, starting in 2018 when Azul Platform Core became integrated into Payara Server Enterprise. According to Azul, by officially bringing Payara into … continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Harness, the AI Software Delivery Platform company, today announced a $240 million Series E financing round. The financing round is comprised of a $200 million investment led by Goldman Sachs and a planned $40 million tender offer with participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures. This investment values Harness at $5.5 … continue reading
Progress Software announced the latest releases of its Telerik and Kendo UI products, which both include an Agentic UI Generator that can create multi-component, fully styled, enterprise-grade page layouts. The Agentic UI Generator is currently available for Progress Telerik UI for Blazor, Progress KendoReact, and Progress Kendo UI for Angular. “With today’s release, AI-based code … continue reading
Spatial intelligence company Wherobots today announced the launch of a private preview of RasterFlow, a satellite image preparation and inference solution that will make it easier to gain insights from that type of data. “RasterFlow is a new compute engine that is going to help feed data about the physical world to all sorts of … continue reading
For too long, the barrier to entry for building even basic business applications has been artificially high. The requirements for front-end development have included expertise in React, CSS, and other disciplines, forcing organizations into a costly and inefficient hiring cycle. XMLUI was created to address this problem, designed for the “line of business app,” according … continue reading
Komprise, the leader in analytics-driven unstructured data management, announces the results of its annual industry survey. A whopping 85 percent of IT and data storage leaders are projecting an increase in data storage spend in 2026 while 74% are storing more than 5PB of unstructured data, a 57% increase over 2024, according to the Komprise … continue reading
The Linux Foundation today announced that it is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to promote transparent and collaborative evolution of agentic AI. Three major projects have been donated to the foundation at launch: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md. Additionally, AAIF member Obot.ai will donate its MCP Dev Summit events … continue reading
The domain name registrar name.com announced new integrations with several different development tool providers—Bolt, Netlify, Replit, and Vercel—to enable domain registration and setup to happen with developers’ existing tools and workflows. According to name.com, traditionally, domain registration has required developers to leave their workflow, leading to slower progress and increased complexity. By integrating its capabilities … continue reading
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring the data streaming company Confluent for $11 billion. Confluent is built on Apache Kafka, an open source data and event streaming platform that is used in analytics, monitoring, and event-driven architectures. The company has over 6,500 clients, including over 40% of the Fortune 500. IBM’s rationale behind … continue reading
For all the capabilities enabled by advances in generative AI technology in the past few years, problems in the underlying architecture are holding it back in multiple ways. Counterintuitive AI is a company attempting to reinvent the AI reasoning stack to address those issues, and it believes that current LLM technology suffers from what the … continue reading
