The Overture Maps Foundation — a joint effort by AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to create reliable, interoperable open map data that developers can use — has announced the general availability release of its global open maps datasets. This release includes 2.3 building footprints, which can be used for things like property management, risk assessment, … continue reading
Uno Platform 5.3 is now available, adding over 350 new improvements to the cross-platform .NET development tool. According to the product team, the most notable change in this release is that JetBrains .NET IDE Rider is now officially supported. Previously, Rider could be used with Uno, but it required several setup steps to get started. … continue reading
MongoDB is launching a new technology stack to enable customers to build AI applications. The MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) will feature reference architectures, integrations with leading AI technology providers, and a support system for customers featuring access to experts and education. According to MongoDB, many customers have reported that they lack the multi-modal data … continue reading
Meta has announced the latest release of its open source AI model, Llama. According to Meta, with the release of Llama 3.1 405B, the company is trying to prove that open models can be just as capable as their closed counterparts, if not better. “Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals … continue reading
For quite some time Google has been talking about phasing out third-party cookies from Chrome. Now, it appears the company is taking a different direction and will not be moving forward with removing third-party cookies from the browser. In a blog post written by Anthony Chavez, VP of Privacy Sandbox for Google, he said that … continue reading
The endpoint detection software CrowdStrike made headlines for causing global outages on Windows machines around the world last Friday, leading to over 45,000 flight delays and over 5,000 cancellations, along with a number of other shutdowns, such as payment systems, healthcare services, and 911 operations. The cause? An update that was pushed by CrowdStrike to … continue reading
This morning, a number of major systems suffered an outage due to a bad CrowdStrike update. CrowdStrike is an endpoint protection system that runs in the background of a lot of enterprise computers to secure them, and the update caused Windows machines running the updated software to crash. The software update only affected Windows operating … continue reading
A number of companies have announced the formation of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), a group dedicated to addressing the security risks related to using AI. CoSAI was founded by Amazon, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Cohere, GenLab, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Paypal and Wiz. It will be hosted at the standards body OASIS … continue reading
DevPod is a tool for creating and managing development environments without needing a server-side setup. It can be used as an open-source alternative to GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains Spaces, or Google Cloud Workstations. Environments run in containers and can be spun up wherever there is a need, such as on a local computer, a cloud machine … continue reading
While the occurrence of software supply chain attacks just keeps getting worse every year, there appears to be a disconnect among leaders on the importance of securing those supply chains. According to research from IDC, there has been a 241% increase year-over-year in supply chain attacks, but a new survey from JFrog had only 30% … continue reading
The visual collaboration company Miro has announced the launch of Intelligent Canvas, an AI-based idea generation platform. “Miro’s Intelligent Canvas is built to support business processes well beyond the brainstorming phase,” Jeff Chow, CPTO of Miro. “It combines AI, composable workflows, and a more intuitive, interactive experience to drive higher team productivity. Miro’s canvas is … continue reading
Infragistics, a provider of various UI controls and components, has announced several new features in its low-code platform App Builder. The editor can now generate React code, which has been a highly requested capability by the community, according to Infragistics. With this addition, App Builder now covers all of the major web frameworks. “Whether you … continue reading
