At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new capabilities related to observability to help developers gain more visibility into their applications. The company is introducing enhanced observability capabilities for container workloads running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). According to AWS, this announcement ties in with Container Insights, which was a capability introduced … continue reading
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new capabilities for generative AI and machine learning. New evaluations for Amazon Bedrock Two new evaluation capabilities have been added to Amazon Bedrock, which is the company’s platform for building generative AI applications using foundation models. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now offer support for RAG evaluation (still … continue reading
A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Bill Welch joins Sysdig as CEO He will lead the company’s growth into the cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) market, building on his experience from previous senior executive … continue reading
MITRE recently released its yearly list of the 2024 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses. This list differs from lists that contain the most common vulnerabilities, as it is not a list of vulnerabilities, but rather weaknesses in system design that can be exploited to leverage vulnerabilities. “By definition, code injection is an attack, … continue reading
D2 Emerge, publisher of SD Times, has acquired the developer community CodeProject. Founded in 1999, CodeProject served as a hub for developer resources, including articles, tutorials, libraries, discussion forums, and more. David Lyman, co-founder and CEO of D2 Emerge, said, “David Cunningham and co-founder Chris Maunder have created an incredible resource with CodeProject for software … continue reading
The development software company Progress today announced the Q4 2024 releases of its Telerik and Kendo UI libraries, which now offer day-zero compatibility with .NET 9 and Angular 19, and add enhanced design-to-code features and data-driven experiences. In addition to supporting .NET 9 and Angular 19, the releases also include support for Angular hybrid Standalone … continue reading
Google has announced a higher tier of membership for the Google Developer Program, an initiative launched earlier this year that gives developers access to tools, resources, and communities. The new premium membership costs $299 per year and offers added benefits, including: $500 in Google Cloud credits A Google Cloud certification voucher Unlimited access to the … continue reading
Earlier this year, the analyst firm Forrester revealed its list of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2024, and several of the technologies on the list related to AI agents – models that don’t just generate information but can perform complex tasks, make decisions and act autonomously. “Earlier AIs that could go do things were … continue reading
NVIDIA has announced that its researchers have developed a new generative AI model capable of creating audio from text or audio prompts. Fugatto, which is short for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1, can create music from text prompts, remove or add instruments from existing audio, or even change the accent or emotion in a … continue reading
OpenAI has just made a number of announcements that developers working with its products ought to know about. First, the company announced that the API and ChatGPT now have access to the latest GPT-4o snapshot: gpt-4o-2024-11-20. This snapshot features better creative writing ability, with more natural, engaging, and tailored responses. Its ability to work with … continue reading
With all the potential benefits promised by the use of AI, it’s no wonder companies are wanting to get in on the action. But a new survey from Capital One reveals a stark disconnect between how confident business leaders are in their company’s ability to implement AI and how the technology professionals actually implementing the … continue reading
GitHub is launching a new program to fund open source projects to improve their security and sustainability. The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund will invest $1.25 million into 125 different projects ($10,000 each). Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis through January 7th, 2025. According to GitHub, the funding is possible thanks to contributions … continue reading
