The Android development team has announced the second beta of Android 15, which is now available on more devices besides just Pixels, including those from Honor, iQOO, Lenovo, Nothing, OnePlus, OPPO, Realme, Sharp, Tecno, vivo, and Xiaomi. Android 15 will also support 16 KB page sizes (in addition to the standard 4 KB), which may … continue reading
JetBrains has announced that its test automation IDE, Aqua, is now generally available. Aqua makes it easy for testers to create automated tests for UIs, APIs, and other areas of an application. Like other JetBrains IDEs, it offers code completion and code refactoring capabilities. According to JetBrains, Aqua supports every aspect of test automation, including … continue reading
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is on a mission to define “Open Source AI.” It wants to be able to provide a framework that can be used to determine if an AI system is open source or not, as there is not currently a framework for doing so, the OSI explained. According to OSI, having … continue reading
At its annual developer conference Google I/O, Google announced several updates across Google Play that help developers optimize their apps and increase engagement with users. New features to improve app quality, trust The company is opening up the SDK Console to all SDKs that come from a verifiable Maven repository source. Previously it was only … continue reading
SurrealDB is a multi-model database that offers scalability and adaptability so that developers can fit it to their use cases. The project maintainers call it “the ultimate cloud database for tomorrow’s applications.” It reduces development time by eliminating the need for a lot of server-side components required by other databases. The database can also function … continue reading
At its annual Red Hat Summit event, the popular open source company made several announcements regarding its AI strategy. It expanded Red Hat Lightspeed to more products, revealed updates to OpenShift AI, launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AI, and introduced Podman AI Lab. Red Hat Lightspeed expands to OpenShift and RHEL This generative AI … continue reading
Stack Overflow and OpenAI are announcing a partnership that will bolster each of their respective offerings. OpenAI will leverage Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI to improve its models using content and feedback from Stack Overflow answers. According to the companies, it will only surface responses that have been vetted and deemed to be accurate. The goal is … continue reading
GitHub has released two updates designed to help secure software supply chains. The company announced a public beta of Artifact Attestations for GitHub Actions, which makes it easier for companies to verify where software components came from, and announced that Dependabot can now be run as a GitHub Actions workflow. Artifact Attestation allows maintainers of … continue reading
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a new pilot evaluation program, NIST GenAI, to help assess whether content — text, image, video, or audio — was generated by a human or AI. One of the goals of the study is to use the results to assist people in making these determinations … continue reading
Zed is a code editor for MacOS with a minimal design that aims to improve developer productivity by being lightweight and simple, with a number of useful features. “Productive coding starts with a tool that stays out of your way. Zed combines the power of an IDE with the responsiveness of a lightweight editor for … continue reading
At its annual developer conference, MongoDB.local NYC, MongoDB announced a number of new capabilities for its multi-cloud database MongoDB Atlas. “Customers tell us they love MongoDB Atlas because it provides an integrated set of capabilities on one platform that can store and process their organization’s operational data across all of their applications,” said Sahir Azam, … continue reading
Postman has released a number of updates designed to help companies more effectively collaborate on API development. “An API should be built with its user in mind. Users need to know what an API is and how it works. If they can’t do that, they waste a lot of time looking for the information, struggling … continue reading
