The Android development team has just announced the first developer preview of Android 15. “Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity while giving you new capabilities to produce superior media experiences, minimize battery impact, maximize smooth app performance, and protect user privacy and security all on the most … continue reading
GitButler is a Git-based version control client that allows developers to work on multiple branches simultaneously, while maintaining proper version control. It acts as a layer on top of Git that keeps track of the uncommitted changes in a repository.. Changes are grouped into virtual branches, and these branches can be worked in parallel in … continue reading
Microsoft released .NET 8 a couple of months ago, and even though .NET 9 isn’t expected to be available until the end of this year, the company is sharing some insight into what it has planned for this upcoming release. In addition to releasing the roadmap, the company also announced that the first preview of … continue reading
Continuing on its plan of phasing out third-party cookies from Chrome this year, Google has announced that in a couple of months it will be using the Federated Credential Management (FedCM) API as a cookie-free alternative to signing in using Google Identity Services (GIS). GIS allows users to sign into apps or websites using their … continue reading
GitHub has just opened up a new cohort for GitHub Accelerator, which is a program that provides funding and support for selected open-source projects. The theme of this cohort will be AI in open-source. “AI is rapidly changing the way we work and live, and open source collaboration is at the core of AI innovation,” … continue reading
Microsoft is sharing its roadmap for Semantic Kernel for features that will be implemented prior to the Microsoft Build conference in a few months. Semantic Kernel is Microsoft’s tool for adding and integrating LLM technology into existing applications. According to the company, the roadmap groups updates into three main categories: V1.0 parity across languages, additional … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it is adding the ability to use the sudo command in the latest Insider Preview Build of Windows 11. Sudo is a command-line command familiar to Linux users that allows you to run programs using the elevated security privileges of another user. “Sudo for Windows is a new way for users … continue reading
Weaveworks, the company that coined the phrase GitOps, will soon be no more. The company’s CEO Alexis Richardson wrote in a LinkedIn post earlier this week that the company was shutting down. According to Richardson, while the company was bringing in over $10 million in revenue, the sales growth wasn’t consistent. The company really needed … continue reading
In a follow-up to President Biden’s Executive Order on AI last year, the U.S Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has announced the formation of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC). AISIC will bring together over 200 AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations, according to the National Institute … continue reading
The OpenSSF is releasing a new framework that can be used to assess the security capabilities of package repositories and help plan for future improvements. Called the Principles for Package Repository Security, the framework was a collaborative effort between OpenSSF’s Security Software Repositories Working Group and CISA. CISA published the Open Source Software Security Roadmap … continue reading
Google has announced that it is rebranding its AI search assistant Bard to Gemini, which is a multimodal AI model that the company announced at the end of last year. “Our mission with Bard has always been to give you direct access to our AI models, and Gemini represents our most capable family of models. … continue reading
The mobile testing company Kobiton today announced that it is open-sourcing its Appium script generation tool in an effort to enable its users to contribute back and improve on it. Appium itself is already an open-source project, providing a framework for automated testing across a variety of platforms. Kobiton’s tool provides the opportunity for more … continue reading
