President Biden this morning introduced an Executive Order (EO) aimed at managing the risks associated with AI. According to the White House, this EO “establishes new standards for AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and competition, advances American leadership around the … continue reading
Codefresh is hoping to make it easier for development teams to manage applications throughout the software development life cycle with its latest update. It is introducing a new environments dashboard to pull in information about GitOps and Argo CD projects. Codefresh defines an environment as a cluster of applications, namespaces in a single cluster, or … continue reading
IBM has launched its watsonx Code Assistant, which targets multiple use cases: IT automation and application modernization. The product consists of two main components at launch: watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed and watsonx Code Assistant for Z. Watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed uses generative AI to assist IT teams … continue reading
Today at the Next.js Conf, Vercel announced the release of the latest version of the React framework for web development, Next.js. According to Vercel, Next.js 14 offers significant performance boosts, including 53% faster local server startup and 94% faster code updates using Fast Refresh. Additionally, 5,000 “next dev” integration tests have now passed with Turbopack, … continue reading
Companies in certain industries – banking, healthcare, and the like – are subject to many different regulations when it comes to things like how they store user data, required communications with customers, and what data can and can’t be collected. For example, financial companies need to comply with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing … continue reading
The creators of Rancher Labs and k3s are unveiling a new project: Acorn. Run under the company Acorn Labs and currently in beta, Acorn enables developers to create in a cloud sandbox and easily share their work with others. According to the creators, the goal of this project is to make “cloud computing accessible, collaborative, … continue reading
GitLab 16.5 was announced with updates to the Compliance Center, merge request target branch rules, resolvable issue threads, and more. A new tab for standards adherence reports was added in the Compliance Center. These reports show which projects in a group do not meet the check for GitLab’s best practices. These include approval rules that … continue reading
OpsMx has unveiled a new approach to application security with the launch of its Deployment Firewall. This firewall integrates into CI/CD pipelines and enforces application security policies when applications are deployed, blocking releases if there is a vulnerability or security issue. According to OpsMx, recent application security efforts across the industry have been focusing on … continue reading
Intel is launching the AI PC Acceleration Program with the hopes of accelerating the speed at which developers build AI applications. “Intel recognizes that software leadership is key to the AI PC experience, and we’re uniquely positioned to lead the industry with an open ecosystem approach. With a long history in AI development and a … continue reading
Netlify has introduced the launch of a new platform that will enable developers to build “modern, composable web architectures.” The Netlify Composable Web Platform connects content, data sources, code, and infrastructure, providing development teams with everything they need to build and ship modern websites. According to the company, some of the benefits the platform provides … continue reading
The team behind Node.js has announced the release of Node.js 21. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that is built on the JavaScript engine that Chrome uses, V8. One of the main updates in this release is that the V8 engine was updated to version 11.8. “Updating the V8 engine offers crucial benefits: bug fixes enhance … continue reading
JetBrains is hoping to improve the way technical documentation is created with a new tool called Writerside. Currently in an Early Access Program, Writerside is a platform for writing and collaborating on documentation, API references, tutorials, developer guides, and how-tos. It can be used as a plugin in the JetBrains IDE or as a standalone … continue reading
