Many companies need to be able to verify the identity of their customers for a variety of reasons, but for some industries this isn’t just a best practice, but rather a necessity in order to comply with regulations. In the financial industry, for example, companies should have programs in place to meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) … continue reading
Earlier today the Python release team announced that the newest major release of the language, Python 3.12.0, is now available. It includes many new features, such as flexible f-string parsing, support for the buffer protocol, a new debugging and profiling API, and more. F-strings can now include any valid Python expression in their components. According … continue reading
The National Security Agency (NSA) has announced it is creating an AI Security Center to “oversee the development and integration of artificial intelligence capabilities within U.S. national security systems.” The new center will help foster development of best practices, evaluation methodology, and risk frameworks related to using AI in national security. The NSA will consolidate … continue reading
Amazon has announced that its solution for building generative AI applications is now generally available. Announced in April of this year, Amazon Bedrock enables companies to utilize foundation models from companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Stability AI, and Amazon to build applications. These models can be further customized on customer data using techniques such … continue reading
The analytics company Sisense is releasing a public preview of a new SDK that it hopes will empower developers to embed analytics capabilities into their apps. Compose SDK for Fusion is a toolkit that provides tools and components for embedding analytics in a modular way so that developers don’t have to build those capabilities from … continue reading
AnitaB.org, the nonprofit that puts on the Grace Hopper Conference every year, has announced it is launching a new consulting division called AnitaB.org Advisory. The new division will provide consulting for companies and communities looking to improve their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. According to AnitaB.org, it will provide a systematic approach customized to … continue reading
The API company Kong has announced a new managed service for running Kong Gateways so developers don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure. The new service, Dedicated Cloud Gateways, is a part of Kong Konnect, the company’s API management platform. “At Kong, we enable any company to become an API-first company — speeding up time … continue reading
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system, and a number of its users are coming together around the world to celebrate the milestone. GNU is an open-source operating system similar to Unix that was created in 1983 by Richard Stallman. In 2019, following controversy around statements he made around Jeffrey Epstein and … continue reading
Microsoft is releasing the preview version of Windows Terminal 1.19, and updating the terminal to version 1.18, adding all the features that were initially promised when it was first announced. One of the features in Windows Terminal 1.19 is Broadcast Input, which allows developers to broadcast the contents of a terminal pane to all other … continue reading
At an event MongoDB held in London today, the company announced a number of product announcements, including updates to Atlas, a new edge platform, and more. According to MongoDB, developers’ time is an organization’s “most precious commodity.” Therefore, the company would like to improve the experience around the most common tasks a developer does every … continue reading
Microsoft is announcing Microsoft Copilot, a general AI copilot that will work across the entire Windows platform. Previously the company has released other AI copilots, such as the new AI-powered search in Bing, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, which works across Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. “Today we take the next … continue reading
SKIE is an open-source tool that provides interoperability between Kotlin and Swift. Kotlin is the official language for Android development, while Swift is the language for Apple platforms, including iOS. It generates Swift wrappers around the Objective-C headers that the Kotlin compiler creates. This recreates features that are supported by both languages that sometimes get … continue reading
