Meta is trying to bridge the communication gap between languages that exists in our multilingual world. They have launched SeamlessM4T, which is a foundational multilingual and multitask model that can translate between languages across speech and text. “The world we live in has never been more interconnected—the global proliferation of the internet, mobile devices, social … continue reading
Data can be an organization’s most valuable tool, but not if your database is full of people named ‘Mickey Mouse’ or has out-of-date addresses. According to Michael Lee, solution engineer at data verification solution provider Melissa, the most common issues that could be present in your database tend to be the simple ones, such as … continue reading
The testing company SmartBear has announced it is acquiring an API company called Stoplight. By adding Stoplight’s API governance, mocking, and no-code editing capabilities into the SmartBear portfolio, SmartBear will be able to provide its customers with a comprehensive API development platform. Stoplight’s open-source catalog of Prism, Spectral, and Elements will also join up with … continue reading
Next.js Commerce is a template for building ecommerce apps that was developed by Vercel. It includes support for common ecommerce functions like out of stock items, order history, order status, item variation availability, hidden products, and dynamically driven content. It allows applications to be styled using Tailwind CS and also uses Next.js’s metadata to optimize … continue reading
Redis has announced the latest version of its flagship offering. Redis 7.2 introduces several new features, including scalable search and Auto Tiering. Scalable search offers a 16x improvement in query throughput by blending sharding with vertical scaling. Auto Tiering helps developers be more cost-effective with data storage, as heavily used data is kept in memory … continue reading
Many development tool vendors have added AI to their offerings to help developers be more efficient with coding, and now Zenhub is unveiling that it has added AI capabilities to its project management tool to make the whole process of project management simpler. According to Zenhub, this new offering focuses on the team rather than … continue reading
Red Hat caused some trouble in the open-source community at the end of June when they announced that the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) would no longer be publicly available and could only be accessed by its customers A couple of weeks later, the open-source software company SUSE said it would create … continue reading
A few days after Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 17.7, the company is releasing the first preview for version 17.8. According to Microsoft, Visual Studio 17.8 will include features to “ significantly improve your day-to-day tasks.” One new feature is that you will now be able to add reviewers to pull requests … continue reading
OpenAI has announced the availability of a new feature in ChatGPT to allow customers to make the chatbot fit their needs. Custom instructions can now be used to add preferences or requirements for ChatGPT to use when generating responses. Custom instructions can be applied to all future conversations, eliminating the need to restate these requirements … continue reading
Unity is a popular game engine, which has now expanded beyond video games to technologies related to virtual reality, automotive, and architecture. For now the Unity extension is available in preview. According to Microsoft, the extension builds on the C# Dev Kit that was released earlier this year, and other C# extensions. “With this extension, … continue reading
Chaindesk (previously called Databerry) is an open-source no-code platform for building your own large language model (LLM) agent. Data can be loaded from any source, making it easy to make a chat agent that is specific to your data. Potential sources include text, PDF, Excel, Notion, Airtable, Word, and more. Chaindesk connects these sources with … continue reading
OWASP, the organization known for its list of the top 10 security vulnerabilities in software, has just published version 1.0 of a new top 10 list devoted to risks related to large language model (LLM) applications. “The frenzy of interest of Large Language Models (LLMs) following of mass-market pretrained chatbots in late 2022 has been … continue reading
