Apache Airflow is an open-source project for scheduling and managing workflows, written in Python. Kaxil Naik, director of Airflow engineering at Astronomer and one of the core committers of Airflow, told SD Times: “It is used to automate your daily jobs or daily tasks, and tasks can be as simple as running a Python script … continue reading
While developers have always had to care about user experience, over the next year they will take this a step further by investing more heavily into what’s known as human-centric software development. According to Progress Software’s 2024 Human Side of Software Report, which surveyed 700 developers and IT leaders, over half of organizations will invest … continue reading
ACM has announced that it is awarding the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Avi Wigderson for his contributions in the area of theoretical computer science, and notably, for changing our understanding of how randomness works in computation. “Wigderson is a towering intellectual force in theoretical computer science, an exciting discipline that attracts some of … continue reading
Google Cloud Next was this week, and the company unveiled a lot of innovations related to AI, such as two new Gemma models for code generation and inference. Google announced that Gemini 1.5 Pro will be entering public preview for Google Cloud customers, and it’s available through Vertex AI. This version of the model was … continue reading
Supply chain security has been a big topic of conversation over the past several years, and while many of the conversations have revolved around insecure third-party components in codebases, there’s another part of the supply chain that could have a negative impact if not secured properly: secrets. Max Power, product lead for Bitwarden Secrets Manager, … continue reading
At Intel Vision 2024, Intel had a lot to say about AI and what it’s been working on in that area. The company announced a new AI accelerator called Gaudi 3, its plans to collaborate on an open platform for enterprise AI, and next generation processors. Gaudi 3 uses Ethernet to connect tens of thousands … continue reading
Synopsys has released a new solution to help companies manage upstream risks of software supply chains. Black Duck Supply Chain Edition does software composition analysis (SCA) that makes use of a number of security analysis techniques to determine the components in a piece of software, such as package dependency, CodePrint, snippet, binary, and container analysis. … continue reading
Google has announced that it is extending the Gemma family of AI models with two new variants, one for code generation and one for inference. For code generation, it is releasing CodeGemma, which provides intelligent code completion and generation. It is capable of producing entire blocks of code at a time, Google claims. According to … continue reading
At its annual conference, GrafanaCon, Grafana Labs has announced updates to two of its open source projects (Grafana and Loki) and announced a new open source project (Grafana Alloy). “Our goal is to make it easier and faster to get started for anyone – whether they’re landing on the moon or monitoring their daily commute … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it is creating a new location in London for AI research. This follows the company’s announcement that it had created a new division in the company called Microsoft AI that is focused on building out its commercial AI offerings, such as Copilot. The new location will focus on innovating on large language … continue reading
The software testing company Parasoft has announced a new testing solution for C and C++ applications. C/C++test CT was designed specifically to meet the needs of safety and security critical embedded applications. It integrates into existing development and CI/CD workflows, and features a command-line interface for running tests. It also integrates with open source testing … continue reading
Mojo is a programming language designed to combine the performance of C and the usability of Python, for the purposes of AI related initiatives and tasks, which require a high-performance system. Last week, the company behind Mojo, Modular, announced that it would be open-sourcing the core modules of the language using the Apache 2 license. … continue reading
