Google Cloud Next kicked off today, with the company highlighting the progress it’s made over the past year as well as showcasing some of its new offerings. “We are in an entirely new era of digital transformation, fueled by gen AI. This technology is already improving how businesses operate and how humans interact with one … continue reading
Notary, the CNCF project that provides cross-industry standards for supply chain security, has announced a major release. This brings both the Notary Project and Notation Project to version 1.0.0. Notation is a sub-project that implements Notary specifications. Included in this release are an OCI signature specification, OCI COSE signature envelope, OCI JWS signature envelope, OCI … continue reading
Meta is joining other fellow tech giants in creating its own AI-assisted coding tool. The tool, Code Llama, generates code based on text prompts. It can also help with other development tasks, like code completion and debugging. Meta believes that Code Llama will make development workflows faster and lower the bar to entry for new … continue reading
AI is the talk of the town and it seems like every software provider would like to have AI-powered features in their software. But in order to do that, you need AI models that you can train. One of the newer approaches to model training in machine learning is federated learning (FL), which is an … continue reading
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can be an organization’s most valuable tool, but not if your database is full of people named ‘Mickey Mouse’ or has out-of-date addresses.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
