Last month, legislation was proposed in the United States that could have potential impacts on the software ecosystem. Sponsored by Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Thune (R-S.D.), the RESTRICT Act is a bipartisan piece of legislation with the goal of “Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology,” thus the … continue reading
The new permission model was designed to provide better security. It allows developers to restrict access to certain resources during program execution. This can include restricting access to the file system and spawn process and restricting the ability to create worker_threads. According to the feature roadmap, upcoming additions to the permission model will include adoption … continue reading
Web3. Cryptocurrency. Non-fungible tokens. Those are the words many think of when they hear the word blockchain. These are the areas where this emerging technology has garnered the most popularity over the years, but blockchain as a technical concept can be applied in many different ways, and it has uses in the enterprise, particularly when … continue reading
The Android development team at Google is ready with the first beta version of Android 14. Beta 1 is available for developers enrolled in the Android Beta program. In this release, developers can expect updates to the system UI, additional graphics capabilities, and privacy and security features. The UI has been updated with a more … continue reading
The most successful development teams have these four key benchmarks in common, revealed CircleCI’s 2023 State of Software Delivery Report. Successful teams have workflow durations less than 10 minutes, recovery from failed runs in under an hour, success rates above 90% in the default branch of their application, and deployments at least once per day, … continue reading
Syncfusion has announced the latest release of its UI component suite, Essential Studio 2023 Volume 1. According to the company, the main highlights in this release are new controls for .NET MAUI, promotion of 10 MAUI components to production status, improvements to the PDF Viewer, and more accessibility features in the PDF Library. The new … continue reading
Upbound, the creator of the open source project Crossplane, has announced managed control planes (MCP) for the project. This means that Crossplane can auto-scale as more resources are added, major and minor upgrades of core components are handled in the background, and automatic snapshots are made for backup purposes. Platform operators can also do things … continue reading
Canonical, the publishers of the Ubuntu operating system, have announced the latest version of Charmed Kubeflow, its open-source MLOps platform. Charmed Kubeflow 1.7 adds the ability to run serverless ML workloads, which increases developer productivity by reducing routine tasks and handling infrastructure for them. Another win for developers is that new dashboards will improve user … continue reading
With all the uptake over AI technology like GPT over the past several months, many are thinking about the ethical responsibility in AI development. According to Google, responsible AI means not just avoiding risks, but also finding ways to improve people’s lives and address social and scientific problems, as these new technologies have applications in … continue reading
Customer engagement company Twilio has announced the launch of Segment Unify, which is an identity resolution solution. It enables companies to merge the history of each of their customers into a single profile. They can sync these profiles to their data warehouse and other customer experience tools, while Segment Unify remains the source of truth … continue reading
Since our last roundup, lots of new things have been happening around GPT and ChatGPT, and in particular OpenAI, the creator of the technology, has unveiled many new offerings. Here are some of the highlights surrounding these new AI technologies from the past few weeks. GPT-4 launches Perhaps the biggest news was OpenAI unveiling GPT-4, … continue reading
The CI/CD platform Buildkite has announced its first quarterly release of the year. With this release, the company announced the Kubernetes agent stack, bringing native Kubernetes support to the platform. Users can now run Buildkite CI/CD agents on Kubernetes, where they can take advantage of the expertise of their platform teams and see increased flexibility. … continue reading
