The release of the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs this month sparked a frenzy of creative activity among developers, allowing many companies to build generative AI capabilities into their apps for the first time. Numerous businesses have rushed to add generative AI features to their products, including Salesforce, HubSpot, ThoughtSpot, Grammarly, and others. This provides a … continue reading
An Expression Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was found by Code Intelligence in the Spring Framework, a popular Java application development framework. “As part of our efforts to improve the security of open-source software, we continuously test open-source projects with our JVM fuzzing engine Jazzer in Google’s OSS-Fuzz. One of our tests yielded a Denial … 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
The intelligent productivity company JetBrains today released IntelliJ IDEA 2023.1, the latest version of its integrated development environment for Java. This release provides users with new features and improvements, including an updated UI to offer a more polished experience. The performance enhancements provide users with accelerated startup experience and an improved commit process with background … continue reading
Skills verification has been a facet of our lives for most of the modern era, granting us validity and opening doors that wouldn’t otherwise be available. Driving, for example, is an important rite of passage for most, and we’re expected to pass a set of standardized assessments to confirm that we can be trusted with … continue reading
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of the new Microsoft Teams App for Windows in order to deliver up to two times faster performance while only using half of the memory. The user experience has been improved so that it is easier to locate everything in one place. The company stated that these enhancements also … continue reading
At the end of 2022, Gartner made the prediction that in 2023, low-code spending would increase by 20%. This may seem like a bold claim, considering that lately it seems that all organizations want to do is cut, cut, cut. But when you think about the promise of low-code, and being able to do more … continue reading
Finding developers with the right set of skills for the job will continue to be a major challenge for businesses in 2023. The U.S. Department of Labor is estimating that there will be a shortage of 85.2 million developers by 2030, and over a third of respondents to Reveal’s latest survey on development struggles said … continue reading
The developer talent network Torc announced the acquisition of the coding performance measurement application Codealike to offer developers more data that increases skills, job opportunities, and enterprise value. “Torc aims to empower developers with data and intelligence, protect IP, increase upskilling and career opportunities, and make the remote workforce indispensable. Understanding performance data is the … continue reading
Cloud-based customer service company Zendesk today announced a five-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS in order to help organizations offer personalized customer experiences at scale. The partnership is geared at assisting businesses in providing users with accelerated, tailored, and conversational experiences spanning every channel while also working to enhance support operations with AI tools, bots, … continue reading
Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK from Microsoft aimed at enabling integration of AI Large Language Models with conventional programming languages. According to the project’s GitHub page, the SK extensible programming model brings together natural language semantic functions, traditional code native functions, and embeddings-based memory in order to access new potential and add value … continue reading
The Android development team has announced several new features in version 1.4 of the UI toolkit Jetpack Compose. First, there is now support for vertical and horizontal paging. This enables users to flip through content with a page flip animation, as if they were actually reading a physical book or magazine. Previously in order to … continue reading
GitHub announced a major upgrade to Copilot, its AI-assisted development tool. Now in public preview, GitHub Copilot X utilizes the new GPT-4 model, adds chat and voice capabilities, and brings Copilot to the command line, pull requests, and docs. “With AI available at every step, we can fundamentally redefine developer productivity. We are reducing boilerplate … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a new app in public preview called Loop which is designed to improve collaboration and communication within teams. Loop is an all-in-one platform that integrates chat, video calls, shared calendars, and task management features. “At its core, Microsoft Loop is about people—people who want to create together with ease, no matter where … continue reading
