The team at Amazon today announced Amazon Bedrock, a service intended to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications. With this release, users gain access to foundation models (FM) from AI startup model providers such as AI21, Anthropic, and Sustainability AI. Amazon Bedrock opens up several FMs from different providers so that AWS customers … continue reading
Analog is a full stack meta-framework for building both websites and applications with Angular. It is one of the projects in GitHub’s Accelerator program, a 10-week program where open-source maintainers receive a sponsorship of $20,000 to invest in their project as well as guidance from leaders in the open-source community. According to the company, this … continue reading
The newly launched CodeWhisperer is a tool that uses AI-generated suggestions to help developers maintain their focus and stay productive by allowing them to write code quickly and securely without disrupting their workflow by leaving their IDE to look up information. The tool is especially useful for creating code for routine and time-consuming tasks, and … continue reading
Over 40 states have joined together today to launch the United States Blockchain Coalition (USBC) in order to drive collaboration between states and maintain American leadership in digital assets, Bitcoin, and distributed ledger technologies (DLT). USBC is led by representatives from Texas, Washington, California, Florida, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and more, and it takes a multistate approach … 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
UserTesting announced machine learning innovations to the UserTesting Human Insight Platform to help businesses gain the context needed to understand and address user needs. One update is friction detection powered by machine learning to visually identify moments in both individual video sessions, and across multiple videos, where people experience friction behaviors like excessive clicking or … continue reading
Software tools provider Altova today announced the release of Version 2023 Release 2 of its desktop developer tools, server software, and regulatory solutions, offering users several new features. With this release, users gain access to split mode in Grid View in XMLSpy. This allows developers to separate the editing view of one document into two … continue reading
Melissa, provider of data quality; identity verification; and address management solutions, recently advised expanding negative news screening operations, also known as adverse media screening (AMS), to businesses and individuals being onboarded to financial organizations. The company stated that AMS has become increasingly more important in customer due diligence operations, where organizations are required to perform … continue reading
The team at Android recently announced its new auto-archive feature to cut down on unnecessary uninstalls and assist users in installing new apps. According to the team, once a user opts in, auto-archive can help them free up a chunk of an app’s storage space, without removing the app presence or users’ data. Auto-archive works … continue reading
Open source is at the heart of nearly all software today: A staggering 96 percent of applications contained open-source code and 90 percent of companies leverage open source in some way. It’s no surprise that the adoption rate of open source is sky-high. It provides companies with incredible perks like greater speed of innovation, agility, and flexibility—all at … continue reading
Google announced a new data deletion policy to provide users with more transparency and authority when it comes to managing their in-app data. Developers will soon be required to include an option in their apps for users to initiate the process of deleting their account and associated data both within the app and online on … continue reading
Buck2 is Meta’s open-source large scale build system and it is now publicly available through both the Buck2 website and on GitHub. This open-source offering is a from-scratch rewrite of Buck, though it does share some commonalities with it and other build systems such as Bazel. Buck2 completely separates the core and language-specific rules. This … 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
Cybersecurity costs companies billions of dollars a year, with that cost expected to be in trillions by 2025, according to some cybersecurity research firms. Consider the Marriott hotels’ leak of 500 million customer records for which Marriott took a $126 million charge; and Equifax, an American credit reporting agency, spent 1.4 billion dollars on cleanup … continue reading
