When an event like the CrowdStrike failure literally brings the world to its knees, there’s a lot to unpack there. Why did it happen? How did it happen? Could it have been prevented? On the most recent episode of our weekly podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with Arthur Hicken, chief evangelist at the testing … continue reading
A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Commvault names Pranay Ahlawat as chief technology and AI officer Ahlawat will oversee the company’s product vision and development life cycle as they embrace more AI technologies. Previously … continue reading
OpenAI has announced that it is starting to roll out its advanced Voice Mode to a select group of ChatGPT Plus users. According to the company, this new mode “offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions.” Advanced Voice Mode was tested by over 100 external … continue reading
Pluralsight is on a mission to accelerate learning experiences on its upskilling platform with the launch of a new AI assistant called Iris. Iris helps users more quickly discover content that is relevant to their questions, learning objectives, and goals. It can also make recommendations on the platform’s thousands of learning paths and courses to … continue reading
Last month, Microsoft announced an official .NET library for OpenAI, which included full support for the OpenAI API. Now, the company is revealing that its Semantic Kernel team has been working on upgrading its connectors to use version 2 of the OpenAI library and Azure.AI.OpenAI library. According to the company, there were significant updates to … continue reading
The AI company Galileo has just announced its latest Hallucination Index, which is a framework that evaluates 22 leading generative AI models. Models are tested using a metric called context adherence, which measures “closed-domain hallucinations: cases where your model said things that were not provided in the context.” The best performing model overall for RAG, … continue reading
In an effort to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in Android apps, Google is introducing the Android Application Security Knowledge Base (AAKB). The AAKB includes a database of common code issues, complete with examples on how to remediate them and explanations on how to implement specific code patterns. Google already does scan Android apps for … continue reading
Automated testing began as a way to alleviate the repetitive and time-consuming tasks associated with manual testing. Early tools focused on running predefined scripts to check for expected outcomes, significantly reducing human error and increasing test coverage. With advancements in AI, particularly in machine learning and natural language processing, testing tools have become more sophisticated. … continue reading
OpenAI has announced a prototype for its upcoming AI search features that are intended to rival existing search engines. “Getting answers on the web can take a lot of effort, often requiring multiple attempts to get relevant results. We believe that by enhancing the conversational capabilities of our models with real-time information from the web, … continue reading
Hoppscotch is an open source API development platform intended as an alternative to tools like Postman and Insomnia. It features a minimalistic UI design with customizable theming, such as a distraction-free mode. Hoppscotch can be used as a cloud-hosted web app, a self-hosted desktop app, or run through the command line. One of the key … continue reading
As we saw last week with what happened as a result of a bad update from CrowdStrike, it’s more clear than ever that companies releasing software need a way to roll back updates if things go wrong. In the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with Konrad Niemiec, founder and … continue reading
The Android development team is officially launching Collections, which is a new surface that groups together content from multiple installed apps in themed widgets in the Play Store. It was first announced as a developer preview at Google I/O in May, with Mekka Okereke, general manager for Apps on Google Play, saying “this new surface … continue reading
The software intelligence company CAST is trying to make it easier for development teams to create and manage Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) with the launch of the CAST SBOM Manager. This new free tool automates the process of creating SBOMs. Developers give the SBOM Manager access to their code repositories and it will create … continue reading
The Overture Maps Foundation — a joint effort by AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to create reliable, interoperable open map data that developers can use — has announced the general availability release of its global open maps datasets. This release includes 2.3 building footprints, which can be used for things like property management, risk assessment, … continue reading
