Uno Platform 5.3 adds full support for JetBrains Rider

Uno Platform 5.3 is now available, adding over 350 new improvements to the cross-platform .NET development tool. According to the product team, the most notable change in this release is that JetBrains .NET IDE Rider is now officially supported. Previously, Rider could be used with Uno, but it required several setup steps to get started. … continue reading

MongoDB launches new technology stack for building AI apps

MongoDB is launching a new technology stack to enable customers to build AI applications. The MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) will feature reference architectures, integrations with leading AI technology providers, and a support system for customers featuring access to experts and education. According to MongoDB, many customers have reported that they lack the multi-modal data … continue reading

Meta’s new Llama 3.1 model competes with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Meta has announced the latest release of its open source AI model, Llama. According to Meta, with the release of Llama 3.1 405B, the company is trying to prove that open models can be just as capable as their closed counterparts, if not better. “Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals … continue reading

Google abandons plan to remove third-party cookies

For quite some time Google has been talking about phasing out third-party cookies from Chrome. Now, it appears the company is taking a different direction and will not be moving forward with removing third-party cookies from the browser. In a blog post written by Anthony Chavez, VP of Privacy Sandbox for Google, he said that … continue reading

Lessons learned from CrowdStrike outages on releasing software updates

The endpoint detection software CrowdStrike made headlines for causing global outages on Windows machines around the world last Friday, leading to over 45,000 flight delays and over 5,000 cancellations, along with a number of other shutdowns, such as payment systems, healthcare services, and 911 operations.  The cause? An update that was pushed by CrowdStrike to … continue reading

Software testing’s chaotic conundrum: Navigating the Three-Body Problem of speed, quality, and cost

The three-body problem, a mathematical conundrum presented by Isaac Newton and the inspiration behind Netflix’s new multi-million dollar series by the same name, can teach us a lot about mathematics… and quality assurance. Hear me out. What is the three-body problem? Astronomers and mathematicians have been perplexed by the three-body problem ever since humans began … continue reading

Bad CrowdStrike update takes down Windows machines around the world, highlighting importance of gradual roll-outs and software quality

This morning, a number of major systems suffered an outage due to a bad CrowdStrike update. CrowdStrike is an endpoint protection system that runs in the background of a lot of enterprise computers to secure them, and the update caused Windows machines running the updated software to crash.  The software update only affected Windows operating … continue reading

Coalition for Secure AI forms to address security risks of AI

A number of companies have announced the formation of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), a group dedicated to addressing the security risks related to using AI.  CoSAI was founded by Amazon, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Cohere, GenLab, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Paypal and Wiz. It will be hosted at the standards body OASIS … continue reading

DevPod – SD Times Open Source Project of the Week

DevPod is a tool for creating and managing development environments without needing a server-side setup. It can be used as an open-source alternative to GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains Spaces, or Google Cloud Workstations.  Environments run in containers and can be spun up wherever there is a need, such as on a local computer, a cloud machine … continue reading

Report: Execs and devs have different perceptions around supply chain security, AI use

While the occurrence of software supply chain attacks just keeps getting worse every year, there appears to be a disconnect among leaders on the importance of securing those supply chains. According to research from IDC, there has been a 241% increase year-over-year in supply chain attacks, but a new survey from JFrog had only 30% … continue reading

The secret to better products? Let engineers drive vision

Halfway through my 5 1/2 years at SpaceX, management decided to change the way we developed software by handing over the job of creating a product vision to the engineering team. They felt that the traditional way of putting product management in charge of the product roadmap was creating a layer of abstraction. So, they … continue reading

Q&A on the Rust Foundation’s new Safety-Critical Rust Consortium

Last month, the Rust Foundation announced the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, a new group dedicated to advancing the use of Rust in safety-critical software, which is software that can severely impact human life or cause damage if it fails.  To talk more about the new group, Bec Rumbul, executive director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, … continue reading

Miro launches AI-based idea generation platform Intelligent Canvas

The visual collaboration company Miro has announced the launch of Intelligent Canvas, an AI-based idea generation platform.  “Miro’s Intelligent Canvas is built to support business processes well beyond the brainstorming phase,” Jeff Chow, CPTO of Miro. “It combines AI, composable workflows, and a more intuitive, interactive experience to drive higher team productivity. Miro’s canvas is … continue reading

Infragistics adds support for React in latest App Builder release

Infragistics, a provider of various UI controls and components, has announced several new features in its low-code platform App Builder.  The editor can now generate React code, which has been a highly requested capability by the community, according to Infragistics. With this addition, App Builder now covers all of the major web frameworks.  “Whether you … continue reading

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