The new software development life cycle means working out ways to adapt the SDLC for your machine learning workflow and teams. With data scientists currently spending large chunks of their time on infrastructure and process instead of building models, finding ways to enable the SDLC to work effectively with machine learning is critical for not … continue reading
Software applications have become significantly more complex over the past decade. This bodes well for the creation of new application-based business opportunities and additional customer touchpoints, however increased software complexity also opens the door for more malicious attacks and high-impact data leaks. Ever-nimble and determined threat actors are reinventing their approaches to align with current … continue reading
Code.org announced several new milestones for this year: 50 U.S. states have adopted computer science policies, over 100,000 new CS teachers were prepared by Code.org, and students on Code.org have created 60 million projects. “We want to emphasize that an important part of computer science is understanding how it can help with world challenges. As … continue reading
In a year where data breaches at Facebook have seen no signs of slowing down, another blow has been dealt. A reported 267 million Facebook user IDs and phone numbers were exposed online for anyone to access without a password or any authentication. Most of the records affected users from the United States. The UK … continue reading
It’s human nature to want things to go your way; dropping little hints for your birthday presents, avoiding certain topics, even companies commissioning surveys tailored to provide results they want has been well documented. But on a more basic level, we subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) will try to influence variables to provide the results we … continue reading
Apple announced a bug bounty program that rewards up to $1,500,000 on finding issues that occur on the latest publicly available versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, or watchOS with a standard configuration. In addition, Apple said it offers public recognition for those who submit valid reports and will match donations of the bounty payment … continue reading
JetBrains is revealing some of the things that IntelliJ IDEA and other IntelliJ IDE users can expect in the new year. According to JetBrains, the following features will be released over the course of 2020. The first to be released is the 2020.1 spring release. The features are centered around two main themes: performance and … continue reading
Ray is an open-source distributed framework that makes it easy to scale applications and to leverage machine learning libraries. The project was developed by the distributed programming platform company Anyscale. Ray includes three libraries for accelerating machine learning workloads: Tune, RLlib and Distributed Training. According to the company, the machine learning libraries give developers the ability … continue reading
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems has announced it will fund the development of a new cloud testbed, which will be designed for the research and development of new cloud computing platforms. To do so, the foundation is awarding a grant to three universities: Boston University, Northeastern University, and the … continue reading
The JavaScript ecosystem refuses to stay still. A newly released report finds significant features and improvements are being made to the programming language every year through front end frameworks, data layers, testing, mobile devices and more. The 2019 State of JavaScript report is created by developers Sacha Greif and Raphaël Benitte, and aims to take … continue reading
The open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine has reached version 8.0. According to the team, V8 version 8 focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements. Some of the key improvements include: pointer compression, optimizations for higher-order builtins, optional chaining, nullish coalescing, and updates to the V8 API. The full list of improvements is available here. Dotscience … continue reading
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.” —Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician, 1919 Hailed as a truly transformational technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is positioned to disrupt businesses either by enabling new approaches to solving complex problems, or threatening the status quo for whole business sectors or … continue reading
Consider how your DevOps organization collaborates today. Do teams struggle with particular challenges or hurdles? What aspects of a modern messaging platform can help them be more productive and efficient? The following considerations can help you identify the features and capabilities of a messaging platform that can empower your DevOps teams to work smarter together. … continue reading
GitLab announced that it is moving its observability suite to Core to its open-source codebase in 2020. “If it’s a feature for a single developer who might be working on his or her own individual project, we want that to be in Core because it invites more usage of those tools and we get great … continue reading
