Weaveworks, the company that coined the phrase GitOps, will soon be no more. The company’s CEO Alexis Richardson wrote in a LinkedIn post earlier this week that the company was shutting down. According to Richardson, while the company was bringing in over $10 million in revenue, the sales growth wasn’t consistent. The company really needed … continue reading
Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Graph Toolkit v4.0, which includes improvements to the developer experience and bug fixes that will be appreciated by end-users. The Microsoft Graph Toolkit users can now directly edit To Do items, view colleagues’ presence and profiles through the people picker, and benefit from the general availability of search … continue reading
In a follow-up to President Biden’s Executive Order on AI last year, the U.S Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has announced the formation of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC). AISIC will bring together over 200 AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations, according to the National Institute … continue reading
Pkl is a new programming language from Apple specifically designed for creating configuration files. Pkl aims to revolutionize how configurations are developed, addressing the limitations of traditional static languages like JSON, YAML, and Property Lists. These conventional formats, while useful, often struggle to manage complexity effectively, leading to repetitive code and a higher likelihood of … continue reading
Microsoft announced updates to Copilot, including Designer, which enables users to go beyond just creating images to customize generated images with inline editing inside Copilot, according to the company in a blog post. “With a simple sentence or two, you will see a budding entrepreneur turn a fledgling idea for a new product into an … continue reading
The OpenSSF is releasing a new framework that can be used to assess the security capabilities of package repositories and help plan for future improvements. Called the Principles for Package Repository Security, the framework was a collaborative effort between OpenSSF’s Security Software Repositories Working Group and CISA. CISA published the Open Source Software Security Roadmap … continue reading
Amplitude has announced significant enhancements to its Digital Analytics Platform, introducing Session Replay, advanced experimentation features, and a user-friendly event tagging system. Session Replay merges qualitative with quantitative data, offering companies deeper insights into the reasons behind user behaviors. It offers a visual representation of the user’s journey, highlighting areas of interest and potential obstacles, … continue reading
Google has announced that it is rebranding its AI search assistant Bard to Gemini, which is a multimodal AI model that the company announced at the end of last year. “Our mission with Bard has always been to give you direct access to our AI models, and Gemini represents our most capable family of models. … continue reading
The mobile testing company Kobiton today announced that it is open-sourcing its Appium script generation tool in an effort to enable its users to contribute back and improve on it. Appium itself is already an open-source project, providing a framework for automated testing across a variety of platforms. Kobiton’s tool provides the opportunity for more … continue reading
Applitools announced the addition of Autonomous to its Intelligent Testing Platform. Autonomous is an autonomous test automation platform that brings together code-based testing with codeless autonomous testing, making it accessible to all regardless of coding experience. Applitools stated that it is addressing the challenges that come with traditional testing methodologies that often don’t keep up … continue reading
OpenSilver, which is an open-source project designed to replace the defunct Microsoft Silverlight framework, has announced the availability of its new 2.1 release. According to the project’s maintainers, this update is a significant one for the platform. It adds support for F#, which is an open-source programming language that offers advantages that enable developers to … continue reading
The Linux Foundation has recently launched the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance (PQCA), a collaborative effort aimed at advancing and facilitating the adoption of post-quantum cryptography in response to the emerging threats of quantum computing. This alliance assembles diverse stakeholders, including industry leaders, researchers, and developers, focusing on creating high-assurance software implementations of standardized algorithms. The initiative … continue reading
Red Hat has announced the latest version of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP), which is a tool for building and deploying Jakarta EE apps. The new release — JBoss EAP 8 — updates its Jakarta EE support to include version 10, which is the most current version. It also includes a new provisioning system … continue reading
Syncfusion today released volume 4 of its 2023 Essential Studio with new controls for its .NET MAUI app UI framework, its Blazor component library and its JavaScript offering. “Our teams were focused on enriching our current controls and file-format libraries with a lot of functionality, including multiple improvements on all platforms for one of our … continue reading
