The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has recently approved OpenFeature as an incubating project within the CNCF. OpenFeature is an open specification designed to provide a vendor-neutral, community-driven API specifically for feature flagging. Feature flagging is a method used in software development where teams can switch features or code paths on or off, or modify … continue reading
As we bid farewell to another year, it is crucial to reflect on the threats of cyberattacks and ransomware and think of how to mitigate them moving forward. However, this year feels a bit different – marked by the unknown of what challenges AI will bring to the security landscape in the new year. This … continue reading
The concept and promise of open source has been around for decades. It’s thriving in the industry today. While commercialization strategies around open source continue to evolve and disrupt, purveyors of open-source software cannot lose sight of what makes it such a powerful force for innovation. Looking back over the past 20 years of software … continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have dominated the tech scene over the past year. As a byproduct, vendors in nearly every tech sector are adding AI capabilities and scrambling to promote how their products and services use it. This trend has also made its way to the observability and monitoring space. However, … continue reading
Generative AI. Observability. Developer platforms. Data management. These are the issues that our industry will face with heightened urgency in 2024. SD Times reached out to experts from across the spectrum of software development to find out what they think the new year will bring. Here are some of their thoughts. Devavrat Shah, co-CEO and founder, … continue reading
One of the big themes of 2023 was the enterprise struggle to make developers more productive. And the strategies for making that happen included the creation of developer platforms, changes in culture to allow developers to experience joy in their work, and understanding how to measure if a developer or their teams are being productive. … continue reading
The progress that has been made in generative AI (GenAI) technology is nothing short of astounding, and yet, not without its flaws. But these flaws aren’t surprising when you consider that these artificial neural networks are modeled after something equally as impressive and flawed: human intelligence. As such, GenAI falls victim to many of the … continue reading
To say 2023 was a year taken up mostly by AI would be a massive understatement. Following the release of ChatGPT at the very end of 2022, generative AI blew up in 2023. According to Reuters, ChatGPT had grown to 100 million active users by January 2023, which was just two months after it launched. … continue reading
Bugcrowd has announced updates to its Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT), which categorizes and prioritizes crowdsourced vulnerabilities. The new update specifically addresses vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) for the first time. The VRT is an open-source initiative aiming to standardize how suspected vulnerabilities reported by hackers are classified. “This new release of VRT not only … continue reading
OpenAI shared that it has created the Preparedness Framework to help track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against the risks associated with advanced AI models that will exist in the future, or frontier models. The Preparedness Framework is currently in beta, and it covers the actions OpenAI will take to safely develop and deploy frontier models. … continue reading
Vercel, creator of the Next.js framework, has announced that the beta for its v0 offering is now accessible to everyone. It has removed the waitlist, opening it up to the 100K+ people that were previously waitlisted. First announced in October 2023, v0 is a generative AI product that allows you to easily create web interface … continue reading
Reveille 10 is designed to optimize the customer experience for business-critical applications reliant on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms, according to the company in a post. This release addresses the management challenges organizations face with expanding intelligent automation programs, offering increased visibility into ECM operations and expediting the recovery of automated issues. Among the noteworthy … continue reading
OpenAI is announcing a new grant program to help companies who are working on making superintelligent systems safe, as the company believes superintelligence could be achieved within the next decade. According to the company, these advanced systems will “be capable of complex and creative behaviors that humans cannot fully understand.” The current technique for ensuring … continue reading
Google is testing Tracking Protection for Chrome as a feature that limits cross-site tracking. This new feature is part of Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative to responsibly phase out third-party cookies, which involves creating new tools for sites that serve essential functions and granting developers time to adapt. The introduction of Tracking Protection begins with a … continue reading
