GitHub has just opened up a new cohort for GitHub Accelerator, which is a program that provides funding and support for selected open-source projects. The theme of this cohort will be AI in open-source. “AI is rapidly changing the way we work and live, and open source collaboration is at the core of AI innovation,” … continue reading
AWS announced updates to Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, which is a new capability announced at AWS re:Invent 2023 that allows organizations to provide information from their own private data sources to improve relevancy of responses. According to AWS, there have been significant improvements since the launch, such as the introduction of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible … continue reading
Microsoft is sharing its roadmap for Semantic Kernel for features that will be implemented prior to the Microsoft Build conference in a few months. Semantic Kernel is Microsoft’s tool for adding and integrating LLM technology into existing applications. According to the company, the roadmap groups updates into three main categories: V1.0 parity across languages, additional … continue reading
Voltron Data has announced the release of Ibis 8.0, an update to its popular Python dataframe API, which has been downloaded over 10 million times. Ibis enables developers to run code across various data platforms by choosing the most suitable query engine for specific tasks. The latest version introduces the first dedicated streaming backends for … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it is adding the ability to use the sudo command in the latest Insider Preview Build of Windows 11. Sudo is a command-line command familiar to Linux users that allows you to run programs using the elevated security privileges of another user. “Sudo for Windows is a new way for users … continue reading
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
