People buy digital assets in games every day. In fact, 89.5 percent of all commerce associated with gaming in 2022 was digital, per The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association. True ownership of those digital assets, however, remains a huge, intrinsic problem for the gaming industry. In practice, the sales of these assets are more akin … continue reading
Today at its OpenAI DevDay event, OpenAI announced a number of updates across its platform. One of the announcements is that the company now allows users to create their own custom versions of ChatGPT, called GPTs, for specific purposes. Some examples of GPTs that have already been created include Game Time, which explains rules to … continue reading
Today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023, Red Hat announced a number of updates to its portfolio. First, the company announced the general availability of Red Hat Device Edge, which was created to provide a platform for deploying devices at the edge. It includes an operating system optimized for the edge and a supported … continue reading
OpenELA, a trade association formed by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE, has publicly released the source code for Enterprise Linux (EL), with a focus on EL8 and EL9 initially, and EL7 packages coming soon. In August 2023, CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE initiated the creation of OpenELA in response to alterations in the accessibility of RHEL source … continue reading
In response to the “increasing speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks,” Microsoft has announced its Secure Future Initiative. “The past year has brought to the world an almost unparalleled and diverse array of technological change,” Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. “Advances in artificial intelligence are accelerating innovation … continue reading
Since the technical interview is such an important part of the hiring process for tech workers, it’s best to be as prepared as possible for what one might expect during that step of the interview process. Several resources exist to help developers better prepare. One such resource is the Tech Interview Handbook repository, which is … continue reading
The team behind the open-source Uno Platform has announced the release of Uno Platform 5.0, which it says includes several updates for productivity. “Five is for 5X productivity,” the release blog post is titled. The Uno Platform is a platform for building multi-platform .NET apps from a single codebase. In the 5.0 release, support for … continue reading
The testing company SmartBear has announced updates to three of its products, with the goal of improving visibility into the software development life cycle. “We continue to put our customers at the center of our strategies and deliver on their needs by expanding our product portfolio through innovative enhancements to our popular solutions used by … continue reading
For years, you’ve been toiling away as a software development individual contributor (IC), and now your great work has been rewarded with a promotion to engineering manager. Now what? Dylan Etkin has been an engineering manager for a good portion of his career, and now is a co-founder of Sleuth.io, a company focused on helping … continue reading
The team behind Crossplane has announced the release of the latest version of the framework for building control planes. According to the project maintainers, Crossplane 1.14 is the biggest release of the project so far and introduces several new features that are targeted at benefiting platform engineers. The CLI was updated with several new commands … continue reading
The feature experimentation company Split Software has partnered with Microsoft to help its customers implement feature experimentation within Microsoft Azure. According to Split, this aligns with the needs of today’s product developers because feature experimentation is considered crucial for successful digital experiences, but many developers believe they are not successful at it. With this integration, … continue reading
Several major technology companies have undergone personnel changes over the course of the last month. Here is a roundup of what we consider to be some of the biggest role changes in the month of October: Chris Meserole appointed first director of the Frontier Model Forum Earlier this year, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI formed … continue reading
The development tools provider Qt Group has announced that Mercedes-Benz is utilizing Qt 6 to build MB.OS, which is an operating system that will be used in its cars that was announced as a development project earlier this year. According to Mercedes-Benz, MB.OS will offer fast OTA updates, advanced self-driving capabilities, its own infotainment system, … continue reading
UserTesting introduced several enhancements to its Human Insight Platform, which is a user experience testing platform that allows developers to see and hear how users are interacting with a product. The latest updates include a new way to find niche audiences, new integrations with Canva and FullStory to enhance the value of human insight, and … continue reading
