OWASP, the organization known for its list of the top 10 security vulnerabilities in software, has just published version 1.0 of a new top 10 list devoted to risks related to large language model (LLM) applications. “The frenzy of interest of Large Language Models (LLMs) following of mass-market pretrained chatbots in late 2022 has been … continue reading
Tricentis has introduced Tricentis Device Cloud (TDC) as a new addition to its mobile testing product lineup. With this addition, organizations can effectively manage, create, execute, and analyze applications on physical mobile devices from various manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, and Google throughout the development process. This eliminates the need to maintain costly and unreliable … continue reading
The developer security company Sonar has announced an update to its platform, which will make it even easier for developers to write what Sonar calls “Clean Code,” or code that is “easy to read, maintain, understand and change through structure and consistency yet remains robust and secure to withstand performance demands.” The company has added … continue reading
Synopsys is working to make it easier for security teams to align their strategy across different projects, teams, and application security testing (AST) tools. They have released the Synopsys Software Risk Manager, which brings together security testing engines with policy-driven test orchestration and vulnerability management. According to Synopsys, Software Risk Manager allows teams to centrally … continue reading
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA have teamed up with the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD). This new alliance will focus on promoting the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of Universal Scene Description (USD) technology, which is something Pixar developed to allow for the interchange of 3D data. … continue reading
Karat introduced Karat Qualify, a new skills-assessment tool for organizations seeking to hire software engineers. This tool aims to revolutionize the candidate screening process by utilizing a short multiple-choice assessment, which replaces traditional methods like resume screening and code tests. The format is designed to be user-friendly, providing a fair and accessible experience for candidates. … continue reading
Dell has announced it is expanding its offerings to provide customers with generative AI capabilities. These new capabilities expand on the previously announced Project Helix, which is a collaboration with NVIDIA providing capabilities to make it easier for businesses to build generative AI models. One of the new capabilities, Dell Validated Design, is also in … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks unveiled its CI/CD Security module which aims to offer comprehensive software delivery pipeline security integrated into code-to-cloud capabilities within Prisma Cloud’s CNAPP platform. Prisma Cloud focuses on safeguarding the CI/CD environment and effectively shielding against potential open-source vulnerabilities using software composition analysis, according to the company in a blog post. “A major … continue reading
The Rust Foundation outlined many improvements to the security structure of the language and expressed its commitment to developing tools, features, and recommendations based on security research in its Security Initiative Report. The Rust advancements follow the White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan that signals a deep civic investment in more secure programming languages like … continue reading
The API management company Gravitee has announced new tools for API management in its latest release. Customers will now be able to create and expose a number of types of APIs from the Gravitee API creation wizard. These include REST APIs, WebSocket APIs, Webhook subscriptions, gRPC APIs, SSE APIs, GraphQL APIs, Kafka topics, MQTT topics … continue reading
Last week, seven companies convened at the White House and committed to developing AI technology in a way that is safe, secure, and transparent. Now, four of those companies — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — have announced that they have teamed up to launch the Frontier Model Forum, an industry organization dedicated to safely … continue reading
Stack Overflow is leveraging the millions of questions and responses on its platform to create new AI-based capabilities that can make better use of this information and provide developers with solutions to their problems faster. “For the last fifteen years, developers have come to Stack Overflow to get a solution to a specific problem. With … continue reading
Last year, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom joined forces to launch the Overture Maps Foundation and create “reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data.” Now nearly eight months later the group is releasing its first open map dataset. The new dataset includes four data layers: places of interest (POIs), buildings, transportation network, and administrative boundaries. … continue reading
Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model trained on 512×512 images from a subset of the LAION-5B database. The model utilizes a frozen CLIP ViT-L/14 text encoder to condition its output on text prompts. It incorporates an 860M UNet and a 123M text encoder, making it a relatively lightweight model that can run on … continue reading
