Discourse around the adoption of AI has many developers fearing for their jobs and future livelihoods. Some have taken to online communities, such as Blind, where software engineers gather to discuss careers in tech, to share their concerns about AI making their skills redundant or diminishing their roles. The most outspoken of them suggest that … continue reading
Google announced that it is rolling out new tools and protections to help users stay in control of their personal information, privacy, and online safety. The “Results about you” tool has been updated and enhanced, enabling users to better manage their personal contact information on Google Search. It alerts users when their contact information appears … continue reading
GitHub introduced a private beta version of GitHub Copilot with an enhanced filter. This filter identifies and presents contextual code suggestions related to public code on GitHub. With the filter activated, GitHub Copilot assesses code suggestions alongside approximately 150 characters of neighboring code. It then cross-references these suggestions with an index of all public code … continue reading
Unity is a popular game engine, which has now expanded beyond video games to technologies related to virtual reality, automotive, and architecture. For now the Unity extension is available in preview. According to Microsoft, the extension builds on the C# Dev Kit that was released earlier this year, and other C# extensions. “With this extension, … continue reading
Chaindesk (previously called Databerry) is an open-source no-code platform for building your own large language model (LLM) agent. Data can be loaded from any source, making it easy to make a chat agent that is specific to your data. Potential sources include text, PDF, Excel, Notion, Airtable, Word, and more. Chaindesk connects these sources with … continue reading
Prompt injection — attacks that involve inserting something malicious into an LLM prompt to get an application to execute unauthorized code — topped the recently released OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. According to Contrast, this could result in an LLM outputting incorrect or malicious responses, producing malicious code, circumventing content filters, or leaking sensitive data. … continue reading
SmartBear launched SwaggerHub Portal, a new feature for customizing consumer-facing documentation to promote API adoption. This developer-centric tool enables API providers to create personalized landing pages, offering consumers comprehensive resources for easy API implementation. The SwaggerHub Portal integrates with SwaggerHub, a popular API design and documentation tool, as well as Explore, an API client supporting … continue reading
Qualys is now allowing AppSec teams to leverage their risk management platform to assess, prioritize, and address the risks associated with first-party software and its embedded open-source components. In the digital transformation era, organizations develop their own software to run their businesses. However, first-party software often lacks the same level of disciplined vulnerability and configuration … continue reading
The last few years have posed numerous obstacles for companies. Ensuring the company has reliable supply chains is the top challenge, followed by collecting data and inefficient processes, according to a December 2022 research report from Broadcom. To meet these challenges, many organizations are turning to value stream management (VSM). VSM optimizes the entire process … continue reading
Betty Blocks introduced the Low-Code AI Toolkit, allowing organizations to integrate AI into their solutions securely and effortlessly, even without extensive technical expertise. This empowers them to quickly build and test solutions without the need for complex IT projects while ensuring compliance with company policies. Additionally, Betty Blocks offers expertise to help create a sustainable … continue reading
The age of Big Data inevitably brought computationally intensive problems to the enterprise. Central to today’s efficient business operations are the activities of data capturing and storage, search, sharing, and data analytics. Get these wrong and chances are your enterprise processes and systems will suffer. So would your bottom line, let alone the ability to … continue reading
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
