OpenAI announces changes to its safety and security practices based on internal evaluations

Back in May, OpenAI announced that it was forming a new Safety and Security Committee (SSC) to evaluate its current processes and safeguards and make recommendations for changes to make. When announced, the company said the SSC would do evaluations for 90 days and then present its findings to the board. Now that the process … continue reading

Java 23 is now available

Oracle has announced the release of Java 23, which contains a number of new language and library features, mostly in preview stages.  According to Chad Arimura, VP of developer relations at Oracle, the fact that most of the JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs) in this release are previews of what’s to come rather than stable features … continue reading

The state of open source maintainers

Open source maintainers do significantly more security and maintenance work than unpaid maintainers, yet 60% of all maintainers remain unpaid, according to the 2024 State of Open Maintainer report from Tidelift. “The health and security of our global software infrastructure depends on open source maintainers,” Donald Fischer, co-founder and CEO, Tidelift, said in an announcement … continue reading

Linux Foundation announces several new subgroups during Open Source Summit Day 1

The Linux Foundation had a lot of news to share during the first day of its Open Source Summit in Vienna, Austria. Several new subgroups have been formed within the organization to support popular technologies and practices. Here are some highlights from Day 1: Announcing the Developer Relations Foundation  The organization announced plans to form … continue reading

New Chrome security features seek to better protect user privacy

Google is announcing several new Chrome features aimed at better protecting users as they browse the web.  Safety Check — a tool that checks for compromised passwords, Chrome updates, and other potential security issues in the browser — has been updated to run automatically in the background so that it can be more proactive in … continue reading

OpenAI’s o1 reasoning models are a significant step forward in complex reasoning

OpenAI has released the first preview for OpenAI o1, a new series of AI reasoning models that are able to handle more complex tasks than previous models. This is because they spend more time thinking through the problem before responding.  “We trained these models to spend more time thinking through problems before they respond, much … continue reading

Docker revamps its subscription plans

Docker has announced that it is reworking its subscription plans to give all plans access to more capabilities and services, and is also updating the pricing to reflect the additions.  Docker’s plans include Docker Personal, Docker Pro, Docker Team, and Docker Business and they all have been reworked plans to enable customers to access everything … continue reading

Kong Konnect updates help companies prepare their API infrastructure for AI

Kong is hosting its API Summit 2024 event, and has made announcements about several improvements to its platforms. Key highlights are updates to Kong Konnect, its API management platform, which also includes new versions of Kong Insomnia, Kong Gateway, and Kong AI Gateway. The latest updates to Kong Konnect help companies further prepare their API … continue reading

Three considerations to assess your data’s readiness for AI

Organizations are getting caught up in the hype cycle of AI and generative AI, but in so many cases, they don’t have the data foundation needed to execute AI projects. A third of executives think that less than 50% of their organization’s data is consumable, emphasizing the fact that many organizations aren’t prepared for AI.  … continue reading

JFrog helps developers improve DevSecOps with new solutions and integrations

At its annual user conference, swampUp, the DevOps company JFrog announced new solutions and integrations with companies like GitHub and NVIDIA to enable developers to improve their DevSecOps capabilities and bring LLMs to production quickly and safely.  JFrog Runtime is a new security solution that enables developers to discover vulnerabilities in runtime environments. It monitors … continue reading

Analyst View: Do we need enterprise software marketplaces?

When multiple buyers and sellers trade goods and services in a marketplace, participants benefit from efficiencies of scale, as their specializations of supply come together to meet customer demand.  In enterprise software marketplaces, each participant vendor contributes specialized expertise, functionality, and scale that are essential to building a complete solution for end users—assuming of course, … continue reading

vFunction’s latest capabilities aim to improve microservices governance, reduce technical debt

vFunction has released a number of new capabilities that are designed to help companies deal with the increased complexity that microservices bring. “As enterprises push to innovate quickly, the complexity of microservices architectures often stands in the way,” Moti Rafalin, co-founder and CEO of vFunction, wrote in a blog post. “Without proper oversight, services multiply, … continue reading

Dokku – SD Times Open Source Project of the Week

Dokku is an open source platform as a service (PaaS) powered by Docker that is touted as an open-source and mini version of Heroku. Its GitHub page calls it “the smallest PaaS implementation you’ve ever seen.” It builds applications using either Dockerfile or Buildpacks that automatically detect the codebase’s language, and then runs the applications … continue reading

Anthropic announces Enterprise plan for Claude with expanded context windows, GitHub integration

Anthropic has announced the launch of its Claude Enterprise plan, which offers an expanded context window, more usage capacity, a native GitHub integration, and enterprise security features.  Claude Enterprise offers a 500K context window. For comparison, Claude Pro’s context window is 200K and the free beta has a varying limit based on demand. According to … continue reading

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