Microsoft has restructured its Marketplace to serve as a central place for organizations to find cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. This new reimagining brings together Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource to simplify cloud and AI management, Microsoft explained. It includes tens of thousands of cloud and industry solutions that can help with everything from …
PostgreSQL 18 has been released, with several new features like asynchronous I/O, better post-upgrade performance, and improved text processing. Asynchronous I/O allows PostgreSQL to issue multiple I/O requests at the same time rather than waiting for one to finish before starting the next. According to the PostgreSQL team, this improves overall throughput, and has resulted …
CData has announced the launch of a new managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform bringing together AI assistants, agent orchestration, workflow automation, and embedded AI applications—combined with access to over 300 enterprise data sources. According to the company, Connect AI preserves data semantics and relationships in enterprise data to give AI agents better context while …
Chainguard, a company that provides a repository of trusted container images, has announced the launch of a new collection of trusted builds for JavaScript dependencies. According to Chainguard, recent attacks against the JavaScript package manager npm have underscored the need for more secure mechanisms to consume JavaScript libraries. The company says that public registries do …
AWS has announced the launch of its open source Nova Act extension, which allows developers to build browser automation agents in their IDE, reducing the need to switch between dev and test environments. With the new extension, developers can use natural language to describe their workflow and then the Nova Act extension will generate an …
Microsoft has announced that NuGet now supports Trusted Publishing for publishing packages from GitHub Actions. Trusted Publishing is an authentication method that utilizes the OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard. Rather than using long-lived API tokens when publishing software packages, an OIDC identity token can be exchanged for a short-lived API token. It has been adopted by …
A number of data companies—including Snowflake, Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI—have announced the formation of a new open source initiative to create a vendor- neutral standard for defining and sharing semantic metadata. The Open Semantic Interchange has three main goals: enhance interoperability across tools and platforms, accelerate adoption of AI and BI applications, and …
Syncfusion, a company that provides a library of UI components, has announced the release of Essential Studio 2025 Volume 3. For this latest release, the company has reorganized the entire suite, splitting it up into multiple smaller solutions so that developers who only use a subset of the features can get what they need without …
In response to the recent supply chain attack in the JavaScript package manager npm, GitHub has made a few changes that will enable stronger security. The attack on the npm ecosystem was caused by a worm, named Shai-Hulud, that infects and republish other packages with its malware to spread it across the npm ecosystem. “By …
Digital.ai has created a new product that will make white-box cryptography accessible to all developers, not just cryptography experts. White-box cryptography is a technique that adds cryptographic protections directly into application code, making it hard for attackers to obtain secret information, like cryptographic keys. Digital.ai’s White-box Cryptography Agent provides access to a white-box cryptography library …
A quick browse of LinkedIn, DevTok, and X would lead you to believe that almost every developer has jumped on board the vibe coding hype train with full gusto. And while it’s not that far-fetched, with 84% of developers confirming they are currently using (or planning to use) AI coding tools in their daily workflows, …
A new study from Adaptavist revealed that 42% of knowledge workers are reporting a reduction in motivation at work, leading to a phenomenon dubbed “quiet cracking.” Specifically, 38% of the 4,000 respondents from the UK, US, Canada, and Germany said they felt hopeless about their career advancement prospects, 38% had concerns around job security, 37% …
OpenAI updates Codex The company released GPT-5-Codex, a variant of GPT-5 that is optimized for Codex, OpenAI’s AI coding agent. It was trained on real-world engineering tasks like building projects from scratch, adding features and tests, debugging, large-scale refactoring, and code reviews. “With these updates, Codex moves closer to what we’ve been building toward all …
Engineering leadership and executives are out of touch when it comes to software testing and how AI can be applied to the process, according to Sauce Labs’ 2025 Software Testing Vibe Check: Agentic Edition report. 61% of survey respondents—who consisted of 400 testing executives and engineering leaders surveyed in June 2024—said that their top leadership …
Not sure how QA survives the AI wave? This session gives you a practical playbook. AI platforms that generate, execute, and heal tests are already running thousands of tests in hours – and that means the old tester-as-scripter playbook is obsolete. This webinar shows QA leaders and senior testers how to move from being automated-out …
Join Kevin Surace in this SD Times Live! Microwebinar series with Appvance. Learn how plain-language requirements can be turned into test cases, automatically converted into executable scripts, and more. …
Empowering legal teams with instant data clarity? Easy. Corporate legal departments rely on workflow automation to enhance efficiency, but integrating and accessing critical legal data for enterprise reporting remains a challenge. Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline provides simple and secure access to a broad range of data sources. In this webinar, you’ll see …
Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Our four-phase …
Accusoft’s PrizmDoc is transforming document management with a unified, AI-driven approach. In this microwebinar series, Product Director Dan Lee shows how PrizmDoc’s auto-summarization, auto-tagging & classification, document Q&A, and PII detection & redaction tools eliminate manual effort, surface key insights instantly, and safeguard sensitive data – all while fitting seamlessly into your existing workflows. Discover …
Struggling to get full value from your ITSM? You’re not alone. Many enterprises face the same uphill service management climb: too many tickets, unnecessary escalations, and manual incident workflows that impede rapid resolution. L1s are overwhelmed, L2 escalation teams are bogged down in root cause investigations, and scaling with business with incident response automation feels …
Not sure how QA survives the AI wave? This session gives you a practical playbook. AI platforms that generate, execute, and heal tests are already running thousands of tests in hours – and that means the old tester-as-scripter playbook is obsolete. This webinar shows QA leaders and senior testers how to move from being automated-out …
Join Kevin Surace in this SD Times Live! Microwebinar series with Appvance. Learn how plain-language requirements can be turned into test cases, automatically converted into executable scripts, and more. …
Empowering legal teams with instant data clarity? Easy. Corporate legal departments rely on workflow automation to enhance efficiency, but integrating and accessing critical legal data for enterprise reporting remains a challenge. Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline provides simple and secure access to a broad range of data sources. In this webinar, you’ll see …
Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Our four-phase …
Accusoft’s PrizmDoc is transforming document management with a unified, AI-driven approach. In this microwebinar series, Product Director Dan Lee shows how PrizmDoc’s auto-summarization, auto-tagging & classification, document Q&A, and PII detection & redaction tools eliminate manual effort, surface key insights instantly, and safeguard sensitive data – all while fitting seamlessly into your existing workflows. Discover …
Struggling to get full value from your ITSM? You’re not alone. Many enterprises face the same uphill service management climb: too many tickets, unnecessary escalations, and manual incident workflows that impede rapid resolution. L1s are overwhelmed, L2 escalation teams are bogged down in root cause investigations, and scaling with business with incident response automation feels …
