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
Deci, a deep learning company that uses artificial intelligence to develop AI, recently announced the launch of DataGradients. This open-source tool is designed to profile computer vision datasets and find essential insights. In computer vision, the effectiveness of an AI model is deeply connected to the quality of the training data. Therefore, identifying any issues … continue reading
With a 742% average annual increase in software supply chain attacks reported by Sonatype, application security has become a top concern for businesses. Today Vaadin is excited to announce AppSec Kit, a new Acceleration Kit designed to enhance the security of your web applications built with Vaadin. AppSec Kit is currently available for Vaadin 7 and Vaadin … continue reading
LONDON — July 11, 2023 — Ably, a Realtime Experience Infrastructure provider, today announced the release of a new Python Realtime SDK component that enables developers to integrate realtime functionality into their Python-based services, such as channel subscription and authentication via tokens. Many developers today build server-based applications with Python, using REST functionality to publish data. While … continue reading
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.9 is now available with more features that can help organizations collaborate better, gain better observability, and have faster workflows. Among its highlights are a new time-based view in GitHub Projects, as well as the ability to standardize issues with tools such as issue forms. GitHub Projects has been enhanced with … continue reading
BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Directus, an open-source software company focused on helping organizations build composable experiences, today introduced a new functionality within its open data platform that enables front-end developers to build real-time capabilities into their applications via WebSockets. Innovative organizations of all sizes turn to Directus to power and scale their data-driven applications. Many … continue reading
A new report by Mend.io found the top three most reliable packages for npm, Maven, and PyPi. The top packages for each are: Npm: prettier-eslint np Jest-cli Maven: org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-provider-gitexe com.github.ekryd.sortpom:sortpom-maven-plugin Org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin PyPi: Pulumi Botocore-stubs types-python-dateutil The report examined data from Renovate, the company’s automated dependency management tool that leverages crowd-sourced data on over 25 million … continue reading
Apple announced the release of new software tools and technologies that empower developers to create apps for Apple Vision Pro, the company’s first AR headset. The introduction of visionOS, a spatial operating system, within Vision Pro allows users to interact with digital content in their physical environment using the most natural and intuitive inputs available: … continue reading
Harness launched an AI assistant known as AIDA (AI Development Assistant). The company aims to broaden the scope of AI applications to include all aspects of the SDLC. According to Harness, conventional AI tools mainly concentrate on helping with code development, while AIDA enhances the entire process of software development, encompassing activities such as building … continue reading
The developers behind the programming language Rust have announced the release of Rust 1.70.0. One of the changes in this release is that the “sparse” protocol for reading the crates.io index is now enabled by default. The team says that using this protocol to get information from the index will allow for significant performance improvements. … continue reading
Platform engineering has become increasingly important for businesses as platforms have become more complex, spanning DevOps tools, APIs, and other components necessary for effective software development. It’s a delicate balancing act as developers have been calling for more simplified navigation throughout an organization’s platform. According to a whitepaper by Humanitec, just five years ago, platform … continue reading
Engineering managers and individual contributors usually want the same thing: to produce quality work in a way that feels creative and collaborative, all while doing so in a predictable and sustainable way. I’d even say you would struggle to find someone who doesn’t want this type of work agreement. It’s also important to note that … continue reading
