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Friday April 18, 2025. 05:29 PM
Google has introduced an early preview of its Gemini 2.5 Flash hybrid reasoning model. An early version of the model is available through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, according to an April 17 Google blog post. Gemini 2.5 Flash builds on the foundation...
Top picks for generative AI readers on InfoWorld AI will require more software developers, not fewerData show AI assistants make it significantly faster and easier to develop software, spurring companies to tackle more software projects—and (surprise!) hire more...
JetBrains AI tools, including the improved AI Assistant tool and coding agent dubbed Junie, are now available with a single subscription and with a free tier for JetBrains IDEs. Including AI tools under a single subscription makes it easier to access these products and...
The cloud computing industry has long been the backbone of digital transformation. In 2022 alone, this sector surpassed $480 billion in global valuation, and its growth trajectory remains strong. However, like any other industry that relies on physical infrastructure, cloud...
Thursday April 17, 2025. 08:31 PM
Data lake vendor Onehouse on Thursday released Open Engines, a new capability on its platform which it says provides the ability to deploy open source engines on top of open data. Available in private preview, it initially supports Apache Flink for stream processing, Trino...
If there is one thing you can describe as an obsession for both developers and devops, it’s how to improve the performance of applications. Ultimately, better performance leads to lower costs (through reduced utilization of resources) or bigger profits (by delivering an...
Gleam 1.10, a new release of the type-safe programming language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes, is now available. The update features compiler improvements centering on holding more information and improving exhaustive analysis. Faster execution of...
Wednesday April 16, 2025. 11:00 AM
WebAssembly, or Wasm, gives developers a way to create programs that run at near-native speed in the browser or anywhere else you can deploy the WebAssembly runtime. But you generally don’t write programs in Wasm directly. Instead, you write programs in other languages—...
Microsoft recently decided to rewrite the TypeScript tool chain using Go. This has caused a stir as folks wonder why Microsoft chose the Go language instead of their own C# or even TypeScript itself. I have to say that it is a curious choice. The resulting discussion around ...
As important as Kubernetes is to the modern cloud-native stack, it’s still not easy to use on your own hardware. That’s surprising, considering how long it’s been around. Sure, you can use managed cloud services such as Azure Kubernetes Service, but what’s needed is...
JRuby 10, the latest release of the Ruby language variant built atop the JVM, has arrived, bringing startup time improvements, support for Java 21, and compatibility with Ruby 3.4. Release of JRuby 10 was announced April 14. JRuby 10 can be downloaded from jruby.org. JRuby ...
Tuesday April 15, 2025. 06:24 PM
OpenAI has announced a new family of models, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, which it says outperforms GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini “across the board.” In conjunction with the launch of the GPT-4.1 family, OpenAI also announced that it is deprecating GPT-4.5 Preview...
News stories about cloud services and artificial intelligence are generally predictable. Another generative AI model, another upgraded cloud feature, another boast about “leading the market in innovation.” That’s all well and good, but Google’s announcement at the...
Back in 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby stated that data was the new oil. Like oil, data isn’t useful in its raw state and must be refined, processed, and distributed to deliver value. Nearly 20 years later, business practices that have grown up around in this...
Microsoft has released.NET Aspire 9.2, a new version of the company’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications that features dashboard enhancements, including a resource graph, and publishers, new tools that help developers write code to package and deploy...
Monday April 14, 2025. 11:00 AM
DeepSeek may have originated in China, but it stopped being Chinese the minute it was released on Hugging Face with an accompanying paper detailing its development. Soon after, a range of developers, including the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), scrambled...
The potential benefits of low-code and no-code development tools include faster application development, lower expenses, and more agility. The technology is not suited to every scenario, however, and in some cases, low- and no-code solutions could be a barrier to...
Call them pet projects, side projects, or hobby projects, projects pursued outside of one’s regular business activity are especially popular among software developers. After all, these projects serve as an excellent way to learn new skills and technologies or to test fresh ...
Saturday April 12, 2025. 09:01 PM
Microsoft has released its third preview of.NET 10, a planned update to the company’s cross-platform, open-source, application development platform. Among the highlights,.NET 10 Preview 3 introduces an AOT-safe constructor for ValidationContext, more powerful C# language...
Friday April 11, 2025. 05:56 PM
If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks, including hammering nails. Since the debut of ChatGPT, there has been growing fervor and backlash against large language models (LLMs). Indeed, many...
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