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Thursday May 22, 2025. 11:00 AM
Method references in Java are part of the broader set of features introduced and enhanced in Java 8 and beyond. They are a concise way to refer to methods of classes or objects. Method references are especially useful in the context of lambda expressions, where they are used ...
In May 2024, Microsoft announced the Windows Copilot Runtime. Targeted at its then-new Copilot+ PCs, it provided a mix of innovations, from on-device small language models to improvements to Windows’ support for NPU (neural processing unit) hardware, new artificial...
When working with web applications, you will often want to keep watch on user requests to understand user behavior. Known as request tracing, this process also enables you to monitor the reliability of your applications and to inspect requests and detect and fix errors that...
Red Hat has announced Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, an integrated suite of tools for developers that includes an internal developer platform, trusted software supply chain capabilities, platform application capabilities, and streamlined tools that simplify onboarding,...
Wednesday May 21, 2025. 10:21 PM
In 2017, I was developing software focused on answering one question: “What happens when this airplane gets struck by lightning?” Not if, but when. On average, every airplane is struck by lightning once per year. And when that moment arrives, milliseconds matter. The...
CloudBees has unveiled the CloudBees Unify devops platform, which brings an AI-enhanced control plane to existing developer tool chains, providing a modular solution for complex software environments. Announced May 20 and still in an early access phase, CloudBees Unify...
Google has released agent development kits for the Python and Java programming languages. The Python ADK 1.0.0 and Java ADK 0.1.0 were announced on May 20. The open source tool kits are designed to be used for building and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility ...
Microsoft is moving SQL Server 2025 into public preview, adding new features to help enterprises develop AI-driven applications. One of the key new capabilities is vector search, which will enable enterprises to perform semantic search on their data using a natural language...
Red Hat has introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, featuring Lightspeed, an AI-powered service for building, deploying, and managing Red Hat’s Linux using simplified commands. Available through the Red Hat Customer Portal, RHEL 10 was unveiled May 20. Inclusion of Red ...
At its annual developer conference, Google presented groundbreaking AI innovations that go far beyond mere product updates. Rather, they outline a future in which artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool, but an omnipresent, proactive companion. Here are the most...
Agents are the big story in AI now. Putting agentic AI to work in software engineering can be done in a variety of ways. Some agents work independently of the developer’s environment, working essentially like a remote developer. For example, Cognition AI’s Devin has...
The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software developers but anyone with a keyboard—to write text that can be converted readily into HTML or another rich format. What’s special about Markdown is it uses plain-text syntax for formatting, so it’s...
In anticipation of agents soon far outnumbering humans online, the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has developed a way to automatically identify AI agents before they interact with enterprise systems. It calls its plan Agent Name Service (ANS). The...
Booleans are deceptively simple. They look harmless—just true or false, right? What could possibly go wrong? But when you actually use them, they quickly become a minefield. After years of coding, I have learned to tread very lightly when dealing with this simple...
Tuesday May 20, 2025. 10:25 PM
Microsoft says that the future of AI-based applications lies in unifying data and intelligence, and that new updates to its data and analytics platform, Fabric, are a step in that direction. Announced at the company’s ongoing Build conference, the updates include the...
GitHub has introduced a new coding agent for its GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant. Embedded into GitHub, the agent launches its own development environment with GitHub Actions to implement a task or issue. Introduced May 19, the GitHub Copilot coding agent...
Microsoft took the covers off a new open protocol that will allow enterprises to turn their websites into AI-based applications. Announced at its ongoing Build developer conference, NLWeb, short for Natural Language Web, is designed to help enterprises build a natural...
Most companies are in a race to diversify their cloud resources, motivated by the benefits of scalable, innovative, and effective operational capabilities. Despite dedicating large percentages of the budget to implement migration strategies, hybrid solutions, and multicloud...
Monday May 19, 2025. 09:47 PM
The Rust Release Team has shipped Rust 1.87, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features accommodations for anonymous pipes and architecture intrinsics. The new release was announced May 15, the same day as Rust’s 10th anniversary. Users with a...
Microsoft is adding new features and capabilities to Copilot Studio, its low code tool for creating generative AI-based autonomous agents, in an effort to improve the overall versatility of agents for enterprises. The more versatile the agents, the more widely they can be...
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