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Tuesday April 1, 2025. 11:00 AM
The best defense is a good offense, right? When it comes to AI governance, organizations need both. The reason is that genAI capabilities evolve quickly, hype accelerates investments, and data risks are amplified through AI applications. This article looks at how to shore up ...
A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings would prepare Java developers for a future release that ensures integrity by default by restricting final...
While major cloud providers, such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft are rushing to position themselves as leaders in AI development and deployment, the reality of agentic AI’s impact on public cloud growth may not align with their ambitious projections—at least, in my...
Python’s builders have accepted a proposal to create a universal lock file format for Python projects that would specify dependencies, enabling installation reproducibility in a Python environment. Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 751, accepted March 31, aims to create a...
Monday March 31, 2025. 09:33 PM
Apple has introduced swiftly 1.0, a version manager for the Swift programming language that is intended to ease the process of installing, managing, and updating the user’s Swift tool chain. Swiftly 1.0 was announced March 28. While swiftly has been available for some...
Ever feel like you’re spending more time squashing bugs than actually building something? You’re not alone—developers spend a whopping 35% of their time debugging and reviewing code instead of writing it. That’s like ordering pizza and only eating the crust. Enter...
Kubernetes is mighty powerful but highly complex. This has influenced many organizations to ditch self-hosted solutions and move toward more fully managed Kubernetes platforms. Nearly 90% of Kubernetes users use cloud-managed services, DataDog reported in 2021. The top cloud ...
Last week I talked up OpenTofu—and for good reason. The Terraform fork has moved beyond being the darling of the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) community to becoming a real, if early, enterprise contender. However, in so doing, I inadvertently threw shade at the market...
Saturday March 29, 2025. 01:15 AM
Google has introduced version 2.5 of its Gemini AI model, which the company said offers a new level of performance by combining an enhanced base model with improved post-training. The Gemini 2.5 models are thinking models, capable of reasoning through their thoughts before...
ECMAScript 2025, the next version of an ECMA International standard for JavaScript, will standardize new JavaScript capabilities ranging from JSON modules to import attributes, new Set methods, sync iterator helpers, and regular expression modifiers. The ECMAScript 2025...
Friday March 28, 2025. 10:00 AM
There’s more than one way to work with threads, or without them, in Python. In this edition of the Python Report: Get the skinny on Python threads and subprocesses, use Python’s native async library to break up non-CPU-bound tasks, and get started using parallel...
A few days ago, I stared at yet another calendar invitation from a vendor eager to showcase their “groundbreaking” large language model (LLM). The irony wasn’t lost on me—just weeks ago, this same company had proudly showcased its environmental initiatives and...
Thursday March 27, 2025. 11:04 PM
Adobe has announced Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator, an intelligent reasoning engine that allows AI agents to perform complex decision-making and problem-solving tasks to accelerate customer experience orchestration. The Agent Orchestrator and a suite of...
Microsoft announced at the end of January 2025 that it would be closing its experimental support for WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) node pools in its managed Azure Kubernetes Service. This shouldn’t have been a surprise if you have been following the evolution of WASI ...
Consider this example: An amazing new software tool emerges suddenly, turning technology industry expectations on their heads by delivering unprecedented performance at a fraction of the existing cost. The only catch? Its backstory is a bit shrouded in mystery and it comes...
Wednesday March 26, 2025. 10:40 PM
Microsoft has unveiled Hyperlight Wasm, a virtual machine “micro-guest” that can run WebAssembly component workloads written in a multitude of languages including C and Python. Introduced March 26, Hyperlight Wasm serves as a Rust library crate. Wasm modules and...
The Kubernetes project has released patches for five vulnerabilities in a widely used popular component called the Ingress NGINX Controller that’s used to route external traffic to Kubernetes services. If exploited, the flaw could allow attackers to completely take over...
Data lakehouse provider Databricks has unveiled a new large language model (LLM) training method, TAO that will allow enterprises to train models without labeling data. Typically, LLMs when being adapted to new enterprise tasks are trained by using prompts or by fine-tuning ...
Every language has a life cycle. Sometimes it starts with a relatively narrow use case and escapes its container; sometimes it’s intended as a general-purpose language but finds a powerful niche instead. Over the last decade-plus, three new languages have emerged as...
Vibe coding is most definitely having a moment. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of it—the Wikipedia page for it just went up on March 15 of this year. Vibe coding is a new way of working with AI, where you guide the code through natural language and intuition,...
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