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Monday September 8, 2025. 11:49 PM
The Apache Groovy team has announced Groovy 5, an update to the JVM-based programming language that features broader JDK (Java Development Kit) support, along with hundreds of new and improved extension methods including faster arrays. Developers can download Groovy 5 from...
With the introduction of its EmbeddingGemma, Google is providing a multilingual text embedding model designed to run directly on mobile phones, laptops, and other edge devices for mobile-first generative AI. Unveiled September 4, EmbeddingGemma features a 308 million...
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Python in the enterprise: The language is easy; the ecosystem is not. Most developers can write readable Python by week two. What derails them—and therefore your schedules—is everything around the language: the project scaffolding,...
For all its popularity and success, SQL is a study in paradox. It can be clunky and verbose, yet for developers, it is often the simplest, most direct way to extract the data we want. It can be lightning quick when a query is written correctly, and slow as molasses when the...
Friday September 5, 2025. 09:27 PM
Databricks has added a new agent, the Data Science Agent, to the Databricks Assistant, in an effort to help data practitioners automate analytics tasks. The agent, which is available now in preview and is expected to be rolled out soon to enterprise customers, can be toggled ...
The Rust Foundation, steward of the Rust programming language, has launched the Rust Innovation Lab, offering fiscal sponsorship to relevant, well-funded open source projects. The inaugural hosted project is Rustls, a memory-safe, high-performance TLS (Transport Layer...
The upcoming version of PostgreSQL 18, the latest release of the popular open-source database due later this month, will introduce performance-enhancing features, promising significant gains for online transactional processing (OLTP) workloads. However, according to industry ...
Shortly after Reuters broke the news that Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, had signed a $10 billion, multiyear cloud deal with Google, a CIO friend called me with some questions: “David, should we be doing something like this? Are these mega prepurchase...
JavaScript is the most egalitarian of languages. It is the common tongue of the Internet, with the lowest bar to entry. Just hit F12 in the browser, and there you go—you’re programming in JavaScript! Despite (or maybe because of) its ease of use, JavaScript also has one...
In January, assumptions around AI were shaken up by DeepSeek, a small Chinese company that nobody had heard of. This week it was Switzerland’s turn to stir things up. Apertus (Latin for ‘open’) is a brand new large language model (LLM) that its creators, a group of...
Thursday September 4, 2025. 10:47 PM
Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, an image generation and editing model enabling capabilities including the blending of multiple images into a single image. Developers can use the model for multimodal creativity for visual apps. Introduced August 26 and also...
An update of the HTTP Client API, supporting the HTTP/3 protocol, has been added to Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, due in March 2026. Officially announced on September 3, the HTTP/3 for the HTTP Client API feature is being targeted for JDK 26. This short-term release of...
Graph database provider Neo4j has launched a new distributed graph architecture, Infinigraph, that will combine both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads across its databases to help enterprises adopt agent-based automation for analytics. The new...
It’s taken some time for GitHub Spark, GitHub’s new AI-powered coding platform, to go beyond its initial small, closed beta. However, it’s now available to anyone with a GitHub CoPilot+ subscription, with the possibility of a wider future rollout. Unlike the standard...
Even if you love to code, there probably are times when you’d rather ask a question like, “What topics generated the highest reader interest this year?” than write an SQL query with phrases like STRFTIME(‘%&Y’, Date) = STRFTIME(‘%Y’, ‘now’). And, if your...
It’s taken some time for GitHub’s Spark AI-powered coding platform to go beyond its initial small, closed beta. However, it’s now available to anyone with a GitHub CoPilot+ subscription, with the possibility of a wider future rollout. Unlike the standard GitHub...
If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve imported into your working session and suggest questions you might want to...
Wednesday September 3, 2025. 11:43 PM
Two supplemental point releases of the Angular 20 web framework have added production-readiness for zoneless APIs and an experimental MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. An August 30 blog post from the Angular team announced updates and improvements in Angular 20.1 and...
OpenAI is acquiring Washington-based product development platform providing startup Statsig for $1.1 billion to speed up its generative AI-based product launches and accelerate iteration cycles of existing products such as Codex and ChatGPT. The acquisition could be a shot...
When we talk about a “desktop application,” we generally mean a program that runs with a graphical UI that’s native to the platform or powered by some cross-platform visual toolkit. But a desktop application these days is just as likely to be a glorified web page...
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