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Tuesday March 18, 2025. 02:32 AM
The launch this weekend by Baidu of a native open-source multimodal foundation model called ERNIE 4.5 and a reasoning model, ERNIE X1, could lower AI adoption barriers, intensify competition, and reshape pricing strategies across the industry, an analyst said Monday. In...
Monday March 17, 2025. 10:24 PM
GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15 is moving forward as a planned update to the series, with a new front end for Cobol. The upgrade also is set to bring improvements to C and C++ development. GCC 15 is expected as a production release in late-April or early-May, said Richard...
App development teams who use a popular utility in the GitHub Actions continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) platform need to scrub their code because the tool was compromised last week to steal credentials. That warning came after researchers at...
There are many different types of abstractions used in modern IT deployments. While it’s still possible to run applications on bare metal, that approach doesn’t fully optimize hardware utilization. That’s where virtualization comes in. With virtualization, one physical ...
In a new phishing campaign, GitHub developers are being targeted with fake “Security Alerts” where they are prompted to authorize a malicious OAuth application. Successful execution of the Click-fix campaign, which has reportedly targeted over 12,000 GitHub repositories, ...
Generative AI and no-code development tools are dramatically changing the software landscape. Just as a new generation of business software is being built using AI, no-code tools place these powerful capabilities in the hands of a much wider audience than professional...
For years, developers have flocked to Q&A sites for answers to tricky code challenges, best practices, and even broad design discussions. Stack Overflow in particular has been a bustling hub where expert answers and detailed discussions created a veritable gold mine of...
Large language models (LLMs) seemed to arrive in a flash. Monumental productivity gains were promised. Coding assistants flourished. Millions of multi-line code blocks were generated with a key press and merged. It worked like magic. But at the back of everyone’s mind was...
Friday March 14, 2025. 11:52 PM
Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, a planned long-term support release of standard Java due in September, now has two features officially proposed for it. The first is a preview of an API for stable values, a feature that promises to speed up the startup of Java applications....
In this week’s Python Report: Sly tricks for setting up Python on a machine with no network, snappier Python code with asyncand await, swifter Python programs with Zig, and slicker web apps with HTMX and Django. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Air-gapped Python:...
Llama, a family of sort-of open-source large language models (LLMs), was introduced in February 2023, and has been updated periodically ever since. Llama shook up the world of LLMs, which had previously been dominated by ever-larger closed-source models from OpenAI and...
Slightly more than half of Java shops surveyed (51%) have plans to add more Java developers in the coming year, down from 60% in 2024, according to a report by Perforce, a provider of Java development and devops tools. And while 34% plan to increase the Java tool budget in...
Thursday March 13, 2025. 10:00 AM
At fictional Tech Innovations Inc., a midsize software company, the rapid adoption of cloud technology was once seen as a transformative stepping stone toward agility and scalability. Initially, the company migrated its applications to a well-known public cloud provider,...
Developer productivity is one of those topics that never goes away. How can we not only make it easier to deliver code but also make that code more reliable and resilient? As a result, we’re seeing something of a renaissance in developer tools, from AI-based pair...
The release of DeepSeek roiled the world of generative AI last month, leaving engineers and developers wondering how the company achieved what it did, and how they might take advantage of the technology in their own technology stacks. The DeepSeek team built on...
When we first looked at this space in late 2023, many generative AI R packages focused largely on OpenAI and ChatGPT-like functionality or coding add-ins. Today, the landscape includes packages that natively support more LLM suppliers—including models run locally on your...
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemma 3, an update to the company’s family of generative AI models, featuring multi-modality that allows the models to analyze images, answer questions about images, identify objects, and perform other tasks that involve analyzing and...
Wednesday March 12, 2025. 10:06 PM
GitHub announced plans to unbundle its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) product, breaking it up into two standalone products: GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security. The unbundling is set to happen on April 1. GitHub Secret Protection will detect and prevent secret ...
After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining the Linux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created ...
OpenAI’s new Responses API and an upgraded Agents SDK will help enterprises more easily build agents with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The new tools may help it fend off challenges from rivals such as Anthropic or...
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