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Monday December 16, 2024. 10:00 AM
Well, that didn’t last long. Generative AI has existed just a few short years, but already we seem to be alternating between bouts of disillusionment and euphoria. More worrying, however, is not where we are on Gartner’s Hype Cycle, but how genAI has already been...
WebAssembly, or Wasm, is an open standard that defines a portable binary-code format and corresponding text format for executable programs. Created and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Wasm is designed to facilitate high-performance applications on web...
Friday December 13, 2024. 11:38 AM
Microsoft has announced Phi-4 — a new AI model with 14 billion parameters — designed for complex reasoning tasks, including mathematics. Phi-4 excels in areas such as STEM question-answering and advanced problem-solving, surpassing similar models in performance. Phi-4,...
Guess what’s both one of the fastest-growing and most popular languages of 2024? (Hint: It’s not Java.) Also in Python this month: A clever hack of a popular Python AI library offers some hard security lessons, a new Python package management tool accelerates your...
Microsoft has released.NET Community Toolkit 8.4, with support for partial properties in MVVM Toolkit source generators as well as new MVVM Toolkit diagnostic analyzers. The update was unveiled December 12. Source code for the.NET Community Toolkit can be found on GitHub. ...
The city of Chicago has devised a brilliant plan to jack up its cloud computing tax from 9% to 11%. As someone who has worked in tech for decades, I’ve seen this movie before, and (spoiler alert) it didn’t have a happy ending. This is not a diatribe against taxes; taxes...
Visual Studio Code 1.96, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, has arrived with an overtype mode and a “paste with imports” feature for JavaScript and TypeScript. Also known as the November 2024 release, Visual Studio Code 1.96 can be downloaded from...
Thursday December 12, 2024. 08:58 PM
Java would finally shed its Java Applet API under an OpenJDK proposal created December 4. The JDK Enhancement Proposal notes that the API not only has been deprecated for removal for some time but is obsolete, because neither the current Java Development Kit (JDK) nor...
In a world where technology increasingly shapes how cities manage safety and security, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is leading the way with its groundbreaking “Carpet CCTV” project. This ambitious initiative has revolutionized public safety by combining a...
Google has made a significant entry into the competitive AI coding tools market with Jules, an experimental coding assistant aimed at enhancing developer workflows and challenging established tools like GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q Developer. The stakes are high, with AI...
Microsoft uses its events to lift the hood on Azure’s hardware and the infrastructure it uses to manage and run its services. Ignite 2024 was no different. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s regular Inside Azure Innovations presentation went into some detail about how...
Artificial intelligence, including generative AI, continues to evolve rapidly across enterprise organizations, despite a lot of heavy lifting still required of software developers and data scientists. Many organizations continue to struggle to move generative AI...
Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution pipeline directly into C# and the managed environments of.NET Framework and.NET Core. LINQ provides several ways to execute queries and handle complex data manipulation tasks. Chunking is one feature of...
Wednesday December 11, 2024. 09:27 PM
Emphasizing a new AI model for the agentic era, Google has introduced Gemini 2.0, which the company calls its most capable model yet. Announced December 11, the Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental model will be available to all Gemini users. Gemini 2.0 is billed as having advances ...
When attackers compromised Ultralytics YOLO, a popular real-time object detection machine-learning package for Python, most assumed the Python Package Index, or PyPI, must be the point of failure. That made sense because the tampered software artifact was first found on...
In my previous article, I introduced you to building an HTTP server with Express.js. Now we’ll continue building on that example with a foray into more advanced use cases: a quick guide to using Express view templates and templating engines, persisting data with Express,...
The idea of open-source software seems kind of nuts. Millions (billions?) of lines of code doing all kinds of amazing things and available for free? That sounds too good to be true. But it is true. Between me writing this article and you reading it lies a whole lot of...
OpenSilver 3.1, the latest version of Userware’s open-source framework for cross-platform.NET development, has arrived with what the company calls the first-ever drag-and-drop XAML designer for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor. Announced December 10, the OpenSilver...
Go has surpassed Node.js as the most popular language used for making automated API requests, according to cloud provider Cloudflare’s annual review of internet trends. More than half of the internet traffic seen by Cloudflare is API-related, and much of this traffic is...
Tuesday December 10, 2024. 11:15 AM
As enterprise demand for building multi-agent systems continues to grow, data infrastructure services providing firm, Databricks, is updating its Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation module with a new synthetic data generation API that will help enterprises evaluate agents faster....
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