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Tuesday October 8, 2024. 11:00 AM
Artificial intelligence has the power to revolutionize industries, drive economic growth, and improve our quality of life. But like any powerful, widely available technology, AI also poses significant risks. California’s now vetoed legislation, SB 1047 — the Safe and...
In a significant development in the cloud computing industry, AWS, a leading hyperscaler, has recently acknowledged considerable competition from on-premises IT solutions. This admission counters the longstanding belief that enterprises seldom revert to on-premises systems...
SAP wants developers to view its Build platform as the one extension solution for all of SAP’s applications, according to Michael Aneling, chief product officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). At its TechEd event this week it is showing a new extensibility...
Oracle is touting a “tip and tail” model for Java library development that the company says would give application developers a better experience and at the same time help library developers innovate faster. The JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal) created September 30 and...
Monday October 7, 2024. 10:50 PM
Rust, the fast and memory-safe programming language born out of Mozilla, has resumed its rise up the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, although it still has not cracked the index’s top 10. Rust returned to 13th place in the October edition of the...
Python 3.13 has just been released. This article presents a rundown of the most significant new features in Python 3.13 and what they mean for Python developers. Major new features in Python 3.13 Here’s a rundown of the biggest new features in Python 3.13: The...
Until recently, data scientists and analysts’ primary deliverables were data visualizations, machine learning models, dashboards, reports, and analytical insights used for storytelling. Now, with genAI capabilities, data scientists are called to expand their analytics to...
“You don’t want AI only in the hands of a few companies.” Thus spake Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, suggesting that open source will come to the rescue of AI. It’s a nice thought, but one that has exactly zero historical precedent. Yes, open source has become...
Time series forecasting is a powerful machine learning method that leverages historical time-stamped data to predict future events and help reduce uncertainty from business conditions — for example, to accurately predict sales, inventory levels, and even manufacturing...
“Ho, hum,” I thought in response to the release of the OpenAI o1 models. “Yet another stochastic parrot.” I was wrong. In fact, I tried the o1-preview model on one of my standard programming tasks, and found it to be surprisingly good. The recently released ChatGPT...
Saturday October 5, 2024. 12:21 AM
Node.js v20.18.0, a just-introduced update to the Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the popular asynchronous, event-driven JavaScript runtime, features experimental network inspection support. Introduced October 3, Node.js 20.18.0 enables users to inspect network activities ...
Friday October 4, 2024. 11:38 PM
Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B AI model is now production-ready. The company said the stable release of Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B has the lowest cost per intelligence of any Gemini model. Availability was announced October 3. Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8B for free via ...
According to a study by Akamai Technologies, 87% of digital-native businesses (which seems to be a term specific to Asia/Pacific) now prioritize security over cost and scalability when selecting a cloud provider. While this study focused on Asia, we see similar buying...
The September 2024 release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, version 1.94, features improvements for finding files using the File Explorer. The upgrade also introduces the ability to run Python tests with coverage. Introduced October 3, Visual Studio Code 1.94 can...
The September 2024 release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, version 1.94, features improvements for finding files using the File Explorer. The upgrade also introduces the ability to run Python tests with coverage. Introduced October 3, Visual Studio Code 1.94 can...
Thursday October 3, 2024. 08:00 PM
SingleStore, the company behind the relational database SingleStoreDB, is acquiring data ingestion and integration software provider BryteFlow to boost its ability to connect to disparate data sources for data analytics. “SingleStore’s acquisition of BryteFlow...
In what can only be seen as OpenAI’s efforts to catch up with rivals, the ChatGPT-maker released several updates to its API to help ease the development of generative AI-based applications. These updates, introduced during its DevDay conference this week, include...
In the C# programming language, extension methods enable you to extend the functionality of existing types without modifying them or deriving new types from them using inheritance. You don’t need to create subclasses of existing classes or recompile or modify your existing ...
Recently Microsoft announced efforts to improve security in its planned Recall AI assistant. Many of the details were not a surprise, as it built on familiar tools and services I’ve written about during the past few years, but the most important feature, VBS Enclaves, will ...
OpenAI has introduced a public beta of the Realtime API, an API that allows paid developers to build low-latency, multi-modal experiences including text and speech in apps. Introduced October 1, the Realtime API, similar to the OpenAI ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode, supports...
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