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Wednesday May 21, 2025. 11:00 AM
The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software developers but anyone with a keyboard—to write text that can be converted readily into HTML or another rich format. What’s special about Markdown is it uses plain-text syntax for formatting, so it’s...
In anticipation of agents soon far outnumbering humans online, the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has developed a way to automatically identify AI agents before they interact with enterprise systems. It calls its plan Agent Name Service (ANS). The...
Booleans are deceptively simple. They look harmless—just true or false, right? What could possibly go wrong? But when you actually use them, they quickly become a minefield. After years of coding, I have learned to tread very lightly when dealing with this simple...
Tuesday May 20, 2025. 10:25 PM
Microsoft says that the future of AI-based applications lies in unifying data and intelligence, and that new updates to its data and analytics platform, Fabric, are a step in that direction. Announced at the company’s ongoing Build conference, the updates include the...
GitHub has introduced a new coding agent for its GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant. Embedded into GitHub, the agent launches its own development environment with GitHub Actions to implement a task or issue. Introduced May 19, the GitHub Copilot coding agent...
Microsoft took the covers off a new open protocol that will allow enterprises to turn their websites into AI-based applications. Announced at its ongoing Build developer conference, NLWeb, short for Natural Language Web, is designed to help enterprises build a natural...
Most companies are in a race to diversify their cloud resources, motivated by the benefits of scalable, innovative, and effective operational capabilities. Despite dedicating large percentages of the budget to implement migration strategies, hybrid solutions, and multicloud...
Monday May 19, 2025. 09:47 PM
The Rust Release Team has shipped Rust 1.87, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features accommodations for anonymous pipes and architecture intrinsics. The new release was announced May 15, the same day as Rust’s 10th anniversary. Users with a...
Microsoft is adding new features and capabilities to Copilot Studio, its low code tool for creating generative AI-based autonomous agents, in an effort to improve the overall versatility of agents for enterprises. The more versatile the agents, the more widely they can be...
OpenAI has announced the release of Codex, an AI coding agent it said was designed to help software engineers write code, fix bugs, and run tests. According to the company, Codex is powered by codex-1—a variant of OpenAI’s o3 model optimized for software...
In cloud architecture, we often prioritize performance, scale, and security, but they can come with surprising costs. In one of our Azure-based deployments, our team discovered that a seemingly simple caching solution—designed only to support basic key-value storage—was...
For more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for developers seeking answers to coding questions. At its peak in the mid-2010s, the site saw more than 200,000 new questions each month. Those days are gone. Since the arrival of AI assistants such as ChatGPT, ...
Java, which turns 30 this month, remains one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. Launched in 1995 and employed by many of the largest enterprises globally, Java is used to develop a range of business applications, mobile apps, web applications, and...
Friday May 16, 2025. 09:06 PM
If you’re ready for a break from artificial intelligence, Google I/O won’t be your safe haven. The annual developer conference — which starts next week in Mountain View, Calif. — and also offers a large virtual option, is expected to focus heavily on Google’s...
Microsoft has announced the general release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14, an update of the company’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) that adds support for agent mode and other AI-assisted development features from GitHub Copilot. Released May 13,...
Informatica is partnering with Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce to extend support of its Master Data Management (MDM) service and extensions and help enterprises build applications for agentic and other generative use cases based on more accurate data. Analysts see...
The influence of geopolitics on IT infrastructure is undeniable. Enterprises today operate across borders. They leverage cloud services from providers headquartered in countries thousands of miles away, host data in various regions, and deliver value globally. However, as...
Python’s popularity continues to outpace all competition. That’s why projects to make it faster are crucial, difficult as that may be. Plus, Python’s new, standardized dependency lockfile format is here. And if you’re a fan of Zig for speed and Python for...
Uno Platform 6.0, a major update to the open source tool kit for building cross-platform.NET applications from a single code base, introduces a new, unified rendering engine, called Skia, that gives developers a low-footprint, high-performance, hardware-accelerated option...
Thursday May 15, 2025. 11:00 AM
In the past decade or so, there’s been a push to put everything online. From customer service to interactions with local and national governments, we’ve moved away from the call center to the web and self-service. That push has streamlined interactions and simplified...
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