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Friday April 4, 2025. 10:01 PM
A flaw in code for handling Parquet, Apache’s open-source columnar data file format, allows attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30065, is a deserialization issue (CWE-502) in Parquet’s Java library that allows...
Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas is highlighting the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing. This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with announcements of new AI-powered...
Simple and fast. That’s all we want from our software tools. And meeting the requirements, of course. You can’t go without that. Also, we’d like them to be pleasant to use, with a good developer experience. It would be really great to have a friendly community. A...
Simple and fast. That’s all we want from our software tools. And meeting the requirements, of course. You can’t go without that. Also, we’d like them to be pleasant to use, with a good developer experience. It would be really great to have a friendly community. A...
In the initial years of multicloud adoption, enterprises took cautious, calculated steps to build and manage infrastructures that spanned multiple cloud providers. The objective was flexibility, performance optimization, and risk mitigation. Yet, in 2025, enterprises are...
Software supply chain security company Sonatype uncovered 17,954 open-source malware packages during Q1 2025, the company revealed in its Open Source Malware Index. Sonatype’s Open Source Malware Index for Q1 2025 was introduced April 2. A proliferation of open source...
Thursday April 3, 2025. 10:43 PM
The Rust team has announced Rust 1.86, an update of the language that now features trait upcasting, or the ability to upcast trait objects. Rust 1.86 was announced April 3. For users with a previous version of Rust, the update can be accessed via the rustup tool by running...
Back when I first wrote about Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal hypervisor, I speculated that it had a possible role as a WebAssembly-based alternative to serverless computing tools like Azure Functions, using Kubernetes as a host. So it wasn’t too surprising that...
Over 39 million API keys, credentials, and other secrets leaked onto GitHub’s platform last year, but an update to its scanning tool could help stop that. The widely used cloud-based version-control platform automatically blocks ‘several secrets every minute’ from...
Cloud and development operations (devops) teams are under constant pressure to do more, faster. They have outdated systems to update and manage, new systems to build, and requests from business units who need their support. It’s a velocity problem, and IT departments often ...
We always strive to write source code that is clean, maintainable, and devoid of any errors. However, we may often find that our application’s code is cluttered because we’ve used too many nested constructs or branches to validate our business rules. Enter guard clauses. ...
Wednesday April 2, 2025. 10:51 PM
The latest version of the Python web framework features an automatic model-importing capability in the shell. This release also spells the end of support levels for previous version 5.x releases. Unveiled April 2 by the Django Software Foundation, the Django 5.2 release...
Enterprise data management vendor Informatica is adding new capabilities to Claire Copilot, the generative AI assistant in its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). IDMC sits on top of enterprise databases, ingesting and cataloguing from various sources and applying data ...
A critical privilege escalation vulnerability, ImageRunner, affecting Google Cloud was promptly fixed before it could allow attackers to access sensitive information from GCP deployments. The issue, as discovered by the cybersecurity company Tenable, could have enabled an...
Kong AI Gateway 3.10 introduces new capabilities designed to help organizations govern their generative AI usage more effectively, reduce hallucinations from large language models (LLMs), and boost developer productivity. We achieve this while keeping sensitive data...
Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere near as fast at computation or object manipulation as C or C++, or...
Government software development is a curious business. When I was a student at the Naval Postgraduate School, I wrote a paper called “There is a Lot of Money to be Made Writing Bad Software for the Federal Government.” The general idea is that the incentives to write...
HTMX and Alpine are two low-overhead ways to empower your front end. Neither requires a build step, and both let you add Ajax-style API calls and client-side UI updates with minimal fuss. While the two technologies differ in approach, neither gets in its own way (or yours),...
Tuesday April 1, 2025. 11:47 PM
Red Hat has updated Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise internal developer portal based on Backstage. The new release offers a developer preview of Adoption Insights, an analytical dashboard that details how Developer Hub is being used by development teams. With Red Hat...
Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 751 gives Python a new file format for specifying dependencies. This file, called a lock file, promises to allow developers to reproduce the installation of their Python projects, with the exact same sets of dependencies, from system to...
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