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Tuesday July 29, 2025. 07:43 PM
Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the case of Debian’s patch for a potentially crippling issue with the way Unix-like systems represent time. Debian 13 “Trixie,” scheduled for August 9, marks the Linux distribution’s mitigation of the...
Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads directly on its infrastructure, saving enterprises the trouble of hosting an Apache Spark instance elsewhere, and eliminating data transfer delays between it and the Snowflake Data Cloud. The new offering will...
Teradata has released its first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to enable enterprises to connect their agents to data stored within the data analytics provider’s databases, amid rising demand for agentic applications. The Teradata MCP server, hosted on GitHub ...
Several years ago, I wrote a multicloud readiness checklist and discussed the advantages of hybrid multicloud. Today, the vast majority of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises diversify with multiple hyperscalers, operate private clouds, deploy to edge...
The use of artificial intelligence to manage cloud operations has significantly changed how businesses design and oversee their IT systems. The consensus is that using AI for automation provides greater scalability, reliability, and consistency, as well as reduced manual...
What is the Model Context Protocol? MCP defined The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open source framework that aims to provide a standard way for AI systems, like large language models (LLMs), to interact with other tools, computing services, and sources of data. Helping...
Monday July 28, 2025. 11:15 PM
GitHub Spark, an AI-powered tool for building full-stack intelligent apps, with front-end, back-end, and AI features included, using only natural language, has moved to a public preview stage. The public preview, currently open only to Copilot Pro+ users, was announced July...
GitHub Spark, an AI-powered tool for building full-stack intelligent apps, with front-end, back-end, and AI features included, using only natural language, has moved to a public preview stage. The public preview, currently open only to Copilot Pro+ users, was announced July...
A year ago, almost nobody had heard of coding agents, and if they did, it was in the context of technologies that didn’t yet work. What a difference a year makes. Today, coding agents are all around us, touching on every aspect of the software development life cycle....
Generative AI has already had a profound impact on the world of database management. In just a few short years, we’ve watched this technology simplify, accelerate, and automate an expanding list of essential aspects of database management—cleansing data, filling gaps,...
AI systems are the ultimate amnesiacs. Despite an impressive ability to generate text, code, music, and more, they’re limited by the prompt immediately in front of them. Ask ChatGPT about a recipe it recommended last week, and you’ll likely get a confused response or...
Friday July 25, 2025. 10:31 PM
JetBrains, creator of the popular Kotlin programming language, is developing a new programming language intended to make AI and code much more controllable and transparent. In a July 23 interview with InfoWorld, JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan elaborated on company plans for an ...
Dapper—the open-source and lightweight “micro ORM” (object-relational mapper) I’ve written about often—supports many databases including SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, SQL CE, and Firebird. You can use Dapper in your applications to simplify data access while ensuring...
AI is not cheap. During the past year, public cloud giants have significantly accelerated their investments in AI. By the close of 2024, Microsoft had invested more than $80 billion in AI infrastructure, partnerships, and development. AWS is on track to spend nearly a...
Python 3.14’s first release candidate is here, and we’ve done a quick review of all the best new features. Also, four tips for making the best of Python’s now-fully-supported free-threading features, a first look at how Astral’s uv tool doubles as a Python package...
Despite the buzz surrounding next-generation agentic integrated development environments (IDEs) that aim to revolutionize software development with autonomous coding agents, enterprises should remain cautious about immediate adoption, analysts say. They cite concerns about...
In a newly discovered supply chain attack, attackers last week targeted a range of NPM-hosted JavaScript type testing utilities, several of which were successfully compromised to distribute malware. Anyone automatically downloading these packages would have been exposed to a ...
Thursday July 24, 2025. 11:23 PM
Google Labs has announced the public beta of Opal, an experimental tool for building AI mini apps by chaining together prompts, tools, and models, using natural language and visual editing. Currently available in the United States only, Opal was introduced July 24. The tool...
Google Labs has announced the public beta of Opal, an experimental tool for building AI mini apps by chaining together prompts, tools, and models, using natural language and visual editing. Currently available in the United States only, Opal was introduced July 24. The tool...
Researchers have discovered an unexpected element of distillation, an AI training technique that transfers knowledge from a larger, more complex model to a smaller, fine-tuned one, that poses a major pitfall for the distill-and-filter strategy. They found that, when trained ...
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