Penpot is a tool designed to bridge the gap between designers and developers and provide more collaboration throughout the process. According to the project maintainers, there can be difficulty in handing off projects from designers...

In April 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released a draft publication aimed to provide guidance around secure software development practices for generative AI systems. In light of these requirements, software development teams...

GitHub is rolling out a new feature to not only help developers find vulnerabilities, but fix them quickly.  Copilot Autofix in GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) analyzes vulnerabilities, explains their importance, and offers suggestions on how...

Codeium has announced a new AI assistant called Cortex that uses complex reasoning capabilities to solve difficult coding problems.  Rather than enabling smaller, individual tasks such as autocomplete or code completion like existing code assistants,...

Anthropic has introduced a new feature to some of its Claude models that will allow developers to cut down on prompt costs and latency. Prompt caching allows users to cache frequently used context so that...

Cars today are complex pieces of software. You’ve got the infotainment system connected to your phone. You’ve got the lane keep assist that lets you know when you’re starting to sway from your lane. You...

With businesses uncovering more and more use cases for artificial intelligence and machine learning, data scientists find themselves looking closely at their workflow. There are a myriad of moving pieces in AI and ML development,...

A few weeks ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Dioptra, an open source tool for testing the trustworthiness of AI models.  Dioptra offers a common platform for assessing models throughout their...

Broadcom today announced ValueOps Insights, a solution that connects and normalizes analytics from siloed tools into a unified view to ensure organizations are able to assess if value stream delivery capabilities align with business goals....

In today’s fast-moving business world, companies that build and maintain high-end software applications face numerous challenges. As a senior leader in a technology organization, you are undoubtedly aware of the complexities involved in managing a...

Every year, Forrester puts together a list of 10 emerging technologies to watch. This year’s list was released in June, and in the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev?, we were able...

The open-source distributed PostgreSQL platform, pgEdge, has a new release with advanced logical replication features, large object support, and improved error handling. “These enhancements make pgEdge an even more powerful alternative for legacy multi-master replication...

Good teamwork is key to any successful AI project but combining data scientists and software engineers into an effective force is no easy task. According to Gartner, 30 percent of AI projects will be abandoned...

Technical debt is a normal and unavoidable side effect of any IT implementation. It occurs as teams “borrow” against quality by making sacrifices, taking shortcuts or using workarounds to meet delivery deadlines. Eventually, this can...

GitHub is announcing a new sandbox environment — GitHub Models — where developers can experiment with AI models from different providers right from within GitHub. Developers can access models and then test different prompts and...

Earlier this week, Microsoft introduced the Agent Framework to its open source project Semantic Kernel, an SDK that integrates LLMs with C#, Python, and Java so that developers can incorporate AI features into their apps.  ...

Generative AI has the potential to have a positive impact on software development and productivity, but with that increased productivity comes increased pressure on software testing.  If you can generate five or even 10 times...

The White House is issuing recommendations not to restrict the use of open source AI models, based on a report from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).  The report recommends open...

When an event like the CrowdStrike failure literally brings the world to its knees, there’s a lot to unpack there. Why did it happen? How did it happen? Could it have been prevented?  On the...

The AI company Galileo has just announced its latest Hallucination Index, which is a framework that evaluates 22 leading generative AI models.  Models are tested using a metric called context adherence, which measures “closed-domain hallucinations:...

OpenAI has announced a prototype for its upcoming AI search features that are intended to rival existing search engines. “Getting answers on the web can take a lot of effort, often requiring multiple attempts to...

As we saw last week with what happened as a result of a bad update from CrowdStrike, it’s more clear than ever that companies releasing software need a way to roll back updates if things...

The software intelligence company CAST is trying to make it easier for development teams to create and manage Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) with the launch of the CAST SBOM Manager. This new free tool...

MongoDB is launching a new technology stack to enable customers to build AI applications. The MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) will feature reference architectures, integrations with leading AI technology providers, and a support system for...