For quite some time Google has been talking about phasing out third-party cookies from Chrome. Now, it appears the company is taking a different direction and will not be moving forward with removing third-party cookies...

The endpoint detection software CrowdStrike made headlines for causing global outages on Windows machines around the world last Friday, leading to over 45,000 flight delays and over 5,000 cancellations, along with a number of other...

The three-body problem, a mathematical conundrum presented by Isaac Newton and the inspiration behind Netflix’s new multi-million dollar series by the same name, can teach us a lot about mathematics… and quality assurance. Hear me...

This morning, a number of major systems suffered an outage due to a bad CrowdStrike update. CrowdStrike is an endpoint protection system that runs in the background of a lot of enterprise computers to secure...

Halfway through my 5 1/2 years at SpaceX, management decided to change the way we developed software by handing over the job of creating a product vision to the engineering team. They felt that the...

The visual collaboration company Miro has announced the launch of Intelligent Canvas, an AI-based idea generation platform.  “Miro’s Intelligent Canvas is built to support business processes well beyond the brainstorming phase,” Jeff Chow, CPTO of...

Infragistics, a provider of various UI controls and components, has announced several new features in its low-code platform App Builder.  The editor can now generate React code, which has been a highly requested capability by...

UserTesting has announced the latest release of its platform that helps developers gain insights into their customer base. The platform now offers branching logic, which allows developers to create surveys that adapt questions based on...

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to maintain its prevalence in business, with the latest analyst figures projecting the economic impact of AI to have reached between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion annually.  However, advances in the...

GraphRAG is an open source research project out of Microsoft for creating knowledge graphs from datasets that can be used in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). RAG is an approach in which data is fed into an...

Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was giving up its observer board seat at OpenAI, a company it has invested over $10 billion in and whose AI models are heavily integrated across the Microsoft product line....

Developers today are responsible for a lot more than the developers of 10 years ago were. Not only do they write code, but they’re managing quality, security, incidents, observability, infrastructure, and more. This has led...

Anthropic’s developer Console now allows developers to generate, test, and evaluate AI prompts, allowing them to ultimately improve response quality.  Claude 3.5 Sonnet introduced a built-in prompt generator that allows a user to describe a...

Userware, the company behind OpenSilver, an open-source .NET UI framework, have announced the release of OpenSilver 3.0. The update introduces an AI-based UI editor (still in preview), a drag-and-drop UI designer, and an online XAML...

The following is a listing of vendors that offer tools to help secure software supply chains, along with a brief description of their offerings. Featured Provider HCL Software: HCL AppScan empowers developers, DevOps, and security...

JetBrains has announced the release of a self-hosted version of its code quality platform Qodana.  Qodana is a static code analysis tool that integrates into JetBrains’ IDEs, allowing issues to be addressed directly within the...

I’ve always been captivated by AI’s potential, not just to execute programmed tasks but to learn and perform complex functions. However, it’s disingenuous not to recognize the cycles of heightened expectations and subsequent disillusionments that...

Parasoft recently released the 2024.1 releases of several of its products, including Java testing tool Jtest, C# and .NET testing tool dotTEST, and testing analytics solution DTP.  Jtest now includes test templates in Unit Test...

According to a recent report from Jellyfish, 65% of respondents said they experienced burnout in the last year.  To dig deep into why that’s happening at such a high rate, we invited the company’s CEO...

The vector database Qdrant has developed a new vector-based hybrid search capability, BM42, which provides accurate and efficient retrieval for RAG applications.  The name is a reference to BM25, which is a text based search...

Platforms like ServiceNow and Salesforce (to name a few) were introduced to address and solve the many overwhelmingly burdensome tasks associated with building enterprise-specific applications and keeping companies agile, automated, and scalable. However, to adopt...

A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Anthony Griffin named chief architect of Hazelcast He...

Elastic has just released a new tool called Playground that will enable users to experiment with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) more easily. RAG is a practice in which local data is added to an LLM, such...

Earlier this week, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of the Theia IDE, which is an open source IDE based on the Theia platform. “The release of Theia IDE represents a new milestone in the...