Red Hat caused some trouble in the open-source community at the end of June when they announced that the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) would no longer be publicly available and could...

A few days after Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 17.7, the company is releasing the first preview for version 17.8.  According to Microsoft, Visual Studio 17.8 will include features to “ significantly...

In the fast-paced world of software development, achieving an ideal work-life balance has become a distant aspiration for many with burnout and fatigue common realities. The constant pressure to meet deadlines, tackle complex problems, and...

Targeting is becoming increasingly complex. It used to be the case that all end users were people, but now companies need to reliably deploy updates to groups and “things” beyond these traditional users. This could...

Google announced updates and new features in MakerSuite aimed at helping AI makers easily create AI applications with Google’s large generative models. The tool is being expanded to cover 179 countries and territories, including anyone...

Discourse around the adoption of AI has many developers fearing for their jobs and future livelihoods. Some have taken to online communities, such as Blind, where software engineers gather to discuss careers in tech, to...

Google announced that it is rolling out new tools and protections to help users stay in control of their personal information, privacy, and online safety. The “Results about you” tool has been updated and enhanced,...

Chaindesk (previously called Databerry) is an open-source no-code platform for building your own large language model (LLM) agent.  Data can be loaded from any source, making it easy to make a chat agent that is...

Tricentis has introduced Tricentis Device Cloud (TDC) as a new addition to its mobile testing product lineup.  With this addition, organizations can effectively manage, create, execute, and analyze applications on physical mobile devices from various...

Karat introduced Karat Qualify, a new skills-assessment tool for organizations seeking to hire software engineers. This tool aims to revolutionize the candidate screening process by utilizing a short multiple-choice assessment, which replaces traditional methods like...

Dell has announced it is expanding its offerings to provide customers with generative AI capabilities.  These new capabilities expand on the previously announced Project Helix, which is a collaboration with NVIDIA providing capabilities to make...

Stack Overflow is leveraging the millions of questions and responses on its platform to create new AI-based capabilities that can make better use of this information and provide developers with solutions to their problems faster. ...

Last year, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom joined forces to launch the Overture Maps Foundation and create “reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data.” Now nearly eight months later the group is releasing its first...

Just as software security has become strategic for many organizations, so too has the use of open source in development become strategic. And, as organizations realized they needed to create the role of chief information...

Software management company Planview has announced Digital Product Insights, which combines portfolio management and agile planning with delivery insights from value stream management (VSM) and objectives key results (OKRs). The release is part of the...

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Every year, the analyst firm Forrester puts out a list of 10 emerging technologies for the year. This year, perhaps unsurprisingly, the list is packed with AI-related technologies.  “Generative AI’s dominance of this year’s list...

Grafana Labs is hoping to make it easier for companies to manage the end user experience for their applications. To achieve this, the company launched Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability, which enables companies to monitor frontend...

At Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft’s annual event where it highlights what it has achieved with different partners, the company made several announcements related to AI.  First, it announced pricing for its upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot offering....

JetBrains is trying to make it easier for developers to produce quality code with the release of its new platform, Qodana. Qodana is a tool that offers static code analysis and can be integrated within...

LEAD Technology, which is a company that provides various toolkits for developers, has announced the release of LEADTOOLS Version 22. The latest release adds full support for Python, allowing Python developers to use LEADTOOLS libraries...

The DevSecOps provider Digital.ai has announced new capabilities to its platform to provide customers with better predictive analytics across the software development life cycle.  New predictive intelligence features include Flow Acceleration, which predicts development cycle...

Google has announced the general availability of new APIs for Chat for Google Workspace developers.  The API allows developers to build applications that integrate with Chat. These applications could allow conversations held in Chat to...

The software intelligence company CAST has announced updates in its CAST Highlight summer 2023 release to help companies keep better track of the open-source software (OSS) components they are using in their applications. “In the...