The process of coming up with an official Open Source AI Definition has been progressing along, and now the Open Source Initiative (OSI) — the group that has been spearheading this effort — has announced Release Candidate 1 for the definition.  The OSI started the process of creating this definition back in 2022, and for the past year it has been traveling the world to gather feedback and … [Read more...]

Today at Degreed Vision, Degreed, the world’s leading enterprise learning platform for skill-driven development, announced several new solutions and partnerships to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of learning and talent development. A decade after pioneering the Learning Experience Platform (LXP) to streamline the complexity of using always-on digital content for workforce … [Read more...]

MongoDB has announced the release of the latest version of its database platform—MongoDB 8.0. According to the company, this release offers significant performance improvements compared to MongoDB 7.0, such as 36% better read throughput, 56% faster bulk writes, 20% faster concurrent writes during replication, and 200% faster handling of higher volumes of time series data, alongside lower resource … [Read more...]

OpenAI held its annual DevDay conference yesterday, where it announced its Realtime API, as well as features like prompt caching, vision fine-tuning, and model distillation. The Realtime API is designed for building low-latency, multimodal experiences, and it’s now available as a public beta. The company shared a couple of examples of companies that are using the Realtime API already, such as … [Read more...]

SmartBear, a provider of software quality and visibility solutions, has integrated the load testing engine of LoadNinja into its automated testing tool, TestComplete. Testers can now re-use their functional tests and run them as a load test in a single workflow, optimizing efficiency and productivity, enhancing test coverage, and reducing costs – solving the pain of needing point solutions to run … [Read more...]

BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 1, 2024 — The former Synopsys Software Integrity Group announced today that it has rebranded as Black Duck Software, Inc. (“Black Duck”), a newly independent application security company. The company’s new brand is inspired by its flagship software supply chain solution, Black Duck software composition analysis (SCA), which has helped thousands of organizations around … [Read more...]

Liquid AI, an AI startup spun out from MIT, has announced its first series of generative AI models, which it refers to as Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs). “Our mission is to create best-in-class, intelligent, and efficient systems at every scale – systems designed to process large amounts of sequential multimodal data, to enable advanced reasoning, and to achieve reliable decision-making,” Liquid … [Read more...]

The iPhone 16 Pro is Apple’s premier iPhone. It has several new features, like a dedicated camera multi-function button that cuts across the iPhone line, that are both useful and needed. But as I watched the launch presentation of the iPhone 16 Pro and they spoke about the camera features, the phone seemed to be trying to stretch beyond its form factor, like a motorcycle that was suddenly trying … [Read more...]

Fostering a positive developer experience and aligning it with business goals may seem like an obvious focus for organizational stakeholders. When developers feel empowered to innovate, they deliver customer experiences that positively impact the bottom line. Yet key organizational stakeholders still struggle to get visibility into how products are advancing, from ideation to delivery. To help … [Read more...]

A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of highlights: Veeam appoints Niraj Tolia as new CTO Tolia is joining the company after being CEO and co-founder of the data management startup, Alcion, which was acquired by Veeam earlier this month. Before co-founding Alcion, he also founded Kasten, which was previously acquired by … [Read more...]

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 17, the newest version of the open source database. According to the group’s announcement, PostgreSQL 17 has improved performance and scalability while adapting to new data access and storage patterns required by cloud native computing and the rise of AI. Among the key new features is enhanced support for … [Read more...]

Codefesh, the Octopus Deploy company, has announced the general availability of enterprise support for Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, and Argo Events to all Argo users. The service, provided by a dedicated expert team that includes Argo maintainers from around the world, includes 24/7 global support and priority bug fixes to ensure app deployments are never disrupted and are always … [Read more...]

Today’s business landscape is arguably more competitive and complex than ever before: Customer expectations are at an all-time high and businesses are tasked with meeting (or exceeding) those needs, while simultaneously creating new products and experiences that will provide consumers with even more value. At the same time, many organizations are strapped for resources, contending with budgetary … [Read more...]

Buildpacks help ease the burden on developers by taking source code and turning it into fully functional apps. To learn more about this technology, we interviewed Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, on the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev? Here is an edited and abridged version of that conversation: How do buildpacks — and the Paketo Buildpacks in … [Read more...]

The testing platform BrowserStack has announced the general availability of a new solution designed to help mobile app testers make their apps more inclusive and accessible. App Accessibility Testing finds accessibility issues early on in the mobile app development process so that developers can take a more proactive approach to fixing these issues. It requires almost no setup, BrowserStack … [Read more...]

The software delivery company Harness is jumping on the AI train with a number of new AI solutions across its DevOps, QA, and Code Generation solutions. Harness AI DevOps Assistant uses AI to optimize workflows and track deployments, and can make recommendations on what improvements to make. It also helps with the creation of pipelines based on the company’s preferred tools, policies, and … [Read more...]

ArmorCode, the leader in AI-powered Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), today announced the expansion of its platform with the launch of two new modules for Penetration Testing Management and Exceptions Management. Alongside AI-powered Correlation and Remediation, these modules further advance ArmorCode’s leading platform capabilities to reduce the time, effort, and cost of … [Read more...]

The Eclipse Foundation has announced that it formed the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group to help the open source community navigate upcoming global regulations. “Given the impact of software technology on the global economy, it is unsurprising that governments worldwide are enacting new regulations to safeguard privacy, security, and accessibility,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive … [Read more...]

The observability platform Honeycomb has just launched Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to provide developers with access to more debugging and observability capabilities. “The frontend is critical – it’s where customers spend their time and where revenue is generated. Unfortunately, many frontend observability tools are outdated, offering only aggregated metrics and limited insights,” said … [Read more...]

OpenAI is attempting to level up developers and enable them to use AI to solve issues in their communities and drive economic growth.  OpenAI Academy is a new program that will provide technical guidance and support from OpenAI experts, distribute $1 million in API credits (with more potentially being added later), hold contests and incubator programs in partnership with investors, and build … [Read more...]