Last week, California Representative Adam Schiff introduced new legislation that would require companies to be more upfront and transparent with consumers when they train generative AI models using copyrighted work. The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act would make it so that companies need to submit a notice to the Register of Copyrights before they release an AI system that was trained on … [Read more...]
Report: Java is the language that’s most prone to third-party vulnerabilities
According to Datadog’s State of DevSecOps 2024 report, 90% of Java services have at least one or more critical or higher severity vulnerabilities. This is compared to around 75% for JavaScript services, 64% for Python, and 50% for .NET. The average for all languages studied was 47% The company found that Java services are also more likely to be actively exploited compared to other languages. … [Read more...]
OpenAI’s Assistants API update adds new file search tool and ability to set maximum token limits
OpenAI has just announced a few new updates to its Assistants API, which is an API that makes it possible for developers to build AI assistants into their applications. The API now includes a file search tool that allows up to 10,000 files per assistant, and can enable developers to integrate knowledge retrieval into their assistants. It works with OpenAI’s vector store objects to automate … [Read more...]
OpenSSF, CISA, and DHS collaborate on new open-source project for creating SBOMs
A number of security-focused groups have announced they are teaming up on a new open-source project to help secure software supply chains: Protobom. The project was created jointly by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T). Protobom allows … [Read more...]
Security, automation and developer experience: The top DevOps trends of 2024
If you ask most folks to describe the top DevOps trends in 2024, you’ll likely hear buzzwords like AI or DevSecOps. Those are certainly trendy topics. But based on the work I do on an everyday basis helping businesses plan and execute DevOps strategies, I’m noticing a different set of salient trends in the world of DevOps. Although much is being said about how technologies like AI might impact … [Read more...]
Report: As DevOps adoption nears 100%, these factors determine maturity
Most developers at this point in time have adopted DevOps in some form or another, whether they are a full-blown DevOps engineer or a developer utilizing parts of the DevOps practice. According to a new report from the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), 83% of developers were “involved in DevOps-related activities” in the first quarter of 2024. The report was based on data over the past … [Read more...]
Looking back on 15 years of Oracle Java and what it means for the ecosystem
When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in April 2009 for $7.4 billion, Oracle’s Larry Ellison said Java was “the single most important software asset we have ever acquired.” Two months later, appearing on stage with Ellison at the JavaOne conference, Sun chairman Scott McNealy tackled the crowd’s biggest question head-on. “There’s a big, pink elephant in the room,” he told the audience of software … [Read more...]
Overture Maps Foundation releases beta for its global map dataset
The Overture Maps Foundation — a joint effort from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom — to provide open map data — has announced a beta of its global map dataset. The dataset includes five base layers of data: Data on almost 54 million places of interest around the world 2.3 billion building footprints Information on transportation infrastructure, such as roads, footpaths, and … [Read more...]
Navigating Git integration for mainframe development
Until recently, the terms “mainframe” and “Git” appeared to be a mismatch. However, increased adoption of DevOps practices on the mainframe, the desire to integrate the platform in enterprise-wide continuous innovation/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and its familiarity among next-generation developers have made Git a popular solution for mainframe source code management (SCM). Git’s … [Read more...]
JetBrains hopes to improve developer productivity with launch of IDE Services
JetBrains is attempting to make it easier for developers to manage different development tools with the release of JetBrains IDE Services. “Due to complex environments and distributed engineering teams, enterprise customers struggle to efficiently and securely deploy and manage IDEs, AI tools, and remote environments all at once. These struggles naturally slow businesses down and result in … [Read more...]
Android 15 first beta released with default support for edge-to-edge apps displays
The Android development team has just released the first beta for Android 15, which allows developers and early adopters to start using it on their supported Pixel devices. As of this beta, apps can now be displayed edge-to-edge by default, meaning that content will be visible behind system bars like the notification bar at the top or the navigation bar at the bottom. Previously, to unlock … [Read more...]
ChatGPT Plus users now get access to GPT-4 Turbo model
OpenAI has announced that paid ChatGPT users now have access to GPT-4 Turbo, which is the company’s most advanced model. The new model improves writing, math, logical reasoning, and coding capabilities. According to OpenAI, the use of GPT-4 Turbo will result in more direct and concise results from ChatGPT that use more conversational language compared to previous iterations. For … [Read more...]
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Apache Airflow
Apache Airflow is an open-source project for scheduling and managing workflows, written in Python. Kaxil Naik, director of Airflow engineering at Astronomer and one of the core committers of Airflow, told SD Times: “It is used to automate your daily jobs or daily tasks, and tasks can be as simple as running a Python script or it can be as complicated as bringing in all the data from 500 … [Read more...]
Report: Companies going all in on human-centric software development this year
While developers have always had to care about user experience, over the next year they will take this a step further by investing more heavily into what’s known as human-centric software development. According to Progress Software’s 2024 Human Side of Software Report, which surveyed 700 developers and IT leaders, over half of organizations will invest more in this type of development, which … [Read more...]
Postman Acquires Orbit to Boost API Collaboration Among Developer Communities on the Postman API Network
Postman, the world’s leading API collaboration company, today announced its acquisition of Orbit, the community growth platform for developer companies. Over the past four years, Orbit has helped the leading developer companies grow their communities, and will now integrate its technology and deploy its expertise in support of Postman’s vision of empowering 100 million developers through API … [Read more...]
Avi Wigderson receives 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award
ACM has announced that it is awarding the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Avi Wigderson for his contributions in the area of theoretical computer science, and notably, for changing our understanding of how randomness works in computation. “Wigderson is a towering intellectual force in theoretical computer science, an exciting discipline that attracts some of the most promising young … [Read more...]
Gemini improvements unveiled at Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next was this week, and the company unveiled a lot of innovations related to AI, such as two new Gemma models for code generation and inference. Google announced that Gemini 1.5 Pro will be entering public preview for Google Cloud customers, and it’s available through Vertex AI. This version of the model was benefited by a breakthrough in long context understanding that allows it to … [Read more...]
Implement secrets management to reduce your security risk
Supply chain security has been a big topic of conversation over the past several years, and while many of the conversations have revolved around insecure third-party components in codebases, there’s another part of the supply chain that could have a negative impact if not secured properly: secrets. Max Power, product lead for Bitwarden Secrets Manager, said that from a development … [Read more...]
Intel unveils Gaudi 3 processors as part of its AI strategy
At Intel Vision 2024, Intel had a lot to say about AI and what it’s been working on in that area. The company announced a new AI accelerator called Gaudi 3, its plans to collaborate on an open platform for enterprise AI, and next generation processors. Gaudi 3 uses Ethernet to connect tens of thousands of accelerators, which the company believes will enable a “significant leap in AI training and … [Read more...]
Broadcom’s Value Stream Management Virtual Summit: Learn how VSM delivers visibility, alignment and efficiency
Learn how value stream management (VSM) can provide visibility into your processes, help you align them to meet your goals, and gain efficiencies at Broadcom’s VSM Virtual Summit on April 24. A GigaOm research report from 2023 highlighted how VSM plays a critical role in ensuring that going fast and delivering more also delivers a product that actually provides value. The reports spotlights the … [Read more...]
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