Software testing is a critical aspect of the SDLC, but constraints on time and resources can cause software companies to treat testing as an afterthought, rather than a linchpin in product quality. The primary challenge in the field of testing is the scarcity of talent and expertise, particularly in automation testing, according to Nilesh Patel, Senior Director of Software Services at KMS … [Read more...]
Foundational raises $8 million in seed funding to apply AI to database changes
The AI-powered data analytics platform Foundational has just announced $8 million in seed funding and the general availability of its platform, which is designed to enable developers to find and fix data issues before code containing it is deployed. The funding round was led by Viola Ventures and Gradient, and Asymmetric Venture Partners and executives from Datadog, Intuit, Meta, Wiz, and … [Read more...]
Open source in 2024: Tackling challenges related to security, AI, and long-term sustainability
The first piece of open source code was published just over 70 years ago, and now open-source software finds itself in almost every application that exists today. A 2024 report from Synopsys found that the average application has over 500 open source components in it, and most recent industry reports show that over 95% of codebases contain open source software. Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of … [Read more...]
Web3 – the natural fit for neutral AI
AI is our generation’s moonshot, and we’ve got to get it right. That’s what Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li told Joe Biden this month as he became the first president to talk about the impact of AI in his State of the Union address. Our original moonshot required new technology and new ways of thinking to propel us forward. While the unimaginable capabilities of the latest AI models … [Read more...]
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Flyde
Flyde is a visual programming tool for VS Code that lets people create programming flows using a graphical interface. It is designed to be used alongside the actual codebase, enabling developers to switch to the lpow-code interface for situations where having a visual is more helpful. “Flyde was built not to replace textual programming, but augment it with a higher-level abstraction, only … [Read more...]
Android 15 gets its second developer preview with updates to satellite functionality, audio recognition, and more
The Android development team has just announced the release of the second developer preview for Android 15. The satellite communication functionality has been updated with new UI elements to provide a better user experience. Apps can also now use ServiceState.isUsingNonTerrestrialNetwork() to detect when a device is connected via satellite, and there is also now support for sending and … [Read more...]
Microsoft releases set of UI components to easily add AI to existing applications
Microsoft is trying to make it easier to incorporate AI features into their existing applications. .NET Smart Components is a suite of AI UI components that can be added into .NET apps. There are three components being released: Smart Paste, Smart TextArea, and Smart ComboBox. Smart Paste fills out forms using whatever is in the user’s clipboard, making it easier to add data from other … [Read more...]
Confluent introduces fully managed version of Apache Flink
Confluent has just announced a new managed service for Apache Flink to help make it easier for customers to create data streams. Stream processing is a technology that allows data professionals to utilize data as it arrives instead of working on older data that has already been processed. It is needed for uses like fraud detection, predictive maintenance, and real-time inventory and supply chain … [Read more...]
JetBrains is offering a new version of TeamCity designed for small and medium businesses
JetBrains has announced the beta for its new upcoming CI/CD service, TeamCity Pipelines. The new platform allows development teams to automate things like integrating changes into an application, testing them, and then finally delivering the updates to users. TeamCity is an existing platform from the company, but it was targeted at large enterprises. This new offering is designed … [Read more...]
Report: How mobile testing strategies are embracing AI
AI has seeped into every corner of the tech space over the last couple of years, and mobile testing is no exception. Tricentis just published its State of Mobile Application Report 2024, where it found that 48% of testing professionals said that AI is already part of their mobile testing strategy. A further 21% plan to implement testing tools over the course of the next six months. The … [Read more...]
Redpanda launches serverless offering for its streaming data platform
Redpanda has announced a fully managed version of its streaming data platform, enabling developers to both get started quicker and not have to worry about managing infrastructure as they need to scale up. Redpanda Serverless allows developers to easily spin up new clusters for streaming data, which they can then use to build applications with. The company offers integrations with a number of … [Read more...]
Synopsys releases fAST Dynamic test solution
Synopsys today released a new application security testing solution, fAST Dynamic, that helps organizations find and remediate security vulnerabilities in today’s modern web applications. According to the company’s announcement, fAST Dynamic is built upon scanning technology Synopsys acquired from WhiteHat Security, and adds on to fAST Static and fAST SCA, which were built into the company’s … [Read more...]
Java 22 aims to make Java a better language for beginners
Oracle has announced the release of Java 22, which adds 12 new features to the language and aims to make the language more accessible to beginners. “The new enhancements in Java 22 enable more developers to quickly and easily build and deliver feature-rich, scalable, and secure applications to help organizations across the globe grow their businesses,” said Georges Saab, senior vice … [Read more...]
Vultr launches cloud Inference-as-a-Service platform to simplify AI deployment
Cloud computing platform Vultr today launched a new serverless Inference-as-a-Service platform with AI model deployment and inference capabilities. Vultr Cloud Inference offers customers scalability, reduced latency and delivers cost efficiencies, according to the company announcement. For the uninitiated, AI inference is a process that uses a trained AI model to make predictions against new data. … [Read more...]
NVIDIA GTC kicks off with announcement of new Blackwell GPUs for AI uses
NVIDIA GTC, the company’s annual AI conference, just kicked off with CEO Jensen Huang taking the stage to reveal new updates from the company. One of the main announcements that Huang made was the Blackwell platform, which is a GPU architecture for running generative AI. According to the company, it can run “real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x … [Read more...]
Google Safe Browsing now performs real-time checks in privacy-preserving manner
Google has announced a new way to further protect its privacy-minded users who are browsing using Google Safe Browsing, which is a Google Search setting that warns users when they may be entering a potentially dangerous site. While it has warned users about harmful sites across 5 billion devices since its launch 15 years ago, Google says that over time unsafe sites have adapted to get around … [Read more...]
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Guac
The Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) is a project dedicated to enhancing the security of software supply chains that has recently become an incubating project under the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). This collaborative effort, initiated by Kusari, Google, and Purdue University, is designed to manage dependencies and offer actionable insights into the security … [Read more...]
CircleCI enables automated rollbacks in latest offering: CircleCI releases
CircleCI just announced a new feature that will allow developers to automate their release orchestration processes from within the CircleCI UI. According to the company, the main benefit of this new CircleCI releases feature is that it can give developers greater confidence in their releases and reduce mean-time-to-recovery for issues. Key capabilities that will come with CircleCI … [Read more...]
Clarifai creates new alliance for AI developers and organizations
The AI company Clarifai has announced the launch of a new alliance of developers and organizations that will come together to share knowledge about AI and collaborate on new ideas. The AI Developer Alliance can be joined by any company that plays “a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI technology and development,” the company said. Its starting members other than Clarifai include … [Read more...]
EU passes AI Act, a comprehensive risk-based approach to AI regulation
The EU has finally passed the AI Act that it has been working on for the past several years. The EU AI Act is a comprehensive law that takes a risk-based approach to AI regulation. “The adoption of the AI Act marks the beginning of a new AI era and its importance cannot be overstated,” said Enza Iannopollo, principal analyst at Forrester. “The EU AI Act is the world’s first and only set of … [Read more...]
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