Google has released the first beta of the Android mobile OS for developers and early adopters. This version of the Android operating system emphasizes productivity, user privacy and security, and making apps more widely visible and accessible.The beta was released on April and a final release...

   Java would be enhanced with the ability to succinctly import all packages exported by a module, under a proposal floating in the Java community. The plan would simplify the use of modular libraries in Java.The preview language feature for Java SE Standard Edition , called Module Import...

   ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. Ideal for building fast and simple services, minimal APIs were initially introduced in ASP.NET Core to strip away the complexity of traditional APIs and make it...

   Building applications at scale is nothing compared to building an operating system like Windows, especially when it comes to source code control. How do you manage the repository or repositories for such a software behemoth, with thousands of developers and testers, and with a complex build...

   Code commonly flows downstream, from an open source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow contributing code back to an open source project. The value proposition of upstreaming includes harnessing the strength of an open source community to...

   Java services are the most impacted by third party vulnerabilities, according to the State of DevSecOps report just released by cloud security provider Datadog.Released on April , the report found that of Java services were susceptible to one or more critical or high severity...

   OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company, has updated its Assistants API with a faster, more accurate file search tool, vector stores, and a tool choice parameter.OpenAI announced the Assistants API update on April . The new file search tool can retrieve as many as , files per...

   In a move that could redefine how generative AI can be used by enterprises sans the present ambiguity over its ability to scale and interoperable across business systems, the LF AI Data Foundation has announced the launch of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI OPEA in collaboration with several...

   A change to Java’s G garbage collector would lower the memory and processing overhead and speed the execution of Java’s C optimizing JIT just in time compiler, benefiting cloud deployments, under a proposal in the Java community.The OpenJDK proposal would simplify the implementation of G ’s...

   As the use of ever more powerful AI models continues to grow, ensuring trust and accountability must be at the top of the list of goals, on par with any of AI’s potential benefits. It won’t happen overnight, nor will it result from any single step, such as better code, government regulations, or...

   The ECMAScript specification is like a portrait of the JavaScript language that is repainted every year. As is typical of modern JavaScript, the spec and real world practice move in tandem. The newest version of the spec, ECMAScript , includes seven new JavaScript features and is expected to be...

   A common problem with Python applications is how to share them with other people. Developers frequently use a web interface to solve this issue, presenting the app’s functionality by way of a UI. But that solution works best when the application UI is a natural fit for web components. Data...

   As of the first quarter of , of developers were involved in devops related activities such as performance monitoring, security testing, or CI CD, according to the State of CI CD Report , published by the Continuous Delivery CD Foundation, a part of the Linux Foundation.Released April...

   Open source database provider Qdrant has made available Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a dedicated vector database to be offered in a managed hybrid cloud model.Qdrant, the open source foundation of both Qdrant Cloud and Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, is a vector similarity search engine and vector database written in...

   Modern software applications are underpinned by a large and growing web of APIs, microservices, and cloud services that must be highly available, fault tolerant, and secure. The underlying networking technology must support all of these requirements, of course, but also explosive growth...

   ECMAScript , a planned update to ECMA’s standard for JavaScript, is set to include seven new features ranging from array grouping to Unicode strings. The specification, from ECMA’s Technical Committee , is expected to be approved in June.Among the list of finished features cited for...

   Depending on your politics, trickle down economics never worked all that well in the United States under President Ronald Reagan. In open source software, however, it seems to be doing just fine.I’m not really talking about economic policies, of course, but rather about elite software engineering...

   Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of names: version control, revision control, source control, or source code management are all common descriptors. Regardless of what we call them, these systems have become...

   The Rust language team has published a point release of Rust to fix a critical vulnerability to the standard library that could benefit an attacker when using Windows.Rust . . , published on April, includes a fix for CVE . Before this release, Rust’s standard library did not properly...

   A high quality application must be stable, performant, scalable, and reliable. The reliability of an application depends on many factors, but one of the most important is resiliency, or the ability to withstand failures or faults during run time. In this article, we’ll see how we can bring...