React , the latest version of Meta’s JavaScript library for rendering user interfaces, is now available in beta. The update introduces features such as async functions in transitions and the ability to access ref as a prop for function components.The React beta was unveiled April . A React...

   TypeScript . , the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, has arrived in beta with improvements ranging from performance and size optimizations to regular expression checking.The TypeScript . beta was introduced April and can be accessed through Nuget or the...

   In a breakthrough for the healthcare industry, researchers have unveiled Meditron, a suite of open source large language models LLMs , specifically designed to assist medical professionals.Jointly developed by researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL and Yale School of...

   Back in the early days of the cloud, I had a nice little business taking enterprise applications and reengineering them so they could be delivered as software as a service cloud assets. Many enterprises believed that their custom application, which provided value by addressing a niche need, could...

   Canonical has released Ubuntu . LTS, aka Noble Numbat, a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for developers.Announced April and downloadable from ubuntu.com, Ubuntu . LTS offers Linux . kernel...

   Microsoft has introduced version of the .NET MAUI Multi platform App UI Community Toolkit, featuring TouchBehavior, for interacting with visual elements in an application based on touch, mouse clicks, and hover events.The update was introduced April . Instructions for getting started with the...

   Platform engineering is becoming a compelling concept for enterprises, as they’re devoting increasingly large amounts of resources into cloud native application development. It doesn’t matter if you’re using your own Kubernetes instances in your data centers, or working with managed environments in...

   Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data center. Repatriation. It’s the act of moving work out of cloud and back to on premises or self managed hardware. And the primary justification for this movement is straightforward,...

   Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude.ai, and Meta.ai can be quite helpful, but you might not always want your questions or sensitive data handled by an external application. That’s especially true on platforms where your interactions may be reviewed by humans and otherwise used to help train future models...

   Node.js , the latest version of the popular JavaScript runtime, has arrived, featuring require support for ECMAScript modules, an improved WebSocket client, and an updated version of the Google V JavaScript engine.Announced April , version of the event driven, asynchronous runtime can be...

   Java Development Kit JDK , the next planned version of standard Java, is off and running, with five features now scheduled for the release. The latest addition is making the generational mode of the Z Garbage Collector the default mode.Due September , JDK also will include a vector API,...

   Cloud based data warehouse company Snowflake has developed an open source large language model LLM , Arctic, to take on the likes of Meta’s Llama, Mistral’s family of models, xAI’s Grok, and Databricks’ DBRX.To read this article in full, please click here

   OpenAI, known for its large language model ChatGPT, is making a strong push for the enterprise market. In what could intensify competition among enterprise AI players, the company announced a slew of new features designed to give businesses more control, enhance security, and offer cost effective...

   WebAssembly runtime maker Wasmer has unveiled py wasm, a Python to WebAssembly compiler that transforms Python programs to the WebAssembly aka Wasm binary instruction format.Using a fork of the Nuitka Python compiler, py wasm converts Python programs to Wasm, allowing them to run without...

   Generative AI entered the global consciousness with a bang at the close of cue: ChatGPT , but making it work in the enterprise has amounted to little more than a series of stumbles. Shadow AI use in the enterprise is sky high as employees are making day to day task companions out of AI chat...

   WebAssembly was originally designed to give in browser web applications a way to run portable, sandboxed, high performance binaries. As WASM matures beyond the browser, new uses for the technology are emerging. Using WASM to build programmability and extensibility into applications is one use case...

   Promises are a central mechanism for handling asynchronous code in JavaScript. You will find them in many JavaScript libraries and frameworks, where they’re used to manage the results of an action. The fetch API is one example of promises at work. As a developer, you might not be familiar with...

   Oracle has released JDK Mission Control JMC , an update to the tool kit for monitoring, managing, profiling, and troubleshooting Java applications that adds a dark theme and makes the frequency of JVM checks configurable.The most significant change is that JMC now must use JDK or later to run...

   Microsoft has introduced a new family of small language models SLMs as part of its plan to make lightweight yet high performing generative artificial intelligence technology available across more platforms, including mobile devices.The company unveiled the Phi platform in three models: the . ...

   The readability, maintainability, and usability of switch statements and expressions in Java would be improved by a proposal to allow exceptions to be handled in the switch block.The current OpenJDK proposal, Exception handling in switch Preview , would be part of the Standard Edition of Java,...

   Amazon Web Services AWS is moving some features of its generative AI application building service, Amazon Bedrock, to general availability, the company said on Tuesday.These features include guardrails for AI, a model evaluation tool, and new large language models LLMs .To read this article in...

   As I’ve been saying for the past year or so, cloud conferences have become generative AI conferences, as have data center conferences, databases conferences, and you name it. It’s clearly more than just a trend it’s a game changing push. But we’ve seen this happen enough times in the past years...

   The exponential growth of data, and in particular unstructured data, is a problem enterprises have been wrestling with for decades. IT organizations are in a constant battle between ensuring that data is accessible to users, one the one hand, and that the data is globally protected and in...

   Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it:It is impossible to accurately estimate a software project of any significance.Now, a non trivial number of you are going to read that sentence and think I’m nuts. And maybe I am. But someone has to just say what we all know to be true but don’t want...

   If you follow open source topics on X Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Thierry Carrez, the vice chairperson of the OSI, for example, recently issued a dire warning: single...

   Some developers and business leaders believe that low code is only for small, lightly used applications such as replacing spreadsheets and building dashboards. These tools, in general, aren’t well suited to more advanced applications, says Steve Jones, devops advocate at Red Gate Software. With...

   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...

   Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp parent Meta has released a new generation of its open source Llama large language model LLM in order to garner a bigger pie of the generative AI market by taking on all model providers, including OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s xAI. This next...

   Amazon Web Services AWS has slowly and silently phased out its Snowmobile service an offering launched at its annual AWS re:Invent conference in to help enterprises move data from their on premises servers to the cloud provider’s data centers to accelerate their migration to the public cloud...

   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...