Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 5.6, an update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant that disallows nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullishness or truthin...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3478113/typescript-5-6-takes-aim-at-truthy-and-nullish-bugs.html
A July 18 software update from CrowdStrike caused a massive IT outage, leading to chaos across airports, banks, stock exchanges, hospitals, and more. This incident, marked by widespread occurrenc...
As we wrap up the month in Python and elsewhere: Make generative AI chatbots in Python the Shiny way; use Streamlit to create web-based Python apps without getting dirty with HTML, CSS, or JavaSc...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3477614/python-pick-shiny-for-python-now-with-chat.html
Systematic data management investment and effort is associated with outsized returns on data-driven initiatives, according to a newly released report on DataOps from BMC Software. Further, large ...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3477727/bmc-report-examines-dataops-practices.html
Rust 1.80, the latest version of the popular memory-safe programming language , has been released, featuring “lazy” types to delay initialization of data until their first access. Rust 1.80...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3477620/rust-1-80-adds-lazy-types.html
Mistral AI has launched a 123-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) called Mistral Large 2 (ML2), strengthening its position as a significant competitor to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. ...
One of the problems with building generative AI into your applications is there’s no standard way of managing prompts. Too often, each team that builds AI into their code takes a different appr...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3477435/build-and-manage-llm-prompts-with-prompty.html
Oracle has updated its Java development extension for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, with the extension supporting early-access builds of the planned JDK 23 release of Java. The exten...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3477281/visual-studio-code-java-extension-backs-jdk-23.html
Meta’s newly unveiled Llama 3.1 family of large language models (LLMs) , which includes a 405 billion parameter model as well as 70 billion parameter and 8 billion parameter variants, is a boon...
OpenAI is offering free fine-tuning on its new GPT-4o mini model, allowing users to train the model on additional data at no charge to enable higher performance for specific use cases. GPT-4o ...
One of the most popular stacks today is combining Spring Java on the back end with a React front end. Implementing a full-stack Spring Java React application requires many decisions along the way...
Data is the lifeblood of the modern organization. It is constantly moving and changing, vast in scale and dizzying in velocity. It is widely distributed, available everywhere, driving operations ...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3475989/how-to-create-an-operational-data-store-with-tidb.html
When most software developers think of web APIs, we think of REST , or Representational State Transfer. With REST, you send a request to a request-specific URL and receive the results in whatever...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2267992/what-is-graphql-better-apis-by-design.html
Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 8.1, an update to the cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications that adds support for building container images from Dockerfiles, as well as suppo...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3476885/microsoft-net-aspire-automates-dockerfile-builds.html
Shiny for Python 1.0 launched this week with built-in chatbot functionality. The Chat() component is aimed at making it “easy to implement generative AI chatbots, powered by any large language ...
Google Cloud has updated its fully managed distributed SQL database service Spanner with an option to maintain dual-region configuration, which it claims will make it easier for enterprises to ...
AI agents are nothing new. AI itself was old but is new again, and AI agents and agentic AI are another chapter. Agentic AI, known for its autonomous decision-making and complex goal management, ...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3476489/agentic-ai-drives-enterprises-away-from-public-clouds.html
Java applications evaluate expressions in the context of statements, which are used for tasks such as declaring a variable, making a decision, or iterating over statements. We can write either si...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2245414/java-101-deciding-and-iterating-with-java-statements.html
In the era of generative AI , large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way information is processed and questions are answered across various industries. However, these models come w...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2518705/retrieval-augmented-generation-refined-and-reinforced.html
IBM has made the Mistral Large advanced large language model (LLM) available on IBM’s watsonx.ai enterprise tools platform for AI developers, expanding the collection of models accessible o...
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3476079/ibm-adds-mistral-large-language-model-to-watsonx-ai.html