In December 2023, delegates from almost 200 countries met in Dubai for the UN’s climate-change conference, COP28, to discuss the pressing need to reduce emissions, as reported by IEEE in this a...
Microsoft is adding safety and security tools to Azure AI Studio , the company’s cloud-based toolkit for building generative AI applications. The new tools include protection against prompt in...
Snowflake on Thursday said it was making its Data Clean Room application generally available for free in the Snowflake Marketplace. The application, which was built on Snowflake’s Native Applic...
Kubernetes plays an important role at Microsoft. The container management system is a foundational piece of the company’s many clouds, from Microsoft 365 and Xbox, to Azure, to partners like O...
Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database , an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along w...
In Steampipe unbundled we showed how its plugins , which originally worked only with the foreign data wrapper loaded into Steampipe’s batteries-included Postgres, are now also available as st...
Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CT...
Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini , Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addi...
Starting with Redis 7.4, all future versions of Redis software will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSAL 2) and the Server Side Public License (SSLPv1) , Redis announc...
The benefits of developing software in the cloud include increased flexibility and reliability, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. But cloud-based development also presents a host of challe...
I’ll go ahead and say it: When looking closer at the total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with Kubernetes , more traditional development methods still have compelling advantages. As we’re...
With KubeCon Europe taking place this week, Microsoft has delivered a flurry of Azure Kubernetes announcements . In addition to a new framework for running machine learning workloads, new worklo...
The internet of things (IoT) has transformed the way we interact with the world, connecting a myriad of devices to the internet, from smart thermostats in our homes to industrial sensors in manu...
JetBrains has launched a public beta version of TeamCity Pipelines , a cloud-based CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery ) service for small and medium-sized software engineering team...
Federated learning marks a milestone in enhancing collaborative model AI training. It is shifting the main approach to machine learning , moving away from the traditional centralized training met...
The world has become “sensor-fied.” Sensors on everything, including cars, factory machinery, turbine engines, and spacecraft, continuously collect data that developers leverage to optimize...
Falco , the open-source, cloud-native, runtime security tool, recently graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s incubation program . That means it’s considered stable and ready ...
Public cloud providers are often loathed for charging data transfer or “egress fees” for removing data from a specific cloud provider. If you move data out of a cloud provider, there’s a co...
Low-code development platform provider OutSystems has released AI Agent Builder, a no-code tool for building custom generative AI agents using large language models (LLMs) from Azure OpenAI o...
PostgreSQL pioneer Mike Stonebraker and Spark creator Matei Zaharia, along with other computer scientists at MIT and Stanford have come up with a new database-oriented operating system (DBOS) to ...