AI

Why is Microsoft offering to turn websites into AI apps with NLWeb?
Microsoft took the covers off a new open protocol that will allow enterprises to turn their websites into AI-based applications. Announced at its ongoing Build developer conference, NLWeb, short for Natural Language Web, is designed to help enterprise...
2025-05-20 10:19
Cloud asset management: A crucial missing ingredient
Most companies are in a race to diversify their cloud resources, motivated by the benefits of scalable, innovative, and effective operational capabilities. Despite dedicating large percentages of the budget to implement migration strategies, hybrid so...
2025-05-20 09:00
Rust 1.87 shines on anonymous pipes, architecture intrinsics
The Rust Release Team has shipped Rust 1.87, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features accommodations for anonymous pipes and architecture intrinsics. The new release was announced May 15, the same day as Rust’s 10th annivers...
2025-05-19 19:47
Microsoft aims to improve agent versatility with Copilot Studio updates
Microsoft is adding new features and capabilities to Copilot Studio, its low code tool for creating generative AI-based autonomous agents, in an effort to improve the overall versatility of agents for enterprises. The more versatile the agents, the mo...
2025-05-19 16:00
OpenAI launches Codex AI agent to tackle multi-step coding tasks
OpenAI has announced the release of Codex, an AI coding agent it said was designed to help software engineers write code, fix bugs, and run tests. According to the company, Codex is powered by codex-1—a variant of OpenAI’s o3 model optimized for s...
2025-05-19 12:22
What comes after Stack Overflow?
For more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for developers seeking answers to coding questions. At its peak in the mid-2010s, the site saw more than 200,000 new questions each month. Those days are gone. Since the arrival of AI ass...
2025-05-19 09:00
How we replaced Azure Redis with Memcached
In cloud architecture, we often prioritize performance, scale, and security, but they can come with surprising costs. In one of our Azure-based deployments, our team discovered that a seemingly simple caching solution—designed only to support basic ...
2025-05-19 09:00
The best Java certifications for software developers
Java, which turns 30 this month, remains one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. Launched in 1995 and employed by many of the largest enterprises globally, Java is used to develop a range of business applications, mobile apps, ...
2025-05-19 09:00
Google I/O 2025: All eyes on AI and Gemini
If you’re ready for a break from artificial intelligence, Google I/O won’t be your safe haven. The annual developer conference — which starts next week in Mountain View, Calif. — and also offers a large virtual option, is expected to focus hea...
2025-05-16 19:06
Visual Studio previews agent mode for multi-step coding tasks
Microsoft has announced the general release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14, an update of the company’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) that adds support for agent mode and other AI-assisted development features from GitHub Co...
2025-05-16 18:14
Informatica extends MDM support to Microsoft Azure, Oracle
Informatica is partnering with Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce to extend support of its Master Data Management (MDM) service and extensions and help enterprises build applications for agentic and other generative use cases based on more accurate dat...
2025-05-16 11:48
Cloud and IT strategies in a time of global upheaval
The influence of geopolitics on IT infrastructure is undeniable. Enterprises today operate across borders. They leverage cloud services from providers headquartered in countries thousands of miles away, host data in various regions, and deliver value ...
2025-05-16 09:00
Programmers dig Python and Zig
Python’s popularity continues to outpace all competition. That’s why projects to make it faster are crucial, difficult as that may be. Plus, Python’s new, standardized dependency lockfile format is here. And if you’re a fan of Zig for speed an...
2025-05-16 09:00
Uno Platform introduces unified rendering engine
Uno Platform 6.0, a major update to the open source tool kit for building cross-platform .NET applications from a single code base, introduces a new, unified rendering engine, called Skia, that gives developers a low-footprint, high-performance, hardw...
2025-05-15 22:10
Accessibility in Microsoft Edge with ARIA and ARIA Notify
In the past decade or so, there’s been a push to put everything online. From customer service to interactions with local and national governments, we’ve moved away from the call center to the web and self-service. That push has streamlined interac...
2025-05-15 09:00
LiteLLM: An open-source gateway for unified LLM access
The growing number of large language models (LLMs) from various providers—Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and many others—has given developers a rich set of choices but also has introduced complexity. Each provider has its own ...
2025-05-15 09:00
Databricks to acquire open-source database startup Neon to build the next wave of AI agents
Agentic AI requires a whole new type of architecture; traditional workflows create serious gridlock, dragging down speed and performance. Databricks is signaling its intent to get ahead in this next generation of app building, announcing it will purch...
2025-05-15 01:00
.NET 10 Preview 4 enhances Zip processing, JIT compilation, Blazor WebAssembly
With the fourth preview of the planned .NET 10 software development platform, Microsoft has delivered a variety of enhancements to the platform’s libraries, runtime, and frameworks, including faster processing of GZip data streams and escape analysi...
2025-05-14 23:42
Boomi launches agentic AI tools, announces AWS collaboration
AI-driven automation platform vendor Boomi has unveiled products and partnerships to advance its enterprise automation AI strategy. The announcements at the Boomi World conference reflect a “commitment to business transformation through a unified, o...
2025-05-14 13:14
Informatica adds agents to automate its Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Informatica is preparing ready-built AI agents and agent-building tools to help enterprises automate their use of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). Claire Agents will help enterprises use natural language to automate the management of data...
2025-05-14 12:45