The future is far from doom and gloom for DBAs
Database administration has always been something of a well kept secret. Even within the wider domain of information technology, database administration is one of those areas of expertise that often goes overlooked by aspiring STEM students and tech-s...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #267
Hashtag Jakarta EE #267 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am still enjoying time off in Indonesia, but will be back in business again this week. I am happy to see the Jakarta Config specification is finally g...
Visual Studio Code unveils Copilot code editing suggestions
A just-released update of Visual Studio Code, version 1.97, introduces a preview of Copilot Next Edit Suggestions, an AI-powered feature that predicts the next edit the user wants to make. The new VS Code release also includes a movable Command Palett...
Full-stack JavaScript leads the way
Building web apps begins with a simple premise, but the real-world experience is a juggling act of optimizations, best practices, toolchains, and so on. Developers tend to respond by doing what we do best: creating new tools and techniques to manage ...
The hidden threat of neglected cloud infrastructure
In 2012, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a public advisory regarding software to monitor and control building systems. Fast-forward to 2023, and cybersecurity researchers at watchTowr discovered that an abandoned Ama...
GitHub Copilot previews agent mode
GitHub has added new capabilities to its GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant, including a preview of a new agent mode capable of iterating on its own code. The company also announced the general availability of Copilot Edits in Visual Studio Co...
Imagen 3 arrives in the Gemini API
Imagen 3 – now available in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API – offers developers state-of-the-art image generation with brighter, better-composed images in diverse styles, and simplified image generation through text prompts.
Oracle maintains hold on JavaScript trademark
Oracle, under external pressure to yield control over the JavaScript trademark, has instead filed a motion for dismissal of part of a petition to cancel the trademark. Filed February 3, Oracle claims the petition fails to state a claim upon which reli...
Meet the Eclipse SDV Committers!
Meet the Eclipse SDV Committers! Curious about what draws individuals to the automotive industry and to the Eclipse SDV Working Group? This month, we're kicking off a new series of brief interviews with our most active Eclipse SDV committers. Check out...
Using NATS with .NET Aspire
If you’re building a cloud-native application using a scalable cluster of microservices, you’re going to need a way for those services to communicate. Traditional API calls work well for tightly coupled code, but what if you’re building an appli...
Malicious package found in the Go ecosystem – update
Update February 6: Google has removed the package and provided the following statement: The module has been removed from both the Go module proxy and GitHub, and we’ve added it to the Go vulnerability database for anyone who thinks they may have bee...
Malicious package found in the Go ecosystem
A malicious typosquat package has been found in the Go language ecosystem. The package, which contains a backdoor to enable remote code execution, was discovered by researchers at the application security company Socket. A February 3 Socket blog post ...
Gemini 2.0: Flash, Flash-Lite and Pro
The Gemini 2.0 model family is seeing significant updates, including the release of Gemini 2.0 Flash, which is now production-ready and boasts higher rate limits, enhanced performance, and simplified pricing. Developers can also start testing an update...
Is 2025 the year of quantum computing?
The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation. This was an intense area of research because the experimental data—the radiation emitted by different types of matter as they were heated—disagr...
