Aerospike Vector Search adds self-healing live indexes
Real-time database provider Aerospike has updated its Aerospike Vector Search database extension for powering generative AI applications. The update offers new indexing and storage capabilities for real-time accuracy, scalability, and ease of use for ...
4 steps to streamline enterprise cloud spending
The proliferation of cloud computing has fundamentally reshaped how enterprises handle their critical workloads, transforming the cloud into a strategic tool and business enabler. Hyperscalers — cloud service providers that offer scalable, flexible ...
What tech teams need to know about WebAssembly
WebAssembly, or Wasm, is an open standard that defines a portable binary-code format and corresponding text format for executable programs. Created and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Wasm is designed to facilitate high-performance ...
Weaponizing generative AI
Well, that didn’t last long. Generative AI has existed just a few short years, but already we seem to be alternating between bouts of disillusionment and euphoria. More worrying, however, is not where we are on Gartner’s Hype Cycle, but how genAI ...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #259
Hashtag Jakarta EE #259 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The ballot for Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile concluded successfully this week and the artifactI is now available in Maven Central. <dependency> <groupId>jak...
The Python AI library hack that didn’t hack Python
Guess what’s both one of the fastest-growing and most popular languages of 2024? (Hint: It’s not Java.) Also in Python this month: A clever hack of a popular Python AI library offers some hard security lessons, a new Python package management tool...
Chicago flunks cloud economics
The city of Chicago has devised a brilliant plan to jack up its cloud computing tax from 9% to 11%. As someone who has worked in tech for decades, I’ve seen this movie before, and (spoiler alert) it didn’t have a happy ending. This is not a diatri...
Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit backs partial properties
Microsoft has released .NET Community Toolkit 8.4, with support for partial properties in MVVM Toolkit source generators as well as new MVVM Toolkit diagnostic analyzers. The update was unveiled December 12. Source code for the .NET Community Toolkit ...
Visual Studio Code adds overtype mode, paste with imports
Visual Studio Code 1.96, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, has arrived with an overtype mode and a “paste with imports” feature for JavaScript and TypeScript. Also known as the November 2024 release, Visual Studio Code 1.96 ...
Java Applet API heads for the exit
Java would finally shed its Java Applet API under an OpenJDK proposal created December 4. The JDK Enhancement Proposal notes that the API not only has been deprecated for removal for some time but is obsolete, because neither the current Java Developm...
