Month: October 2024

For most startup founders, launch day is a nerve-wracking blend of excitement and worry. But for Shivaun Raff and her husband, Adam, that day in June 2006 turned into a nightmare they hadn’t seen coming. Their new venture, Foundem—a unique price comparison website they’d left stable careers to create—was finally live. But soon after launch,… …

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Macs were once thought to be nearly invincible from a cybersecurity perspective, but now face more threats than ever. Just a few years ago, Mac-specific malware was a rarity. In 2021, security specialist Patrick Wardle discovered eight new malware families that targeted the platform. By 2023, that number grew to 21. While this may seem… …

Read more “Beyond antivirus: Other essential tools to protect your Mac”

GitHub is bringing more flexibility and choice to Copilot through the integration of multiple large language models (LLMs). Since its inception, GitHub Copilot has utilised different LLMs for varied uses. The journey began with the deployment of Codex, an early iteration of OpenAI’s GPT-3, that was fine-tuned specifically for coding tasks. The evolution continued with… …

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Stack Overflow has launched an extension for GitHub Copilot that promises to improve how developers find solutions. The extension allows users to pose questions directly within the AI-driven coding assistant and receive summarised responses informed by Stack Overflow’s extensive knowledge base. GitHub and Stack Overflow’s partnership aims to aid developers in tackling their most challenging… …

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Svelte 5 has been released, marking what the team behind the web framework describes as the “most significant release in the project’s history” and follows 18 months of intensive development. The latest iteration of the web framework arrives as a ground-up rewrite, promising improved performance, reduced bundle sizes, and enhanced reliability. Despite these substantial changes,… …

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Datorios, a developer of data observability and data quality technology for real-time business operations, has made new observability innovations available for the open source Apache Flink stream processing system. Announced at Ververica’s Flink Forward 2024 underway in Berlin Germany, the new technology from Datorios equips businesses with the observability required to ensure that Flink-powered real-time AI applications drive accurate,… …

Read more “Datorios unveils new Apache Flink observability capabilities for responsible Agentic AI”

JetBrains has announced the launch of Mellum, its own AI model specifically engineered for software development tasks. Mellum has been integrated exclusively into JetBrains’ AI Assistant, reporting dramatic improvements in both speed and accuracy of code completions compared to previous implementations. Unlike more extensive language models, Mellum has been purposefully designed with a smaller footprint… …

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Holistic has unveiled an open-source library to help counter AI development risks and build fairer and more responsible systems. The library – dubbed Holistic AI OSL – arrives at a crucial moment when organisations are increasingly deploying AI systems across sensitive domains including recruitment, healthcare, and financial services. Recent studies suggest that 65% of AI… …

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Android developers are set to benefit from an update to the CameraX library that improves its Dual Concurrent Camera feature. The enhancement, introduced in the 1.5.0-alpha01 release, simplifies the implementation of simultaneous streaming from two different cameras. Donovan McMurray, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, wrote in a blog post: “CameraX will now handle the composition… …

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Unity 6 has launched and is being touted as the most stable and high-performing version of the game development platform to date. Matt Bromberg, President and CEO of Unity, revealed the launch in a blog post, emphasising the company’s commitment to developer-centric improvements and long-term support. Bromberg, who recently took the helm from John Riccitiello… …

Read more “Unity 6 launches amid ongoing effort to rebuild trust”