Applications
Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
Timeline
Figma will not become a part of Adobe: deal terminated
Adobe's acquisition of Figma has been officially terminated. The companies state this is the result of a join...
Bing makes up facts about European elections
Microsoft AI chat tool Copilot, formerly Bing Chat, makes factual errors and gives misleading answers about t...
Windows 11 Insider Preview replaces speech recognition with ‘voice shortcuts’
Microsoft recently released another Windows 11 Insider Preview Build, version 22635.2915, in its Beta Channel...
Salesforce Data Cloud eliminates the need to fine-tune LLMs with vector databases
Salesforce recently added another lot of AI functionality to its Einstein 1 Platform. Among other things, vec...
Colt VP: 8-ways to secure enterprise-wide APIs
APIs are everywhere. In the modern age of web, cloud, AI and interconnected containerised componentry, enterp...
Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, now also available in Europe
Meta Platforms has also made its social media platform Threads available in Europe since Thursday. Whether th...
EU wants patronizing rules against endless scrolling on smartphones
The EU will create a set of rules that will ensure we all spend less time on apps and social media. Since it'...
Veeam now offers Backup-as-a-Service for Microsoft 365 environments
Veeam has now expanded its backup capabilities for Microsoft 365 environments with a BaaS product. This shoul...
Microsoft’s Phi-2: a small AI model that competes with LLMs from Google, Meta
A compact AI model with outputs that rival those of LLMs from Meta and Google. That's the promise Microsoft i...
Google loses case against Epic Games as jury sees ‘illegal monopoly’
Game maker Epic Games recently won a legal dispute with Google that has been dragging on since 2020. In a rec...