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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.
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Automattic drastically scales back contributions to WordPress Core
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced that it is scaling back its contribution to WordPress...
Microsoft makes its Phi-4 small language model open-source
Microsoft has released the code for Phi-4, a small language model that can generate text and solve mathematic...
Google DeepMind is working on AI that can simulate the physical world
Google is forming a team led by Tim Brooks to develop generative AI models that can simulate the world. Br...
Windows upgrade screen causes issues
Microsoft is trying to entice Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 via a pop-up, but that screen freezes...
OpenAI loses money on expensive ChatGPT Pro subscription
OpenAI is still struggling to find a profitable business model. Even the new, relatively expensive ChatGPT Pr...
Ctrl+B sometimes fails to bold text in Microsoft Word, here’s how to fix it
Since a November update, the original shortcut for bold text in Word no longer works for some users. Ctrl+B n...
Meta wants to flood social media with AI
Meta plans to flood Facebook and other social media platforms with artificial intelligence-powered user profi...
“Profit-driven OpenAI threatens public safety”
Encode is joining forces with Elon Musk to counter OpenAI's plans to fully transform itself into a profit-dri...
Apple Vision Pro production may have ended: is ‘spatial computing’ dead?
In October, it was revealed that Apple was winding down production of its Vision Pro headset. No new units ar...
Nvidia sees robotics as new growth engine
Nvidia is targeting robotics as its next big growth market as it faces increasing competition in its core bus...