Databricks launches new tools for machine learning
The American big data company Databricks introduces a number of tools for building machine learning models. The Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) tools should enable citizen data scientists to build their own machine learning models.
The tools become part of the Unified Analytics platform of D... Read more
WordPress is going to update obsolete versions forced automatically
WordPress is working on a plan to forcefully and automatically update old versions to more recent releases. The open source content management system (CMS) aims to improve the security of the WordPress ecosystem and the internet as a whole.
No less than 34 percent of all internet websites run on W... Read more
Red Hat rolls out new Enterprise Linux version
Red Hat has released the new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Version 7.7 comes with built-in support for the hybrid and multicold.
RHEL 7.7 was already made available as a beta version in June this year, but is now generally available, writes ZDNet. This version supports the latest gener... Read more
New version of GitHub Actions gets CI/CD capabilities
GitHub has launched a beta of a new GitHub Actions version. This version of the service has fully built-in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capabilities. The service is scheduled to be made available to the public on 13 November.
GitHub Actions was launched ten months ago. Actions is an a... Read more
‘Betty Blocks is more interested in innovation than in integration’
Recently, the Betty Blocks event took place for the
fourth time, near their home base in Alkmaar. The local Vue cinema was
transformed into Betty Blocks on Stage for a day. The most important
announcement that was made was the collaboration with Microsoft.
During the event, we spoke to the CEO o... Read more
Most companies prefer spreadsheets to analytics platforms
The market for analytics platforms is growing, and the end of the spreadsheet is briefly announced. However, new research by Deloitte among 1,048 executives shows that they still prefer the spreadsheet.
62 percent of respondents in the survey still rely on spreadsheets for their insights, writes ZDN... Read more
Uber comes up with open-source dev library for evolutionary algorithms
Evolutionary computing is the use of biological evolutionary theory in the development of algorithms. Uber has introduced an open-source dev library for this technique called EvoGrad.
The creation of evolutionary algorithms is the goal of evolutionary computing, in which a large number of variants ... Read more
US Department of Justice opens competition investigation into tech giants
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the launch of a major investigation into large tech companies. The purpose of the competition investigation is to find out whether the companies are impeding unlawful competition.
The investigation is led by Attorney General William Barr and goes beyond t... Read more
European citizens in Great Britain are allowed to keep .eu domains after Brexit
European citizens living in Great Britain are allowed to keep their .eu domains after the Brexit. That is what the European Commission has decided. This brings the Commission back to an earlier decision.
In January, the Commission decided that European citizens in Great Britain were not allowed to k... Read more
Google makes it harder for websites to detect Incognito Mode
Google has removed a method that allows websites to detect visitors who have used Chrome's Incognito Mode. From the end of July onwards, websites will no longer be able to see whether or not a visitor has this mode enabled.
Detecting the Incognito Mode was possible via the FileSystem API, writes ZDN... Read more