Homebrew Mac tool gets Apple Silicon and M1 support
The Mac utility is a favourite of developers who use it for package management on macOS.
Homebrew has officially added support for Apple Silicon in its latest release, version 3.0.0. Homebrew is a popular utility for package management on macOS. It allows users to simply install open source soft... Read more
New Visual Studio code released – but not for Apple chips
Microsoft released the new VS code to the stable channel, but a last-minute bug kept them from including developers on Apple Silicon.
Microsoft this week announced the January 2021 release (version 1.53) of Visual Studio Code. This update comes with a number of new features and improvements incl... Read more
Okta launches new open-source design system
The architecture of the new system stresses Okta's core values of accessibility and inclusion, according to the company.
This week Okta launched its new design system, both for its own corporate and brand use, but also as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license. The new platform, Ody... Read more
Google Cloud lost $5.6 billion last year
Google has heavily invested in Google Cloud, and while the revenue growth has accelerated, its losses are piling up. For the first time on Wednesday, Google revealed its operating income/loss for its Google Cloud Platform in its quarterly earnings.
Google Cloud lost $5.6 billion in Google’s fi... Read more
IBM scientists prove existing quantum computers
The scientific community is waiting for a large-scale quantum computer that they can use to carry out difficult but crucial calculations. Meanwhile, a team of IBM researchers has decided to approach this problem from a different angle, which will allow them to get results right now.
Given that t... Read more
Microsoft kicks off 2021 with Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 3
The preview release offers a suite of new features as well as increased stability for Microsoft's development platform.
This week Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3. This is the Visual Studio Team's first preview release of 2021. The preview offers new additions to C++, .NET P... Read more
‘Most CEOs want to be agile, only a minority actually is’
Research shows that the vast majority of executives within European companies believe that an agile working method is important for their company's growth. In practice, however, only a minority actually apply the method.
This is according to a survey that IDC carried out on behalf of ServiceNow.... Read more
Red Hat introduces no-cost RHEL for small production workloads
The move is in response to the storm of anger over Red Hat's announced changes to CentOS Linux.
Red Hat this week announced that it is introducing no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for small production workloads. They are also adding no-cost RHEL for customer development teams. The an... Read more
Red Hat tool brings Java applications to Kubernetes
Red Hat has released an update to Migration Toolkit for Applications that makes it easier to migrate Java applications to Quarkus. This allows Java applications to run in Kubernetes environments.
Developers can use Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications to convert Java applications to run on... Read more
AWS announces a new UI project based on open source
The AWS UI heralds a more general move towards open source and away from Windows.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced the first release of what they are calling AWS UI, what they call a first step in creating a new open source design system.
Industry observers have noted that AWS has rec... Read more