Canonical is releasing the latest LTS version of Ubuntu today. This release, version 24.04 (codenamed 'Noble Numbat'), includes upgrades to the GNOME UI and some important features and improvements under the hood. These include security features, greater compatibility with IBM hardware architecture... Read more
3 hours ago
Copilot is coming to Microsoft's Visual Studio 17.10 as a unified version. The update eliminates the need for the separate extensions Copilot and Copilot Chat, and integrates them into one, which will have general availability in Visual Studio in May. A GitHub Copilot subscription is required to... Read more
15 days ago
Android developers using the Android Studio environment can now use Gemini Pro in the built-in Studio Bot tool. This LLM replaces the tool's pre-existing GenAI capabilities based on the older PaLM 2. The arrival of Gemini Pro to Studio Bot in Android Studio means that developers get an improved ... Read more
16 days ago
Atlassian is bringing new features to Jira to simplify developers' work further. To provide insight into app performance, Compass components are now made available within Jira. Compass is Atlassian's developer portal that tracks the components of engineering teams. All software components are ca... Read more
29 days ago
Canonical, the company behind the Linux distribution Ubuntu, will support the free and paid Ubuntu Pro LTS version two years longer than the standard 10 years of support. This is possible through the new paid Ubuntu Pro service Legacy Support. The service will be available starting with version Ubu... Read more
30 days ago
Smart Components allows developers to add AI features to existing .NET software. Adding AI can take weeks of development time because developers have to focus on redesigning the UI or exploring machine learning and prompt engineering. Smart Components should change that. To this end, Microsoft h... Read more
1 month ago
Fermyon Technologies has added SpinKube to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. SpinKube is an open-source initiative that aims to simplify the development, deployment, and operation of WebAssembly workloads on Kubernetes. Sandbox projects serve as a starting point for... Read more
1 month ago
Updates to the UiPath Business Automation Platform include Autopilot, Context Grounding and an IBM watsonx.ai connector. UiPath announced this during its virtual AI Summit event. The Business Automation Platform is used to automate processes with RPA, where the new features should contribute to ... Read more
1 month ago
Oracle is bringing project (JEP) Region Pinning for G1 and Project Amber to the programming language. The new features should improve Java's performance, stability, and security. JEP 423, also known as Region Pinning for G1, is designed to improve performance. Thus, the garbage-first (G1) Garbag... Read more
1 month ago
Spotlight Developer Platform aims to optimize cloud-native development by establishing an internal developer portal (IDP). Solo.io bases Spotlight Developer Platform on Spotify's Backstage platform. Backstage is used to create developer portals, tools that are becoming increasingly popular withi... Read more
1 month ago
