WHY2025 successor to Dutch hackercamp MCH2022
Another hacker camp will take place in the Netherlands in 2025. This will be the successor to May Contain Hackers (MCI2022).
The hacker camp focuses on knowledge sharing, technological advancement, experimentation and connecting with each other. Ethical hackers camp for a week during this event... Read more
Google: new code increasingly written in ‘memory safe’ languages like Rust
Google expects to increasingly use 'memory safe' programming languages like Rust for its code. In widely used -and now decades old- languages like C and C++, bugs caused by errors in memory management are commonplace. However, these languages are so ubiquitous that it makes more sense to transition... Read more
Google makes changes for businesses and developers to comply with DMA
Google outlines the changes it is making to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Due to the changes, businesses generate less web traffic on their pages, while developers can offer alternative payment systems to app users.
Google, as "gatekeeper," must comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).... Read more
Stack Overflow and Google Cloud bring Gemini to more developers
By bringing generative AI to Stack Overflow's developer community, developers should have easier access to information.
To that end, Google Cloud will integrate Gemini into Stack Overflow. Developers can invoke the assistant to get help writing code, for example. "Gemini for Google Cloud is alre... Read more
Gemini 1.0 Pro accessible via SQL in Google BigQuery and AlloyDB
Google has just completely reversed the integration of generative AI. Where developers are now used to talking to a model in order to apply genAI, Google has now eliminated that step. Google has made Gemini 1.0 Pro, its latest LLM, directly available in the BigQuery and AlloyDB databases. Through a... Read more
StarCoder2 has three variants: trained on 619 programming languages
Hugging Face, ServiceNow and Nvidia recently introduced three open-access LLMs under the name StarCoder2. These LLMs are ideally suited for performing code-related tasks.
The partnership of Hugging Face, ServiceNow and Nvidia has developed three LLMs in different sizes within the StarCoder2 port... Read more
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
Microsoft recently made GitHub Copilot Enterprise generally available. With it, developers can now better query their own codebase and processes.
According to Microsoft, the introduction of the improved version of GitHub Copilot Enterprise is primarily intended to help developers more with propr... Read more
Visual Studio gets new out-of-process designer for .NET apps
An improved 32-bit out-of-process designer should support legacy 32-bit Windows Forms (WinForms) applications. With this modification, Microsoft is trying to solve a problem that arose in November 2021, when the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2022 was introduced.
WinForms is a framework f... Read more
JetBrains tests new terminal in all IDEs
The beta release of the new terminal in all JetBrains Integrated Development Environments is a stepping stone to a revised development environment.
JetBrains offers a total of 14 different IDEs for writing code. All of these IDEs can expect a new terminal soon. Some major IDEs are IntelliJ IDEA ... Read more
Visual Studio gets new SDK for extensions
Developers can now publish extensions in the Marketplace and add Language Server Protocol (LSP) support to their extensions.
With VisualStudio.Extensibility, there is a framework for developing Visual Studio extensions that run outside the Microsoft IDE development environment. The SDK is design... Read more