“AI assistants put downward pressure on quality of programming code”
AI assistance in writing programming code does not always turn out to be positive. Based on research, overall code quality appears to have dropped since the introduction of GitHub Copilot a year ago.
The GitClear study looked at the quality of generated code one year after the introduction of t... Read more
NorthC expands in Germany: green light for datacenter in Frankfurt
The German branch of NorthC has started building a new datacenter in Frankfurt. NorthC Deutschland now meets all requirements and is set to construct a 5 MW datacenter.
The datacenter will be the third in Germany of NorthC Deutschland GmbH, part of the Dutch NorthC Group. The company already has... Read more
Apple still wants to take a cut from app sales outside the App Store
Apple is looking for a way to still earn money from apps installed within the EU via sideloading from outside the App Store. With this, the tech giant wants to respond to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Apple is currently investigating how it can still ... Read more
commercetools Foundry makes retail deployment 30 percent faster
commercetools has introduced Foundry. This new solution allows B2C retailers to deploy their products online significantly faster. The company is building on expertise gained from working with clients such as Woolworths, River Island and Bang & Olufsen.
The emphasis in commercetools's announ... Read more
More than 5,000 GitLab instances still vulnerable to account takeover
5,379 GitLab instances are still at risk. These instances may be affected by the recently discovered GitLab account vulnerability. ShadowServer research shows that accounts can still be taken over.
Recently, GitLab was affected by the critical vulnerability CVE-2023-7028. GitLab has since fixed ... Read more
Mobile data consumption reaches new records in the Netherlands
In the third quarter of 2023, data consumption on mobile reached 558 million gigabytes, the highest quarterly consumption ever.
This is according to figures from the Authority Consumer & Market, which has kept statistics on the mobile phone market since the beginning of 2014. Compared to the... Read more
Eviden builds modular data center for first European exascale supercomputer
Eviden will build the modular data center for the Jupiter supercomputer. This will be the first exascale supercomputer to be located in Europe.
To build the modular data center, Eviden, part of Atos, contracted with Jülich Supercomputing Centre. This is a German research institute, as the firs... Read more
New feature in Chrome structures your tab chaos
The Chrome browser will soon get three new features. These features, according to Google, should make internet browsing even better and more efficient and provide end users with a personalized experience.
Google has been adding AI functionality to the Chrome browser for some time. There is alrea... Read more
Wasabi buys Curio AI and simplifies search in unstructured data
Wasabi Technologies recently acquired Curio AI technology from US start-up GrayMeta. With this, it aims to help users of its cloud storage service search more easily through their large amounts of unstructured data.
In addition to acquiring the intellectual property of the AI technology, the ent... Read more
Inadequately secured Trello API leads to unwanted data breach
A vulnerability in a Trello API from Atlassian allows private data to be linked with that of Trello accounts. This provides interesting data profiles for hackers. The vulnerability came to light after a hacker tried to sell data from more than 15 million Trello users.
A vulnerable API in Trello,... Read more