API security doesn’t get the priority treatment it needs
Research by API security company Traceable and Ponemon Institute shows that API security is not yet getting the attention it deserves. While threats are only increasing, organizations aren't getting their APIs tested for vulnerabilities nearly enough.
Traceable warns of the inherent potential th... Read more
Microsoft announces price for Teams APIs to record and transcribe meetings
Microsoft announces pricing for APIs to record and transcribe Teams meetings. The price adds up per minute the meeting runs.
The Graph API was developed by Microsoft and allows Teams meetings to be recorded and transcribed. 600 minutes of online meetings per app per tenant, which is a group of ... Read more
OWASP lists the 10 biggest API dangers, help is on the way
APIs are an essential component of modern applications. An enterprise organization has more than 10,000 of them in use, including many self-designed APIs. External users communicate with them in abundance, but malicious actors can cause many headaches for the organization running the API. OWASP (Op... Read more
Google Maps gets new APIs for environmental information
Google Maps is releasing three APIs that provide information on the environmental status of locations. The APIs use AI and ML to provide the most accurate information.
Google recently introduced the three new APIs. These APIs use AI and ML, combined with satellite and aerial imagery and environm... Read more
OpenAI lets organizations retrain GPT-3.5 model for specific tasks
ChatGPT is a jack-of-all-trades among chatbots. However, it is not recommended to deploy that specific tool from OpenAI for professional use out of the box. Other generative AI solutions are easier to adjust, but now those have a new competitor: the GPT-3.5 model can now also be retrained for numer... Read more
Google makes Android apps much faster
Google will soon release version 14 of its Android RunTime (ART) engine. This version should bring even more speed to applications and devices. This is due to broader support for APIs.
Android RunTime will soon get version 14, Google indicates. ART is the engine under the Android mobile operati... Read more
SmartBear buys Stoplight to provide API development services
SmartBear has recently acquired API developer Stoplight. This will give the software tester even more functionality to offer a complete API development platform, is the thinking.
With the acquisition, no financial details of which were disclosed, SmartBear will take over Stoplight's platform. Th... Read more
Cloudinary tunes in low-code gen-AI for visual media
Website video needs search functionality, obviously it does, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to visit our favourite sites and look for all the content that we haven’t been able to ingest through the new breed of TikTok-style (other socially-empowered content web platforms are also available) site... Read more
Flutter 3.13 released: APIs for foldables, better iOS performance
There are new updates to Flutter, the UI SDK for multi-platform apps and Dart, the underlying programming language. Google is mostly bringing improvements to Flutter with these updates, from APIs for foldables to graphical improvements.
Flutter 3.13 is the only stable release coming out this qua... Read more
New APIs and developer platform for Lucid Software
Lucid Software has unveiled new APIs and a developer platform along with it. These innovations are already being put to use by Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow and Notion, and others.
Lucid touts the Visual Collaboration Suite as useful for creating applications and integrations to make collaborati... Read more