Rust rolls out critical fix for Windows vulnerability and urges immediate updating
A critical vulnerability has been identified in the programming language Rust, potentially allowing attackers to execute malicious commands on Windows machines. The Rust team quickly released version 1.77.2 to address the vulnerability, although it affects more languages than just Rust.
The vuln... Read more
Is there a place for ‘private’ APIs?
In the race to interconnect our enterprise IT systems, the use of Application Programming Interface (API) technologies forms an essential means of applying glueing bonds between services, between applications and sometimes between apps, data services and entire operating systems. Essentially consid... Read more
State hackers actively misuse AI for debugging and malware creation
State-sponsored hackers from several countries actively use AI and LLMs to support their attack campaigns. Microsoft and OpenAI share how they are leveraging their research results to improve the security of AI tools.
According to Microsoft and OpenAI, state-sponsored hackers increasingly use AI... Read more
Swimm makes splash with ‘contextualised’ software coding assistant
As developers start to embrace generative AI coding tools, we need to know how robust they are. We also need to know how capable they are of showing relevant links to existing software code bases and to real world business logic. Describing its software as a generative-AI powered coding assistant f... Read more
Google offers most powerful Gemini model in paid version of Bard, proves code
Google did manage to launch the AI model Gemini in 2023. However, the launch was not yet complete, leaving the most powerful version of the model still unavailable. That launch appears to be fast approaching, but cannot be used for free forever.
Gemini 1.0 is Google's answer to OpenAI's GPT mod... Read more
LinkedIn open sources developer happiness tool
LinkedIn is good and, sometimes, not so good. The plethora of contact invites that come in daily is bewildering at times. With many people using the network to ‘push’ sales lines at other members, it can feel invasive. Others ask to be endorsed and recommended by contacts that they don’t real... Read more
Workday ‘extends’ HR software developer tools
It’s been a busy week at Workday, the company used the US leg of its annual Workday Rising user convention to announce new generative AI capabilities designed to shoulder core functions carried out in personnel departments such as drafting job descriptions and expense reports. The company also br... Read more
Open Source Summit Europe 2023: Defined structures & diversified industries
The Basque city of Bilbao played host to the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe 2023 this September. While the mainstage keynotes are designed to inspire and provide a big-picture state-of-the-nation address, it is often the member sessions and breakouts that offer some of the grittier mo... Read more
AI in web browser Google can now summarize and help coding
Google is adding new features to the Search Generative Experience (SGE). As a result, the web browser with AI can now write summaries and help users become better developers.
According to the announcement, the improvements help users understand complex topics. The improvement in coding skills i... Read more
StableCode LLM is teacher for beginner developers
Stability AI, the party behind image generator Stable Diffusion, is coming out with StableCode. This large language model gets its first public release today, allowing programmers to deploy a new assistant.
ChatGPT is known to be able to produce programming code, although half the time this is n... Read more