Google announced five new ways to help users find accurate information more easily and to combat the spread of misinformation online. One improvement is the “About this result” feature soon available in all languages where Search is offered. This feature aims to help users assess information and its origin.  When searching on Google, users will notice three dots located next to most of the results, which will lead to more details about the source of the information and how Google’s systems have determined its relevance to their query. This will provide users with additional context that c ..read more

The OSC&R (Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference) is an open source framework used for understanding and evaluating existing threats to entire software supply chain security. OSC&R was created to establish a standard language and structure for comprehending and evaluating the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) utilized by attackers to breach the security of software supply chains.  The goal is to provide the security community with a unified resource to evaluate their own approaches for securing software supply chains in advance and compare solutions, according to th ..read more

NuMind, a Y Combinator Summer 2022 alum and the maker of a software tool to create custom NLP models, today launched out of private beta and announced its $3 million in seed funding. Using large language models (LLMs) and its proprietary “Interactive AI Development” learning paradigm, the NuMind solution allows all companies–even those with no expertise–to quickly create machine learning models to perform such tasks as analyzing sentiment, detecting topics, moderating content, and creating chatbots. The $3 million seed investment was led by Flybridge. Additional funding was provided by Brazil ..read more

CloudBees, the software delivery platform for enterprises, today introduced its integration of the company’s continuous delivery and release orchestration solution CloudBees CD/RO with the Kubernetes controller Argo Rollouts.  This integration is geared at strengthening a user’s ability to deliver high quality software quickly and at scale in cloud-native environments.  CloudBees customers gain access to Argo Rollouts’ deployment capabilities, allowing them to promote new application versions with reduced downtime, distribute controlled software updates, and test new versions of code ..read more

Canonical, the publishers of the Ubuntu operating system, have announced the latest version of Charmed Kubeflow, its open-source MLOps platform. Charmed Kubeflow 1.7 adds the ability to run serverless ML workloads, which increases developer productivity by reducing routine tasks and handling infrastructure for them. Another win for developers is that new dashboards will improve user experience and make infrastructure monitoring easier.  This release also introduces new AI capabilities, such as the addition of KServe for model serving and new frameworks for model serving, like NVIDIA Trito ..read more

With all the uptake over AI technology like GPT over the past several months, many are thinking about the ethical responsibility in AI development. According to Google, responsible AI means not just avoiding risks, but also finding ways to improve people’s lives and address social and scientific problems, as these new technologies have applications in predicting disasters, improving medicine, precision agriculture, and more.  “We recognize that cutting-edge AI developments are emergent technologies — that learning how to assess their risks and capabilities goes well beyond mechanically pr ..read more

Replit announced a partnership with Google Cloud to provide cloud infrastructure and services to Replit users. Standalone chat LLMs don’t have a project’s context and can’t be used to their full potential until they’re brought into an IDE, according to the Replit team in a blog post. The new partnership with Google Cloud aims to solve this.  Replit is a popular online coding platform that allows users to write and run code in various programming languages, collaborate with others, and host their projects on the platform.  While Google Cloud and Workspace developers will get access to ..read more

Since our last roundup, lots of new things have been happening around GPT and ChatGPT, and in particular OpenAI, the creator of the technology, has unveiled many new offerings.  Here are some of the highlights surrounding these new AI technologies from the past few weeks. GPT-4 launches Perhaps the biggest news was OpenAI unveiling GPT-4, which included significant improvements from GPT-3.5. An example of the improvements is that GPT-4 passes a simulated bar exam with a score that is in the top 10% of those who took the test, while GPT-3.5 was in the bottom 10% of scores when it took the ..read more

Planview, the platform for connected work from portfolio planning to delivery, announced today that it is entering into a strategic collaboration with the enterprise automation software company UiPath in order to bring value stream management (VSM) features to testing.  This integration is intended to bring together the UiPath Business Automation Platform with Planview’s VSM solution Planview Tasktop Hub. This combination allows teams to enhance their automation of repetitive tasks, minimize manual mistakes, and speed up delivery of products. Planview Tasktop Hub offers CIOs and transform ..read more

Some of the most painful memories from my 15-year career building enterprise Java applications have involved remote debugging. But this isn’t just a Java-specific problem. Many of my .NET and Ruby developer colleagues have shared the same challenges.  Through my time working with monolithic apps running on large application servers to building microservices that ran as standalone executables on VMs, I’ve lost track of how many times I had to ask the operations or platform team for help configuring realistic pre-production development environments and opening remote ports and enabling debu ..read more