TypeScript 5.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, has arrived in beta with improvements ranging from performance and size optimizations to regular expression checking. The TypeScript 5.5 beta was introduced April 25 and can be accessed through Nuget or the following command: npm -D typescript@beta. A release candidate is due June 4, and the final release is planned for June 18. To read this article in full, please click here ..read more

In a breakthrough for the healthcare industry, researchers have unveiled Meditron, a suite of open-source large language models (LLMs), specifically designed to assist medical professionals. Jointly developed by researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Yale School of Medicine, and supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the LLM is built upon the Meta Llama2 platform and trained on “carefully curated, high-quality medical data sources,” Meta said in a blog post. To read this article in full, please click here ..read more

Back in the early days of the cloud, I had a nice little business taking enterprise applications and reengineering them so they could be delivered as software-as-a-service cloud assets. Many enterprises believed that their custom application, which provided value by addressing a niche need, could be resold as a SaaS service and become another source of income. I saw a tire company, a healthcare company, a bank, and even a bail-bond management company attempt to become cloud players before infrastructure as a service was a thing. Sometimes it worked out. To read this article in full, please cli ..read more

Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, aka “Noble Numbat,” a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for developers. Announced April 25 and downloadable from ubuntu.com, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS offers Linux 6.8 kernel capabilities with improved syscall performance, nested KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support on ppc64el (IBM PowerPC), and access to the new beachefs file system. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays, Canonical said ..read more

Microsoft has introduced version 8 of the .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) Community Toolkit, featuring TouchBehavior, for interacting with visual elements in an application based on touch, mouse clicks, and hover events. The update was introduced April 24. Instructions for getting started with the toolkit are available on GitHub. With the new release, the TouchBehavior implementation enables customization of different visual properties on the VisualElement it is attached to, such as the background color, opacity, scale, and rotation. TouchBehavior also makes it possible to implement long-pre ..read more

Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data center. Repatriation. It’s the act of moving work out of cloud and back to on-premises or self-managed hardware. And the primary justification for this movement is straightforward, especially in a time of economic downturn. Save money by not using AWS, Azure, or the other cloud hosting services. Save money by building and managing your own infrastructure. Since an Andreesen Horowitz post catapulted this idea into the spotlight a couple of years ago, it seems to be gaining mome ..read more

Platform engineering is becoming a compelling concept for enterprises, as they’re devoting increasingly large amounts of resources into cloud-native application development. It doesn’t matter if you’re using your own Kubernetes instances in your data centers, or working with managed environments in public clouds, you’re going to need to understand how they’re operating, taking advantage of a new generation of observability and security tools. To read this article in full, please click here ..read more

Node.js 22, the latest version of the popular JavaScript runtime, has arrived, featuring require() support for ECMAScript modules, an improved WebSocket client, and an updated version of the Google V8 JavaScript engine. Announced April 24, version 22 of the event-driven, asynchronous runtime can be downloaded from Nodejs.org. The release adds require() support for synchronous ECMAScript module graphs under the flag: --experimental-require-module. If this flag is enabled and the ES module meets a couple of requirements, require() will load the requested module. Additionally, Node.js 2 ..read more

Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has developed an open-source large language model (LLM), Arctic, to take on the likes of Meta’s Llama 3, Mistral’s family of models, xAI’s Grok-1, and Databricks’ DBRX. To read this article in full, please click here ..read more

OpenAI, known for its large language model ChatGPT, is making a strong push for the enterprise market. In what could intensify competition among enterprise AI players, the company announced a slew of new features designed to give businesses more control, enhance security, and offer cost-effective options when integrating OpenAI’s AI technologies in their operations. “We’re deepening our support for enterprises with new features that are useful for both large businesses and any developers who are scaling quickly on our platform,” OpenAI said. To read this article in full, please click here ..read more