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A number of security-focused groups have announced they are teaming up on a new open-source project to help secure software supply chains: Protobom.
The project was created jointly by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T).
Protobom allows companies to read software bill of materials (SBOM) data, create their own SBOMs, and translate SBOMs into different standard formats.
According to OpenSSF, there are many SBOM formats and schem ..read more
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1d ago
If you ask most folks to describe the top DevOps trends in 2024, you’ll likely hear buzzwords like AI or DevSecOps.
Those are certainly trendy topics. But based on the work I do on an everyday basis helping businesses plan and execute DevOps strategies, I’m noticing a different set of salient trends in the world of DevOps. Although much is being said about how technologies like AI might impact DevOps, the biggest changes I’m seeing right now involve other types of solutions and techniques.
Here’s a look at what I view as the three most important DevOps trends at present, as well as a breakdown ..read more
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1d ago
The Overture Maps Foundation — a joint effort from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom — to provide open map data — has announced a beta of its global map dataset.
The dataset includes five base layers of data:
Data on almost 54 million places of interest around the world
2.3 billion building footprints
Information on transportation infrastructure, such as roads, footpaths, and more
Nation and regional administrative boundaries, including names that have been translated into 40 languages
A base layer including land and water data
The foundation has created this dataset bas ..read more
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2d ago
Until recently, the terms “mainframe” and “Git” appeared to be a mismatch. However, increased adoption of DevOps practices on the mainframe, the desire to integrate the platform in enterprise-wide continuous innovation/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and its familiarity among next-generation developers have made Git a popular solution for mainframe source code management (SCM).
Git’s feature branches, distributed development, and pull requests facilitate an agile workflow, encouraging developers to share smaller changes more frequently. As a result, changes move through the deployment ..read more
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2d ago
JetBrains is attempting to make it easier for developers to manage different development tools with the release of JetBrains IDE Services.
“Due to complex environments and distributed engineering teams, enterprise customers struggle to efficiently and securely deploy and manage IDEs, AI tools, and remote environments all at once. These struggles naturally slow businesses down and result in missed opportunities,” said Brian Noll, VP of sales and global partnership at JetBrains Americas.
The new solution provides a central hub for managing five different JetBrains products: IDE Provisioner ..read more
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5d ago
The Android development team has just released the first beta for Android 15, which allows developers and early adopters to start using it on their supported Pixel devices.
As of this beta, apps can now be displayed edge-to-edge by default, meaning that content will be visible behind system bars like the notification bar at the top or the navigation bar at the bottom. Previously, to unlock this feature developers would have to call a specific function. To help developers make their apps work well edge-to-edge, there are many Material 3 composables that will now handle insets for them.
Th ..read more
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5d ago
OpenAI has announced that paid ChatGPT users now have access to GPT-4 Turbo, which is the company’s most advanced model. The new model improves writing, math, logical reasoning, and coding capabilities.
According to OpenAI, the use of GPT-4 Turbo will result in more direct and concise results from ChatGPT that use more conversational language compared to previous iterations.
For example, a prompt asking for a text message you can send to your friends reminding them to RSVP to your birthday dinner would now result in a 23 word response instead of a 51 word response.
In addition to n ..read more
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6d ago
While developers have always had to care about user experience, over the next year they will take this a step further by investing more heavily into what’s known as human-centric software development.
According to Progress Software’s 2024 Human Side of Software Report, which surveyed 700 developers and IT leaders, over half of organizations will invest more in this type of development, which places a focus on creating applications and features designed with their users in mind, and specifically considering that people of different mental and physical abilities will be using them.
“Techno ..read more
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6d ago
Postman, the world’s leading API collaboration company, today announced its acquisition of Orbit, the community growth platform for developer companies. Over the past four years, Orbit has helped the leading developer companies grow their communities, and will now integrate its technology and deploy its expertise in support of Postman’s vision of empowering 100 million developers through API collaboration.
“Tens of thousands of API builders including companies like Discord already distribute their APIs to millions of developers on the Postman API Network. But today, those builders can’t e ..read more
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6d ago
ACM has announced that it is awarding the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Avi Wigderson for his contributions in the area of theoretical computer science, and notably, for changing our understanding of how randomness works in computation.
“Wigderson is a towering intellectual force in theoretical computer science, an exciting discipline that attracts some of the most promising young researchers to work on the most difficult challenges,” said Yannis Ioannidis, president of ACM. “This year’s Turing Award recognizes Wigderson’s specific work on randomness, as well as the indirect but substant ..read more