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OpenAI rolls out upgrade to reasoning model, new dev tools
The release Tuesday by OpenAI of OpenA1 o1, its reasoning model, in API, along with three new sets of tools for...
GitHub launches free tier of Copilot AI coding assistant
GitHub has launched GitHub Copilot Free, providing access to a free tier of the AI-based pair programmer via...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions. With this new...
Retirement: Upcoming TLS changes for Azure Event Grid
Starting March 1, 2025, all Azure services will require using TLS 1.2 or higher. Support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will...
JetBrains launches search portal for Kotlin Multiplatform libraries
JetBrains has introduced klibs.io, a web service intended to make it easier to find libraries for Kotlin...
Gemini Code Assist tools target developer productivity from within IDEs
Google has launched new Gemini Code Assist tools that are designed to help developers improve their productivity from...
Does AWS have a complexity problem?
At AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services addressed a critical concern for enterprises using modern cloud technology:...
Smarter devops: How to avoid deployment horrors
Many devops organizations implement advanced CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and other automations to increase...
Top 5 use cases for small language models
Since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, large language models (LLMs) have continued to raise the bar for what generative...
[In preview] Public Preview: Risk and safety evaluations for image and multimodal content in Azure AI Foundry
Risk and safety evaluations for images and multimodal content are now available in public preview in Azure AI Foundry....
JavaScript is still number one – JetBrains report
JavaScript is the most-used programming language, according to JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2024....
Aerospike Vector Search adds self-healing live indexes
Real-time database provider Aerospike has updated its Aerospike Vector Search database extension for powering...
Weaponizing generative AI
Well, that didn’t last long. Generative AI has existed just a few short years, but already we seem to be alternating...
What tech teams need to know about WebAssembly
WebAssembly, or Wasm, is an open standard that defines a portable binary-code format and corresponding text format for...
4 steps to streamline enterprise cloud spending
The proliferation of cloud computing has fundamentally reshaped how enterprises handle their critical workloads,...
Microsoft introduces Phi-4, an AI model for advanced reasoning tasks
Microsoft has announced Phi-4 — a new AI model with 14 billion parameters — designed for complex reasoning tasks,...
Microsoft .NET Community Toolkit backs partial properties
Microsoft has released .NET Community Toolkit 8.4, with support for partial properties in MVVM Toolkit source...
Chicago flunks cloud economics
The city of Chicago has devised a brilliant plan to jack up its cloud computing tax from 9% to 11%. As someone who has...
The Python AI library hack that didn’t hack Python
Guess what’s both one of the fastest-growing and most popular languages of 2024? (Hint: It’s not Java.) Also in Python...
Visual Studio Code adds overtype mode, paste with imports
Visual Studio Code 1.96, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, has arrived with an overtype mode and...