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Red Hat is extending its Lightspeed generative AI technology to work with the company’s Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform as well as with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Announced May 7 , Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed will offer intelligent, natural language processing capabilities, intended to make OpenShift and RHEL easier for novices to use and more efficient for experienced professionals, Red Hat said. Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed is…

The first beta of Python 3.13 has just been released . This article presents a rundown of the most significant new features in Python 3.13 and what they mean for Python developers. Things may change between now and the first production release of 3.13, but the first beta means all the major feature additions and changes are now frozen. New features in the Python 3.13 first beta Here's a first look at these new features in the Python 3.13 beta release: The experimental JIT The no-GIL build of Py…

The Big Three cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, are going like gangbusters. The most likely reason is two letters: AI. The first quarter of 2024 saw the strongest growth since the third quarter of 2022. Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $76 billion during Q1 2024, up by $13.5 billion (a 21% increase) compared with Q1 of 2023. The Big Three cloud providers now account for 67% of global cloud spending. Amazon still retains its lead at 31%, but its share is shr…

When developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order to execute tests quickly and speed up development. Here SQLite is an ideal choice. You can use SQLite to gain both faster data access and a smaller footprint. The SQLite database is usually stored as a single disk file, although it can also work as an in-memory database. However, unlike an in-memor…

In a bid to “deepen the public conversation about how AI models should behave,” AI company OpenAI has introduced Model Spec, a document that shares the company’s approach to shaping desired model behavior. Model Spec , now in a first draft, was introduced May 8 . The document specifies OpenAI’s approach to shaping desired model behavior and how the company evaluates trade-offs when conflicts arise. The approach includes objectives, rules, and default behaviors that will guide OpenAI’s researche…

GitHub has introduced Artifact Attestations, a software signing and verification feature based on Sigstore that protects the integrity of software builds in GitHub Actions workflows. Artifiact Attestations is now available in a public beta. Announced May 2 , Artifact Attestations allows project maintainers to create a “tamper-proof, unforgeable paper trail” that links software artifacts to the process that created them. “Downstream consumers of this metadata can use it as a foundation for new s…

Django has been a leading “batteries included” Python web framework for more than a decade. The fifth major release, which arrived in December, brought even more power and ease to Django . Curious about the latest Django development trends? JetBrains’ PyCharm team, in collaboration with the Django Foundation, surveyed over 4,000 developers worldwide to analyze framework usage. Here’s what we found: Django remains the top pick for 74% of developers. One in three Django developers also uses Flask…

Both extremely promising and extremely risky, generative AI has distinct failure modes that we need to defend against to protect our users and our code. We’ve all seen the news, where chatbots are encouraged to be insulting or racist, or large language models (LLMs) are exploited for malicious purposes, and where outputs are at best fanciful and at worst dangerous. None of this is particularly surprising. It’s possible to craft complex prompts that force undesired outputs, pushing the input win…

The number of proposed features for Java Development Kit (JDK) 23, the next planned version of standard Java , has climbed to seven. The two latest additions are module import declarations and markdown declaration comments. A proposal to make the generational mode of the Z Garbage Collector the default mode was added last week. Due September 17, JDK 23 also will include a vector API, which will be incubated for the eighth time, a second preview of stream gatherers, a second preview of a class-f…

Red Hat has unveiled Podman AI Lab , an extension to the Podman Desktop graphical interface that lets developers build generative AI-powered applications in containers. Announced May 7, Podman AI Lab is intended to make it easier to develop with AI in a local environment. The Podman AI Lab extension supports the adoption of generative AI for building intelligent applications or enhancing their workflow using AI-augmented development capabilities, Red Had said. To read this article in full, plea…

Red Hat has launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), described as a foundation model platform that allows users to more seamlessly develop and deploy generative AI models. Announced May 7 and available now as a developer preview , RHEL AI includes the Granite family of open-source large language models (LLMs) from IBM, InstructLab model alignment tools based on the LAB (Large-Scale Alignment for Chatbots) methodology , and a community-driven approach to model development through the Inst…

Research suggests there are seven JavaScript language elements developers lookup more than any other. While you might not be able to write a complete JavaScript program using only these features, you most certainly won't get far without them. Beginners need to learn them, but they're also great brain refreshers for JavaScript veterans. Let’s take a look at the JavaScript language features every developer needs. The 'most searched' JavaScript language elements for loop map foreach substring arra…

For decades, when I got to work in the morning, I would start Microsoft Visual Studio (or one of its predecessors, such as Visual C++ or Visual InterDev), then brew tea and possibly attend a morning meeting while it went through its laborious startup. I would keep the IDE open all day as I went through develop/test/debug cycles to avoid another startup delay. When I worked on a C++ project with ~2 million lines of code, I also jump-started each day’s work by automatically running a batch script…

Microservices architectures solve some problems but introduce others. Dividing applications into independent services simplifies development, updates, and scaling. But it also gives you many more moving parts to connect and secure. Managing all the network services—load balancing, traffic management, authentication and authorization, and so on—can become stupendously complex. The term for this networked space between the services in your Kubernetes cluster is service mesh . A Google project, Is…

With newly introduced Deno 1.43, the developers of the JavaScript / TypeScript runtime have enhanced its language server, speeding up auto-completion performance and improving memory consumption. Introduced May 1 , Deno 1.43 can be accessed via running the deno upgrade command in a terminal. Deno Land developers have reworked many aspects of the Deno language server, commonly referred to as Deno LSP, which provides auto-completion in the editor and other capabilities. With Deno 1.43, auto-compl…