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Sometimes, if you want to get an early look at a new tool from Microsoft, you must get out your compiler and build it from source. That’s the case with the first public look at the new open source release of XAML Studio , one of its .NET UI design tools, which is transitioning to the stewardship of the .NET Foundation. XAML Studio is a tool for prototyping .NET user interfaces. Developed in Micro…

“Greenops” didn’t emerge because enterprises suddenly had a moral awakening. Rather, cloud bills became painful , regulators got serious, and sustainability teams started asking questions IT couldn’t answer with confidence. Once companies realized that cloud consumption wasn’t only a technical concern but also a financial and reputational risk, they did what they always do: They operationalized i…

ClickHouse has acquired open source LLM engineering platform, Langfuse, to add observability capabilities to its database services, which are designed for online analytical processing and AI applications. The deal underscores ClickHouse’s push to become a more complete data and AI platform as customers try to move LLM-based applications into production, analysts say. Langfuse’s observability capa…

“The global edge AI market is on a steep upward trajectory,” says Joshua David , senior director of edge project management at Red Hat . To his point, the edge AI market is anticipated to climb to a $143 billion valuation by 2034. The bump in edge AI goes hand in hand with a broader shift in focus from AI training, the act of preparing machine learning (ML) models with the right data, to inferenc…

No serious developer still expects AI to magically do their work for them. We’ve settled into a more pragmatic, albeit still slightly uncomfortable, consensus: AI makes a great intern, not a replacement for a senior developer . And yet, if this is true, the corollary is also true: If AI is the intern, that makes you the manager. Unfortunately, most developers aren’t great managers. We see this ev…

Astro Technology Company, maker of the Astro web framework , has just been acquired by Cloudflare . The company also just released Astro 6 in beta, with the update featuring a redesigned development server. The merger with Cloudflare means Astro remains open source and MIT-licensed and continues to be actively maintained, according to the January 16 announcement . In addition, Astro will continue…

Microsoft is offering a Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for its Visual Studio Code editor , enabling developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents from VS Code. Launched January 14 , the extension can be accessed from the Visual Studio Marketplace . The extension is intended to make it possible to develop AI agents in a familiar editor, with source control, and with AI help when wanted,…

Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that generates parts of SQL queries from natural-language comments, something it claims will speed up data analysis and lower the barrier to working with complex queries as enterprises look to simplify data access in order to move their AI pilots into production. The new feature, Comments to SQL, will enable developers an…

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The finding of fresh privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in Google’s Vertex AI is a stark reminder to CISOs that managing AI service agents is a task unlike any that they have encountered before. XM Cyber reported two different issues with Vertex AI on Thursday, in which default configurations allow low-privileged users to pivot into higher-privileged Service Agent roles. But, it said, Google to…

MongoDB has released the source code of mongot, the engine that powers MongoDB Search and Vector Search, under the Server Side Public License. Analysts say the move would help developers of the self-managed version of the database plan better RAG systems for AI use cases, as the code will provide more transparency, debuggability, and control. By making mongot’s source code publicly available, Mon…

Forget the sci-fi fantasy of robots running everything. The real story isn’t about flashy tech, it’s about a smarter way to work. Hyperautomation is that smarter way: A deliberate, all-hands-on-deck strategy where organizations systematically find, prioritize and overhaul their processes. It’s the art of weaving together the right digital tools, not just to replace a single task, but to reinvent …

In the ever-shifting landscape of enterprise technology, it has become increasingly clear during the past few years that on-premises software deployments are heading for the door—and not necessarily by customer choice. As I’ve observed time and again, the balance of power has shifted from buyers to vendors, and nowhere is this more evident than in the changes sweeping through the software-as-a-se…

A longtime leading programming language for web development dating back to 1995 , PHP has lost the spotlight to languages such as Python and JavaScript in recent years. Nonetheless, a PHP specialist at PHP software vendor Perforce Zend is stressing the continued importance of the language. “Is PHP still relevant in 2026? Short answer: Yes, and it shows no signs of going anywhere,” said Matthew We…

An AWS misconfiguration in its code building service could have led to a massive number of compromised key AWS GitHub code repositories and applications, say researchers at Wiz who discovered the problem. The vulnerability stemmed from a subtle flaw in how the repositories’ AWS CodeBuild CI (continuous integration) pipelines handled build triggers. “Just two missing characters in a regex filter a…