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Extremely powerful large language models (LLMs) still operate as though they’re typing on a keyboard, processing workloads in a simple left-to-right fashion. But in locally-run, single-user scenarios, this sequential processing can leave graphics processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs) underutilized. Google is betting that DiffusionGemma can get around this bottleneck. The new …

CIOs and CISOs have many strategic and operational fears when it comes to unleashing fully-autonomous agents on tasks and hoping that everything works out. Will the agent start to delete critical files? Will the agent go off on a mission tangent and generate a massive token bill for the team when they return the next morning? Will it be tricked by a state actor and engage in malicious actions? To…

When Pope Leo XIV wrote about the effect that AI is having on our world in his encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, he may not have imagined the document being referenced in an HR environment. But, according to a report by Business Insider , Erin Maus, a software developer in North Carolina, used the Pope’s message about the need for vigilance in how AI would be deployed to gain a special exemption f…

For years, the cloud market has made a simple promise: Move workloads to large-scale platforms, gain better resilience, and worry less about downtime. That promise was never entirely wrong, but it is becoming less complete. The latest findings from Uptime Institute’s seventh Annual Outage Analysis suggest that the outage landscape is changing in ways that should concern both cloud providers and c…

Microsoft has open-sourced an AI evaluation framework that converts natural-language requirements into executable tests, expanding its push into enterprise AI governance as organizations struggle to validate agent behavior before production deployments systematically. The framework, called ASSERT (Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing), generates evaluation scenarios,…

Databricks on Wednesday unveiled OpenSharing, a new open protocol designed to let enterprises share AI models, agent skills, dashboards, and unstructured data across platforms without having to copy or move those assets. That sharing is made possible by OpenSharing’s zero-copy credential vending model that allows recipients to securely access shared assets directly from a provider’s cloud storage…

Between 2029 and 2032, every currently supported long-term support (LTS) version of Java will reach end-of-support within a single three-year window: Java 17 in 2029, Java 8 in 2030, Java 21 in 2031, and Java 11 in 2032. On paper, this looks like a manageable upgrade cycle. In practice, it creates a collision of timelines that most enterprises have failed to forecast. Organizations attempting to …

Modern AI systems have evolved beyond the simple chatbots that quickly became popular. Now they use semantic tools to manage workflows and link machines to machines, providing a flexible and effective framework for the next generation of business automation. What you used to build in Microsoft’s Power Platform or construct inside Biztalk is now an agent, built around large language models (LLMs) …

The ability for attackers to leverage automatic install script execution in npm will finally come to an end when expected changes arrive from GitHub in July. Coders will still be able to enable the function, but the default setting will block it. In V12, default settings are changing, GitHub said in its changelog , noting, “it turns an npm install behavior that runs automatically today into one y…

Too many enterprises remain ignorant of the European Union’s 2024 Cyber Resilience Act, the first elements of which enter force on June 11, according to a new survey. Two-thirds of respondents to the survey by Open Source Security Foundation said they were unfamiliar with the CRA, which aims to make hardware and software sold in the EU more secure. As well as the CRA’s demands on vendors, it also…

I’ve been around long enough to remember when deploying an application meant copying a *.exe file from the developer’s machine right into production. I am not making this up. It was that simple, and that fraught with peril. Applications weren’t complex — they were often not anything more than that simple *.exe file — and the process around deployment didn’t need to be anything complex, but it pro…

AI-generated code is riddled with security flaws, yet enterprises are shipping more of it than ever before. Why? Perhaps they’re over-confident, lack true visibility into security risks, or are simply choosing to ignore the problem and hope it goes away. It’s a dangerous game to play at the dawn of the agentic AI era, as underscored in a new report from app security company Checkmarx. The survey …

Of all the reasons Python is a hit with developers, one of the biggest is its broad and ever-expanding selection of third-party packages. Convenient toolkits for everything from ingesting and formatting data to high-speed math and machine learning are just an import or pip install away. But what happens when those packages don’t play nice with each other? What do you do when different Python proj…

We’re seeing an interesting infrastructure tug of war today where GPU clouds are being pulled in two directions. For the economics of AI to work, the enterprise market needs to carve expensive hardware into smaller, shareable units and hand it to customers on demand, similar to how CPUs are doled in public cloud infrastructure. But the more the providers push GPUs to behave like elastic cloud inf…

There is no ordained path. The hope that we were converging on some kind of consensus in web development has been eradicated by recent, ingenious developments that point in almost every direction. Yet, if there is a central theme uniting these efforts, it is the desire to mitigate the layers of liturgical embellishment that have grown up around the reactive canon. How can we look at things differ…