In Greek mythology, Odysseus had to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis — two perils threatening from both sides. Today’s IT leaders face a similar dilemma: technical debt and sprawl on one side; excessive bureaucracy and stifling controls on the other. Enter platform engineering, the emerging discipline that offers a way to steer between these hazards … continue readingThe post Analyst View: Why platform engineering matters more than ever appeared first on SD Times.

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Nintendo's newest console and its games are more expensive than ever.

Make sure you hear your Apple Watch alarm, even in Silent mode.

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Zelle shut down its standalone apps for Android and iOS, but you can still use the service through your banking app.

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Sonatype, a company focused on software supply chain security, has announced the results of its quarterly Open Source Malware Index, which provides insights into malicious open source packages.  The index found 17,954 malicious open source software packages, including several hijacked npm crypto packages, a malicious npm package disguised as the Truffle for VS Code extension, … continue readingThe post Sonatype reveals 18,000 malicious open source packages in its Q1 Open Source Malware Index appeared first on SD Times.

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The Python community is set to adopt PEP 751, an enhancement aimed at improving dependency management and installation reproducibility. PEP 751 introduces a standardised file format, pylock.toml, designed to create an immutable record of both direct and indirect dependencies for Python environments. Recently marked as ‘Accepted,’ the proposal promises to streamline workflows, enhance security, and... Read more »The post Python proposes standardised lock file format with PEP 751 appeared first on Developer Tech News.

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Kong has announced updates to its AI Gateway, a platform for governance and security of LLMs and other AI resources.  One of the new features in AI Gateway 3.10 is a RAG Injector to reduce LLM hallucinations by automatically querying the vector database and inserting relevant data to ensure the LLM is augmenting the results … continue readingThe post Kong AI Gateway updated with features to reduce LLM hallucination and protect sensitive personal data appeared first on SD Times.

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Many HR departments are likely already using AI. However, HR leaders should learn about some AI disadvantages before continuing or expanding their department's use of the tech.

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Stéphane Di Cesare discusses DKB's experience introducing a product mindset within their platform team, explaining their definition of a platform team, the rationale behind the shift, and their journey including challenges, goals, and key learnings around user value, platform definition, maturity models, and effective communication strategies for senior software developers and engineering leaders. By Stéphane Di Cesare

This article explores the use of domain-specific Generative AI, models that understand operational constraints, real-world dynamics, and business rules to generate executable strategies, not just text descriptions. These models require significantly smaller datasets and fewer parameters, making them cost-effective while enabling AI-driven core business decision intelligence at scale. By Abhishek Goswami

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At the Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ developer conference set for August, Rockford Lhotka will explain the ins and outs of authentication across Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and .NET MAUI Hybrid apps, and show how to use identity and claims to customize application behavior through fine-grained authorization.

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Push Notification Hub is an essential internal service that plays a crucial role in the messaging and calling flows within Teams and other platforms. This article describes its recent overhaul, which has significantly enhanced its performance and reduced latencies in delivering push notifications to user devicesThe post Modernizing push notification API for Teams appeared first on .NET Blog.

Security used to be the biggest challenge companies implementing cloud native technologies faced, but according to a new report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that is no longer the case. The CNCF’s 2024 Cloud Native Survey, which surveyed 750 members of the CNCF community, revealed that cultural changes are now the top challenge, … continue readingThe post Report: Security is no longer the top challenge in cloud native environments appeared first on SD Times.

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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the linear support vector regression (linear SVR) technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. A linear SVR model uses an unusual error/loss function and cannot be trained using standard simple techniques, and so evolutionary optimization training is used.

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We asked two privacy experts which browsers to use when it matters most. Here's what they said.

NVIDIA has open-sourced KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes solution designed to optimise the scheduling of GPU resources. The solution, previously a core component of the Run:ai platform, is now available to the wider community under the Apache 2.0 licence. According to NVIDIA, the move is part of its ongoing commitment to the advancement of both open-source... Read more »The post KAI Scheduler: NVIDIA open-sources Kubernetes GPU scheduler appeared first on Developer Tech News.

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Many infrastructure technology teams believe they have mastered infrastructure automation, but the data tells a different story. We commissioned a survey to explore the state of infrastructure automation, and this research uncovered a stark gap between perception and reality. While 45% of organizations believe they have achieved a high level of infrastructure automation, only 14% … continue readingThe post Report shows overinflated opinion of infrastructure automation excellence appeared first on SD Times.

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