Microsoft’s much-delayed Windows Copilot Runtime is a step closer with the release of a developer preview of the Arm build of its DirectML AI tool. It’s still not production-ready, but it’s now possible to start experimenting with local AI applications using the Copilot+ PC’s Qualcomm Hexagon neural processing units (NPUs). Bringing AI to the edge…
In the spring of 2020, it really mattered to me what the definition of “software supply chain security” ought to be. I was working at In-Q-Tel, a strategic investor for the US intelligence community, and co-authoring a research paper that attempted to measure the frequency of software supply chain attacks. We picked a definition that emphasized…
It’s well documented that software development efforts that incorporate generative AI include mistakes that are radically different than what any human programmer would ever make. And yet, most enterprise plans for remediating AI coding mistakes rely on simply inserting experienced human programmers in the loop. Cue train wreck. (No need to click if you are…
… and your data warehouse / data lake / data lakehouse. A few months ago, I talked about how nearly all of our analytics architectures are stuck in the 1990s. Maybe an executive at your company read that article, and now you have a mandate to “modernize analytics.” Let’s say that they even understand that just…
Angular 19, a planned update to the popular TypeScript-based web framework, is set to make standalone: true the default for components, directives, and pipes. This change, announced in an Angular blog post on September 3, eclipses the use of NgModules. With the new default, developers no longer need to type the standalone: true flag. The…
InfluxData is releasing an updated version of the databases it markets under the name InfluxDB 3.0, it said Wednesday. The updates to InfluxDB 3.0 are aimed at easing development of applications based on time-series data, and include improved Ingest performance, real-time querying, and superior data compression through native object storage to power high-cardinality. The new…
For years now, PostgreSQL has been one of the best-kept secrets of enterprise software and open source alike—a powerful, robust, expertly maintained relational database. MySQL may be better known, but PostgreSQL offers many features MySQL has only started to provide. In this article, I’ll walk through the steps to set up and get running a…
It’s no surprise that evolving the vast protocol infrastructure that underlies the internet is an epic proposition. The next major version of HTTP is built on the QUIC protocol and promises better performance and more security. Here’s what web application developers need to know. The promise and perils of HTTP/3 HTTP/3 aspires to make the…
Qt Group is moving forward with Qt/.NET, a proposed toolkit for interoperability between C++ and Microsoft’s .NET software development platform. The toolkit includes a Qt-based custom native host for managing assemblies, along with a native-to-managed adapter module providing interoperability services such as instance method invocation, event notification, and object-lifecycle management, according to an August 30…
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a deceptively simple idea started to take hold within the development community: Software, given its immense potential as an engine of change, should be made free and open to everyone. Unsurprisingly, this idea—most commonly associated today with the open source software movement—was initially met…
