Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of September 6, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines…
Customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce’s AI research team has come out with a new large language model and two new open source products that will help developers and enterprises to not only build agents but automate actions taken by them. The new large language model (LLM), dubbed XGen-Sales, is itself based on a…
Data hyperaggregation collects, integrates, and processes large volumes of data from multiple sources. This method can pull data from cloud platforms and on-premises systems to create a unified and comprehensive data set. The goal is to enhance data visibility, thus improving decision-making, analytics, and operational efficiency. As organizations push the boundaries of digital transformation, understanding…
GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning. In addition, GitHub implements features for code review (pull requests, diffs, and review requests), project management (including issue tracking and assignment), integrations with other developer tools, team management, documentation, and “social…
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.93, its August 2024 update of the popular code editor, featuring a profiles editor that allows users to switch and manage profiles from a single place. Introduced September 5, Visual Studio Code 1.93 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac, or Linux from the project website. The new Profiles editor,…
Vue 3.5, an update to the popular “progressive” JavaScript framework, emphasizes improvements to the platform’s reactivity system, for better performance and improved memory usage. Vue 3.5, described as a minor release with no breaking changes, was announced September 1. However, the release includes a major refactor of the reactivity system that boosts performance and significantly…
InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, announced a series of updates to the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite including new deployment options and observability capabilities. A time series database efficiently handles time-stamped data, making it essential for real-time monitoring and performance optimization of systems, servers, and sensors across various industries. InfluxDB has emerged as one of the…
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 a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks. I also showed you how to use nesting to avoid name conflicts between nested reference types and top-level reference types that share the…
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…
