Microsoft is adding two new features to its cloud-based Fabric to help agentic applications make more accurate decisions while navigating complex workflows and help developers integrate AI-driven insights directly into an enterprise’s data operations. The two new features — Graph and Maps — are being integrated into Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence workload. Fabric, released in May 2023, brings

Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) release of standard Java, is now generally available. The release brings 18 features, five of which Oracle touts as assisting with AI development. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24, a six-month-support release that arrived March 18. As a Long-Term support release, JDK

Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio 2026 IDE through the company’s new Insiders channel, which replaces the old Preview channel for early access to upcoming features. The new IDE offers deeper integration of the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including a profiler agent that analyzes performance and suggests fixes. Visual Studio

The conversation around enterprise AI infrastructure has shifted dramatically in the past 18 months. While public cloud providers continue to dominate headlines with their latest GPU offerings and managed AI services, a quiet revolution is taking place in enterprise data centers: the rapid rise of Kubernetes-based private clouds as the foundation for secure, scalable AI

When I was just starting out writing code, the market for developer tools was small. It mainly consisted of compilers, debuggers, and IDEs. The advent of visual development brought about the sale of component sets, but ultimately, the market wasn’t all that big and the marketing was straightforward. But today? Today is a different story. The arrival of the

When I was a young engineer, there was a gruff old programmer named Larry who often imparted his wisdom to us young’uns. A man in his forties, he had that gritty, seen-it-all manner that bespoke years of hard-fought battles in the coding trenches. His was a heart of gold covered in a cloak of cynicism;

Over the last few years, Rust has evolved from a curiosity brewed up in a Mozilla employee’s lab to a strong contender for the next generation of system-native applications and bare-metal solutions. Those advances come from Rust providing its own toolchain and component management system—along with certain popular features and quirks. This article is for

In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, Microsoft has introduced various new features in Windows 11 designed to protect users from modern workplace threats. Among such features, Smart App Control (SAC) changes how Windows devices block unwanted or potentially malicious applications. But what exactly is Smart App Control? How does it work, who benefits most, and are

Workday and Microsoft want to make it simpler for developers to register the AI agents they create using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio in Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR). They say this will help enterprises more securely manage their workers, both human and agentic. Agents built with the Microsoft tools each receive

WalkMe, the digital adoption platform (DAP) vendor that SAP bought last year for $1.5 billion in cash, on Tuesday launched what it described as a “new digital learning solution”, an AI-based offering it says embeds training directly into the software tools employees use daily. Most enterprise training, the company said, “still happens too early, too