Version 9.4 of Microsoft’s .NET Aspire tools for building cloud-ready, distributed apps has arrived. The update features CLI core commands for starting an application, hosting integrations, running a full application stack, and changing CLI settings. This release also features AI hosting integrations. Announced July 29, version 9.4 is described as .NET Aspire’s biggest release ever,

In human endeavor, motivation always has a dual aspect. We do the thing for its own sake, and we also do it as a means to an end. This is especially evident in software development, an activity that sometimes makes outsiders wonder why anyone would do that for fun. They don’t understand, and that’s okay. For many

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling

Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The

Google has said it will adopt the EU’s voluntary code of practice for general-purpose AI, despite expressing concerns that the AI Act and accompanying code could hinder Europe’s progress in developing and deploying AI technologies. The code of practice is a voluntary framework designed to guide AI developers in setting up processes and systems that

Microsoft OneNote is a robust note-taking tool in its own right, but the integration of Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant, takes it to a whole new level. In this guide, we highlight a handful of Copilot functions in OneNote that speed up and enhance how you work with your notes, from summarizing the contents of a

In what will later be seen as a highly significant move to unlock Apple’s ambitions in digital health, the Trump Administration has created a voluntary industry network of companies to make health data more interoperable. What this should mean is that data from different health providers will be more easily assimilated within any single trusted app

Google is adding more features to its NotebookLM software — the targeted workspace where users can gather information on specific subjects, understand it, and use generative AI (genAI) to analyze reference documents, brainstorm ideas and generate summaries. Users can load complex reference documents into Google’s NotebookLM and now generate AI video summaries from documents. Before,

With $100 and a dream, one enterprising Redditor turned ChatGPT into a day trader, and the results so far have been pretty remarkable. In a post on r/Dataisbeautiful, the Redditor in question — real name Nathan Smith — described his project as a “6-month experiment to see how a language model performs in picking small,