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

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 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

While you may have been distracted by Apple’s new product releases and interesting operating system enhancements, the company also quietly a powerful new security feature this week: Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE). The tech, which is built into Apple’s latest iPhones, combines always-on protections at a chip level with software defenses against the most commonly exploited software vulnerabilities. In a

A slew of religious smartphone apps are allowing untold millions of users to confess to AI chatbots, some of which claim to be channeling God himself. As the New York Times reports, Apple’s App Store is teeming with Christian chatbot apps. One “prayer app,” called Bible Chat, claims to be the number one faith app

The estate of famed singer Whitney Houston is reviving her legendary vocals with AI for an upcoming orchestral tour, 13 years after her tragic death. The event, called “The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration,” used “stem separation technology” courtesy of an AI-powered music platform called Moises to isolate her voice from recordings and produce