Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads directly on its infrastructure, saving enterprises the trouble of hosting an Apache Spark instance elsewhere, and eliminating data transfer delays between it and the Snowflake Data Cloud. The new offering will rely on a feature of Apache Spark introduced in version 3.4, Spark Connect, which enables

Teradata has released its first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to enable enterprises to connect their agents to data stored within the data analytics provider’s databases, amid rising demand for agentic applications. The Teradata MCP server, hosted on GitHub and supported by the Teradata community, focuses on helping enterprises take the first step in

Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the case of Debian’s patch for a potentially crippling issue with the way Unix-like systems represent time. Debian 13 “Trixie,” scheduled for August 9, marks the Linux distribution’s mitigation of the Y2K38 bug, also known as the “Unix Epochalypse,” via a shift in

It’s barely been out for a month and already security researchers have discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in Google’s Gemini command line interface (CLI) AI agent that could be exploited to steal sensitive data such as credentials and API keys from unwary developers. Gemini CLI integrates Google’s LLM with traditional command line tools such as

Startup FluidCloud, described as a portable cloud infrastructure provider, has launched the FluidCloud Platform, a “cloud cloning” platform that lets users clone, migrate, restore, and optimize infrastructure across clouds in minutes, according to FluidCloud. FluidCloud Platform draws on infrastructure-as-code principles to reverse engineer existing environments into a standard infrastructure definition, enabling “seamless” cloning, migration, and remapping

TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types, has moved to a release candidate stage. The new TypeScript release brings support for ECMAScript’s deferred module evaluation and a preview of expandable hovers for viewing variable type details. The TypeScript 5.9 release candidate (RC), announced July 25, follows the July 8 beta.

Kiro is the new Amazon Web Services IDE for creating software projects using agentic AI. A developer using Kiro creates a specification for the desired program, and Kiro uses Claude Sonnet (3.7 or 4.0) to iteratively generate a set of requirements, a design document, and a task list for building the application. You can oversee

Bug fixing is part of the job of every developer. Whether you are building a brand-spanking-new greenfield application or maintaining a 30-year-old ball of mud, you are going to have to fix bugs.  Fixing bugs can be a challenge. Most of us have experienced the “take a day to reproduce it and two more days to figure

Lit is an interesting option among front-end JavaScript frameworks for reactive programming. It’s caught quite a bit of interest from developers, but remains relatively under-the-radar compared to some other reactive frameworks. Lit is built on top of the Mozilla Web Components standard and prioritizes speed and a small set of useful features. The Mozilla Web

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