It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services. There’s also a whole developer infrastructure that plugs into our day-to-day development environments, integrating with Visual Studio to give you the

Modern software delivery is a story of increasing complexity. As organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, the number of tools, APIs, and processes keeps multiplying. Developers spend more time wrestling with infrastructure than building features, while platform engineering teams struggle to keep systems secure, compliant, and cost‑efficient. That’s why more and more enterprises are turning to internal

Spring is a reliable and popular framework for building web and enterprise Java applications. In this article, you’ll learn how to unit test each layer of a Spring MVC application, using built-in testing tools from JUnit 5 and Spring to mock each component’s dependencies. In addition to unit testing with MockMvc, Mockito, and Spring’s TestEntityManager,

Android updates have gotten tricky to keep track of these days — between the polar-opposite problems of unpredictably poky progress from most non-Google device-makers and perplexingly overlapping updates from Google with its self-controlled Pixel phones.  (What’s this update I’m seeing now? Is it Android 16, the Android 16 “QPR1” or “QPR2” quarterly update, some manner

Last week, the privacy-focused messaging service Signal was temporarily shut down when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage. This led to criticism of Signal’s use of such a dominant provider as AWS. Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker has now commented that Signal basically has no other choice. “The problem is the concentration of power

While there were solid improvements in the last generation of Apple’s popular wearable, the huge 24-hour battery life in Apple Watch Series 11 means this smartwatch has finally become what it always promised to be: a device capable of running all day and all night, which is especially for tasks like sleep tracking. Based on my

Major US tech companies are spending more money than ever lobbying the EU to influence its digital rules, Politico reports. Artificial intelligence and rules such as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be a particular focus. A new analysis shows that 733 digital sector players together spend around €151

OpenAI is putting more safety controls directly into the hands of AI developers with a new research preview of “safeguard” models. The new ‘gpt-oss-safeguard’ family of open-weight models is aimed squarely at customising content classification. The new offering will include two models, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and a smaller gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. Both are fine-tuned versions of the existing gpt-oss

AI startup company, Counterintuitive, has set out to build “reasoning-native computing,” enabling machines to understand rather than simply mimic. Such a breakthrough has the potential to shift AI from pattern recognition to genuine comprehension, paving the way for systems that can think and make decisions – in other words, to be more “human-like.” Counterintuitive Chairman,

For many years, Nvidia has been the de facto leader in AI model training and inference infrastructure, thanks to its mature GPU range, the CUDA software stack, and a huge developer community. Moving away from that base is therefore a strategic and tactical consideration. Huawei AI represents an alternative to Nvidia, with the Chinese company