Google’s Home APIs enables developers to create experiences for across Google Home

Google has announced the Home APIs to enable developers to create experiences for Google Home devices.  The Home APIs provide access to over 600 million devices, Matter devices and infrastructure, and a Google intelligence-powered automation engine. “The home offers a unique opportunity for developers to create seamless and deeper relationships with users, but developing for …

Android 15 Beta 2 adds support for 16 KB pages

The Android development team has announced the second beta of Android 15, which is now available on more devices besides just Pixels, including those from Honor, iQOO, Lenovo, Nothing, OnePlus, OPPO, Realme, Sharp, Tecno, vivo, and Xiaomi. Android 15 will also support 16 KB page sizes (in addition to the standard 4 KB), which may …

JetBrains releases test automation IDE, Aqua

JetBrains has announced that its test automation IDE, Aqua, is now generally available. Aqua makes it easy for testers to create automated tests for UIs, APIs, and other areas of an application. Like other JetBrains IDEs, it offers code completion and code refactoring capabilities.  According to JetBrains, Aqua supports every aspect of test automation, including …

Open Source Initiative is close to coming up with a definition for Open Source AI

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is on a mission to define “Open Source AI.” It wants to be able to provide a framework that can be used to determine if an AI system is open source or not, as there is not currently a framework for doing so, the OSI explained.  According to OSI, having …

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UBIO brings out low-code dev environment NodeScript

NodeScript is a low-code visual environment in which developers connect ‘nodes’ to create programs, announced today by automation platform provider UBIO. Developers use NodeScript to start projects, do research and development, or quickly bring on a new cloud service. According to the company, the toolset is feature complete and has all the power of a …

Google Play gets new features for improving app quality, adoption, and purchase experience

At its annual developer conference Google I/O, Google announced several updates across Google Play that help developers optimize their apps and increase engagement with users. New features to improve app quality, trust The company is opening up the SDK Console to all SDKs that come from a verifiable Maven repository source. Previously it was only …

ScaleOut Software introduces v3 of its Digital Twins cloud service

ScaleOut Software today unveiled version 3 of its ScaleOut Digital Twins cloud service and on-premises hosting platform, with advanced capabilities for building large-scale digital twin simulations and adding connections to more messaging sources. Version 3 integrates with Amazon Dynamo DB, offering enhanced persistence capabilities, the company noted in its announcement. Digital twins, for the uninitiated, …

GitKraken Acquires CodeSee; Launches New DevEx Platform

Development tools company GitKraken today announced the acquisition of CodeSee, a developer observability solution provider, and launched a new Developer Experience platform. The addition of CodeSee’s code insights capabilities will enable GitKraken to help developers understand “even the most complex parts of their code base,” according to the company announcement. “The launch of GitKraken’s DevEx …

GPT-4o launches as OpenAI’s newest model

OpenAI today rolled out GPT-4o, its newest flagship model that is faster than GPT-4 yet maintains the same level of intelligence and builds on its voice, vision and text capabilities, according to the organization’s announcement. The new model takes understanding of images to a higher level. In its announcement, OpenAI gave this example: “You can …

Achieving Security by Design is a question of accountability

The software industry is no longer functional. Last year alone saw over 28,000 new CVEs published, a record rise that perfectly illustrates the ongoing patching crisis facing security and development teams, which are under constant pressure to patch vulnerabilities or risk exposure. In the last 12 months, software vulnerabilities led to over 50 percent of …

OpenAI introduces Model Spec

OpenAI is sharing the first draft of its Model Spec, a document that specifies how models should behave in the OpenAI API and ChatGPT, to be used as guidelines for researchers and AI trainers who work on reinforcement learning from human feedback. The spec, according to OpenAI, is based on the organizations’ research into model behavior …

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: SurrealDB

SurrealDB is a multi-model database that offers scalability and adaptability so that developers can fit it to their use cases. The project maintainers call it “the ultimate cloud database for tomorrow’s applications.” It reduces development time by eliminating the need for a lot of server-side components required by other databases. The database can also function …

Democratizing software testing in the age of GenAI

In the ever-evolving landscape of software engineering, tools like GitHub Copilot are fundamentally changing how developers use Generative AI (GenAI) in coding. This shift is especially evident in the software testing realm, where AI-generated code is starting to impact customer environments significantly. It’s fascinating to observe how the software engineering world is transforming with the …

How data should inform modern platform development

Data is often seen as the output of applications — but it’s so much more than that. Like code itself, data is a fundamental building block of the development process. It has the ability to drive application logic, improve user experience, and increase business value. Therefore, taking a data-first approach to software design is critical. …

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    How to evaluate vendor claims of Postgres compatibility In the distributed database market many vendors today make claims about being “Postgres compatible” or “Postgres based”. When contemplating adoption of a distributed Postgres database system careful consideration should be given to the level of effort required to migrate application code. Buyer’s should also look at the …

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