Markdown for large text fields (private preview)
Adding Markdown capabilities to the work item is a long-standing request. We introduced Markdown for comments in early 2024, but due to the rollout of the New Boards Hub, we put the feature on hold. Today, we’re excited to announce a private preview ...
How DeepSeek innovated large language models
The release of DeepSeek roiled the world of generative AI last month, leaving engineers and developers wondering how the company achieved what it did, and how they might take advantage of the technology in their own technology stacks. The DeepSeek t...
Speeding up .NET application development with Uno Studio
Developer productivity is one of those topics that never goes away. How can we not only make it easier to deliver code but also make that code more reliable and resilient? As a result, we’re seeing something of a renaissance in developer tools, from...
IT leaders are driving a new cloud computing era
At fictional Tech Innovations Inc., a midsize software company, the rapid adoption of cloud technology was once seen as a transformative stepping stone toward agility and scalability. Initially, the company migrated its applications to a well-known pu...
Google unveils Gemma 3 multi-modal AI models
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemma 3, an update to the company’s family of generative AI models, featuring multi-modality that allows the models to analyze images, answer questions about images, identify objects, and perform other tasks that invol...
GitHub to unbundle Advanced Security
GitHub announced plans to unbundle its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) product, breaking it up into two standalone products: GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security. The unbundling is set to happen on April 1. GitHub Secret Protection will d...
OpenAI takes on rivals with new Responses API, Agents SDK
OpenAI’s new Responses API and an upgraded Agents SDK will help enterprises more easily build agents with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The new tools may help it fend off challenges from rivals such as A...
Airgapped Python: Setting up Python without a net(work)
The vast majority of modern software development revolves around one big assumption: that you always have a network connection. If you don’t, it’s typically because you’re on an airplane with no Wi-Fi, and that’s temporary. But what about when...
Designing a dynamic web application with Astro
Astro.js is among the most popular meta-frameworks for JavaScript developers, and for good reason. Astro makes it relatively easy to structure web applications for maximum effect with minimal effort. It can be hard to get your head around how Astro wo...
Why Wasm fascinates me
WebAssembly fascinates me. The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ones and zeros, but a layer a...
How Wasm reinvents web development
WebAssembly fascinates me. The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ones and zeros, but a layer a...
Air-gapped Python: Setting up Python without a net(work)
The vast majority of modern software development revolves around one big assumption: that you always have a network connection. If you don’t, it’s typically because you’re on an airplane with no Wi-Fi, and that’s temporary. But what about when...
JavaOne 2025 heralds Java’s 30th birthday
With Java advancing toward its 30th anniversary, Oracle will hold its annual JavaOne conference next week, centering around the Java language, the evolution of the Java platform, and the role of Java in areas such as generative AI and machine learning...
March Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the produ...
New Boards Hub Update
We’ve reached a major milestone in the rollout of New Boards Hub this week by making it the default experience for all organizations and users. While many users can still temporarily switch back if they encounter a blocking issue, our telemetry shows...
Go-based TypeScript to dramatically improve speed, scalability
Microsoft is developing a native TypeScript implementation based on Google’s Go language. The initiative promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and memory usage, making it easier to scale TypeScript to large code bases,...
3 of the best LLM integration tools for R
When we first looked at this space in late 2023, many generative AI R packages focused largely on OpenAI and ChatGPT-like functionality or coding add-ins. Today, the landscape includes packages that natively support more LLM suppliers—including mode...
Has AWS lost its edge?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long maintained its dominance in the cloud computing market, serving as the backbone for many enterprises’ digital transformation efforts for more than a decade. However, recent shifts in strategy suggest that AWS may b...
