Meta offers Llama AI to US government for national security
Meta will allow US government agencies and contractors in national security roles to use its Llama AI. The move relaxes Meta’s acceptable use policy restricting what others can do with the large language models it develops, and brings Llama ever so ...
Making the business case for generative AI
There has been a lot of speculation about what generative AI can do for businesses. The possibilities are endless — streamlined creative processes, automated business operations, self-service for customers, and more. Indeed the productivity implicat...
Cloud providers make bank with genAI while projects fail
The public cloud market is seeing exploding growth, and it’s easy to understand why. The interest in generative AI has sent enterprises running to their public cloud console to allocate even more resources, including data storage and compute, which ...
Visual Studio Code previews AI-powered code editing
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is previewing Copilot Edits, a feature powered by GitHub Copilot that suggests changes across multiple files in a workspace based on the developer’s prompts. Copilot Edits and other new Copilot-powered capabilities ...
Eclipse Cloud DevTools Digest - Q3, 2024
Eclipse Cloud DevTools Digest - Q3, 2024 Theia IDE Adds AI Capability with Theia AI!In a prolific series of articles, Jonas, Maximilian, and Philip of EclipseSource, announced and documented Theia AI. Theia AI simplifies developing AI-powered tools and...
The machine learning certifications tech companies want
Machine learning (ML) skills are in high demand, as organizations look to take advantage of potential benefits and use cases such as product enhancement, speech and image recognition, targeted marketing, fraud detection, and natural language processin...
The cloud reaches its equilibrium point
Server huggers and cloud bigots of the world rejoice! You’re both right. Unfortunately, you’re also both wrong. “After 18 years of public cloud, we’ve had a long time to sort out which apps go where,” writes VMware’s Michael Coté, and we ...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #253
Hashtag Jakarta EE #253 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I had six days at home in October. November will give me thirteen days at home, and no long-haul flights planned. But there will still be quite a bit of...
Overcoming data inconsistency with a universal semantic layer
According to Gartner, bad data costs organizations $12.9 million a year. As a result, data leaders for decades have been searching for a single source of truth for their business intelligence (BI) and analytics to ensure that everyone bases business d...
Google releases differential privacy software for JVM
Google has released PipelineDP4j, a differential privacy solution that allows developers to execute highly parallelizable computations using Java as the baseline language, while providing guarantees that personal information is kept private and secure...
Overlooked cloud sustainability issues
Cloud sustainability is a funny topic. It’s like dental care; everyone agrees it’s important, but who wants to discuss the particulars? It’s much more fun to talk about the new “shiny keys” of IT: AI and its endless possibilities. Cloud sust...
What is cloud computing? Everything you need to know
Cloud computing continues to be the platform of choice for large applications and a driver of innovation in enterprise technology. Gartner forecasts public cloud spending alone to reach $675 billion in 2024, up 20 percent from 2023. The analyst firm p...
Python is the most popular language on GitHub
October was an extra busy month in the world of Python, as all signs point to its unstoppable ascent. As reported on InfoWorld, Python is not only the language of choice for AI, but recently beat out JavaScript as the most used language on GitHub. Tha...
Open Community Experience 2024 Recap
Open Community Experience 2024 Recap Setting the Stage for Open Source Collaboration Across IndustriesOn 22-24 October in Mainz, Germany, the Eclipse Foundation’s new flagship conference, Open Community Experience (OCX), gathered 430 open source ent...
