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Databricks to infuse $250M to double its R&D staff in India this year
Databricks is planning to double its research and development (R&D) staff in India by the end of this year in an effort to accelerate the development of new capabilities and large language models (LLMs). “This year, we plan to hire an additional 10...
2025-04-24 10:07
MarkItDown: Microsoft’s open-source tool for Markdown conversion
The rapid evolution of generative AI has created a pressing need for tools that can efficiently prepare diverse data sources for large language models (LLMs). Transforming information that is encoded in various file formats into a structure that LLMs ...
2025-04-24 09:00
Micro front ends on the Microsoft web platform
Breaking up monolithic code into clusters of services and microservices has been a good thing. It has allowed us to refactor our code and find the bottlenecks and blockers. In some cases, that’s led us back to new, streamlined monoliths, in other ca...
2025-04-24 09:00
Microsoft touts AI Dev Gallery for Windows
Microsoft is championing its AI Dev Gallery, now available as an open source app intended to help Windows developers integrate AI capabilities within their own projects and apps. Initially announced as a project in December 2024, AI Dev Gallery was hi...
2025-04-24 09:00
How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
The headline sets the stage, and the article delivers. This was the most interesting bug I’ve encountered for a while. I initially had a hard time believing that a bug like this would directly tie to a specific OS release, but I was proven completely...
2025-04-23 23:07
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The wonderful world of Linux package managers
One of the strong points of Linux has always been how solid the experience of installing and managing software is. Contrarily to what happens in the Windows and macOS world, software on Linux is obtained through something called a package manager, a pi...
2025-04-23 20:19
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Puppet devsecops updated to deal with security maladies
Perforce has updated its Puppet Enterprise Advanced platform for devsecops to offer more advanced remediation options with the goal of reducing risk in an era of AI-powered security threats. Announced on April 22, the 2025.2 release of the platform fo...
2025-04-23 19:18
The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Executive Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Board of Directors has selected Jeff Jirsa as Executive Vice President, ASF Board of Directors. Jirsa succeeds David Nalley, who served as Executive Vice President following his four-year tenure as President of the ...
2025-04-23 17:28
Fix Coming for Window Button Bug in Ubuntu 25.04
If you installed Ubuntu 25.04 (or upgraded from 24.10 before the gate was closed due to various pernickety issues) you might have noticed that window buttons in GTK apps. Ubuntu user Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes certainly did, filing bug report to report t...
2025-04-23 17:10
ASF Plus One Newsletter: April 2025
The ASF has elected a new Board of Directors and welcomed 45 new members as we ready ourselves for FY2025 that kicks off May 1. While the CFPs for Community Over Code NA and Asia have closed, applications for travel assistance are still being accepted....
2025-04-23 16:43
Ads performance, re-imagined. Now in beta: Anonym Private Audiences.
Together, Mozilla and Anonym are proving that effective advertising doesn’t have to come at the cost of user privacy. It’s possible to deliver both — and we’re building the tools to show the industry how. Today, we’re unveiling Anonym Private...
2025-04-23 15:00
European Commission: Apple’s ‘Core Technology Fee’ and other hurdles are illegal under the DMA
The fines weren’t the only Digital Markets Act news coming from this fine continent today. The European Commission also closed its investigation into Apple’s user choice obligations under the DMA, and while Apple has made good progress in a few are...
2025-04-23 14:55
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Apple fined for €500 million by EC, Facebook for €200 million
The European Commission has levied fines against both Apple and Facebook for violating the Digital Markets Act. Apple has to pay a €500 million fine, and Facebook a €200 million fine. Apple is breaking EU law by not allowing application developers ...
2025-04-23 14:39
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Canonical and Ampere announce AmpereOne® SoC certification and other partnership milestones
Ampere and Canonical are pleased to celebrate new milestones in their ongoing partnership including the completion of Canonical’s System-on-Chip (SoC) certification on AmpereOne®, and the extension of the partnership into the AI Platform Alliance, a...
2025-04-23 10:06
Comparing Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte: What you need to know
The last time I compared the leading reactive JavaScript frameworks for InfoWorld was in 2021. It’s amazing how much has changed since then. All three of the frameworks I covered—Angular, React, and Vue—have made enormous strides with new featur...
2025-04-23 09:00