AWS updates Amazon Bedrock’s Data Automation capability
AWS has updated the Data Automation capability inside its generative AI service Amazon Bedrock to further support the automation of generating insights from unstructured data and bring down the development time required for building applications under...
14 tiny tricks for big cloud savings
When the cost of cloud computing is listed in cents or even fractions of a cent, it’s hard to remember that even small numbers can add up to big bills. Yet they do, and every month it seems CFOs come close to dying of multiple heart attacks when the...
OpenSearch in 2025: Much more than an Elasticsearch fork
Open source has never been more popular. It’s also never been more contentious. With hundreds of billions of dollars available to the companies that best turn open source into easy-to-use cloud services, vendors have fiercely competed for enterprise...
OpenBSD 7.7 released
Another six months have passed, so it’s time for a new OpenBSD release: OpenBSD 7.7 to be exact. Browsing through the long, detailed list of changes, a few important bits jump out. First, OpenBSD 7.7 adds support for Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point, Strix ...
Baidu hits the turbo button to get back into AI race
An industry analyst Friday offered a lukewarm response to a series of announcements from Chinese tech giant Baidu around upgrades to its multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, first released last month. During his keyno...
The VTech Socratic method
We’ve had a lot of fun with VTech’s computers in the past on this blog. Usually, they’re relatively spartan computers with limited functionality, but they did make something very interesting in the late 80s. The Socrates is their hybrid video gam...
Thesys introduces generative UI API for building AI apps
AI software builder Thesys has introduced C1 by Thesys, which the company describes as a generative UI API that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate user interfaces on the fly. Unveiled April 18, C1 by Thesys is available for general use. C1 ...
Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available for OrangePi’s New RISC-V SBC
Of note, Ubuntu 24.04 developer images are now available for the new OrangePi RV2 RISC-V single-board computer (SBC). The news underscores Canonical’s on-going interest in the fledgling, open-source architecture. Last year, DeepComputing released Ubu...
Python and WebAssembly? Here’s how to make it work
Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld 6 languages you can deploy to WebAssembly right nowLearn how to deploy Python and five other languages to run on Wasm, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each language choice. Airgapped Python: Set...
Hype versus execution in agentic AI
Agentic AI has captured the imagination of enterprises everywhere. It promises autonomous systems capable of reasoning, making decisions, and dynamically adapting to changing conditions. The allure lies in machines operating independently, free of hum...
