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- Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference with a clear emphasis on AI, unveiling a suite of new Gemini-powered solutions to empower developers. At the forefront is an expansion of Google’s Gemini language model, including the public preview of 1.5 Flash which is designed for high-frequency tasks. Developers can join a waitlist to preview… […]
- Phylum’s cybersecurity experts have detected a malicious payload embedded within a popular Python package on the PyPI repository. The package, named requests-darwin-lite, is an unauthorised variant of the widely-used requests library. The requests-darwin-lite package was cleverly designed to emulate its legitimate counterpart but included a Go binary concealed within an oversized image file pretending to… […]
- At the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Microsoft’s President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, declared that the company is set to launch its new mobile store this July. This long-discussed move aims to establish an alternative to dominant marketplaces like the App Store and Play Store. Unlike traditional approaches, Microsoft plans to roll out its mobile game store… […]
- A new survey from Cisco reveals that software developers are spending more than 57% of their time in “war room” meetings to resolve application performance issues, rather than focusing on building new software to drive innovation. The findings highlight the immense pressure facing developers today. Globally, 85% of those surveyed report increased demands to accelerate… […]
- Stack Overflow and OpenAI have announced a partnership that aims to provide developers with accurate and vetted solutions by integrating Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI and validated technical knowledge into OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT. Brad Lightcap, COO at OpenAI, said: “Learning from as many languages, cultures, subjects, and industries as possible ensures that our models can serve… […]
- An open letter signed by 270 scientists and researchers across 33 countries has raised major technical concerns about the EU’s proposed regulation mandating the scanning of messaging apps for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The signees argue the techniques are fundamentally flawed and will “completely undermine communications and systems security.” “From a technical standpoint, to… […]
- The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has labelled a critical vulnerability affecting the popular Git-based repository manager GitLab as a Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV). The move comes in response to active exploitation attempts detected in the wild, underscoring the urgency for organisations to promptly apply security updates. Tracked as CVE-2023-7028, the severe flaw… […]
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