Category: Software Development

  • Why vector databases aren’t just databases

    [ad_1] Used with large language models, RAG retrieves relevant information from a vector database to augment an LLM’s input, improving response accuracy, enabling organizations to safely leverage their own data with commercial LLMs, and reducing hallucinations. This enables developers to build more accurate, flexible, and context-aware AI applications, while offering a level of security, privacy,…

  • AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal filing

    [ad_1] Broadcom has claimed that AT&T plans to stop using VMware software, but has been tardy about making the move. The allegation appears in a court filing related to the dispute initiated by AT&T over an extension of support services that we reported on September 5. In its complaint, AT&T stated it holds perpetual licenses…

  • Intel has entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery

    [ad_1] Comment On Monday, Intel’s share price surged on word it was spinning out its foundry biz as an independent subsidiary and signing AWS and the DoD as customers. But while Wall Street celebrated, Chipzilla’s road to recovery is far from over and everyone involved, whether they are shareholders, employees, or partners, are going to…

  • NIST: New smoke alarms still go off for bacon

    [ad_1] Fryers of bacon who hope enhanced technology will stop alarms going off over the slightest whiff of smoking oil will have to wait a while longer. At least, that’s according to research from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Every home should have smoke alarms. According to NIST, between 1975 and…

  • The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C?

    [ad_1] Brazilian model flummoxes calc fans For most of us, a calculator might have been superseded by Excel or an app on a phone, yet there remains a die-hard contingent with a passion for the push-button marvels. So the shocking discovery of an apparently rogue HP-12C has sent tremors through the calculator aficionado world.… [ad_2]…

  • US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist

    [ad_1] Two individuals are in cuffs and facing serious charges in connection to a major theft of cryptocurrency worth more than $230 million from a single victim. Malone Lam, 20, and Jeandiel Serrano, 21, of Miami and Los Angeles respectively, are alleged to have carried out a scam between August and September and used the…

  • Microsoft unveils Python Data Science Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code

    [ad_1] Microsoft is looking to help users of Visual Studio Code editor use the Python language in the data science realm. The company has announced the Python Data Science Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code, a new extensions bundle that features four VS Code extensions for working with the Python language, including the Python extension…

  • Cloud architects: Try thinking like a CFO

    [ad_1] Improve collaboration across departments. Promoting cooperation between IT, finance, and business units will drive cloud initiatives that leverage insights from across the organization. Cross-disciplinary teams with technical and commercial expertise can help create technically sound and commercially viable solutions, ultimately solving real business challenges and enhancing operational efficiency.  Cloud computing architects who adopt a…

  • Alibaba Cloud teases new modular datacenter architecture

    [ad_1] Alibaba Cloud has revealed a modular datacenter architecture it claims will help it to satisfy demand for AI infrastructure by improving performance and build times for new facilities. Announced at its annual Apsara conference yesterday, the “CUBE DC 5.0” architecture was described as using “prefabricated modular designs” plus “advanced and proprietary technologies such as…

  • Deno 2.0 moves to release candidate stage

    [ad_1] To improve dependency management, Deno 2.0 introduces a deno add subcommand to handle specifiers with a subpath. In addition, if a project contains a package.json file, Deno will prefer adding npm: dependencies to package.json rather than deno.json. Developers can add “dev dependencies” to package.json using the –dev flag. Also with Deno 2.0, deno install…