Copilot crazy? Microsoft shoe-horns AI assistant into Windows 11, Power BI, Analytics and more

Microsoft’s Build developer event kicks off today, with a heavy focus on AI including Copilots for Windows 11 and a bunch of other products....

Cloudflare adds AI services as CTO says “a developer platform without AI” is little use

Cloudflare has introduced new services at its Developer Week now under way, including Constellation, which enables running inference tasks using pre-trained models in Cloudflare...

Stack Overflow traffic drops as developers turn to AI coding assistants

Traffic to programmer help site Stack Overflow has been dropping “by an average of 6% every month since January 2022, and was down 13.9%...

Brussels greenlights AI Act, chews over Cyber Resilience legislation

The European Parliament has given the go-ahead to its proposed AI Act, after provisions covering how generative AI tools use copyrighted materials in developing...

RSA boss warns of ‘scary truth’: AI ‘co-pilots’ swooping on dev and sec jobs

AI is taking increasing chunks of developers and security pros' work, whether the pros in question realize it or not. Kicking off the RSA conference...

AWS CodeWhisperer AI coder now generally available, remains free for individual developers

AWS has released CodeWhisperer, its AI coding assistant, to general availability. CodeWhisperer is the company’s equivalent to GitHub CoPilot and has been in preview...

Microsoft’s Leslie Miley, technical advisor to the CTO, warns devs of both bias in AI and its environmental cost

QCon London kicked off this week, opening with a sombre keynote from Leslie Miley, Microsoft technical advisor to the CTO on matters including analytics...

GitHub claims new smarter Copilot will block insecure code, writes 40-60% of developer output

GitHub has updated its Copilot coding assistant with new features including a “vulnerability filtering system” to block insecure coding patterns such as SQL injection...

AWS CodeWhisperer AI coding service updated with new languages, enterprise login, and more

This is a big week for AWS, with its Re:invent conference under way in Las Vegas. An early news release has revealed a revamp...

‘Project Wisdom’ for Red Hat Ansible: AI to generate YAML playbooks from natural language

Red Hat has introduced “Project Wisdom”, a natural language processor for creating Ansible playbooks, used to automate application deployment and IT infrastructure updates. The...

GitHub Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits ‘large chunks of my copyrighted code’

Developer Tim Davis, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has claimed on Twitter that GitHub Copilot, an AI-based programming...

AWS CodeWhisperer enters preview stage, early testers encounter snags

AWS has commenced the invitation-only preview of CodeWhisperer, its AI-powered automatic coder, but early testers have hit problems including the mysterious appearance of other...

Mintlify will document code with AI – but there is no substitute for the human factor

Mintlify, a startup specializing in automated code documentation, secured $2.8 million in seed funding this week. The company was founded in late 2021 by...

Chris Lattner cuts last ties to Swift project

Chris Lattner, the mind behind compiler infrastructure project LLVM and Apple's Swift language, has left the Swift core team and the Swift Evolution community...

TensorFlow 2.8 lends hand at text processing, continues to lure devs onto more powerful hardware

Machine learning practitioners with an interest in hardware acceleration can find some new things to try in the just released version 2.8 of the...

Here’s to easy access: Apache Kafka 3.1 presents OIDC support, open endpoint queries

The team behind distributed event streaming platform Apache Kafka is currently putting a lot of effort into following through with larger projects such the...