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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
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’

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
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

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
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

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
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

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

Break point: Cloudera, NeuVector, Mirantis Secure Registry, Apache Hop, Java Operator SDK, and Istio

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
The team behind Cloudera Streaming Analytics has put the finishing touches to its 1.6 release. The update, available now, comes with a tool for...

Better, faster, stronger: CUDA 11.6 puts finishing touches to 128-bit int support

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
The toolkit for Nvidia’s parallel computing platform CUDA recently got updated and is now on version 11.6. With performance and programming model enhancements in...

IPython 8.0 out now with slimmer code base, enhanced coding experience

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
Interactive Python toolkit IPython has slimmed down a bit, gained some enhancements for readability and debugging, and is available for downloading in version 8.0. Helpful...

Flink ML 2.0 paves way for better usability with algorithm implementations and Python SDK

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
After putting the project through a major refactoring and giving it a new home, the team behind machine learning library Flink ML has released...

Elixir team advances numerical computing project, plans more machine learning additions

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
After 14 months of work, the developers behind multi-dimensional tensor library Nx have decided to cut their first official release and share v0.1 with...

NumPy 1.22 kicks off windows/arm64 support, completes main annotation work

AI/ML Julia Schmidt -
After more than a half year of work, the NumPy team has released version 1.22 of the scientific computing library - the first to...

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