Cloud Computing

A single benign-sounding prompt can systematically strip safety guardrails from major language and image models, raising fresh questions about the durability of AI alignment when models are customized for enterprise use, according to Microsoft research. The technique, dubbed GRP-Obliteration, weaponizes a common AI training method called Group Relative Policy Optimization,…

Whenever a tech titan makes a sweeping statement about the future, industry professionals and even everyday users listen with both curiosity and skepticism. This was the case after Jeff Bezos recently said that in the future, no one will own a personal computer. Instead, we will rent computational power from…

Technical mastery once guaranteed advancement. For engineers, data scientists, designers, and other experts, the career ladder used to be clear: learn deeply, deliver reliably, and get promoted. But at some point, progress begins to feel less like learning new tools and more like learning new ways to influence. Every senior…

NASA’s launch-a-rocket activity includes 490 launch-readiness criteria to ensure that all ground and flight systems are prepared for launch. Having a launch-readiness checklist ensures that all operational and safety systems are ready, and validations begin long before the countdown on the launchpad. The most advanced devops teams automate their release-readiness…

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set having been frozen in December. The following 10 features are officially targeted to JDK 26:…

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has declined over the past six months, from a high market share of 26.98% last July to 21.81% in this month’s…

Salesforce has signaled a major strategic shift for its long-standing cloud platform Heroku by ending sales of new Heroku Enterprise contracts and moving the service into a maintenance-focused “sustaining engineering” phase. “Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support…. Enterprise Account contracts…

Why traditional data quality is no longer enough Modern enterprise data platforms operate at a petabyte scale, ingest fully unstructured sources, and evolve constantly. In such environments, rule-based data quality systems fail to keep pace. They depend on manual constraint definitions that do not generalize to messy, high-dimensional, fast-changing data….

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often just one or two, doing unpaid work that companies use as essential infrastructure, as…

Devops continues to expand in development environments everywhere from small startups to the largest global enterprises. The worldwide devops market, including products and services, increased from $10.56 billion in 2023 to $12.4 billion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company. The firm predicts the market will expand to $37.33…

Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 development platform, which dates back to November 2007, is no longer included as an optional Windows component. Microsoft has changed its deployment model to standalone installer status for future Windows versions. In a bulletin published February 5, Microsoft said that beginning with Windows 11 Insider Preview…

Anthropic only released its latest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, on Thursday, but it has already been using it behind the scenes to identify zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source software. In the trial, it put Claude inside a virtual machine with access to the latest versions of open source projects,…

Last month, I met with a mid-sized law firm facing a common dilemma. Their Windows 10 laptops were nearing the end of support and needed to be replaced. Typically, this meant buying new hardware and software—predictable and straightforward. But this time, Microsoft suggested a different approach: move to Windows 365…

How does Python’s new native JIT stack up against PyPy? Is there life for machine learning applications outside of Python? And can we run our Python apps in WebAssembly yet? Keep reading for answers to these and other burning questions from the Python develop-o-sphere. Top picks for Python readers on…

Google is previewing the Developer Knowledge API and an associated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which together offer a machine-readable gateway to the company’s official developer documentation. Announced February 4, the Developer Knowledge API is designed to be the programmatic source of truth for Google’s public documentation. Developers can access…