HR professionals trust AI recommendations
When it comes to AI and hiring, 73% of HR professionals surveyed said they trust AI to recommend whom to hire, according to a newly released report from HireVue, provider of a hiring platform that leverages AI. However, the same survey indicated that workers are not sold on the use of AI for hiring. Released […]
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How platform teams lead to better, faster, stronger enterprises
Modernization has become table stakes for organizations, but transitioning to the cloud requires a brand new technology stack. More and more, IT leaders are turning to cloud and Kubernetes technologies to help developers and operations teams deploy, manage and scale applications more easily. However, the growing complexity of modern application development poses significant challenges for […]
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Safety off: Programming in Rust with `unsafe`
extern “C” { fn abs(input: i32) -> i32; } fn main() { unsafe { println!(“Absolute value of -3 according to C: {}”, abs(-3)); } } Any calls made to the functions exposed via the extern “C” block must be wrapped in unsafe, the better to ensure you take proper responsibility for what you send to […]
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AI’s moment of disillusionment
We still haven’t learned This letdown isn’t just an AI thing. We go through this process of inflated expectations and disillusionment with pretty much every shiny new technology. Even something as settled as cloud keeps getting kicked around. My InfoWorld colleague, David Linthicum, recently ripped into cloud computing, arguing that “the anticipated productivity gains and cost […]
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Progressive web app essentials: Service worker background sync
const URL = “https://8014-35-223-70-178.ngrok-free.app/”; // 1 const taskChannel = new BroadcastChannel(‘task-channel’); // 2 taskChannel.onmessage = event => { // 3 persistTask(event.data.data); // 4 registration.sync.register(‘task-sync’); // 5 }; let db = null; // 6 let request = indexedDB.open(“TaskDB”, 1); // 7 request.onupgradeneeded = function(event) { // 8 db = event.target.result; // 9 if (!db.objectStoreNames.contains(“tasks”)) { // […]
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FTC’s non-compete ban almost certainly dead, based on a Texas federal court decision
The political dynamics of legislatively dealing with non-competes make it unappealing to members of Congress. The move is favorable to employees — and there are more of them, so those are potential votes. But employers like non-competes and they can spend money via lobbying to help members get elected. In a choice of money versus […]
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How to use Refit to consume APIs in ASP.NET Core
Refit is an open-source library for .NET, .NET Core, and Xamarin that makes consuming REST APIs simpler and easier by enabling you to define the API endpoints as C# interfaces, thereby eliminating the need to create HTTP requests and parse HTTP responses manually. In this article we will delve into the Refit library for .NET […]
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Understanding DiskANN, a foundation of the Copilot Runtime
One of the key components of Microsoft’s Copilot Runtime edge AI development platform for Windows is a new vector search technology, DiskANN (Disk Accelerated Nearest Neighbors). Building on a long-running Microsoft Research project, DiskANN is a way of building and managing vector indexes inside your applications. It uses a mix of in-memory and disk storage […]
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Rust types team moves forward on next-gen trait solver
The Rust types team has made significant progress on the next-generation trait solver, according to a June 26 blog post. Work done to stabilize the use of the next-generation trait solver in coherence checking surfaced small behavior regressions and hangs, which caused delays. But the team is close to compiling the standard library and the […]
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The perils of overengineering generative AI systems
Cloud is the easiest way to build generative AI systems; that’s why cloud revenues are skyrocketing. However, many of these systems are overengineered, which drives complexity and unnecessary costs. Overengineering is a familiar issue. We’ve been overthinking and overbuilding systems, devices, machines, vehicles, etc., for many years. Why would the cloud be any different? Overengineering […]
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