4 highlights from EDB Postgres AI
35% of enterprise leaders will consider Postgres for their next project, based on internal research conducted by EDB, which also revealed that out of this group, the great majority believe that AI is going mainstream in their organization. Add to this, for the first time ever, analytical workloads have begun to surpass transactional workloads. Enterprises […]
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JetBrains AI Assistant to integrate Google Gemini AI models
JetBrains plans to use the Google Cloud Vertex AI development platform to bring Google Gemini AI models into JetBrains’ AI Assistant, the company’s AI-powered programming assistant that integrates with JetBrains IDEs (integrated development environments). JetBrains announced the plan on June 18. AI Assistant will combine the functionality of OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the Gemini models, and several […]
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Python pick: Monkeytype automates type hints
What’s new this (half-)month in Python and elsewhere? First up is Monkeytype, an Instagram-created library with a somewhat silly name. What’s not silly is using it to add type hints automatically to untyped Python code. We also have five lesser-known tools for data science, a chance to go feet-first into Django 5 without getting swamped, […]
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Apple readies AI for iPhone, Mac, iPad
Billed as “AI for the rest of us,” Apple’s newly launched Apple Intelligence system will serve as a “personal intelligence system” for iPhone, Mac, and iPad. Announced June 10 and due in beta this fall, Apple Intelligence puts powerful generative AI models at the core of the three key Apple platforms, harnessing the power of […]
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BrandPost: Enhancing your cyber defense with Wazuh threat intelligence integrations
Cyber defense safeguards information systems, networks, and data from cyber threats through proactive security measures. It involves deploying strategies and technologies to protect against evolving threats that may cause harm to business continuity and reputation. These strategies include risk assessment and management, threat detection and incident response planning, and disaster recovery. Threat Intelligence (TI) plays […]
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Inside today’s Azure AI cloud data centers
Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual Azure infrastructure presentations at Build are always fascinating as he explores the past, present, and future of the hardware that underpins the cloud. This year’s talk was no different, focusing on the same AI platform touted in the rest of the event. Over the years it’s been clear that Azure’s […]
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Oracle APEX adds generative AI assistant
Oracle has updated its managed low-code application development platform, Application Express, or APEX, with a programming assistent driven by generative AI. The APEX AI Assistant debuts in Oracle APEX 24.1. Oracle APEX can be used via any of Oracle’s database services across the company’s on-premises and cloud infrastructure. The APEX AI Assistant can generate SQL […]
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Polymorphism and inheritance in Java
Polymorphism—or an object’s ability to execute specialized actions based on its type—is what makes Java code flexible. Many design patterns created by the Gang Of Four rely on some form of polymorphism, including the Command pattern. In this article, you will learn the basics of Java polymorphism and how to use it in your programs. […]
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Apple’s Xcode 16 adds AI-powered code completion
Apple has released a beta version of Xcode 16, an update to the integrated development environment (IDE) for Apple platforms that features AI-powered predictive code completion. Accommodations for the Swift language and the planned Swift 6 language release also are highlighted. The Xcode 16 beta was made available June 10 on the Apple Developer website. […]
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What's wrong with Java's sun.misc.Unsafe?
Java’s sun.misc.Unsafe class has been in use since 2002. It provides essential low-level methods that framework developers use to deliver otherwise unobtainable features and performance. Unfortunately, Unsafe also has long-standing problems related to JVM maintainability. And, as the name implies, it isn’t exactly safe to use. A newer JEP proposes to remove sun.misc.Unsafe’s memory access methods in a […]
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