DeepSeek offers steep discounts, escalating AI price war
Opportunities and risks for enterprises DeepSeek’s aggressive pricing strategy has positioned it as a formidable player in the AI market, but experts caution that enterprises must carefully evaluate the potential risks before adoption. “While integrating DeepSeek’s AI models offers significant advantages in cost and accessibility, enterprises must carefully assess potential risks related to data privacy, […]
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Understanding thread synchronization in C#
lock (sharedObj1) { … lock (sharedObj2) { … } } Note that the order of the locks in the Thread2Work method has been changed to match the order in Thread1Work. First a lock is acquired on sharedObj1, then a lock is acquired on sharedObj2. Here is the revised version of the complete code listing: class […]
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Developers spend most of their time not coding – IDC report
Developers spend more time on operational and background tasks than they do on coding, according to an IDC analyst report published this month. Application development accounted for 16% of developers’ time in 2024, up from 15% the year before, while the majority of developers’ time was spent on operational and supportive tasks, according to the […]
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Generative AI vs. the software developer
Learn to code – and to prompt My experience with tools like GitHub Copilot is just that. AI isn’t going to create complete and finished applications out of whole cloth, but because I am an experienced developer, I know what to ask it for, and I can tell if what it has given me is correct. […]
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3 reasons to consider a data security posture management platform
DSPM extends data compliance to dark data “DSPM is an independent security layer, agnostic to infrastructure, that protects sensitive data and ensures consistent controls no matter where data travels,” says Yoav Regev, co-founder and CEO of Sentra. “It assesses exposure risks, identifies who has access to company data, classifies how data is used, ensures compliance […]
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Buckle up for faster Python programs
Exploring new features in Cython 3.1The next, still-under-wraps version of Cython offers powerful new features to convert Python to C and make existing C code easier to use. See how they work. The power of Python’s abstract base classesLevel up your use of programming abstractions in Python. Abstract base classes let you create objects that […]
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How to use asyncio: Python’s built-in async library
Now, if you’re thinking of using asyncio.sleep() in a loop to wait constantly for some external condition … don’t. While you can do this, in theory, it’s a clumsy way to handle that situation. Passing an asyncio.Event object to a task is a better approach, allowing you to just wait for the Event object to […]
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3 key features of Postman’s AI Agent Builder
Postman Postman’s Agent Builder uses the platform’s Flows visual programming interface to create multi-step workflows that integrate both API requests and AI interactions—no extensive coding required. With full integration of the new Postman AI protocol, developers can embed LLMs into their automation sequences to enable dynamic, adaptive, and intelligence-driven processes. For example, AI requests can […]
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Go 1.24 arrives with generic type aliases, boosted WebAssembly support
With the go command in Go 1.24, Go modules now can track executable dependencies using tool directives in go.mod files. This removes the need for a previous workaround of adding tools as blank imports to a file conventionally named tools.go. The go tool command now can run these tools in addition to tools shipped with […]
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A new interpreter in Python 3.14 delivers a free speed boost
Python 3.14, due out later this year, is set to receive a new type of interpreter that can boost performance by up to 30% with no changes to existing code. The CPython 3.14 change log describes the feature as “a new type of interpreter based on tail calls.” This description may be a little misleading […]
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