Articles for category: Software (Tech & Development)

March 9, 2025

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From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that these programs analyze “the statistical properties of the language” to “make educated guesses based on the words you’ve typed previously.” Or, in the words of James Vincent, a human person: “These AI tools are vast autocomplete systems, trained to predict which word follows the next

March 9, 2025

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The Netflix film adaptation of Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR now has its director

According to , Netflix has tapped Fast & Furious director Justin Lin to direct its upcoming movie adaptation of BRZRKR, the popular comic by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt about an immortal warrior. Netflix first plans to create both back in 2021, with Reeves starring in the former and returning to voice his character in the animated show. But, we’ve heard little about the projects since. In the meantime, Reeves and author China Miéville with The Book of Elsewhere, which was released last year. There are still no details on when the Netflix adaptations will air, but we can safely

March 9, 2025

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The X-37B spaceplane lands after helping pave the way for “maneuver warfare”

On this mission, military officials said the X-37B tested “space domain awareness technology experiments” that aim to improve the Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment. Defense officials consider the space domain—like land, sea, and air—a contested environment that could become a battlefield in future conflicts. Last month, the Space Force released the first image of Earth from an X-37B in space. This image was captured in 2024 as the spacecraft flew in its high-altitude orbit, and shows a portion of the X-37B’s power-generating solar array. Credit: US Space Force The Space Force hasn’t announced plans for the next X-37B

March 9, 2025

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Ignoring Protests, Christie’s Holds AI Art Auction, Makes Big Money

As Christie’s auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. “Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license,” the letter complained. “These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human

March 9, 2025

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Improving Japanese Input UX in Multilingual Applications: Properly Handling IME Conversion

Introduction In global web application development, multilingual support is an essential requirement. However, languages that use IME (Input Method Editor) such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean have unique input and conversion processes that require special consideration. This article explains issues with form operations in Japanese input and their solutions. Target Audience Web application developers Frontend developers Those involved in developing globally accessible applications The Problem: Event Handling During IME Conversion Japanese input involves a conversion process from “hiragana” to “katakana/kanji”. During this process, the following issue often occurs: Example: When trying to search for "Tokyo Tower" 1. Type "とうきょうたわー" (hiragana)

March 9, 2025

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Microsoft Ships First .NET 10 Preview — Visual Studio Magazine

News Microsoft Ships First .NET 10 Preview Microsoft shipped .NET 10 Preview 1, introducing a raft of improvements and fixes across performance, libraries, and the developer experience. The JIT compiler now optimizes array interface calls and enables stack allocation for small value type arrays, reducing heap usage. Enhanced cryptographic support includes improved certificate handling and direct PEM data reading. The new CompareOptions.NumericOrdering improves string comparisons, and ZipArchive sees performance and memory enhancements. ASP.NET Core adds OpenAPI 3.1 and YAML support, along with Blazor improvements like script asset handling and QuickGrid enhancements. EF Core 10 refines LINQ-to-SQL translation and introduces batch

March 9, 2025

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Duckduckgo launches its version of an AI search assistant – Computerworld

After nearly two years of intensive beta testing, Duckduckgo has launched the live version of the AI assistant previously known as Duck Assist. Similar to Google’s AI Overviews, the AI Assistant can provide quick answers to users’ questions, such as why Pluto is no longer classified as a planet. If users want more information, they can ask follow-up questions via the built-in chatbot Duck.ai; users can choose between generative AI (genAI) models, including GPT-4o mini, o3-mini, Llama 3.3, Mistral Small 3 and Claude 3 Haiku. Both the AI assistant and the chatbot are free to use, and don’t require an

March 9, 2025

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JFrog unveils JFrog ML for MLOps

JFrog has released JFrog ML, an MLOps solution designed to bring devops best practices to building, deploying, managing, and monitoring AI/ML workflows. The company said that by pairing practices for developing machine learning models with traditional devsecops processes, organizations can enable development teams, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to build enterprise-ready AI applications, while ensuring that models are seamlessly deployed, secured, and maintained. JFrog ML is the first addition to the JFrog platform resulting from the company’s QWAK.ai acquisition, announced in June 2024. Announced March 4, JFrog ML helps overcome challenges to the complexity of developing machine learning models

March 9, 2025

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Learn fewer skills but go deeper

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I interview Caleb Curry. He’s a software engineer and prolific computer science educator. He recently started mentoring dozens of developers directly and helping them with their skills and careers. We talk about his experience getting laid off as a dev, and how we prepared for his mid-career job search. We talk about: How Caleb got laid off and went about landing his next developer job How most people sleep on networking and recruiters, but shouldn’t Why Caleb is so serious about teaching system design concepts How Caleb pairs his deep focus with broad

March 9, 2025

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Floyd’s Cycle Algorithm for Fraud Detection in Java Systems

The Floyd Cycle Detection Algorithm (Tortoise and Hare algorithm) is an efficient cycle detection within iterative structures. In addition to linked lists, it is applicable to practical problems such as fraud detection and user workflows where data is duplicated or there are cyclic dependencies in workflows or financial transactions.  This article illustrates its practical implementation with a fraudulent detection system for banking transactions. Use Case: Detecting Fraud in Money Transfers A bank regularly monitors the money transfers among customer accounts. Fraud may involve cycles of money flowing through a number of accounts and returning back to the source (usually to