Joab Jackson has been covering the IT and computing space since the birth of the Internet. He has first-handedly reported on the dotcom boom-and-bust, XML, Web services, cloud computing, REST and JSON, big data, containerization and cloud native computing. Now, he is interested in what AI can, and can not, actually do. He has written for IDG News Service (Computerworld, PC World, Infoworld) and has held editing roles for Government Computer News, The New Stack, and The National Technology Center.
Homebrew, the unofficial but default package manager for many Apple Mac users, now has safeguards to prevent supply-chain attacks. The approach mimics how GitHub just fortified npm against attacks by establishing a ...
Terminal-based coding assistants for AI-curious developers are hot these days, and the most popular choice appears to be Claude Code. But Anthropic’s commercial offering has a new open source rival: MiMo Code, ...
Toronto startup Cohere has released an open-weight model designed for developers to use to build their own AI stack. The open-weight North Mini Code is a 30-billion-parameter “mixture-of-experts” (MoE) model. MoE equips ...
The fight to maintain security has moved to the engineer’s messy desktop. Last week, AI search provider Perplexity open-sourced an internal tool, Bumblebee, for checking developer machines, either Linux or macOS, for ...
Checking for dependency vulnerabilities in freshly developed software is usually done near the end of the build process. Remediation at that point can be tricky. Now, JavaScript and TypeScript developers can check ...
Whether the DevOps shops like it or not, they are feeling the pressure from AI. They’re expected to move more quickly, alongside their dev counterparts. The gruntwork that used to take weeks ...
