DARPA Turns to AI to Help Turn C and C++ Code Into Rust
DARPA will lean on emerging AI capabilities to deal with the costly and time-consuming challenge of rewriting C and C++ code to Rust in a move designed to meet the push for federal agencies and private organizations to adopt memory-safe programming languages.
BMC Brings Generative AI to the Mainframe
BMC as part of a broader commitment to building generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistants to simply the management of mainframes, has made available in beta a tool that explains code functionality.
Delta CEO Puts Price Tag on CrowdStrike Damage: $500 Million
Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Ed Bastian has put a price tag on CrowdStrike Inc.’s debilitating outage to his airline, $500 million, leaving the company “no choice” but to seek damages from five days of disruptions.
Survey Finds Speed of Software Deployment Outpacing Security
A survey of 5,315 individual contributors and leaders in development, IT operations and security finds two-thirds (66%) are releasing software faster than they were a year ago.
Lightrun Adds Generative AI Tool to Debug Code in Runtime Environments
Lightrun this week added a runtime debugging tool that makes use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the root cause of issues in runtime environments.
ZEST Security Brings Generative AI to Cloud Infrastructure Security
ZEST Security has launched a platform that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to remediate code created using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
Report: High Risks to Software Supply Chains are Commonplace
A nine-month analysis of more than 100 million alerts, tens of thousands of code repositories, and 140,000 real-world applications finds 95% of organizations have at least one high, critical, or apocalyptic risk within their software supply chain.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
A weekly DevOps jobs report from DevOps.com with highlighted opportunities, including the latest engineer roles at Roche and GSK.
CrowdStrike CEO: 97% of Windows Systems Back Online After Crash
More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but the pain from the worldwide outage will continue to be felt.
More Than 3,000 ‘Ghost’ Accounts Spreading Malware on GitHub
GitHub and similar open-source code and project repositories have become a common target of cybercriminals looking to lure developers into unknowingly downloading malicious scripts.
Backslash Security Adds Simulation and Generative AI Tools to DevSecOps Platform
Backslash Security today added an ability to simulate upgrades to a higher version of an application to its application security platform for scanning code and creating software bills of materials (SBOMs).
Survey Surfaces Mass Open Source Java Migration
A global survey of 663 IT professionals with Java expertise finds 86% are migrating some portion of their applications to an open-source edition of the Java platform or have already migrated (25%).
Survey Surfaces Wide Generative AI Adoption Among Software Engineers
A survey of 509 software engineers finds nearly three-quarters (72%) are leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities somewhere in a software development process, with nearly half (48%) reporting they use these tools every day.
Coralogix Extends Reach of Observability Platform to Mobile Applications
Coralogix this week extended the reach of its observability platform to add real-time user monitoring (RUM) capabilities for mobile applications.
CrowdStrike: Faulty Test Software Led to Global Windows Crash
A tool for validating Rapid Response Content updates to the Falcon software improperly let one with “problematic content” get through.
Secure Code Warrior Unveils Agent to Manage Commit Permissions
Secure Code Warrior (SCW) today added an agent to its portfolio of application security that assesses the security competency of developers as they commit code to a repository.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Our weekly report of some great job opportunities for DevOps professionals, including engineer roles at Google and Walmart.
CrowdStrike Software Update Sparks Microsoft Outage, Global Chaos
Airlines, hospitals, banks and other businesses were disrupted when a faulty software update knocked Windows users of their systems.
Quali Bakes Generative AI into Environment as Code Platform
Quali has added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) capability to its Torque platform for managing infrastructure-as-code that enables DevOps teams to use natural language to describe a template, that is then automatically created and implemented.
Survey Surfaces Troubling Signs of Software Supply Chain Insecurity
A survey of software engineering professions has uncovered disconcerting signs of software supply chain insecurity.
Pair of Surveys Surface Primary Developer Productivity Challenges
A survey of 900 developers finds well over two-thirds (69%) said developers are losing eight or more hours of their working week to inefficiencies created by, for example, technical debt, insufficient documentation and flawed build processes.
Valory Unveils AI Software Engineer for Building Multiple Types of Agents
Valory has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, dubbed Propel Genie, that is specially designed to act as a software engineer for building multiple types of agents.
Tricentis Acquires SeaLights to Map Code Changes to Tests
Tricentis today revealed it has acquired SeaLights, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that uses machine learning algorithms to keep track of changes to code.