Microsoft is taking the unprecedented step of allowing other vendors to set up shop within the app store that launches next week. Amazon and Epic Games have already accepted Microsoft's invitation to integrate into the open-to-all Microsoft Store on Windows.

GitLab, the web-based repository manager for Git, has been updated with improvements including project-level security scan execution policies and improved SAST to reduce Ruby false positives. GitLab provides issue-tracking, continuous integration, and deployment pipeline support.

A recent paper by dozens of Stanford researchers calls AI models similar to the massive GPT-3 "foundation models", sparking a polarized response from other AI researchers and onlookers alike.

After its resounding success with a Kickstarter Campaign last year for OAK its Depth Sensing  AI Kit, OpenCV has returned with a new Kickstarter, this time for OAK-D-Lite, a smaller device that is intended to bring Spatial AI to everyone.

The second beta of the new "Swan Lake" version of programming language Ballerina has been released with new language features together with improvements and bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, standard library, and developer tooling.

The developers of Gitpod have announced a new open source project for running VS Code in the browser. The project is based on Gitpod’s OpenVSCode Server, which runs a server on a remote machine and allows access through a web browser to run upstream, stock VS Code.

Results of an O'Reilly survey of data and AI professionals indicates a marked gender pay gap. It also reveals that certification, in particular cloud certification, is associated with both higher salaries and salary increases.

Google has announced a new managed application delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Google Cloud Deploy is described as a managed, opinionated continuous delivery service that makes continuous delivery to GKE easier, faster, and more reliable.

Top honors in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 went to Team Alquist from the Czech Technical University while Stanford University's Chirpy Cardinal and PROTO from the University of Buffalo won the second and third prizes respectively.

The venerable Unicode standard gets an update. We report the news and go behind the scenes with a brief look at the standard's philosophy and practical use.

Apache has released Kafka 3.0 with new features, breaking API changes, and improvements to KRaft—Apache Kafka’s built-in consensus mechanism that will replace Apache ZooKeeper.

Finding and retaining open source talent is an overwhelming priority for hiring managers and increasingly they are looking for those with certification. 

DataStax has extended its Astra DB cloud database to be available in multiple regions and multiple clouds. Astra DB is built on Apache Cassandra and now supports multi-region deployments on any of three major cloud providers - AWS, Azure, and Google.