by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 9, 2025 | Cloud
Amazon’s Nova 2 announcement at AWS re:Invent 2025 is exactly the type of AI offering we expected from AWS and, frankly, exactly what should make thoughtful architects nervous. Nova 2 is positioned as a frontier-grade model, tightly integrated with Amazon Bedrock....
by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 9, 2025 | Cloud
IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a release that it sees Confluent as a natural fit for its hybrid cloud and...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 8, 2025 | Cloud
The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. In the December 2025 index, published December 7, R ranks 10th with a 1.96% rating. R has cracked the Tiobe index’s top 10 before,...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 8, 2025 | Cloud
A security flaw in the widely-used Apache Tika XML document extraction utility, originally made public last summer, is wider in scope and more serious than first thought, the project’s maintainers have warned. Their new alert relates to two entwined flaws, the first...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 8, 2025 | Cloud
Enterprises are testing AI in all sorts of applications, but too few of their proofs of concept (PoCs) are making into production: just 12%, according to an IDC study. Amazon Web Services is concerned about this too, with VP of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Dec 8, 2025 | Cloud
Today’s AI coding agents are impressive. They can generate complex multi-line blocks of code, refactor according to internal style, explain their reasoning in plain English, and more. However, AI agents will take you only so far unless they also can interface with...
