GitLab is reportedly up for sale

GitLab, funded by Google, may be up for sale, sources say

GitLab has reportedly garnered interest from buyers and is considering a sale. As AI and cloud computing fuel acquisitions in the technology sector, these mergers and acquisitions are increasingly under review.

Company overview and market position

At a valuation of about $8 billion, GitLab has positioned itself as an essential player in the software development space. Its platform automatically integrates various tools and provides a common tool for software design by...

18 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Genkit for Go: Google’s AI framework for gophers

Google has announced the alpha release of Genkit for Go, an open-source framework designed to empower Go developers ("gophers") in building AI applications and cloud services.

A result of collaboration between the Firebase and Go teams, Genkit for Go aims to combine Go's simplicity, scalability, and security with Genkit's robust libraries and tools.

Genkit for Go provides a unified generation API, native vector database support, and "Flows" for organising multi-step AI...

17 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Arm’s new upscaler promises PC-quality graphics on mobile

Arm has introduced an open-source solution aimed at enhancing graphics upscaling on mobile devices. The solution promises to bring PC-quality gaming experiences to smartphones while optimising performance and power consumption.

‘Arm Accuracy Super Resolution’ (Arm ASR) is a temporal upscaler, which combines information from multiple frames to generate high-quality images from lower resolution targets. This approach allows game developers to render graphics at lower resolutions...

12 July 2024 | API

GitLab update addresses pipeline execution vulnerability

GitLab has released critical security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a high-severity flaw that could allow attackers to run pipeline jobs as arbitrary users.

The company strongly recommends all GitLab installations be upgraded immediately to the latest versions: 17.1.2, 17.0.4, or 16.11.6 for both Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE).

The most critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-6385) affects GitLab versions 15.8 to 17.1.1. With a CVSS...

11 July 2024 | Developer

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

The lawsuit was initiated by a group of developers in 2022 and originally made 22 claims against the companies, alleging copyright violations related to the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant.

Judge Jon Tigar's ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and...

10 July 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

CocoaPods flaws highlight growing supply chain risks

Security researchers at E.V.A Information Security have uncovered several critical vulnerabilities in CocoaPods, a popular dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects. These vulnerabilities potentially expose millions of Apple devices to supply chain attacks, highlighting the growing risks associated with open-source software dependencies.

CocoaPods, used in over three million mobile apps, plays a crucial role in the iOS and macOS development ecosystem. The discovered...

2 July 2024 | Developer

GitLab’s DevSecOps report highlights AI challenges

GitLab's 8th annual Global DevSecOps Report has unveiled a complex landscape of software development, highlighting disparities between executive perceptions and developer realities. The survey, conducted in April 2024, gathered insights from over 5,300 professionals across the software development spectrum.

While 69% of CxOs report shipping software at least twice as fast as last year, AI adoption remains low, with only 26% of respondents implementing AI in their workflows. This...

28 June 2024 | Approaches

Nokia and Google Cloud partner to equip developers with 5G app tools

Nokia and Google Cloud partner to equip developers with 5G app tools

Nokia has announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at equipping developers worldwide with the necessary network software tools to create innovative new 5G enterprise and consumer applications faster for their customers.

A key component is that Nokia's Network as Code platform, along with its developer portal, will now run on Google Cloud. This enhances the developer experience by providing access to Google Cloud's data, generative AI solutions, and capabilities...

19 June 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Mozilla ramps up Manifest V3 support in Firefox

Mozilla continues to increase Manifest V3 (MV3) support for add-on developers, with recent Firefox releases introducing key improvements aimed at enhancing Chrome compatibility and user experience.

Building upon previous work in Firefox 126, the release of Firefox 127 this week brought several notable enhancements.

One significant update involves keyboard shortcuts for extensions.

"Customised keyboard shortcuts associated with the executebrowser_action command...

14 June 2024 | API

Angel Montesdeoca, IBM: The role of AI in modern software development

In an interview ahead of Digital Transformation Week, Angel Montesdeoca, Program Director of Product Management for watsonx Code Assistant at IBM, discussed the company's approach to integrating AI into software development tools and accelerating the application lifecycle.

The age of generative AI 

According to Montesdeoca, we are living in "the age of generative AI" with huge investments being made in infrastructure, applications, and AI models across the tech industry....

31 May 2024 | Artificial Intelligence