I read Brent’s first look at SSMS and Copilot in there. He didn’t have a great opinion of the tool, especially comparing it to Gemini or Claude. I haven’t tested this yet, mostly because I’ve got other stuff going on, but I decided to take his prompt and the code and drop it into the dedicated Copilot App on my Windows 11 laptop. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems.I have a button that starts Copilot, so I pressed it and put in this prompt:This was copied from Brent’s post, and then his code copied and…
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Today, APIs have become the foundation of digital innovations around the world. APIs, being the weakest part of your IT infrastructure, are often susceptible to cyberattacks. As product delivery is hastened by the continuous rise of agile development practices, traditional security models fall short of expectations. This is the reason the shift-left approach to API security testing is now gaining traction. Agile enterprises can achieve a perfect balance between speed and safety by moving security testing earlier in their development lifecycle. Shift-left API security testing is more than a mere development trend; it’s also a strategic business decision. It reduces risk,…
New Relic this week made available a preview of an integration with the artificial intelligence (AI) agents it created for its observability platform with the AI agents that GitHub has developed.Nic Benders, chief technical strategist for New Relic, said AI agents that the company has developed will now be able to create an issue that GitHub Copilot will be able to use to improve an application. GitHub Copilot will analyze the issue, draft a fix, and submit a draft pull request for human review. The New Relic platform will then validate the change once it is merged.In effect, the New…
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Harness today revealed it has developed a model context protocol (MCP) server through which it will be able to provide more context to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, agents and platforms that are being used to build software.Rohan Gupta, a principal product manager for continuous delivery and AI DevOps for Harness, said exposing the data residing in the Harness continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform will streamline workflows by eliminating the need to rely on custom plug-ins and application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide additional context about the application development environments where code is ultimately deployed.Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP is based…
SciPy’s linear algebra module (scipy.linalg) provides optimized implementations of fundamental linear algebra operations through BLAS and LAPACK libraries, offering better performance and more specialized functions than numpy.linalg for most scientific computing tasks. Version 1.15.3 delivers comprehensive matrix operations, decompositions, eigenvalue solvers, and specialized matrix functions that extend beyond NumPy’s capabilities.Why Choose scipy.linalg Over numpy.linalgPerformance testing consistently shows scipy.linalg functions running 5-10% faster than their numpy.linalg counterparts across different BLAS implementations (MKL, ACML, OpenBLAS). While numpy.linalg offers better broadcasting support for “stacked” arrays, scipy.linalg provides specialized functions like LU decomposition, Schur decomposition, matrix transcendentals, and multiple pseudoinverse calculation methods that aren’t…
Let’s say you’ve got a set of static files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc) that build your website. Perhaps it’s your portfolio website, thanks to having taken Jen Kramer’s course Web Development Project: Personal Portfolio Website, for example, but it could be anything. Hey, what do you know, I’ve got some static files that make a nice personal portfolio page right here. We’ve covered the very fastest way to get those files turned into a deployed website on the internet already, using Netlify’s tool. That totally works, but we can take things a little further to make things easier on…
In recent years, the term DevOps has become one of the most talked-about buzzwords in the technology world. You’ll hear it in boardroom discussions, IT conferences, job postings, and even startup meetups. Companies want to “go DevOps,” developers want to work in DevOps environments, and recruiters are constantly looking for DevOps Engineers. But despite all this hype, DevOps is often misunderstood. Many think it’s a tool or a new kind of job title. In reality, DevOps is not a technology—it’s a mindset.This article explains what DevOps really means, why it’s important, and how it embodies a cycle of continuous practices—like…
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Cary, North Carolina, May 28th, 2025, CyberNewsWireINE Security, a global cybersecurity training and certification provider, today announced a strategic partnership with RedTeam Hacker Academy through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This agreement significantly accelerates INE Security’s expansion strategy in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region while enhancing cybersecurity training capabilities across the market.The agreement was formalized at the Dubai World Trade Centre, with the signing ceremony attended by Jaizal Ali, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RedTeam Hacker Academy, and Brett Erskine, Chief Revenue Officer of INE Security. This partnership represents a shared commitment to addressing…