Bug fixing is part of the job of every developer. Whether you are building a brand-spanking-new greenfield application or maintaining a 30-year-old ball of mud, you are going to have to fix bugs.  Fixing bugs can be a challenge. Most of us have experienced the “take a day to reproduce it and two more days to figure

Lit is an interesting option among front-end JavaScript frameworks for reactive programming. It’s caught quite a bit of interest from developers, but remains relatively under-the-radar compared to some other reactive frameworks. Lit is built on top of the Mozilla Web Components standard and prioritizes speed and a small set of useful features. The Mozilla Web

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The

AI-powered AVs are increasingly honking, taking sharper turns, rolling through stop signs, or edging into crosswalks — mimicking human behavior that ironically could make them safer vehicles. The vehicles use AI to observe and shadow human behavior as they traverse millions of miles of roadways. Tesla’s Shadow Mode, for example, quietly monitors human driving, comparing

Google is making a strategic play in the AI PC space in a bid to slow Microsoft’s generative AI (genAI) technologies in Windows 11 from gobbling up every desktop. The company is promoting its brand of AI PCs with Gemini AI services integrated into ChromeOS, which is a Linux-based OS in Chromebooks. The goal: make

Chinese AI firm Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, has launched GLM-4.5, an open-source language model designed for intelligent agent applications, as competition heats up among China’s fast-growing generative AI startups. GLM-4.5 will be available in two versions, with the flagship model featuring 355 billion parameters and a lighter variant, GLM-4.5-Air, running on 106 billion parameters.

India is taking off in America, biting big chunks out of a smartphone market once served by Chinese manufacturing. This trend isn’t particularly surprising to any Apple watcher, but what might be of interest is the absolute speed with which the market is changing. The latest data tells us that the number of smartphones sold in

Experimental AI browsers are previewing new ways of browsing the internet and Microsoft this week joined the fray. The company on Monday introduced “Copilot Mode,” an AI extension designed to automate web browsing and add context to internet content. Users can switch on “Copilot Mode” in Edge for summarization, personalized results, and to compare results

When Indian energy giant Nayara Energy sued Microsoft on Monday for cutting off all paid-for services with no notice, it highlighted a relatively new risk for CIOs to worry about.  This goes beyond a vendor not delivering what it was supposed to, or outages that halt services. It raises the ugly scenario of a major

Researchers at Microsoft tried to determine which precise jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by generative AI — and the results are bad news for anyone currently enjoying the perks of a cushy desk job. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, the Microsoft team analyzed a “dataset of 200k anonymized and privacy-scrubbed