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Developers building browser-based PDF applications have traditionally faced challenges related to performance bottlenecks, limited form handling, cumbersome signing workflows, and inconsistent cross-browser experiences.

PDF software specialist Foxit is aiming to change that with the launch of a new SDK for Web v11, which with its WebAssembly-powered rendering engine, modular architecture, and deeply refactored core components, eliminates many of the long-standing problems.

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Microsoft has announced that is it transitioning Test Base for Microsoft 365 to end-of-life in just a few weeks. The EOL process for the service started at the beginning of March and will be complete by the end of May.

As Test Base for Microsoft 365 is not something that everyone will have heard of, Microsoft explains that it is "a cloud-based app testing service on Azure that evaluates the compatibility of applications with new Windows releases or updates". The company has decided that it is no longer needed because so much work has been done with Windows 11 that app compatibility issues are rare.

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Many large enterprises still rely on mainframes, but the use of legacy technology can hold back modernization and digital transformation efforts.

To help organizations progress their modernization plans, IBM is launching watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a new generative AI-assisted product that will help enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z systems and enhance developer productivity on the platform.

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A new study from O'Reilly Media looks at how developer enablement tools including GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are impacting productivity within the workplace.

And the news isn't all positive; almost half of all respondents (46 percent) say they are struggling with AI-assisted low and no-code tools that have steep learning curves and barriers to entry.

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Five-hundred-and-forty-four in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days.

Microsoft has started the rollout of the latest Moments update for Windows 11. It introduces a bunch of new features and improvements, including extended live captions support, an option to display seconds in the system tray clock, and an easier way to copy two-factor authentication codes.

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Developers are constantly innovating better and more efficient ways to deploy software, but not all teams are privy to the new strategies. We as a developer community need to eliminate all gatekeeping and share best practices. What benefits one team will help another, allowing us to continuously build on these improvements together.

Deployment velocity drives business value, but only if the software is reliable. Users won't care about receiving frequent updates if they don't work. Sharing deployment best practices can eliminate manual tasks and enable developers to focus on coding, leading to more reliable deployments and apps and more efficient processes.

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As developers increasingly rely on open source components in their projects, knowing which have been used is a key part of being able to identify updates and potential threats. This is where a software bill of materials (SBOM) is essential.

Application security testing and software research services company GrammaTech is launching a no cost SBOM service, alongside a new version of its CodeSentry software composition analysis (SCA) tool.

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A year ago we reported on the demise of Microsoft Silverlight and how OpenSilver offered an alternative for those still wanting to run Silverlight apps.

The OpenSilver developers haven't been idle in the meantime and today sees the launch of version 1.1. This allows 99.99 percent reuse of the Silverlight codebase and also guarantees an almost pixel perfect migration.

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Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) company Cobalt is today launching Agile Pentesting, a new offering that provides more control and flexibility to better meet the needs of businesses through versatile, ad hoc testing.

Agile Pentesting allows organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities at a faster, more frequent rate to minimize risk. This contrasts with what Cobalt calls 'comprehensive pentesting', which is often done in support of business drivers like compliance or M&A activity, the new offering helps accelerate customers' DevOps journeys while aligning with their CI/CD pipelines.

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Whether you're currently a Java developer, someone looking to get started, or if you sit somewhere in the middle and you're looking to up your coding game, Microsoft has a new resource site for you to check out.

Described as a one-stop shop for Java developers, the site includes beginner guides to getting started in Java coding. The site also features information about deploying and scaling Java apps, and has tips and more to help developers code productively.

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Nearly three-quarters of respondents to a new survey have adopted -- or plan to adopt within a year -- a DevOps platform in order to meet rising industry expectations around security, compliance, toolchain consolidation, and faster software delivery.

The study from GitLab shows security has overtaken even cloud computing as the number one investment area across DevOps teams at global organizations.

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Microsoft has announced the availability of the public preview of Microsoft Dev Box. The service lets developers create cloud-based workstations whenever they are needed for projects, even when working out of the office.

The company describes the secure Azure-based service as "a managed service that enables developers to create on-demand, high-performance, secure, ready-to-code, project-specific workstations in the cloud".

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More than 80 percent of organizations do not have the necessary visibility and control over their machine learning models or how they're deployed throughout the ML model development lifecycle.

To deal with this problem, Iterative has built an open-source model registry solution that allows teams to easily manage models with full context around model lineage, version, production status, data used to train the model, and more.

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It's time for a new Windows Terminal release, and the latest update takes this essential developer tool up to version 1.15.

There is quite a lot to Windows Terminal Preview 1.15, but one of the highlights is the addition of the ability to use your keyboard to select any text in the text buffer with mark mode. There is now also experimental support for scroll marks, and more.

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Code visibility platform CodeSee is launching a new online community for developers of all skill levels to help them learn, contribute, explore, and connect across the globe.

Open Source Hub (OSH) provides developers tools to onboard and understand the massive amount of code in an open source project, making it easy to contribute, collaborate, and make a meaningful contribution.

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