TypeScript 5.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, has arrived in beta with improvements ranging from performance and size optimizations to regular expression checking.

The TypeScript 5.5 beta was introduced April 25 and can be accessed through Nuget or the following command: npm -D typescript@beta. A release candidate is due June 4, and the final release is planned for June 18.

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In a breakthrough for the healthcare industry, researchers have unveiled Meditron, a suite of open-source large language models (LLMs), specifically designed to assist medical professionals.

Jointly developed by researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Yale School of Medicine, and supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the LLM is built upon the Meta Llama2 platform and trained on “carefully curated, high-quality medical data sources,” Meta said in a blog post.

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Back in the early days of the cloud, I had a nice little business taking enterprise applications and reengineering them so they could be delivered as software-as-a-service cloud assets. Many enterprises believed that their custom application, which provided value by addressing a niche need, could be resold as a SaaS service and become another source of income.

I saw a tire company, a healthcare company, a bank, and even a bail-bond management company attempt to become cloud players before infrastructure as a service was a thing. Sometimes it worked out.

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Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, aka “Noble Numbat,” a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for developers.

Announced April 25 and downloadable from ubuntu.com, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS offers Linux 6.8 kernel capabilities with improved syscall performance, nested KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support on ppc64el (IBM PowerPC), and access to the new beachefs file system. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays, Canonical said. The release also enables frame pointers by default on 64-bit architectures, giving performance engineers access to accurate flame graphs when systems are profiled for troubleshooting and optimization. Frame pointers offer more complete CPU profiling and off-CPU profiling, according to Intel.

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Microsoft has introduced version 8 of the .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) Community Toolkit, featuring TouchBehavior, for interacting with visual elements in an application based on touch, mouse clicks, and hover events.

The update was introduced April 24. Instructions for getting started with the toolkit are available on GitHub.

With the new release, the TouchBehavior implementation enables customization of different visual properties on the VisualElement it is attached to, such as the background color, opacity, scale, and rotation. TouchBehavior also makes it possible to implement long-press touch gestures and enables invoking of code whenever a user presses any visual element in an app. TouchBehavior formerly was known as TouchEffect in the Xamarin Community Toolkit in the Xamarin.Forms app.

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