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Nvidia's NeMo Guardrails Enhances Safety in Generative AI Applications
Nvidia's new NeMo Guardrails package for large language models (LLMs) helps developers prevent LLM risks like harmful or offensive content and access to sensitive data, by providing an essential layer of protection in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.
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C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has introduced the C# Dev Kit, a new extension to Visual Studio Code, offering an enhanced C# development environment for Linux, macOS and Windows. This kit, combined with the C# extension, uses an open-source Language Server Protocol (LSP) host to provide an efficient and configurable environment.
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Meta's Open-Source Massively Multilingual Speech AI Handles over 1,100 Languages
Meta AI open-sourced the Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model, which supports automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) in over 1,100 languages and language identification (LID) in over 4,000 languages. MMS can outperform existing models and covers nearly 10x the number of languages.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant: CLI Tool Synced with Visual Studio Extension Engine
A new and updated version of the Upgrade Assistant CLI tool. The latest release ensures that the CLI tool now includes all the new features which are already available in the Visual Studio Extension. The latest release now offers developers a choice between Visual Studio and CLI experiences, allowing them to take advantage of the latest features and improvements offered by the .NET upgrade tool.
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.NET Hot Reload Adds Support for Modifying Generics
In the .NET 8 Preview 4 release, .NET Hot Reload implements support for modifying generic methods, reducing the number of changes that require restarting for the change to take effect.
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Apple Introduces SwiftData, a SwiftUI-Ready Core Data Replacement
At WWDC 2023, Apple introduced SwiftData, a new framework that provides a declarative, Swift-first API enabling to work with data persistence in iOS apps. SwiftData can easily make a Swift class into a persistent model and is especially suited to be used with SwiftUI.
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Latest Updates for Azure App Service Presented at Microsoft Build 2023
The Microsoft Build 2023 event showcased the latest updates and additions to the Azure App Service. The event, held in person in Seattle, included some group sessions, demonstrations and Q&A sessions on Azure App Service with such topics as changes within PremiumV3, Automatic Scaling or memory optimisation for ASEv3.
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Ruiz and Almiray at Devoxx UK: Lessons on How to Escape the Maven Dependency Hell
During their Devoxx UK talk Ixchel Ruiz, developer advocate at JFrog, and Andres Almiray, principal product manager at Oracle, presented multiple “maven puzzlers" together with their potential solutions to escaping the Apache Maven dependencies hell. In an effort to be as comprehensive as possible, they spoke about direct, transient and even inherited dependencies from parent POMs.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 in Rampdown, JEP 404, JDK 22 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Updates
This week's Java roundup for June 5th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21 in Rampdown, JDK 22 expert group, Jakarta EE 11 update, Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0, Quarkus 3.1.1, Micronaut 3.9.3, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.3, Apache Commons IO 2.13, Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M7 and 9.0.76, Infinispan 14.0.10 and 13.0.17, JHipster Lite 0.34, OpenXava 7.1.1, Yupiik Fusion 1.0.3, Gradle 8.2-RC2 and JNation.
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AWS Open-Sources Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
AWS has open-sourced Cedar, their language for defining access permissions using policies. Cedar is integrated within both Amazon Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access. Cedar can also be integrated directly into an application via the provided SDK and language specification.
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JEP 443: Unnamed Patterns and Variables Aims to Improve Java Code Readability
JEP 443, Unnamed Patterns and Variables (Preview), has been Completed from Targeted status for JDK 21. This preview JEP proposes to "enhance the language with unnamed patterns, which match a record component without stating the component's name or type, and unnamed variables, which can be initialized but not used."
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GitHub Announces Code Scanning and Security Advisory Support for Swift
GitHub has launched code scanning support for Swift in beta and announced it will include Swift security advisories in its Advisory Database to extend the capabilities of its Dependabot vulnerability monitor.
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JunoDB: PayPal Open Sources Key-Value Store Powering 350 Billion Daily Requests
PayPal recently open-sourced JunoDB, a distributed key-value store that uses RocksDB as the underlying storage engine. A highly available and security-focused database, JunoDB serves daily 350 billion requests at PayPal.
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Structured Concurrency in JDK 21: A Leap Forward in Concurrent Programming
JEP 453, Structured Concurrency (Preview), has been Integrated from the Targeted status for JDK 21. Formerly an incubating API, this initial preview incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from the previous two rounds of incubation: JEP 428, Structured Concurrency (Incubator), delivered in JDK 19; and JEP 437, Structured Concurrency (Second Incubator), delivered in JDK 20.
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Uno Platform 4.9: Media Player Element, WebView2 and Native Host Support for Skia
Uno Platform released version 4.9 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. The latest version brings the MediaPlayerElement control and WebView2 support which are two community long awaited features. Also, beyond these additions, the release includes over 100 other improvements and enhancements, including the native host support for Skia.