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Microsoft Previews Azure API Management Workspaces
Microsoft recently added a new feature to Azure API Management with Workspaces, designed to enable developers to manage multiple API services from a single location, allowing them to easily view and modify all of their API services in one place.
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Uno Platform 4.8: New App Template Wizard & Design System Package Import, .NET 8 Preview 2, and More
Uno Platform released version 4.8 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. The latest version brings over 200 fixes and new features, as well as support for .NET 8 Preview 2. The highlight of the new release is the new startup experience, new App Template Wizard, OpenGL Acceleration, Design System Package Import, updates for Reactive / MVUX, and many more.
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AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3
During the latest Pi Day, AWS announced Mountpoint for Amazon S3, an open-source file client to deliver high throughput access on Amazon S3. Currently in alpha, the local mount point provides high single-instance transfer rates and is primarily intended for data lake applications.
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AWS and NVIDIA to Collaborate on Next-Gen EC2 P5 Instances for Accelerating Generative AI
AWS and NVIDIA announced the development of a highly scalable, on-demand AI infrastructure that is specifically designed for training large language models and creating advanced generative AI applications. The collaboration aims to create the most optimized and efficient system of its kind, capable of meeting the demands of increasingly complex AI tasks.
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Explore the Latest Updates to WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework
Recent updates to the WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework, including the ability to convert older .NET Framework-based apps to .NET 6, 7, or 8+ and new features like the Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer. Upgrading to newer frameworks creates opportunities to support modern technologies like EF Core and many more valuable updates.
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Java 20 Delivers Features for Projects Amber, Loom and Panama
Oracle has released version 20 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes seven (7) JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panama along with new rounds of preview and incubation.
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TypeScript 5 GA Extends Decorators, Stabilizes New Module Resolution Option, and More
After announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta three months ago, TypeScript 5 has finally reached general availability. Among the most relevant changes are extended support for decorators to enable their placement before or after export and export defaults, the new bundler module resolution option, and more.
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The Sentence Similarity Scenario in ML.NET Model Builder
Microsoft recently published information about adding the Sentence Similarity scenario in Model Builder. This scenario allows the training of custom sentence similarity models. Together with the addition of this scenario to the Model Builder, it is no longer necessary to install the Model Builder GPU extension.
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Stack Overflow Sentiment Survey Aims to Identify Experimental and Proven Technologies
Stack Overflow has published its 2023 Emergent Tech Sentiment Survey, aiming to gauge how developers perceive utility and impact of a range of "buzz-worthy" technologies like quantum computing, nanotechnology, blockchain, and others, as well as other more established ones including cloud computing, machine learning, robotics, and more.
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Microsoft Adds Support for Pod Sandboxing to Azure Kubernetes Service
Microsoft has released, in preview, support for pod sandboxing in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Available within all Azure regions for a subset of Azure VM sizes, pod sandboxing provides an isolation boundary between the container application and the shared kernel and compute resources of the container host.
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Java News Roundup: New JEPs, GraalVM 23 Early-Access, Infinispan, Mojarra, Micrometer Metrics
This week's Java roundup for March 13th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM 23.0 early-access, Spring Tools 4.18, Quarkus 3.0-Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2 CR4, Micrometer Metrics 1.11, Micrometer Tracing 1.1, Infinispan 14.0.7, Piranha 23.3, Project Reactor 2022.0.5, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0.2, Apache Groovy 4.0.10 and 3.0.16, JHipster Lite 0.29.0, JReleaser 1.5.1 and JobRunr 6.1.2.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.10 Released
Recently, the Dapr maintainers released V1.10 of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub-brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions.
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Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta
Microsoft has released the TypeScript 5.0 beta version, which aims to simplify, speed up and reduce the size of TypeScript. The beta release incorporates new decorators standards that enable users to customize classes and their members in a reusable manner. It also allows developers to write cleaner and more maintainable code.
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Meta AI’s Large Language Model with 10x Fewer Parameters
Meta AI recently released a new large language model called Language Large Models Meta AI (LLaMA) that outperforms foundational models such as GPT-3 and is competitive with PaLM, despite having 10 times fewer parameters. LLaMA has better performance in language tasks such as natural questions, common-sense reasoning and mathematical reasoning.
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Server-Side Swift Gets Swift Certificates and Swift ASN.1 Packages
The Swift team has just released two new server-side packages that aim to provide developers with a faster and safer implementation of X.509 certificates, including their underlying ASN.1 DER encoding/decoding mechanism.