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Recent Generations of Apple CPUs Affected by New Side-Channel Vulnerabilities
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ruhr University Bochum demonstrated two new side channel attacks on recent M and A CPUs from Apple that leak sensitive information when using Chrome and Safari to visit popular sites.
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How Locking, Saturation and CDN Network Issues Brought down Canva
The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident.
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OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development
A consortium of 20 European research institutions, companies, and EuroHPC centers has launched OpenEuroLLM, an initiative to develop open-source, multilingual large language models (LLMs). Coordinated by Jan Hajič and co-led by Peter Sarlin, the project aims to provide transparent and compliant AI models for commercial and public sector applications.
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How Data Contracts Support Collaboration between Data Teams
Data contracts define the interface between data providers and consumers, specifying things like data models, quality guarantees, and ownership. They are essential for distributed data ownership in data mesh, ensuring data is discoverable, interoperable, and governed. Data contracts improve communication between teams and enhance the reliability and quality of data products.
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Amazon EventBridge Event Bus Cross-Account Event Delivery
AWS enhances Amazon EventBridge, enabling direct event delivery across accounts. This feature simplifies architecture, boosts security, and reduces latency, allowing seamless routing of events to AWS services like SQS and Lambda. Leverage fine-grained IAM control for streamlined event sourcing. Discover more about this transformative update on AWS documentation and GitHub.
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OpenAI Launches Deep Research: Advancing AI-Assisted Investigation
OpenAI has launched Deep Research, a new agent within ChatGPT designed to conduct in-depth, multi-step investigations across the web. Initially available to Pro users, with plans to expand access to Plus and Team users, Deep Research automates time-consuming research by retrieving, analyzing, and synthesizing online information.
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DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information Highlights AI Security Risks
Cloud security firm Wiz uncovered unprotected DeepSeek database giving full control over database operations and access to internal data including millions of lines of chat logs. While the vulnerability has been quickly fixed, the incident shows the need for the AI industry to enforce higher security standards, says the company.
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InfoQ's New Certification Focuses on Practical Skills for Senior Developers and Architects
InfoQ is introducing its first hands-on software architecture certification at QCon London 2025 (April 7-10), the international software development conference. The certification will combine practitioner-led conference sessions with a hands-on workshop focused on real-world architectural challenges.
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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepSeek-R1 LLM with Performance Comparable to OpenAI's o1 Model
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement learning )RL) to improve reasoning capability. DeepSeek-R1 achieves results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on several benchmarks, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.
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Hugging Face Expands Serverless Inference Options with New Provider Integrations
Hugging Face has launched the integration of four serverless inference providers Fal, Replicate, SambaNova, and Together AI, directly into its model pages. These providers are also integrated into Hugging Face's client SDKs for JavaScript and Python, allowing users to run inference on various models with minimal setup.
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Block Launches Open-Source AI Framework Codename Goose
Block’s Open Source Program Office has launched Codename Goose, an open-source, non-commercial AI agent framework designed to automate tasks and integrate seamlessly with existing tools. Goose provides users with a flexible, on-machine AI assistant that can be customized through extensions, enabling developers and other professionals to enhance their productivity.
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Java News Roundup: Java Operator SDK 5.0, Open Liberty, Quarkus MCP, Vert.x, JBang, TornadoVM
This week's Java roundup for January 27th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Java Operator SDK 5.0; the January 2025 release of Open Liberty; an implementation of Model Context Protocol in Quarkus; the fourth milestone release of Vert.x 5.0; and point releases of JBang 0.123.0 and TornadoVM 1.0.10.
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OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Gov for U.S. Government Agencies
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a version of its AI-powered chatbot designed specifically for U.S. government agencies. This tailored deployment provides federal, state, and local agencies with access to OpenAI’s latest AI models while allowing them to maintain control over security, privacy, and compliance.
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Debezium Joins the Commonhaus Foundation
The Debezium project recently completed its move to the Commonhaus Foundation after consulting with the Debezium community and Red Hat, who exclusively sponsored the project since the start in 2015.
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Google's Vertex AI in Firebase SDK Now Ready for Production Use
Three months after its launch in beta, the Vertex AI in Firebase SDK is now ready for production, says Google engineer Thomas Ezan, who further explores three dimensions that are essential for its successful deployment to production: abuse prevention, remote configuration, and responsible AI use.