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Google is Rolling out Passkeys to Make Passwords a Relic of the Past
Google has begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms. Passkeys will be available as an additional authentication option alongside pre-existing mechanisms, including passwords, 2-step verification, and so on.
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OpenAI's Open-Source ChatGPT Plugin - Q&A with Roy Miara
OpenAI recently announced plugin support for ChatGPT, allowing the language model to access external tools and databases. The company also open-sourced the code for a knowledge retrieval plugin, which organizations can use to provide ChatGPT-based access to their own documents and data.
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Quarkus 3.0 Released: Improving Cloud-Native Java Development with Jakarta EE 10 Support
Following six alpha releases, a beta release, and two release candidates, Red Hat has launched the highly anticipated Quarkus 3.0 release this past week. This update brings a host of new features, including support for Jakarta EE 10, MicroProfile 6.0, Hibernate ORM 6.0, and Hibernate Reactive 2.0.
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Remult, a Crud Framework for Fullstack Typescript
Remult is a full-stack CRUD library that simplifies development by leveraging TypeScript models, providing a type-safe API client and query builder.
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Kubernetes 1.27 Released with Freeze on Legacy Image Registry and In-Place Update of Pod Resources
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.27 with the name chill vibes. The release has new features, such as In-place Update of Pod Resources, Limit of Parallel Image Pulls, and Multiple Service CIDRs.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, Spring Cloud AWS 3.0, OptaPlanner to Timefold
This week's Java roundup for May 1st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2, Spring Modulith 0.6, Spring Cloud for Amazon Web Services 3.0.0, Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.3, Spring Tools 4.18.2, Infinispan 14.0.9.Final, Open Liberty 23.0.0.4, Quarkus 3.0.2 and 2.16.7, Helidon 3.2.1, Apache Camel 4.0.0-M3, Arquillian 1.7.0 and OptaPlanner transitions to Timefold.
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Running Large Language Models Natively on Mobile and Laptops
MLC LLM is a new open source project aimed to enable deploying large language models on a variety of hardware platforms and applications. It additionally includes a framework to optimize model performance for each specific use case.
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.NET Community Toolkit 8.2: MVVM Toolkit Attributes, Performance Enhancements, and More
Microsoft has released the latest version of its .NET Community Toolkit, version 8.2, and it comes with several new enhancements and features. According to the release, this new version brings performance enhancements both at runtime and in the MVVM Toolkit source generators, new code fixers aimed at boosting productivity, and a number of user-requested features.
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Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
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From Extinct Computers to Statistical Nightmares: Adventures in Performance
Thomas Dullien, distinguished software engineer at Elastic, shared at QCon London some lessons learned from analyzing the performance of large-scale compute systems.
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Open Liberty 23.0.0.3 Unveiled: Embracing Cloud-Native Java Microservices, Jakarta EE 10 and beyond
IBM unveiled Open Liberty 23.0.0.3, boasting support for Java SE 20, Jakarta EE 10, and MicroProfile 6.0. This significant release introduces the Jakarta EE 10 Core Profile, Web Profile, and Platform and enhancements to various features that comprise the profiles. Additionally, the release includes MicroProfile Telemetry 1.0 and updates to Metrics, OpenAPI, and JWT Authentication specifications.
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How Open-Source Maintainers Can Deal with Toxic Behavior
Three toxic behaviors that open-source maintainers experience are entitlement, people venting their frustration, and outright attacks. Growing a thick skin and ignoring the behavior can lead to a negative spiral of angriness and sadness. Instead, we should call out the behavior and remind people that open source means collaboration and cooperation.
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AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity
AWS recently announced a new feature Provisioned Capacity for Athena, that allows users to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments.
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Efficiently Applying LLMs to Transform Semi-Structured Data
LLMs can be an effective way to generate structured data from semi-structured data, although an expensive one. A team of Stanford and Cornell researchers claim to have found a technique to reduce inference costs by 110x while improving inference quality.
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Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs
Prime Video, Amazon’s video streaming service, has explained how it re-architected the audio/video quality inspection solution to reduce operational costs and address scalability problems. It moved the workload to EC2 and ECS compute services, and achieved a 90% reduction in operational costs as a result.