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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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Kwok, a Tool to Spin up Kubernetes Nodes in a Second
Kubernetes community announces the availability of Kwok, a toolkit to set up a Kubernetes cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds. All the nodes are simulated, in this way, the fake cluster has a low resource footprint and can be up and running on a laptop. This tool is developed to test Kubernetes controllers at scale without spinning up any portion of the infrastructure.
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AWS Introduces Global Condition Context Keys to Improve EC2 Security
AWS recently introduced global condition context keys to restrict the usage of EC2 instance credentials to the instance itself. The new keys allow the creation of policies that can limit the use of role credentials to only the location from where they originated, reducing the risk of credential exfiltration.
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Microsoft Brings Kubernetes to the Edge with AKS Edge Essentials
Microsoft recently announced the general availability release of AKS Edge Essentials, a new Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offering designed to simplify edge computing for developers and IT professionals.
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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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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds Write-Through Cache to Improve Logical Replication Performance
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible databases recently introduced a logical replication write-through cache to reduce the amount of storage I/O during logical decoding. The new feature decreases the replication lag, improving read I/O and transaction catch-up time.
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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.
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ASP.NET Core 8 Preview 2: QuickGrid and Enhanced Blazor WebAssembly Performance
.NET 8 Preview 2 brings several enhancements to the ASP.NET Core. The highlights of the release are the Blazor QuickGrid component, which promises to simplify data presentation and manipulation, and improved performance for Blazor WebAssembly through the use of the new runtime feature called jiterpreter.
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Programming Foundations for Test Automation
Proper programming foundations can improve your test automation, making it easier to maintain testing code, and reduce stress. A foundation of the theory and basic principles of coding and programming can help to bring test automation to the next level. Object-oriented programming principles can help to overcome code smells.
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Google AI Updates Universal Speech Model to Scale Automatic Speech Recognition beyond 100 Languages
Google AI has recently unveiled a new update for their Universal Speech Model (USM), to support the 1,000 Languages Initiative. The new model performs better than OpenAI Whisper for all segments of automation speech recognition.