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.NET Upgrade Assistant Extension for Visual Studio Now Available
The .NET Upgrade Assistant is a Microsoft tool that helps developers upgrade their .NET Framework apps to .NET 5 or later by analyzing code and dependencies, generating a report of issues, and providing code fixes. A new available extension makes it possible to update any .NET application to the most recent .NET version within Visual Studio.
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WireMock Spring Boot Simplifies the WireMock Configuration for Spring Boot Applications
WireMock, a flexible tool for building API mocks, and the new WireMock Spring Boot simplify the WireMock configuration for JUnit-based integration tests in Spring Boot applications.
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NVIDIA Open-Sources Robot Learning Framework Orbit
A team of researchers from NVIDIA, ETH Zurich, and the University of Toronto open-sourced Orbit, a simulation-based robot learning framework. Orbit includes wrappers for four learning libraries, a suite of benchmark tasks, and simulation for several robot platforms, as well as interfaces for deploying trained agents on physical robots.
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Microsoft Azure Launches Cloud-Based Voice Gateway for Operators
Microsoft Azure recently announced the general availability of Azure Communications Gateway. This product lets operators connect their fixed and mobile voice networks to Teams Phone, Microsoft's cloud-based system.
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What's New in Entity Framework Core 8
Entity Framework Core 8, scheduled for release in November 2023, brings new features and new improvements to features already introduced in EF Core 7. Notable features include: support for raw SQL queries for unmapped types, lazy-loading improvements and support for TimeOnly and DateOnly SQL Server data types.
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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT and Whisper APIs for Next-Gen Language Capabilities
OpenAI has announced that it’s now letting third-party developers integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their apps and services via API, offering access to AI-powered language and speech-to-text capabilities. As compared to using the company's current language approach, these APIs will make it easier for businesses to integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their platforms.
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Signia: New JavaScript Incremental Computing Library Delivers Better UX for Single-Page Apps
The team behind the collaborative whiteboard tldraw recently published a library that brings incremental computing to JavaScript. Signia seeks to overcome fundamental performance limitations of tldraw’s chosen UI and reactive framework and ultimately provide better interactive apps with better user experience. Signia can however be used standalone or in conjunction with any UI framework.
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Cross-Industry Report Identifies Top 10 Open-Source Software Risks
Promoted by Endor Labs and featuring contributions from over 20 industry experts, the new Endor Labs Station 9 report identifies the top operational and security risks in open-source software.
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.NET MAUI: Top Five New Features for Powerful Desktop App Development
Discover the top five .NET MAUI features for desktop apps: multi-window support, top-level menu bar, context menus, tooltips, and pointer gestures. Transform your app development with these essential features, enhancing user experience and device capabilities. Maximize your app's potential and deliver stunning apps with .NET MAUI.
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Java News Roundup: JEP Updates, JReleaser 1.5, Spring Updates, Vert.x, Project Reactor, Ktor
This week's Java roundup for February 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Framework 6.0.6, Spring Boot 3.0.4, Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9, Spring Shell 3.1.0-M1, 3.0.1 and 2.1.7, Quarkus 2.16.4, Micronaut 3.8.6, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.4, Apache Tomcat 9.0.73, Hibernate 6.2 CR3, JReleaser 1.5.0, Ktor 2.2.4 and Gradle 8.0.2.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Operator Nexus to Simplify Deployment of Network Functions
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure Operator Nexus, a hybrid, AI-enabled, carrier-grade cloud platform designed to meet the specific needs of network operators.
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Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL Enters Beta Adding Multi-Region and Transactions
The open-source service IaSQL recently announced its beta release. Designed to manage cloud infrastructure using SQL, IaSQL introduced support for AWS multi-region, new AWS services, and infrastructure changes as transactions.
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Traffic Protocol Analyzer Wireshark Gets its Own Foundation
The popular open-source protocol analyzer Wireshark has a new permanent home in the form of the Wireshark Foundation, which should provide the means for its further, long-term evolution, says Sysdig, which took over as the project's main sponsor in 2022.
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Open-Source COBOL .NET Compiler Otterkit Reaches Alpha
Otterkit is a free and open-source compiler for the COBOL programming language that runs on the .NET platform. It is currently in the alpha stage, under development to implement the COBOL 2023 standard.
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Gradle 8.0 Provides Improved Kotlin DSL and Build Times
The Gradle team announced Gradle 8.0 which reduces the build duration and improves the Kotlin DSL, for example, Kotlin API 1.8 and Java 11 features may now be used in the build scripts.