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Faster Startup Time and Lower Memory Usage: New CRT HTTP Client in AWS SDK for Java
AWS recently announced the general availability of the Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The new asynchronous client provides faster SDK startup time and a smaller memory footprint improving Lambda serverless workloads.
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GitLab Improves Merge Requests, GitOps Functionality and More
GitLab has released further point versions of their DevOps software package. Versions 15.3 through 15.9 been released on a monthly cadence. GitLab's first machine-learning powered feature improves merge request approvals, with other significant improvements and fixes ranging from GitOps enhancements, through improvements to IdP, to new functionality for DAST.
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Platform Engineering Challenges: Small Teams, Build Versus Buy, and Building the Wrong Thing
The team at Syntasso wrote a series of blog posts outlining twelve challenges that platform teams face. These challenges include having a small platform team support a large organization, failing to understand the needs of the platform users, and struggling with the build-vs-buy argument.
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Android 14 Brings Partial Support for OpenJDK 17, Improved Privacy and Security, and More
Google has announced the first Android 14 beta, which provides support for over 300 OpenJDK 17 classes. Additionally, it implements a number of features aimed to keep malicious apps at bay and extends support for foldable form factors, battery usage optimization, and more.
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop AI Model for Human Detection via WiFi
Researchers from the Human Sensing Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have published a paper on DensePose From WiFi, an AI model which can detect the pose of multiple humans in a room using only the signals from WiFi transmitters. In experiments on real-world data, the algorithm achieves an average precision of 87.2 at the 50% IOU threshold.
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Google Adds New Pricing Model to Its Security Command Center
Google recently announced several new updates to its Security Command Center (SCC) with a pay-as-you-go pricing model and two capabilities: deployments at the project level and self-service activation.
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InfluxData Releases Its New Database Engine in InfluxDB Cloud
InfluxData releases into general availability the new version of its database engine called Influx IOx. It is now available to be used in InfluxDB Cloud.
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Software Supply Chain Framework OSC&R Created to Help Mitigate Security Threats
In collaboration with companies including Google, Microsoft, and GitLab, OX Security has released a security framework for assessing and evaluating software supply chain security risks. The Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference (OSC&R) is a MITRE-like framework covering containers, open-source software, secrets hygiene, and CI/CD posture.
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Unsupervised Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation Using Deep Learning
Meta AI released CutLER, a state-of-the-art zero-shot unsupervised object detector which improves detection performance by over 2.7 times on 11 benchmark datasets for different domains like video frames, painting, sketches, etc. This model’s simplicity allows compatibility with different object-detection architectures across different domains.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 RC1, Open Liberty, Micronaut, Helidon, Hibernate, Groovy, Grails
This week's Java roundup for February 6th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Open Liberty 23.0.0.1 and 23.0.0.2-beta, Helidon 3.1.1, Quarkus 2.16.2 and 3.0.0.Alpha4, Micronaut 3.8.4, Hibernate ORM 6.2, 6.1.7 and 5.6.15, Grails 5.3.0, Apache Groovy 4.0.9 and 3.0.15, Apache Camel 3.20.2, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.8, Gradle 8.0.0-RC5, Jarviz 0.2.0, Kotlin K2 compiler and Jfokus conference.
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Containerd Adds Support for a New Container Type: Wasm Containers
The runwasi project, written in Rust, became an official contained project, which enables containerd to support a new container type: Wasm (or WebAssembly) containers.
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CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023: Identifying Suspicious Behaviors with eBPF
At CloudNativeSecrityCon 2023 in Seattle, WA, Jeremy Cowan and Wasiq Muhammad, both engineers at AWS, presented on identifying suspicious behaviors with eBPP, its use cases, and how AWS is using it for threat detection and protection.
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Malicious PyPI Package Removes netstat, Tampers with SSH Config
A recent report by Sonatype security researcher Ax Sharma highlights newly discovered malicious packages on the PyPI registry, including aptx, which can install the Meterpreter trojan disguised as pip, delete the netstat system utility, and tamper with SSH authorized_keys file.
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Farewell to Subversion: GitHub Sunsets Support after 13 Years
Next January GitHub will remove Subversion support from GitHub.com, with GitHub Enterprise Server following soon after. Introduced in 2010 to provide developers with a path to Git, the SVN endpoint now receives only 0.02% of the requests to the source control service.
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Adding Video in .NET MAUI Apps with the New MediaElement
Microsoft recently released another control for the .NET MAUI platform: MediaElement. This is one of the components of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit that allows audio and video playback within .NET MAUI applications.