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Google AI Unveils Muse, a New Text-to-Image Transformer Model
Google AI released a research paper about Muse, a new Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers that can produce photos of a high quality comparable to those produced by rival models like the DALL-E 2 and Imagen at a rate that is far faster.
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Docker Desktop 4.16 Brings Docker Extensions to General Availability
Docker Inc has released their first update of 2023 for the Docker Desktop product - version 4.16. The most significant improvement in this release is to bring Docker Extensions to general availability, and the release also offers a number of performance improvements.
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Elastic 8.6 Released with Improvements to Observability, Security, and Search
Elastic has released Elastic 8.6 with improvements across the entire Elastic Search Platform including Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security, and Kibana. The release includes additional connector clients, better observability of dependencies, improvements to alerts generated from prebuilt security rules, and temporary data views.
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Micronaut 3.8.0: Build Scalable Applications with the Updated CRaC Feature
Just one week after the release of version 3.7.5, the Micronaut Foundation released Micronaut 3.8.0. This new version brings several exciting features, including support for GraalVM 22.3.0, the ability to use @RequestBean annotations with Java records, and a new command that guides users in creating a Micronaut AWS Lambda project.
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Improving Retrospective Effectiveness with End-of-Year and Focus Retrospectives
Doing end-of-year retrospectives can help to improve the effectiveness of agile retrospectives, by focusing on the actions done and the formats used. To increase the impact of retrospectives we can alternate between “global galactic” and focus retrospectives.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Adds Multishares for Filestore Enterprise
Google Cloud has moved Filestore Enterprise Multishares for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) into general availability. With Filestore Enterprise Multishares, multiple persistent volumes can be packed onto a Filestore Enterprise instance to improve storage utilization and reduce costs.
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SourceBuddy Compiles Dynamically Created Java Source Code
SourceBuddy compiles dynamically created Java source code defined by a String or a file to a class file. SourceBuddy, requiring Java 17, is a simplified facade for the javac compiler, which delivers the same functionality.
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Android Extension SDK Aims to Simplify the Use of Modular System Components
Introduced with Android 10, Modular System Components enable updating end-user devices outside of the normal Android release cycles. The new Extension SDK framework, now public, aims to make their integration simpler for developers.
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Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning Algorithm
Geoffrey Hinton, professor at the University of Toronto and engineering fellow at Google Brain, recently published a paper on the Forward-Forward algorithm (FF), a technique for training neural networks that uses two forward passes of data through the network, instead of backpropagation, to update the model weights.
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Traefik Hub Enables Simple and Secure Container Publishing
Traefik Labs have announced the general availability of Traefik Hub, a tool designed to allow admins to quickly and securely publish Kubernetes and Docker containers.
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SBOM Quality and Availability Varies Greatly across Projects
A recent assessment of the quality and availability of SBOMs in open-source repositories found the availability and implementation to vary widely. The OpenSSF's Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan has a dedicated stream to improving the availability, generation, and consumption of SBOMs.
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Waymo Developed Collision Avoid Test to Evaluate Its Autonomous Driver
Waymo developed a testing framework called Collision Avoidance Test (CAT) to evaluate the ability to avoid crush or potential hazard situations of its Waymo Driver, compared to a human driver.
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Six Essential Tracks at QCon London, March 27-29, 2023: Architecture, FinTech, ML, and More!
QCon London international software conference returns this March 27-29 with its 17th edition. Technical leaders who are driving innovation and change in software will share the latest trends and techniques from their real-world projects to help you solve common challenges. Learn about emerging trends in 2023, how to adopt them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to embrace the best practices.
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HashiCorp Terraform Plugin Framework Now Generally Available
HashiCorp has released the 1.0 version of the Terraform Plugin Framework. This framework improves upon and replaces the current Terraform Plugin SDKv2. It includes support for validators, path expressions, nested attributes, resource private state management, and custom types. Providers written in the new framework are executable binaries written in Go.
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AWS Introduces Step Functions Distributed Map for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets interactive and highly parallel serverless data processing workflows.