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Google Open-Sources Natural Language Robot Control Method SayCan
Researchers from Google's Robotics team have open-sourced SayCan, a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to plan a sequence of robotic actions to achieve a user-specified goal. In experiments, SayCan generated the correct action sequence 84% of the time.
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Lightbend Changes Akka License and Is No Longer Open Source
Akka, a toolkit for writing concurrent distributed applications based on the actor model, was created thirteen years ago by Jonas Bonér, founder and CEO at Lightbend. The company has recently announced a new Akka license model that has changed from the open-source Apache 2.0 to the source-available Business Source License (BSL) 1.1.
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Apache ShenYu: Java Responsive API Gateway Announced as Apache Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache ShenYu, an asynchronous, high-performance, and responsive API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion, and API governance, has been promoted as a Top-Level Project. It is written in Java, but supports multiple languages such as Python, Go and .NET.
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Amazon Announced Promotion Feature in Its Personalize Service
Amazon web services has recently announced a promotion feature in personalize to explicitly recommend specific items based on business rules. Amazon Personalize enables businesses to improve customer engagement and monetization metrics by recommending personalized items to the customers.
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GCP Announces MITRE ATT&CK Mappings to Implement Security Controls
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently announced the MITRE ATT&CK Mappings to improve security controls across the Google Cloud workloads. MITRE ATT&CK framework is a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics & techniques based on real-world observations. The mappings will empower Google Cloud users to assess the GCP controls against adversary tactics, techniques and procedures(TTPs).
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AWS Glue Now Supports Crawler History
AWS recently launched support for histories of AWS Glue Crawlers, which allows the interrogation of Crawler executions and associated schema changes for the last 12 months.
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Amazon Is Adding Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex
Amazon is introducing the Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a no-code environment. The Visual Conversation Builder greatly simplifies bot design.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon Níma, Spring Framework, MicroProfile, MicroStream, Kotlin, Piranha
This week's Java roundup for September 12th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, updates to Spring Framework, Spring Cloud and Spring Tools, introducing Helidon Níma, MicroProfile Reactive specifications, Quarkus 2.12.2, MicroStream 7.1.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M6, Hibernate Search 6.1.7, JHipster Lite 0.15.1, Piranha Cloud 22.9.0, Kotlin 1.7.20-RC and Apache Tika 1.28.5.
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Swift 5.7 Brings New Generics Implementation and Reference Counting Improvements
Announced at WWDC 2022, Swift 5.7 is now officially available. It includes major improvements to the compiler internals, and many syntax and standard library additions, including String regex, concurrency updates, and more.
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Google Introduces Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Google recently introduced Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR), allowing customers to enable centralized backup management directly from the Google Cloud console. The new backup and recovery service is designed to work with cloud storage repositories, databases, and applications.
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Amazon SNS Introduces Message Data Protection to Discover Sensitive Data in Motion
Amazon SNS recently announced the public preview of message data protection. Identifying PII data and other sensitive information in flight, the new SNS feature leverages pattern matching, machine learning models, and data protection policies to simplify data protection and compliance in applications that exchange high volumes of data.
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Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL Heatwave on AWS
Oracle recently announced the general availability (GA) of MySQL Heatwave, a service that combines OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and machine learning-based automation within a single instance on AWS.
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AWS IAM Identity Center Introduces APIs to Manage Users and Groups at Scale
AWS recently introduced IAM Identity Center APIs to create users and groups at scale. Administrators can use these new APIs to manage identities programmatically and gain visibility into users in the Identity Center directory.
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Google Brings Compute Engine Integration to Cloud Code
Recently Google added a new integration in Cloud Code with its Compute Engine service (GCE) to make it easier for developers to manage their frequently used virtual machines in the IDE, view details about them, connect to them over SSH, upload application files, and view their logs.
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Amazon SageMaker Provides New Built-in TensorFlow Image Classification Algorithms
Amazon is announcing a new built-in TensorFlow algorithm for image classification in Amazon Sagemaker. The supervised learning algorithm supports transfer learning for many pre-trained models available in TensorFlow Hub.