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OpenSSL Releases Fix for High-Severity Vulnerability
OpenSSL 3.0.4, released less than a month ago, introduced a bug that enabled a remote code execution vulnerability on machines computing 2048 bit RSA keys on X86_64 CPUs. A fix is now available in OpenSSL 3.0.5.
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OpenAI Releases Minecraft-Playing AI VPT
Researchers from OpenAI have open-sourced Video PreTraining (VPT), a semi-supervised learning technique for training game-playing agents. In a zero-shot setting, VPT performs tasks that agents cannot learn via reinforcement learning (RL) alone, and with fine-tuning is the first AI to craft a diamond pickaxe in Minecraft.
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Google Cloud Announces Advanced API Security through Apigee
Recently Google announced the public preview of Advanced API Security, a comprehensive set of API security capabilities built on Apigee, their API management platform. With the new capability, customers can detect security threats more efficiently.
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Java News Roundup: Eclipse Soteria 3.0, Log4j, Hibernate ORM, IntelliJ IDEA
This week's Java roundup for July 4th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring projects updates, Open Liberty 22.0.0.7 and 22.0.0.8-beta, Quarkus 2.10.2, Hibernate ORM 5.6.10, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.7, Eclipse Foundation projects updates, Apache Software Foundation projects updates, JDKMon 17.0.31 and 17.0.29 and JetBrains product updates.
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How Rewriting a C++/ObjC Codebase in Swift Shrank it down to 30%
In a recent article on the Swift language blog, Graphing Calculator's creator Ron Avitzur recounted how his decision to fully rewrite his app in Swift allowed him to shrink its codebase down to 30% of its original size, improving maintainability and readability while not losing performance.
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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14
Amazon recently announced that Aurora PostgreSQL supports PostgreSQL major version 14. The new release adds performance improvements and new capabilities, including support for SCRAM password encryption.
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Google Cloud Launches New Sustainability Offerings for Climate Resiliency
At the recent Sustainability Summit, Google launched several new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies and researchers to improve climate resilience. These offerings are Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure.
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Apple Introduces Lockdown Mode to Secure Its OSes against Cyberattacks
The new Lockdown Mode announced by Apple, available now in the latest betas of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura, aims to provide a further level of protection to users at risk of highly targeted Cyberattacks.
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Trust-Driven Development: Accelerate Delivery and Increase Creativity
By building trust you can break silos, foster collaboration, increase focus, and enable people to come up with creative solutions for products and for improving their processes. The DevOps movement was created to break the silos in the organisations; trust can be built by organising pair programming across various functions and various teams.
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PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner. The new interface increases the portability of workloads to and from Spanner and provides a globally distributed option to developers already familiar with PostgreSQL.
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Google's BigQuery Introduces Column-Level Encryption Functions and Dynamic Masking of Information
Google recently released new features for its SaaS data warehouse BigQuery which include column level encryption functions and dynamic masking of information. Specifically, dynamic masking of information can be used for real-time transactions whereas column level encryption provides additional security for data at rest or in motion where real-time usability is not required.
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LinkedIn Open-Sourced Its Feature Store to Evangelize Productive Machine Learning
LinkedIn Engineering recently open-sourced its feature store Feathr, which helps engineers to develop machine Learning products by simplifying feature management and usage in production. It defines features, computes them for training and inference purposes, and makes them discoverable by other machine learning developers.
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Amazon Unveils ML-Powered Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer
Amazon launched CodeWhisperer, an ML-Powered Coding Companion which provides code recommendations based on developers' comments in natural language and their code in the integrated development environment. The machine learning-powered service increases developer productivity.
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VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ Promise to Bring the Benefits of the Cloud to On-Premises Workloads
Recently announced, VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ integrate Kubernetes with VMware virtualization technology to help transform on-premises workloads into SaaS-enabled infrastructure and simplify its management and evolution, says VMware.
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Adobe Researchers Open-Source Image Captioning AI CLIP-S
Researchers from Adobe and the University of North Carolina (UNC) have open-sourced CLIP-S, an image-captioning AI model that produces fine-grained descriptions of images. In evaluations with captions generated by other models, human judges preferred those generated by CLIP-S a majority of the time.