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University Researchers Investigate Machine Learning Compute Trends
A team of researchers from University of Aberdeen, MIT, and several other institutions have released a dataset of historical compute demands for machine learning (ML) models. The dataset contains the compute required for training 123 important models, and an analysis shows that since the year 2010 the trend has significantly increased.
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Improve Access Control of Google Cloud SQL with IAM Conditions and Tags
Recently, Google announced the general availability (GA) of IAM Conditions and Tags for Cloud SQL, a fully-managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
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Quine Aims to Simplify Event Processing on Data in Motion
Developed at thatDot, Quine is an open source streaming graph solution aimed at high-volume event processing. Quine combines graph data and streaming technologies to enable the creation of real-time, complex event processing workflows at scale, says thatDot.
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AWS Lambda Supports .NET 6
AWS Lambda recently added support for .NET 6, as both a managed runtime and a container base image. The new runtime introduces new .NET language features and performance optimizations, improves logging and simplifies function definition using top-level statements.
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Java News Roundup: JEP 424, NetBeans 13, Hazelcast 5.1, JHipster 7.7, Spring Cloud Gateway CVEs
This week's Java roundup for February 28th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, point and milestone releases on various Spring projects, Quarkus 2.7.3.Final, Micronaut 3.3.4, HIbernate Validator versions 6.2.2.Final, 7.0.3.Final and 8.0.0.Alpha1, Hazelcast 5.1, Apache NetBeans 13, Apache Log4j 2.17.2, JHipster 7.7.0, and JReleaser 1.0.0-M3.
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Rust 1.59 Supports Inline Assembly, Extends Destructuring, and More
Rust 1.59 now allows developers to include machine-level instructions in Rust programs using asm!. Additionally, destructuring has been extended beyond bindings to include assignments, and generics now support the specification of default values for const parameters.
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AWS WAF Introduces Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention
Amazon recently introduced Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention, a new feature of AWS Web Application Firewall to protect login pages at network edge.
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Cloudflare Report Shows Rapid Growth in API Traffic
Cloudflare has recently released its annual Landscape of API Traffic report. The report analyzes the traffic data harnessed by Cloudflare’s global network to provide insights into the current industry trends of web traffic.
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How Security by Design Helped to Manage Risks in a Cloud Migration
When a company migrated to the cloud, security issues arose due to difficulties in getting stakeholders on board and involving security from the start. Embedding security assessments as part of the continuous cloud DevOps process and adopting an agile strategy for security risk management throughout the lifecycle of the project helped to increase the governance of security during the migration.
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AlphaCode: Competitive Code Synthesis with Deep Learning
AlphaCode study brings promising results for goal-oriented code synthesis using deep sequence-to-sequence models. It extends the previous networks and releases a new dataset named CodeContests to contribute to future research benchmarks.
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Google Announces Second Generation Cloud Functions
Google recently announced the public preview of the second generation of Cloud Functions, the functions as a service platform on Google Cloud. The new version introduces more controls over functions runtime, provides better performances and scalability and supports triggers from more than 90 event sources.
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Tel-Aviv University Releases Long-Text NLP Benchmark SCROLLS
Researchers with Tel-Aviv University, Meta AI, IBM Research, and Allen Institute for AI have released Standardized CompaRison Over Long Language Sequences (SCROLLS), a set of natural language processing (NLP) benchmark tasks operating on long text sequences drawn from many domains. Experiments on baseline NLP models show that current models have significant room for improvement.
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JDK 18 and JDK 19: What We Know So Far
JDK 18, the first non-LTS release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into three categories: Core Java Library, Java Tools and Java Specification. We examine JDK 18 and predict what features may be targeted for JDK 19.
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GitLens 12 Brings Support for Visual Studio Code for the Web
GitKraken launched GitLens 12, an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that enables using Git from Visual Studio Code for the Web and github.dev. Besides new free features, improvements, and fixes, GitLens 12 also introduces premium features, including Worktrees and Visual File History.
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Shepherd JavaScript Library: Guided User Tours of Your Application
Shepherd is a JavaScript library that provides a simple interface for creating guided user journeys in web applications. It's framework-agnostic, easy to use, and works great on desktop and mobile applications alike.