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MicroVM Virtualization Solution Firecracker Reaches 1.0
Originally developed at AWS to power AWS Lambda, Firecracker enables creating and managing secure microVMs for serverless computing.
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Amazon Announces Elastic File System Replication for Multi-Region Deployments
Amazon recently announced Elastic File System Replication to keep an up-to-date copy of a network file system in a second AWS region or within the same region.
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OpenSSF Announces the Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) in partnership with Google and Microsoft have announced the Alpha-Omega Project to improve supply chain security across open source software (OSS) projects. The project will focus on improving the security posture of the most widely deployed and critical OSS projects.
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Moldable Development: How Custom Tools Make Systems Explainable
Moldable Development is a way of programming through which we construct custom tools for every software development problem. Glamorous Toolkit is a moldable development environment that can be used to mold custom tools.
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Docker Desktop Best Practices for Code Sharing
In a recent article, Docker engineer Stephen Turner shared a few best practices to help developers understand file sharing between a Docker container and its local host and how its performance varies across OSes.
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Meta AI’s Convolution Networks Upgrade Improves Image Classification
Meta AI released a new generation of improved Convolution Networks, achieving state-of-the-art performance of 87.8% accuracy on Image-Net top-1 dataset and outperforming Swin Transformers on COCO dataset where object detection performance is evaluated. The new design and training approach is inspired by the Swin Transformers model.
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HashiCorp Consul API Gateway Adds TCPRoute Support and Installation via Helm Chart
HashiCorp has moved their Consul API Gateway into beta release. The release adds a number of new features to their Consul Service Mesh ingress solution including support for TCPRoute, installation via Helm Chart, and TLS settings per listener.
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Solo.io Open Sources BumbleBee to Make eBPF Development Easier
Solo.io recently announced an open-source project called BumbleBee, which aims to simplify eBPF application development through auto-generated templates and boilerplate files.
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Evaluating Continual Deep Learning: a New Benchmark for Image Classification
Continual learning aims to preserve knowledge across deep network training iterations. A new dataset entitled "The CLEAR Benchmark: Continual LEArning on Real-World Imagery" has recently been published. The goal of the study is to establish a consistent image classification benchmark with the natural time evolution of objects for a more realistic comparison of continual learning models.
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Meta Unveils AI Supercomputer for the Metaverse
Meta has unveiled its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) supercomputer, aimed at accelerating AI research and helping the company build the metaverse. The RSC will help the company build new and better AI models, working across hundreds of different languages, and to develop new augmented reality tools.
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University Researchers Develop Brain-Computer Interface for Robot Control
Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows users to modify a robot manipulator's motion trajectories. The system uses inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and can learn a user's preferences using less than five demonstrations.
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Java News Roundup: Loom and Panama Updates, Groovy 4.0, GraalVM 22.0 CE, Jakarta EE RPC
This week's Java roundup for January 24th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, Projects Loom and Panama, Jakarta EE, Groovy 4.0, Spring Framework updates, Micronaut 3.3.0, GraalVM 22.0 CE, Liberica NIK, MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators 3.0-RC1, Hibernate updates, JHipster 7.6, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.2, JReleaser early-access, Apache Camel and Camel K, and Foojay.io at FOSDEM.
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Twelve-Year Old Linux Distros Vulnerability PwnKit Enables Local Privilege Escalation
A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting the PolKit component has been present on several Linux distributions for over 12 years. The vulnerability is easily exploited, says Bharat Jogi, director of the Qualys research team, who discovered it, and allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host.
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CNCF Publishes State of Cloud Native Development Report
CNCF has published the latest edition of the State of Cloud Native Development Report. An important finding from the report indicates that the cloud native developer population has grown by 0.3 million during the period from Q1 2020 to Q1 2021. Edge computing has the highest usage rates of containers and Kubernetes, with 63% of edge developers adopting Kubernetes and 76% adopting containers.
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Q&A with Matthew Farina of SUSE Regarding Kubernetes Rancher Desktop
InfoQ caught up with Matthew Farina, software architect at SUSE, regarding Rancher Desktop 1.0.0, talking about the challenges of Kubernetes and container management on the desktop and how it influenced the design and evolution of the Rancher Desktop.