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Microsoft Adds New Services for Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms
Azure Maps Weather Services is a part of the Microsoft Azure Maps Service. It offers a set of RESTful APIs, allowing developers to integrate highly dynamic historical, real-time, forecasted weather data and visualizations into their solutions. Recently, they announced three new services with historical weather, air quality, and tropical storms.
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Java News Roundup: JEP 423, Quarkus 2.7.0, Micronaut Serialization, JReleaser Early-Access
This week's Java roundup for January 31st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK (JEP 423), JDK 18, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+3-89, Spring Framework updates, Quarkus 2.7.0.Final, a new Micronaut Serialization module, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.7.0, Apache Camel 3.15.0, a second JReleaser early-access build, JobRunr versions 4.0.7 and 4.0.8, and Failsafe 3.2.
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Google's Managed Continuous Delivery Service for Kubernetes Moves to GA
Google has announced the GA release of Google Cloud Deploy, their managed continuous delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine. The service provides declarative builds that persist with a given release, support for connecting external workflows, and detailed security and auditing controls
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Ephemeral Containers Ease Debuggability in Kubernetes 1.23
Ephemeral containers in Kubernetes 1.23 provide a way to attach temporary containers to a running pod’s process namespace and run debugging utilities.
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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.