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Deno 1.10 Released with Shared Wasm Memory and Web Storage Support
The Deno team recently released Deno 1.10 with shared WASM memory support, an implementation of Web Storage API, remote import maps, improvements to the built-in test runner, and more.
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NVIDIA Announces AI Training Dataset Generator DatasetGAN
Researchers at NVIDIA have created DatasetGAN, a system for generating synthetic images with annotations to create datasets for training AI vision models. DatasetGAN can be trained with as few as 16 human-annotated images and performs as well as fully-supervised systems requiring 100x more annotated images.
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IBM Introduces Watson Orchestrate for Task Automation
At the recent Think conference, IBM introduces an AI-powered automation tool called Watson Orchestrate. It is currently in preview in IBM Cloud Paks for Automation and expected to be generally available later in 2021 as an SaaS offering.
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Rust at Six: New Language Edition and Growing Adoption
Rust has been growing at a steady pace in regard to both its capabilities and industry adoption across the last years. Now at six, Rust is close to a new edition that will introduce new syntax without hampering the Rust ecosystem stability.
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Java News Roundup - Week of May 10th, 2021
This week’s Java roundup features news from OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 17, updates on MicroProfile APIs, a 1.0 release of Grolifant, a library created by Schalk Cronjé supporting Gradle plugin development, and point releases for Hibernate, Piranha, Quarkus and Spring.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of May 10th, 2021
.NET News Roundup: JetBrains .NET Days Online, TypeScript 4.3 RC, Visual Studio 2019, .NET vulnerability patches, Steeltoe, Telerik, and Akka.NET
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Microsoft at Work to Bring eBPF to Windows
Microsoft has announced it is working on bringing eBPF to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and later to support use cases such as denial-of-service protection and observability.
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CoreWCF Reached Its First GA Release
CoreWCF is a port of Windows Communication Framework (WCF) to .NET Core. The goal of this project is to enable existing WCF projects to move to .NET Core. After 21 months of public development, CoreWCF has reached its first GA release.
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Amazon Open Sources DeepRacer Device Software
Amazon has recently open-sourced the DeepRacer device software, the software used to run AWS DeepRacer. The 1/18th scale autonomous vehicle and the DeepRacer events allow developers to create machine learning models and race them in a cloud based 3D racing simulator.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Static Web Apps into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Static Web Apps, a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps. The service provides developers with one package that works for static web apps – which Azure manages for them.
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GitHub's Journey with Web Standards and Web Components
GitHub has been working for the last few years on moving away from jQuery and running its interface entirely on Web standards, specifically Web Components. InfoQ has talked with GitHub application engineer Kristján Oddsson to learn more.
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Angular v12 Released, Transitions to Ivy Rendering Engine
Mark Techson, developer advocate on the Angular Team, recently announced the release of Angular v12. Angular 12 transitions away from View Engine (now deprecated). Protractor is no longer included in new Angular projects. Angular components will additionally now support inline Sass.
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Aqua Security's Latest Report Highlights Increase in Cloud Attacks
Aqua Security published a report outlining their analysis of a year's worth of security remediation data. This report found that nearly no organization addressed all identified issues with enterprise organizations taking on average 88 days to resolve the issues they do address. Their analysis found a large increase in attacks against container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
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Adding Security to Testing to Enable Continuous Security Testing
Teams can be trained by security experts to become able to identify areas to add security testing in the test process and add security checks as part of functional test automation. This can lead to continuous security testing where security defects can be spotted at an early stage with higher security testing coverage in every release.