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ASP.NET Core Improvements in .NET 5
Earlier this month, at the .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released the .NET 5 platform. This version includes a broad set of new features and improvements, which are also related to the ASP.NET Core framework. This release's efforts focus primarily on performance improvements, followed by other features regarding Blazor, SignalR, MVC, OpenAPI support, and Azure AD authentication integration.
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Github Releases Catalyst to Ease the Development of Web Components in Complex Applications
GitHub recently released the first major iteration of Catalyst, a set of patterns and techniques for developing with web components in complex applications. Catalyst strives to be small and is used for the GitHub website that is entirely written in vanilla JavaScript and web components.
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.NET 5 Runtime Improvements: from Functional to Performant Implementations
During a no-slides presentation at .NET Conf 2020, software architects from the .NET runtime team presented several .NET 5 runtime improvements and how they achieved them, including ARM64 support, HTTP/3, and single-file applications.
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Google Launches Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare
In a recent blog post, Google announced the public preview of two new fully-managed AI tools: Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare. Both tools can assist healthcare professionals in reviewing and analyzing medical documents in a repeatable, scalable way.
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Google Releases Objectron Dataset for 3D Object Recognition AI
Google Research announced the release of Objectron, a machine-learning dataset for 3D object recognition. The dataset contains 15k video segments and 4M images with ground-truth annotations, along with tools for using the data to train AI models.
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.NET 5 Breaking Changes to the Base Class Library
The upcoming release of .NET 5 introduces many breaking changes. While the vast majority of them involve edge cases or previously incorrect behavior, some may take developers by surprise. In the first of this multi-part series, InfoQ looks at the Base Class Library.
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Microsoft Releases Git Experience in Visual Studio
Earlier this month, during the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of Visual Studio for Windows. One of the most critical features of this release was what Microsoft called "The Git Experience": a set of tools that makes Git the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019, allowing the developer to control a Git repository directly from Visual Studio.
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How x86 to arm64 Translation Works in Rosetta 2
Along with its plan to transition their Macintosh line from Intel CPUs to its own CPUs, dubbed Apple Silicon, Apple announced Rosetta 2, a binary translation software that aims to smooth out the process. Thanks to Rosetta 2, most x86 programs will be able to execute after an initial translation step.
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Docker Pauses Image Expiration Enforcement, Announces Subscription Tiers
Docker announced that they are pausing enforcement of the changes related to image retention until mid-2021. Earlier, they had announced a change in policies to reduce overall resource consumption on Docker.
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A Dozen Cisco Vulnerabilities at Once
A security researcher has identified 12 vulnerabilities that exploit Cisco Security Manager. The flaws include deserialization, remote code execution, and arbitrary file access.
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QCon Plus: Summary of the Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks Track
Qcon Plus ran in November 2020. Once of the tracks focused on Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks. Hosted by Randy Shoup of eBay, the track concentrated on some of the important people skills needed for effective communication and collaboration in and outside teams.
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HashiCorp Vault Adds Tokenization and Auto-Join Features
HashiCorp has released Vault 1.6, adding new features to their secrets and identity management platform. Cloud auto-join facilitates automatically attaching new Vault nodes to the cluster. The transform secrets engine now supports tokenization to better secure data stored outside of Vault. Additional features include integration with key management services and support for seal migration.
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Server-Rendered Web Applications in Deno with Aleph.js
Aleph.js, a React framework for server-rendered applications in Deno, is now available through an alpha release. Aleph makes many of Next.js’ core features available in Deno environments: zero-config server-side rendering, static site generation, file-system and API routing, and more. Aleph uses the standard EcmaScript Modules (ESM) import syntax and does not need a bundler in development.
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How SAD DNS Works
SAD DNS is a new variant of DNS cache poisoning that allows an attacker to inject malicious DNS records into a DNS cache, thus redirecting any traffic to their own server and become a man-in-the-middle (MITM).
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Distributed Key-Value Store etcd Graduates at CNCF
The CNCF announced the graduation of the etcd project - a distributed key-value store used by many open source projects and companies. Originally written at CoreOS, etcd was accepted into the CNCF incubation stage in 2018 and graduated in November 2020.