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Node.js 14.0 Improves Diagnostics and Internationalization, Adds Web Assembly System Interface
The Node.js project recently released Node.js version 14.0.0, adding diagnostic reports, internationalization, experimental async local storage, native N-API module improvements, refinements to ES modules, and numerous other updates since the Node.js version 12 release. The release also adds experimental Web Assembly System Interface support.
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Amazon Updates AWS Snowball Edge with Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager
AWS Snowball is a part of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Recently Amazon announced a few updates for Snowball Edge device option. It now has a graphical user interface with AWS OpsHub, 25% faster data transfer performance, and support for local Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS System Manager.
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OpenAI Approximates Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI studies empirical scaling laws for language models using cross entropy loss to determine the optimal allocation of a fixed compute budget.
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Maven 3.7 to Include Default Wrapper
Apache 3.7.0 will ship with a new wrapper utility, making it easier to build projects without having a pre-existing Maven installation.
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Significant New Features Planned for Helidon 2.0
Oracle is well on their way to a Helidon 2.0 GA release scheduled for late Spring 2020. Helidon 2.0.0-M1, released in early February, and Helidon 2.0.0-M2, released in late March, have provided a host of new features including: support for reactive messaging; a new command-line tool, a new web client API for Helidon SE, GraalVM support for Helidon MP, and a new reactive database client.
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DNSSEC Root KSK Ceremony 41 Taking Place on Thursday
The DNSSEC signing ceremony, which takes place as an in-person event every three months, will be a combined physical and virtual event on Thursday at 17:00 UTC. The next few months' signing keys for the DNSSEC root nameservers will take place, but not all of the keyholders will be physically present due to travel restrictions caused by COVID-19. Find out how the ceremony has been adapted.
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Alcide's New sKan Command Line Tool Scans Kubernetes Deployment Files
Alcide, a Kubernetes security platform, has announced the release of sKan, a command line tool that allows developers, DevOps and Kubernetes application builders access to the Alcide Security Platform. sKan enables developers to scan Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their application development lifecycle including CI pipelines.
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Report Validates Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation
Empirical data from 288 quality engineers across 101 countries provide insight and credibility behind a report demonstrating the benefits of Visual AI in the field of test automation. The report comes from Applitools, a company that sells functional and visual testing tools using visual AI.
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Microsoft and Google Release New Benchmarks for Cross-Language AI Tasks
Research teams at Microsoft Research and Google AI have announced new benchmarks for cross-language natural-language understanding (NLU) tasks for AI systems, including named-entity recognition and question answering. Google's XTREME covers 40 languages and includes nine tasks, while Microsoft's XGLUE covers 27 languages and eleven tasks.
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Google Introduces Service Directory to Manage All Your Services in One Place at Scale
In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new managed service on its Cloud Platform (GCP) called Service Directory. With this service, Google allows customers to publish, discover, and connect services consistently and reliably, regardless of the environment and platform where they reside.
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Java 15: the Story So Far
Java 14 has just been released, but attention is already turning to the next release, with some features already confirmed for the September 2020 release.
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Refactoring GitHub OctoKit JavaScript REST SDK for Maintainability and Modularization
GitHub engineer Gregor Martynus recently described his journey to refactor GitHub official REST JavaScript SDK, originally containing about 16 thousand lines of code across six files total, into a more maintainable and modular project.
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oneinfra : Platform to Manage Multiple Kubernetes Clusters as a Service
oneinfra is an open source project to manage and run multiple Kubernetes clusters across different public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal.
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New MDJS Markup Language Adds JavaScript to Markdown for Interactive Documentation
Thomas Allmer, founder of Open Web Components (@OpenWc), released MDJS, a Markdown variant that allows developers to include runnable JavaScript code into their Markdown documents. MDJS can be interpreted as regular Markdown content or be progressively enhanced to produce interactive documentation including web components.
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Browser-Automation Library Puppeteer Now Supports Firefox
Mathias Bynens, Google developer working on @ChromeDevTools & @v8js, released Puppeteer 3.0. Puppeteer now supports Firefox in addition to the Chrome browser. The new version also upgraded support to the latest Chrome 81, and removed support for Node 8.