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Android 11 Now Available in Developer Preview
Google has released Android 11 as a preview for developers. The goals of doing this are to enable developers in adapting their apps to the upcoming Android release, and also for them to provide early feedback to help Google improve the release robustness. Android 11 includes many behavioural changes that could affect existing apps, as well as new feature and API and new privacy options.
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NGINX Unit Adds Support for Reverse Proxying and Address-Based Routing
NGINX announced the release of versions 1.13 and 1.14 of NGINX Unit, its open-source web and application server. These releases include support for reverse proxying and address-based routing based on the connected client's IP address and the target address of the request.
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VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy after Pivotal Merger
After acquiring Pivotal at the end of last year, VMware has detailed in a Webinar how it will go about fulfilling its strategy aimed to help customers build their apps, run them using Kubernetes, and manage them from a single control plane.
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GitHub Releases ML-Based "Good First Issues" Recommendations
GitHub shipped an updated version of good first issues feature which uses a combination of both a machine learning (ML) model that identifies easy issues, and a hand curated list of issues that have been labeled "easy" by project maintainers. New and seasoned open source contributors can use this feature to find and tackle easy issues in a project.
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Porting a Go-Based Face Detection Library to Wasm: Q&A with Endre Simo
Endre Simo, senior software developer and open-source contributor to a few popular image-processing projects, ported the Pigo face-detection library from Go to browsers with WebAssembly. The port illustrates the performance potential of WebAssembly today to run heavy-weight desktop applications in a browser context.
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Algorithmia Adds GitHub Integration to Machine Learning Platform
Algorithmia, an AI model management automation platform for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers, now integrates with GitHub.
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TypeScript 3.8 Adds Private Fields and Top-Level Await
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 3.8, which includes type-only imports and exports, private fields, and top-level await.
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Effective Product Development for the 2020s
Ram Sivasankaran examined the market failures of Google’s social media attempts, Kodak and Blockbusters. His analysis identified slow adoption of technology, a lack of data-driven decision-making and low customer focus. Martin Reeves and Bill Lydon have also both written about a more competitive market in the 2020s, requiring the adoption of product strategies which embrace emergent technologies.
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Avoiding Loneliness as a Servant Leader
Team success is often celebrated without recognizing or acknowledging the role the servant leader has played. A lot of what they do can go undocumented or is not always visible to others. To avoid loneliness, servant leaders can create support networks to share what they do, celebrate successes with peers, blog about how they do it, and give demos to management about their accomplishments.
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Elastic Stack 7.6 Released with Security, Performance, and Observability Improvements
Elastic announced the release of Elastic Stack 7.6. This release contains a number of security improvements including a new SIEM detection engine and a redesigned SIEM overview dashboard page. This release also includes performance improvements to queries that are sorted by date, enhanced supervised machine learning capabilities, and support for ingesting Jaeger trace data.
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Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Adds ASP.NET Core Blazor Server Applications
In January, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.4.3 with a handful of features and improvements that were a direct request from developers on their developer community forum. Visual Studio for Mac can target the latest platform capabilities, for Android, iOS, as well .NET Core application that can be hosted on Windows, macOS or Linux.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Project Petridish for Deep-Learning Optimization
A team from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University has open-sourced Project Petridish, a neural architecture search algorithm that automatically builds deep-learning models that are optimized to satisfy a variety of constraints. Using Petridish, the team achieved state-of-the-art results on the CIFAR-10 benchmark with only 2.2M parameters and five GPU-days of search time.
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CNCF Fund a Bug Bounty Program for Kubernetes
The Kubernetes Product Security Committee has launched a new bug bounty program, funded by the The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to reward security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes' codebase, as well as the build and release processes, with bounties ranging from $100 to $10,000.
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Amazon Releases CLI v2, Includes SSO and Interactive Usability Features
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) v2. Within this version of the CLI, features such as AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), interactive wizards, server-side auto completion and auto prompts are included. In addition, having Python installed is no longer a pre-requisite and the CLI is supported on Windows, Linux and macOS.
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The Jakarta EE 9 Delivery Plan
Anticipating a mid-2020 GA release, the Jakarta EE platform project team presented the formal Jakarta EE 9 delivery plan to the Jakarta EE steering committee. It is expected that Jakarta EE 9 will be a stable tooling release from which vendors can support the new jakarta package namespace. Jakarta EE 9 may be considered a foundation for innovation to drive new features in Jakarta EE 10 and beyond.