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Microsoft Unveils Enhanced AI Tools for Developers at GitHub Universe
At GitHub Universe, Microsoft unveiled powerful integrations of Azure AI with GitHub and VS Code, empowering developers with context-aware tools like GitHub Copilot for Azure and AI App Templates. These innovations streamline workflows, enhance resource management, and simplify deployment, providing developers with robust features for efficient, secure application building and experimentation.
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Amazon Aurora Introduces Global Database Writer Endpoint for Distributed Applications
Amazon Aurora has recently introduced a Global Database writer endpoint to streamline routing for applications in disaster-recovery scenarios. This highly available global endpoint removes the need for application code changes to reestablish connectivity following a cross-region switchover or failover operation.
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Optimizing Uber's Search Infrastructure: Upgrading to Apache Lucene 9.5
Uber Engineering recently announced an upgrade to their search infrastructure, transitioning from Apache Lucene 8.0 to version 9.5. This upgrade improves Uber's search capabilities, performance and efficiency across their various services.
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OSI Releases New Definition for Open Source AI, Setting Standards for Transparency and Accessibility
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) released Version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) after two years of development with contributions from global experts. The OSAID sets criteria defining open-source AI, aiming to bring clarity to the concept and establish benchmarks for transparency and accessibility in AI.
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Grab Employs LLMs for Conversational Data Discovery with GPT-4, Glean and Slack
Grab responded to the challenges of finding valuable datasets among 200k+ tables by enhancing Hubble, the data discovery tool, with new capabilities leveraging GenAI technologies. The company reduced the data discovery process by incorporating LLMs to generate dataset documentation and created a Slack bot to bring effective data discovery to data consumers.
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What Developers Can Do to Continue to Program as They Age
Trouble seeing, pain, and stiffness are some of the things that can make it harder to program as you age. But there are solutions like changing fonts, using glasses, and rearranging the office layout. Some older programmers' mental concerns included a lack of motivation and cynical feelings. According to Gregory, exercising and getting good sleep help to keep the abilities needed as a developer.
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Improving the Efficiency of Goku Time-Series Database at Pinterest
Pinterest has modernized and enhanced its Goku time-series database. The recent updates focus on optimizing storage and resource usage without compromising service quality.
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Uno Platform 5.5 Simplifies Desktop App Packaging
The Uno Platform has released its latest update, version 5.5, with new features, bug fixes and performance improvements. The new release aims to simplify and speed up the packaging and distribution of cross-platform desktop applications.
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Expedia Migrates a Massive Cassandra Cluster to ScyllaDB with Zero Downtime
Expedia Group, a global travel technology company that manages over 70 TB of data, disclosed its process of migrating Cassandra clusters with over 50 tables and thousands of connections to ScyllaDB. The primary motivation for this migration is to leverage ScyllaDB's built-in Change Data Capture (CDC) capabilities for improved data consistency and reduced operational complexity.
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Microsoft Introduces Modern Web App Pattern for .NET: Accelerating App Modernization to the Cloud
Microsoft has announced the introduction of the Modern Web App (MWA) pattern for .NET, which is part of its Enterprise App Patterns (EAP) initiative aimed at accelerating application modernization to the cloud.
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Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Expands Portfolio with Bria AI's Text-to-Image Models
Amazon Web Services has integrated Bria AI's latest text-to-image foundation models into Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, marking a significant expansion of its enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities. The addition includes three variants - Bria 2.3, Bria 2.2 HD, and Bria 2.3 Fast, each designed to address specific enterprise needs in visual content generation.
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GitHub and Google Cloud Collaborate to Bring Gemini 1.5 Pro to GitHub Copilot
GitHub's partnership with Google Cloud brings Gemini 1.5 Pro to GitHub Copilot, revolutionizing development with AI that processes two million tokens. This natively multimodal tool excels at code generation, analysis, and optimization, empowering developers to effortlessly manage extensive codebases in platforms like Visual Studio Code.
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xAI Unveils a New API Service for Grok Models
Elon Musk’s xAI has launched a public beta for its API service, enabling developers to integrate xAI's large language models (LLMs) into their applications.
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OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Search Feature
OpenAI recently released ChatGPT Search which allows ChatGPT to search the web when answering user questions. Instead of being limited to knowledge available at the time of training, ChatGPT can now incorporate current information from the web and include links to its sources.
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Meta MobileLLM Advances LLM Design for On-Device Use Cases
With MobileLLM, Meta researchers aim to show that, for smaller models, quality is not a direct product of how many billions parameters they have; rather, it is the result of carefully designing their architecture. To prove their point, they coupled deep and thin architectures with embedding sharing and grouped-query attention mechanisms to improve accuracy over prior state-of-the-art models.