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Google DeepMind Announces LLM-Based Robot Controller RT-2
Google DeepMind recently announced Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2), a vision-language-action (VLA) AI model for controlling robots. RT-2 uses a fine-tuned LLM to output motion control commands. It can perform tasks not explicitly included in its training data and improves on baseline models by up to 3x on emergent skill evaluations.
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Reddit Unveils REV2: Modernised Rule-Execution with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Flink Stateful Functions
Reddit's Safety Engineering team recently published how it modernised its Rule-Execution system, which detects and acts on policy-violating content in real time. The new architecture includes improvements like transitioning from legacy EC2-based systems to Kubernetes, better rule version control with Github and S3 storage, and the capability to scale more efficiently with Flink Stateful Functions.
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Deno 1.37: Significant Developer-Focused Enhancements
Deno 1.37 introduces enhancements to the developer experience, particularly through its seamless integration with Jupyter notebooks. This integration enables developers to use JavaScript and TypeScript within Jupyter notebooks for tasks such as data analysis, machine learning, and interactive report creation.
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Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable End-to-End Testing for Modern Web Apps
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests at scale through Azure.
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Google Cloud Ops Agent Can Now Monitor Nvidia GPUs
Google Cloud announced that Ops Agent, the agent for collecting telemetry from Compute Engine instances, can now collect and aggregate metrics from NVIDIA GPUs on VMs.
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AWS Application Composer Now Supports All Cloudformation Resources
AWS announced the availability of all AWS CloudFormation resource types within AWS Application Composer. This builds on the GA release which only allowed 13 CloudFormation resource types to be used.
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TorchServe Potentially Exposed to Remote Code Execution
Israeli-based security company Oligo has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in TorchServe, the tool used to serve PyTorch models, that could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerabilities have been promptly fixed in TorchServe version 0.82.
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Java News Roundup: Foreign Function & Memory API, OpenJDK JEPs, Apache Tomcat CVEs
This week's Java roundup for October 9th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Apache Tomcat CVEs, Devoxx Morocco, and milestone, point and release candidates of: Spring Framework; Spring Data; Micronaut; Quarkus; Micrometer Metrics; Micrometer Tracing; Apache Kafka; Apache Camel; Eclipse Vert.x; Project Reactor; JHipster Lite; Piranha; and RefactorFirst.
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GitHub Copilot Chat in Open Beta: Now Available for All Individuals in Visual Studio and VS Code
GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that allows developers to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions directly within a supported IDE. It is currently in open beta and available for all GitHub Copilot individual users across Visual Studio and VS Code.
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PlanetScale's Challenge to Oracle: Forking MySQL and Introducing Vector Search
PlanetScale recently announced the intention to fork MySQL adding vector search. While PostgreSQL has been the default open-source choice for vector search, the company behind the Vitess database wants to release a version of MySQL and PlanetScale with vector support.
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Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase
Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before” without a price change.
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Terraform 1.6 Makes Testing Framework Generally Available
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.6 with several new improvements including a new testing framework. Additional improvements include changes to config-driven import, Terraform Cloud CLI workflows, and the Amazon S3 backend. This version marks the first release of Terraform to be under the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL 1.1).
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Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from Amazon S3 to Reduce Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of Sippy, an incremental data migration service that copies data from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 only the first time the data is requested. Sippy is designed to minimize migration-specific egress fees by leveraging requests within existing application flows while simultaneously copying objects to R2.
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Durable Execution for Control Planes: Sergey Bykov at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, Sergey Bykov, an SDE at Temporal Technologies, presented on Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal. In his talk, Bykov introduced the concept of Durable Execution with a real-world example of how his company uses it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud, including lessons learned.
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GraalVM Replaces the GraalVM Updater with Language Libraries
The GraalVM team announced that Java libraries will replace the GraalVM Updater (gu) starting with JDK 21. The updater enabled the installation and management of GraalVM language runtimes and utilities. Libraries are available for languages such as JavaScript, Node.js, Python, WebAssembly and Ruby.