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Multi-Modal LLM NExT-GPT Handles Text, Images, Videos, and Audio
The NExT Research Center at the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently open-sourced NExT-GPT, an "any-to-any" multi-modal large language model (LLM) that can handle text, images, videos, and audio as input or output. NExT-GPT is based on existing pre-trained models and only required updating 1% of its total parameters during training.
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Azure Update Manager as Successor of Update Management Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Update Manager, known previously as Update Management Center - a SaaS solution to manage and govern software updates to Windows and Linux machines across Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21, GraalVM for JDK 21, Apache Pinot 1.0, Eclipse Epicyro 3.0
This week's Java roundup for September 18th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM, Corretto, Liberica, Epicyro 3.0, Pinot 1.0, and releases for: Spring Boot; Spring Integration; Spring Batch; Spring Cloud Dataflow; Spring Security; Spring GraphQL; Spring Authorization Server; Spring Apache Pulsar; Spring Modulith; Quarkus; Open Liberty; Micronaut; Hibernate; OpenXava; Gradle.
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Hugging Face's Guide to Optimizing LLMs in Production
When it comes to deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in production, the two major challenges originate from the huge amount of parameters they require and the necessity of handling very long input sequences to represent contextual information. Hugging Face has documented a list of techniques to tackle those hurdles based on their experience serving such models.
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Testcontainers Desktop Provides Support for Investigations and Debugging
AtomicJar has introduced the freely available Testcontainers Desktop. Testcontainers Desktop supports several features that aren't available in the Testcontainers framework and offers better support for investigations and debugging with fixed ports for containers and the option to freeze and reuse containers. Lastly, the application supports switching easily between container runtimes.
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High Performance Functions in Rust on RDS PostgreSQL
AWS announced the general availability of the Rust procedural language handler, PL/Rust, for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances running versions 13 and 14 of PostgreSQL. This builds on the previous release in May 2023 that enabled the functionality only for instances running PostgreSQL version 15.
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Kubernetes 1.28 Released with New Repositories and Fixes for Privilege Escalation in Windows
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.28 named Planternetes. The release has new features such as mixed version proxy, support for CDI injection into containers, and sidecar container awareness.
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AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager
AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like they do when using other repositories.
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Google Cloud Adds Service for Managing Terraform Deployments
Google Cloud announced last week the addition of Terraform as a managed service. The service, known as Infrastructure Manager, manages the deployment of Terraform configurations into Google Cloud. Infrastructure Manager provides an interface for querying the state of the deployment and resources as defined within the configuration.
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Microsoft Announces Copilot Copyright Commitment to Address IP Infringement Concerns
Microsoft recently published the Copilot Copyright Commitment to address concerns about potential IP infringement claims from content produced by generative AI. Under this commitment, which covers various products, including GitHub Copilot, Microsoft will take responsibility for potential legal risks if a customer faces copyright challenges.
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Node.js Alternative Bun Now Generally Available
The release 1.0 of the JavaScript toolkit Bun has been recently announced. Aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is garnering attention from the JavaScript and serverless communities for its speed and ease of use.
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Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed 38TB of Sensitive Data
Security researchers at cloud-security company Wiz discovered a data leak affecting Microsoft's AI GitHub repository, including a huge amount of private data and a disk backup of two employees' workstations with sensitive data.
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Implementation of Zero-Configuration Service Mesh at Netflix
In a recent blog post, Netflix described why they engaged the Envoy community and Kinvolk to implement a new feature for Envoy, the open-source proxy developed by Lyft. This new feature called On-Demand Cluster Discovery helped Netflix to implement a zero-configuration service mesh.
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How to Create a UI That's Both Robust and User Friendly
The key challenge in building UIs is balancing ease of use and maintainability, with scale and complexity. It requires thoughtful component design and an understanding of common usage paths to create a UI that's both robust and user-friendly. Automation can be a game-changer when it comes to improving efficiency and consistency in your codebase.
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Google Compute Engine Future Reservations in Public Preview
Google recently introduced a new future reservation feature in public preview for its Compute Engine, allowing users to request compute capacity for a future date.