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Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development
Microsoft launched three new open-source AI models in its Phi-3.5 series: Phi-3.5-mini-instruct, Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct, and Phi-3.5-vision-instruct. Available under a permissive MIT license, these models offer developers powerful tools for various tasks, including reasoning, multilingual processing, and image and video analysis.
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Meta Open-Sources DCPerf, a Benchmark Suite for Hyperscale Cloud Workloads
Meta has recently released DCPerf, aiming to provide a representation of the diverse workloads found in data center cloud deployments. This collection of benchmarks is expected to be a valuable resource for researchers, hardware developers, and internet companies, aiding in the design and evaluation of future products.
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The Swift Composable Architecture Brings the Redux Model to iOS App Development
The Composable Architecture (TCA), which recently reached version 1.13, is an "ergonomic" Swift library that provides a general framework to address commonplace problems when you build an app, including state management, feature composition, side effect management, and testing.
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Android 15 Beta 4 Now Available for Developers to Bring their Apps Up to Date
Google released the last scheduled Android 15 beta, which brings stable developer APIs and allows developers to update their apps and publish them on Google Play before non-beta users get access to the official Android version.
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Google Launches Pigweed SDK for Embedded Development on Pi Picos and Other Microcontrollers
Recently launched by Google in developer preview, the Pigweed SDK aims to make it easier to develop, debug, test, and deploy embedded C++ applications. At the heart of the SDK lies Bazel, Google's own build system, which has been extended to better support workflows and requirements typical of embedded development.
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AWS Launches Open-Source Agent for AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new open-source agent for AWS Secrets Manager. According to the company, this agent simplifies the process of retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, enabling secure and streamlined application access.
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Swift 6 Introduces Embedded Swift for Low-level Programming
Swift 6 brings a new compilation mode aiming to address the specific constraints of embedded devices as well as kernel- and other low-level code. Embedded Swift is a full-featured subset of Swift covering most of the language, including value and reference types, closures, optionals, error handling, generics and more.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Data API Builder for Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the Data API builder for Azure Cosmos DB. The open-source project provides REST and GraphQL endpoints to Azure databases and on-premises stores.
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OpenSSF Launches Siren for Open Source Threat Intelligence
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has announced Siren, “a collaborative effort to aggregate and disseminate threat intelligence specific to open source projects”. The initiative comes in the wake of the XZ Utils compromise where it became clear that open source projects needed better ways to disseminate and receive relevant threat intelligence.
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Hugging Face Unveils LeRobot, an Open-Source Machine Learning Model for Robotics
Hugging Face has unveiled LeRobot, a new machine learning model trained for real-world robotics applications. LeRobot functions as a platform, offering a versatile library for data sharing, visualization, and training of advanced models.
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Open-Source APM and Observability Tool Coroot Now GA
The open-source application performance monitoring system Coroot is now generally available. Announced as an alternative to DataDog and NewRelic, the observability tool leverages eBPF for insights into system performance and supports monitoring heterogeneous infrastructures.
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SSH Backdoor from Compromised XZ Utils Library
When Microsoft engineer Andres Freund noticed SSH was taking longer than usual, he discovered a backdoor in xz utils, one of the underlying libraries for systemd, that had taken years to be put in place. The backdoor had found its way into testing releases of Linux distributions like Debian Sid, Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide but was caught before propagating into more highly used stable releases.
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Radius is Now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential to contribute to the cloud-native ecosystem.
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Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs. Additionally, the distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by default. The project is open-sourced.
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Microsoft Announces Garnet: a New Open-Source Cache-Store and Redis Alternative
Microsoft Research has recently announced Garnet, an open-source cache-store designed to accelerate applications and services. Using the RESP wire protocol, Garnet is a faster alternative to cache-stores and is compatible with existing Redis clients.