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AWS Introduces a New Quantum Computing Chip with Ocelot
AWS announced Ocelot, an innovative quantum computing chip designed to revolutionize error correction, reducing it by up to 90%. This cutting-edge architecture integrates 'cat qubit' technology, marking a significant advancement in quantum applications. As Ocelot paves the way for affordable, fault-tolerant quantum computing, it raises critical questions about security in a quantum-driven future.
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OpenSSF Publishes Security Baseline for Open-Source Projects
To help open-source maintainers keep their projects secure, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has published a set of guidelines based on international cybersecurity frameworks, standards, and regulations, the Open Source Project Security Baseline.
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Cloud-Native Distributed Storage System CubeFS Graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that the open-source distributed storage system CubeFS has reached graduation status. CubeFS is a storage solution supporting multiple access protocols, including POSIX, HDFS, S3, and its own REST API. CubeFS key platform areas are big data, AI/LLM applications, container platforms, and databases.
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ByteDance Launches New AI Coding Tool Trae with DeepSeek R1 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet Free for All Users
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, recently launched Trae, a new AI-powered code editor that offers unlimited free access to DeepSeek R1 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet large language models. Trae has both an international and domestic version, supports Visual Studio Code plug-ins, and competes with an increasing line of AI code editors (e.g., Cursor, Windsurf, PearAI, Replit).
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Hugging Face Publishes Guide on Efficient LLM Training across GPUs
Hugging Face has published the Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters, an open-source guide that provides a detailed exploration of the methodologies and technologies involved in training LLMs across GPU clusters.
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Azure AI Foundry Labs: a hub for the Latest AI Research and Experiments at Microsoft
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry Labs revolutionizes AI development by bridging cutting-edge research with real-world applications. Offering experimental projects like Aurora and MatterSim empowers developers to prototype new technologies. With tools for dynamic learning and multimodal models, Azure Labs accelerates innovation and collaboration.
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Google Cloud Launches Gen AI Toolbox for Databases
Google Cloud has announced the public beta launch of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases, an open-source server developed in collaboration with LangChain. This new tool is designed to help developers seamlessly integrate production-grade, agent-based generative AI applications with databases while ensuring secure access, scalability, and observability.
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AWS CDK Introduces Garbage Collection to Remove Outdated Assets
Amazon recently introduced the preview of garbage collection in the AWS CDK. The new feature automatically deletes old assets in bootstrapped S3 buckets and ECR repositories, reducing maintenance and deployment costs.
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Flux v2.5 Release: Expanding GitOps Capabilities with CEL Integration and GitHub App Auth
Flux, the popular GitOps tool for Kubernetes, has released version 2.5, bringing a host of powerful new capabilities that significantly enhance its functionality and flexibility. This release represents a substantial evolution in Flux's capabilities, with features that the community has been eagerly awaiting. Let's explore what's new and how these changes can improve your GitOps workflows.
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Java News Roundup: Stable Values, Spring Modulith, Open Liberty, Quarkus, JReleaser, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for February 24th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview), Proposed to Target for JDK 25; milestone and point releases for Spring Modulith; the February 2025 release of Open Liberty; and the releases of Quarkus 3.19.0, JReleaser 1.17.0 and Gradle 8.13.0.
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Meta Enhances Download Your Information Tool with Data Logs
Meta has recently introduced data logs as part of their Download Your Information (DYI) tool, enabling users to access additional data about their product usage. This development was aimed at enhancing transparency and user control over personal data.
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.NET Aspire 9.1 Improves Dashboard Features
.NET Aspire team has released version 9.1 of the platform. This minor update is focused on new dashboard features and small overall improvements across different platform components.
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IBM Granite 3.2 Brings New Vision Language Model, Chain of Thought Reasoning, Improved TimeSeries
IBM has introduced its new Granite 3.2 multi-modal and reasoning model. Granite 3.2 features experimental chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities that significantly improve its predecessor's performance, a new vision language model (VLM) outperforming larger models on several benchmarks, and smaller models for more efficient deployments.
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How a Manual Remediation for a Phishing URL Took down Cloudflare R2
Due to human error in handling a phishing report and insufficient validation safeguards in admin tools, Cloudflare experienced an incident affecting its R2 Gateway service on February 5th. As part of a routine remediation for a phishing URL, the R2 service was inadvertently taken down, leading to the outage or disruption of numerous other Cloudflare services for over an hour.
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GitLab Introduces Advanced Vulnerability Tracking to Tackle Code Volatility and Double Reporting
GitLab has introduced a new feature that addresses two significant challenges in vulnerability management: code volatility and double reporting. Code volatility refers to the frequent changes in codebases that can reintroduce previously resolved vulnerabilities, while double reporting occurs when multiple security tools identify the same vulnerability.