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Microsoft Warns Customers about a Critical Vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally-distributed and fully-managed NoSQL database service. Recently, Microsoft warned thousands of its Cosmos DB customers of a vulnerability that exposes their data. A flaw in the service could grant a malicious actor access keys to steal, edit or delete sensitive data.
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MLOps: Continuous Delivery of Machine Learning Systems
Developing, deploying, and keeping machine learning models productive is a complex and iterative process with many challenges. MLOps means combining the development of ML models and especially ML systems with the operation of those systems. To make MLOps work, we need to balance iterative and exploratory components from data science with more linear software engineering components.
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Uncover What's Next for Software Engineering at QCon Plus Online Software Conference (Nov 1-12)
QCon Plus gives you access to a curated learning experience that covers the topics that matter right now in software development and technical leadership. Learn from the laser-focus sharing experiences of 64+ software practitioners from early adopter companies to help you adopt the right patterns and practices.
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DeepMind Open Sources Data Agnostic Deep Learning Model Perceiver IO
DeepMind has open-sourced Perceiver IO, a general-purpose deep-learning model architecture that can handle many different types of inputs and outputs. Perceiver IO can serve as a "drop-in" replacement for Transformers that performs as well or better than baseline models, but without domain-specific assumptions.
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OpenAI Releases Triton, Python-Based Programming Language for AI Workload Optimization
OpenAI released their newest language, Triton, an open-source programming language that enables researchers to write highly efficient GPU code for AI workloads. Triton is Python-compatible and allows new users to achieve expert-quality results in only 25 lines of code. The code is written in Python using Triton’s libraries, which are then JIT-compiled to run on the GPU.
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Cloudera Announces the General Availability of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud
The enterprise data cloud company Cloudera recently announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud, a cloud-native service for data flows to process hybrid streaming workloads on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
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Oracle Introduces MySQL Autopilot with Machine-Learning Capabilities for MySQL Heatwave
Oracle released updates to its MySQL HeatWave service earlier this month. The new MySQL Autopilot feature uses machine learning to automate database provisioning and optimisation tasks, making recommendations and query optimisations based on each database’s usage patterns.
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MIT Demonstrates Energy-Efficient Optical Accelerator for Deep-Learning Inference
Researchers at MIT's Quantum Photonics Laboratory have developed the Digital Optical Neural Network (DONN), a prototype deep-learning inference accelerator that uses light to transmit activation and weight data. At the cost of a few percentage points of accuracy, the system can achieve an transmission energy advantage of up to 1000x over traditional electronic devices.
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Microsoft Renames Its Azure for FHIR API to Azure Healthcare APIs
Recently Microsoft announced the renaming of its Cloud for Healthcare's Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) to "Azure Healthcare APIs." In addition to the renaming of the APIs, the company also expands support for healthcare data to include patient health data via FHIR, medical imaging data via DICOM - and medical device data via the Azure IoT Connector for FHIR .
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AWS Announces Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics API for Conversation Insights
Recently, AWS announced Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics, a new feature of Amazon Transcribe. AWS customers can extract valuable insights from customer conversations like customer and agent sentiment, and conversation characteristics such as non-talk time, interruptions, loudness, and talk speed with this new feature.
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Facebook Open-Sources BlenderBot 2.0 Chatbot
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced BlenderBot 2.0, an AI chatbot that has long-term memory and can use internet searches for supplemental conversational context. The new model outperforms version 1.0, the previous state-of-the-art chatbot, achieving 55% improvement in use of previous conversations, according to human evaluators.
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Machine Learning Technologies at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
National Olympic teams are using machine learning to gain an edge in competition over their opponents at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020. Machine learning technologies are being used at the international sports event from athlete data tracking, coaches’ real-time feedback that can tell athletes when to train and when to stop, to predicting sports injuries with algorithms.
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Baidu's ERNIE 3.0 AI Model Exceeds Human Performance on Language Understanding Benchmark
A research team from Baidu published a paper on the 3.0 version of Enhanced Language RepresentatioN with Informative Entities (ERNIE), a natural language processing (NLP) deep-learning model. The model contains 10B parameters and achieved a new state-of-the-art score on the SuperGLUE benchmark, outperforming the human baseline score.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes are a key Elastic Compute (EC2) component with several HDD and SSD volumes, each designed for a particular use case. And recently, AWS announced the general availability of its cloud-based storage area network (SAN) offering, Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes – providing 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes.
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AWS Announces Customizable Image Support for Amazon EMR on EKS
Recently, AWS announced customizable image support for Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to modify the Docker runtime image that runs their analytics application using Apache Spark on their EKS cluster.