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Do Gen AI and OSS Regulation Bring Us Further Away from Exiting the Dependency Hell?
“The security of the software supply chain problem” still persists according to the yearly State Of Supply Chain report. It improved, but there is still a long way to go, given that 96% of all vulnerable downloads were avoidable. Besides the usual insights of how far from exiting the "dependency hell" we are, the novel challenges of 2023 include the legislative adoption of Gen AI-associated risks.
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AWS Adds New Code Generation Models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of two new foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: Code Llama and Mistral 7B. These models can be deployed with one click to provide AWS users with private inference endpoints for code generation tasks.
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Goldsky’s Streaming-First Architecture for Blockchain Data with Flink, Redpanda and Kubernetes
Goldsky created a platform for the real-time processing of blockchain data. The platform allows clients to extract data from blockchains into their own databases to support product features, but without running the data pipeline infrastructure. The event-driven architecture (EDA) of Goldsky leverages Apache Flink, Redpanda, Kubernetes, and cloud provider services.
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Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, JEPs for JDK 22
This week's Java roundup for October 23rd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Jakarta Data 1.0-M1, GraalVM 21.0.1, Spring 6.1-RC2, Spring Modulith 1.1-RC1, Spring Vault 3.1-RC1, Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, Quarkus 3.5, Liberica NIK 22.3.4, Hibernate ORM 6.4-CR1, Hibernate Search 7.0-CR1, Maven 4.0.0-alpha8, Camel 4.0.2, Camel Quarkus 3.5, JHipster Lite 0.46 and JDKMonitor.
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Amazon MSK Replicator: Active-Passive and Active-Active Clusters for Apache Kafka Service
AWS has recently announced MSK Replicator, a new option for cross-region and same-region streaming data replication. The new feature of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka service provides automatic asynchronous replication across clusters, enhancing availability and ensuring business continuity.
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PyTorch 2.1 Release Supports Automatic Dynamic Shape Support and Distributed Training Enhancements
PyTorch Conference 2023 presented an overview of PyTorch 2.1. ExecuTorch was introduced to enhance PyTorch's performance on mobile and edge devices. The conference also had a focus on community with new members added to the PyTorch Foundation and a Docathon announced.
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Google Open-Sources AI Fine-Tuning Method Distilling Step-by-Step
A team from the University of Washington and Google Research recently open-sourced Distilling Step-by-Step, a technique for fine-tuning smaller language models. Distilling Step-by-Step requires less training data than standard fine-tuning and results in smaller models that can outperform few-shot prompted large language models (LLMs) that have 700x the parameters.
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Nvidia Introduces Eureka, an AI Agent Powered by GPT-4 That Can Train Robots
Nvidia Research revealed that it has created a brand-new AI agent named Eureka that is driven by OpenAI's GPT-4 and is capable of teaching robots sophisticated abilities on its own.
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Python-Like Numerical Computation Library MatX Brings Transforms as Operators and Other Features
Developed by Nvidia for its own GPUs, MatX is a C++ library that aims to bring near-native performance in numerical computing using a high-level syntax not far from those available in Python scipy or MATLAB. Its latest release brings a number of new features, including the possibility to use transforms as operators, new operators such as upsample, downsample, pwelch, and more.
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Java News Roundup: Unnamed Variables and Patterns, WildFly 30, MicroProfile 6.1, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for October 16th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, BellSoft, Oracle VS Code extension, WildFly 30, Payara Platform, MicroProfile 6.1, EclipseCon and releases for GraalVM Native Build Tools, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Cloud Dataflow, Micronaut, Quarkus, Open Liberty, Apache TomEE, Apache Tomcat, JHipster and JHipster Lite.
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AWS Announces the Preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability
Amazon Web Services has announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability. This new functionality empowers users to fine-tune CodeWhisperer, enabling it to provide more precise suggestions by incorporating an organization's proprietary APIs, internal libraries, classes, methods, and industry best practices.
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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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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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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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Stability AI Releases Generative Audio Model Stable Audio
Harmonai, the audio research lab of Stability AI, has released Stable Audio, a diffusion model for text-controlled audio generation. Stable Audio is trained on 19,500 hours of audio data and can generate 44.1kHz quality audio in realtime using a single NVIDIA A100 GPU.