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Netflix Creates Incremental Processing Solution Using Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Netflix created a new solution for incremental processing in its data platform. The incremental approach reduces the cost of computing resources and execution time significantly as it avoids processing complete datasets. The company used its Maestro workflow engine and Apache Iceberg to improve data freshness and accuracy and plans to provide managed backfill capabilities.
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Java News Roundup: Final JEP Drafts, Payara 2024 Roadmap, TornadoVM Plugin for IntelliJ
This week's Java roundup for January 8th, 2024 features news highlighting: JEP drafts for final versions of OpenJDK features String Templates and Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods; the Payara Platform 2024 roadmap; and a new TornadoVM plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
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Custom GPTs from OpenAI May Leak Sensitive Information
After it was reported that OpenAI has started rolling out its new GPT Store, it was also discovered that some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed. Multiple groups have begun finding that the system has the potential to leak otherwise sensitive information.
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OpenAI GPT Store is a Nascent Marketplace for Custom ChatGPTs
OpenAI has started rolling out its new GPT Store, announced a few months ago along with GPTs, to provide a mechanism for ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users to share custom ChatGPT-based chatbots they create.
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Researchers at Stanford Use Brain Signals to Control Intelligent Robots
In a paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Robot Learning last November, a team of Stanford University researchers presented an intelligent human brain-robot interface that enables controlling a robot through brain signals. Dubbed NOIR, short for Neural Signal Operated Intelligent Robots, the system uses electroencephalography (EEG) to communicate human intentions to the robots.
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OpenAI Adopts Preparedness Framework for AI Safety
OpenAI recently published a beta version of their Preparedness Framework for mitigating AI risks. The framework lists four risk categories and definitions of risk levels for each, as well as defining OpenAI's safety governance procedures.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Shell, Micronaut, JReleaser, JobRunr
This week's Java roundup for January 1st, 2024, features news highlighting: Spring Shell, Micronaut, JReleaser, JobRunr, Sharat Chander acknowledging the 2023 accomplishments from the Java Community, and 2023 highlights from the Apache Camel projects.
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AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, Their Sole Relational Database with Scaling Capacity to Zero
Recently, AWS notified existing customers running Amazon Aurora that Serverless v1 support will be discontinued, with the service scheduled to shut down within a year. The absence of scaling to zero in the newer Aurora Serverless v2 has raised concerns within the community regarding potential increased costs and the absence of a "true" serverless relational database on AWS.
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How LinkedIn Uses Machine Learning to Address Content-Related Threats and Abuse
To help detect and remove content that violates their standard policies, LinkedIn has been using its AutoML framework, which trains classifiers and experiments with multiple model architectures in parallel, explain LinkedIn engineers Shubham Agarwal and Rishi Gupta.
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Waymo Publishes Report Showing Lower Crash Rates Than Human Drivers
Alphabet's autonomous taxi company Waymo recently published a report showing its autonomous driver software outperforms human drivers on several benchmarks. The analysis covers over seven million miles of driving with no human behind the wheel, with Waymo cars having a 85% reduction in crashes involving an injury.
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Java News Roundup: GlassFish 8.0-M1, 2023 Highlights from Spring, BellSoft and WildFly
It was very quiet for the week of December 25th, 2023, but InfoQ found a few news items of interest that include: Eclipse GlassFish 8.0.0-M1, Apache Camel 3.22.0, Gradle 8.6-RC1, an updated draft specification for JEP 455, and retrospectives into the 2023 highlights from Spring, BellSoft and WildFly.
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Griffin 2.0: Instacart Revamps Its Machine Learning Platform
Instacart created the next-generation platform based on experiences using the original Griffin machine-learning platform. The company wanted to improve user experience and help manage all ML workloads. The revamped platform leverages the latest developments in MLOps and introduces new capabilities for current and future applications.
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MySQL Introduces Javascript Support in Preview
Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Heatwave.
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Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs
Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.
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Quarkus LangChain4J Extension Allows Developers to Integrate LLMs in Their Quarkus Applications
Inspired by the presentation “Java Meets AI” at Devoxx BE 2023, the Quarkus team started working on an extension based on the LangChain4J library, the Java re-implementation of the langchain library. This would allow developers to integrate LLMs Quarkus applications. The current is version, 0.5. The extension was built using Quarkus' usual declarative style, resembling the REST client.