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Have I Been Pwned 2.0 Adds New Tools for Data Breach Monitoring
Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) - the widely used data breach notification service created by security expert Troy Hunt, has launched a major front-end redesign in version 2.0, introducing several new features aimed at improving how individuals and organizations monitor breach exposure.
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Azure AI Search Unveils Agentic Retrieval for Smarter Conversational AI
Microsoft’s Azure AI Search unveils agentic retrieval, a cutting-edge query engine that enhances conversational AI answer relevance by up to 40%. This dynamic system leverages conversation history and parallel subquery execution, paving the way for sophisticated knowledge retrieval. Currently in public preview, it offers adaptive search strategies tailored for evolving enterprise needs.
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AWS Launches Centralized Product Lifecycle Page: Transparency and Consolidating Deprecation Info
AWS has launched its Product Lifecycle page, a centralized hub for tracking service availability changes, deprecations, and end-of-support timelines. This initiative streamlines communication, enhances customer confidence, and aligns with other hyperscalers, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The page offers clear rationales and transition plans, ensuring a smooth process for customers.
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Java at 30: A Retrospective on a Language That Has Made a Big Impact
On May 23rd, 1995, at the Sun World conference in San Francisco, California, Sun Microsystems formally introduced the Java programming language. Oracle marked this milestone with a six-hour 30th birthday event on May 23rd, 2025, featuring many Java luminaries and special guests.
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Apollo GraphQL Launches MCP Server: a New Gateway Between AI Agents and Enterprise APIs
Apollo GraphQL recently launched its MCP Server, enabling businesses to securely and efficiently integrate AI agents with existing APIs using GraphQL. The platform empowers teams to scale innovation and drive faster time-to-value from AI investments by reducing development overhead, improving governance, and accelerating AI feature delivery.
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Java News Roundup: Java Turns 30, Hibernate ORM 7.0, Embabel, jaz, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
This week's Java roundup for May 19th, 2025, features news highlighting: Java’s 30th birthday; the release of Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Validator 9.0; the May 2025 edition of Open Liberty; the first beta release of JobRunr 8.0; and the introduction of Embabel, jaz, and Eclipse DataGrid.
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Azure AI Foundry Agent Service GA Introduces Multi-Agent Orchestration and Open Interoperability
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry Agent Service has launched with robust, scalable features for building and managing AI agents. This versatile, use-case-agnostic platform supports multi-agent orchestration and integrates seamlessly with tools like Logic Apps and SharePoint. Developers can effortlessly create intelligent ecosystems for diverse applications, boosting productivity and innovation.
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Spring News Roundup: GA Releases of Spring Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, AI
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of May 19th, 2025, highlighting GA releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring for GraphQL, Spring AI and Spring Web Services.
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Cisco Reveals JARVIS: an AI Assistant for Platform-Engineering Teams
Introducing JARVIS by Cisco, an AI-powered assistant revolutionizing platform-engineering workflows. With seamless integration across 40+ tools, JARVIS automates complex tasks, reducing project timelines from weeks to hours. Powered by a hybrid AI architecture, it ensures accuracy and reliability while enhancing productivity.
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Azure Logic Apps Introduces "Agent Loop" for Building AI Agents in Enterprise Workflows
Microsoft's Build conference unveiled Agent Loop, a transformative feature in Azure Logic Apps enabling developers to embed AI agents into enterprise workflows. Leveraging over 1,400 connectors, it allows for creating autonomous and conversational agents for tasks like loan approvals and customer support, streamlining operations, and enhancing decision-making.
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HashiCorp Releases Terraform MCP Server for AI Integration
HashiCorp has released the Terraform MCP Server, an open-source implementation of the Model Context Protocol designed to improve how large language models interact with infrastructure as code.
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AWS Transform GA: Agentic AI Automates Mainframe and VMware Modernization on AWS
AWS Transform, now generally available, is an innovative AI service designed to streamline enterprise mainframe and VMware modernization. Leveraging generative AI, it automates legacy systems' transformation into cloud architectures. With specialized multi-agent AI, it enhances code analysis and application migration.
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Java News Roundup: LangChain4j 1.0, Vert.x 5.0, Spring Data 2025.0.0, Payara Platform, Hibernate
This week's Java roundup for May 12th, 2025 features news highlighting: the GA releases of LangChain4j 1.0, Eclipse Vert.x 5.0 and Spring Data 2025.0.0; the May 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; second release candidates for Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the first beta release of Hibernate Search 8.0.
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How Allegro Does Automated Code Migrations for over 2000 Microservices
Allegro shared the details of the process it uses to manage code migrations at scale. The company combined GitHub’s Dependabot and OpenRewrite projects into a custom solution that helps developers perform mundane code migration tasks automatically across numerous source code repositories. The company tackled many edge cases to ensure the process operates smoothly, relieving initial trust issues.
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OpenJDK News Roundup: Key Derivation, Scoped Values, Compact Headers, JFR Method Timing & Tracing
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 12th, 2025, highlighting: two JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and four JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 25; and one JEP elevated from its JEP Draft to Candidate status. Two of these will be finalized after their respective rounds of preview.