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GitHub Releases Copilot for Business amid Ongoing Legal Controversy
GitHub has announced Copilot for Business, a business plan for their OpenAI-powered coding assistant Copilot. The release follows a recent class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for violating open-source licenses.
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Git 2.39.1 Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities affecting Git's commit log formatting and .gitattributes parsing in Git versions up to and including Git 2.39 have been recently patched. Both may lead to remote code execution, so users are required to upgrade immediately to Git 2.39.1.
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New Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview Releases
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 1 in November 2022, and Preview 2 in December 2022. These new preview versions include several new features such as the Quick Add Dialog, Markdown preview support out-of-the box, and colorizing editor tabs using regular expression rules.
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Apache Druid 25.0 Delivers Multi-Stage Query Engine and Kubernetes Task Management
Apache Druid is a high-performance real-time datastore and its latest release, version 25.0, provides many improvements and enhancements. The main new features are: the multi-stage query (MSQ) task engine used for SQL-based ingestion is now production ready, and Kubernetes can be used to launch and manage tasks eliminating the need for middle managers...
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Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Delivers Updates to Sub-Projects and JDK 17 Baseline
VMware has released Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, codenamed Kilburn, based upon the recently introduced Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3. Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 is based on Spring Framework 6 requiring Java 17 and is compatible with Jakarta EE 9. This release supports Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation and the creation native images with GraalVM.
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GitHub Introduces go-gh to Simplify the Creation of GitHub CLI Extensions
Introduced in GitHub CLI 2.0, extensions allow developers to add new features by writing small Go programs. To make it easier to create extensions, GitHub is now releasing a new library, go-gh. Additionally, the latest version of GitHub CLI introduces two new commands to search and browse the catalog of available extensions.
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Making IntelliJ Work for the Dev: Key Insights Exposed by the New Book Written by Gee and Scott
Professional developers spend most of their productive time writing code in an IDE Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA- the new book that promises to teach you how to make your IDE work for you. In return, amplifying their productivity. In order to extract its gist, InfoQ reached out- to the authors - both former developer advocates at JetBrains- with a couple of questions.
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MicroProfile 6.0 Delivers Alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and a New Specification
In a major move for the Java community, the MicroProfile Working Group has officially released MicroProfile 6.0. This anticipated release brings a host of new features and improvements, including alignment with the Jakarta 10 Core Profile and updates to several key specifications, such as Metrics, JWT Authentication, Open API, Reactive Messaging, and Reactive Streams Operators.
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AWS Releases SimSpace Weaver for Real-Time Spatial Simulations
AWS recently released SimSpace Weaver, a managed option to run real-time spatial simulations across multiple EC2 instances. Distributing simulation workloads, the service can handle large real-world environments, crowd simulations, and immersive interactive experiences.
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Java News Roundup: MicroProfile 6.0, Kotlin 1.8, Spring Framework Updates
This week's Java roundup for January 9th, 2023, features news from JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Framework 6.0.4 and 5.3.25, Spring Data 2022.0.1 and 2021.2.7, Spring Shell 2.1.5 and 3.0.0-RC1, MicroProfile 6.0, Quarkus 2.15.3, Micronaut 3.8.1, Micrometer Metrics 1.10.3, Micrometer Tracing 1.0.1, Project Reactor 2022.0.2, Piranha 23.1.0, Apache Tomcat 9.0.71, JHipster Lite 0.26.0 and Kotlin 1.8.0.
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.NET 7 Brings Networking Improvements
The .NET 7 launch has brought many improvements around the whole API surface of the .NET Framework. In networking operations, .NET 7 improves the capabilities and performance of the existing HTTP and WebSockets protocols. It exposed a new protocol called QUIC and has many performance improvements compared to .NET 6.
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Critical Control Web Panel Vulnerability Still Under Exploit Months After Patch Available
A 9.8 severity vulnerability in Control Web Panel, previously known as CentOS Web Panel, allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary shell commands through a very simple mechanism. Although readily patched, security organizations are reporting it is under active exploit.
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Google Storage Transfer Service Now Supports Serverless Real-Time Replication Capability
Recently Google announced the preview support for event-driven transfer capability for its Storage Transfer Service (STS), which allows users to move data from AWS S3 to Cloud Storage and copy data between multiple Cloud Storage buckets.
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Amazon S3 Encrypts All New Objects with AES-256
Since January 5th, Amazon S3 encrypts all new objects by default with AES-256 to protect data at rest. S3 automatically applies server-side encryption using Amazon S3-managed keys for each new object, unless a different encryption option is specified.
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Unskilled Cybercriminals May Be Leveraging ChatGPT to Create Malware
In a recent report, Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point warned that cybercriminals are already using ChatGPT to develop malicious programs on the Dark Web. According to Check Point, ChatGPT makes it possible for even unskilled threat actors to create functioning malware.