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VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ Promise to Bring the Benefits of the Cloud to On-Premises Workloads
Recently announced, VMware vSphere+ and vSAN+ integrate Kubernetes with VMware virtualization technology to help transform on-premises workloads into SaaS-enabled infrastructure and simplify its management and evolution, says VMware.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, JReleaser, Quarkus, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Apache Beam
It was relatively quiet in the Java community during the week of June 27th, 2022, which features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Cloud 2020.0.6, Quarkus 2.10.1, Payara Platform Enterprise 5.40.0, JReleaser 1.1.0, Hibernate ORM 6.1.1, Apache Beam 2.40.0 and Apache Camel 3.14.4.
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TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS
AWS recently announced that TLS 1.2 is going to become the minimum protocol level for API endpoints. The cloud provider will remove backward compatibility and support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 on all APIs and regions by June 2023.
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Git 2.37 Brings Built-in File Monitor, Improved Pruning, and More
Git 2.37 brings many new and improved features, including a built-in file system monitor on Windows and macOS, better unreachable objects management, improved external diff, faster git add, and more.
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Project Leyden Delays OpenJDK AOT Compiler, Optimizes JIT Compiler Instead
The goal of Project Leyden is to address “Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint." It wanted to get there by reintroducing Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation into OpenJDK. But it just pivoted to first optimize Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation. Oracle's Graal project has already achieved Project Leyden’s goal, but at a cost that Leyden wants to avoid for now.
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Uber Introduces a Universal Signup and Login Stack
Uber recently introduced Unified Signup and Login (USL), an effort to consolidate signup and login experiences across all Uber apps and services. USL lowers the engineering complexity and maintenance overhead and allows faster rollout of security policies and fixes. Over the last two years, Uber rolled out USL and currently, more than 78% of Uber's traffic has adopted USL.
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New PACMAN Vulnerability Affecting Apple Silicon CPUs
Uncovered by a team at MIT CSAIL, PACMAN is a new vulnerability affecting a defense mechanism available in Apple Silicon processors and known as pointer authentication code (PAC). While Apple downplayed the severity of this finding, the researchers hint at the fact that PACMAN brings an entire new class of attacks.
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Java News Roundup: Classfile API Draft, Spring Boot, GlassFish, Project Reactor, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for June 20th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring point releases, GlassFish 7.0.0-M6, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.12, Micronaut 3.5.2, Quarkus 2.10.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M3, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.10.0, and Apache Tika versions 2.4.1 and 1.28.4.
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Microsoft Limits Public Access to AI-Powered Facial Analysis Features
Microsoft recently announced phasing out public access to AI-powered Facial Analysis features in several Azure services.
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AWS Releases IoT ExpressLink: Cloud-Connectivity Software for Hardware Modules
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS IoT ExpressLink. The cloud-connectivity software supports wireless hardware modules to build IoT products that connect with cloud services.
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SynLapse: Orca Security Publishes Details for Critical Azure Synapse Vulnerability
In a recent article, Orca Security describes the technical details of SynLapse, a critical Synapse Analytics vulnerability in Azure that allowed attackers to bypass tenant separation. The issue has now been addressed, but the timing and the disclosure process have raised concerns in the community.
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AWS Mainframe Modernization Service Now Generally Available
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of their mainframe modernization service, allowing customers to migrate and modernize their on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed and highly available runtime environment on AWS. In addition, the service includes tools and resources to help customers plan and implement migration and modernization.
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Amazon Connect Offers General Availability of Outbound Campaigns for Calls, Texts, and Emails
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the high-volume outbound communication capability called Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns in the Amazon Connect service - an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center.
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GitHub Copilot Adopts Paid Model, Still Free for Some Open-Source Maintainers and Students
After almost one year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot is now prime time-ready for students and individual developers, says GitHub, while companies and larger organizations could get access to it before the end of the year.
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Google Expands Its Distributed Cloud Platform with Anthos On-Premises
Recently Google announced the expansion of its Distributed Cloud Platform by bringing in Anthos on-premise (for VMware vSphere and Anthos bare metal services). The offering is called Google Distributed Cloud Virtual — a software-and services-only solution.