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Cloudflare AI Gateway Now Generally Available
Cloudflare has recently announced that AI Gateway is now generally available. Described as a unified interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads, AI Gateway allows developers to gain visibility and control over AI applications.
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The Deno Team Releases JSR, a New JavaScript Package Registry
The Deno team recently beta released JSR, a new JavaScript registry that strives to better fit the current needs of modern development and unify a fragmented JavaScript ecosystem. In particular, JSR embraces ESM (JavaScript native modules), natively accepts TypeScript packages, and supports major JavaScript runtimes (e.g., Node, Deno, Bun, browsers, miscellaneous serverless environments).
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.NET 8+ on Ubuntu 24.04: Official Release with Collaborative Support
Ubuntu 24.04 has launched with a .NET release available from day one in the official Ubuntu feeds, making it immediately usable. Container images for .NET 8+ are available, including noble, noble-chiseled, and noble-chiseled-extra flavors. Additionally, .NET 6 and 7 are accessible through the dotnet/backports repository.
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General Availability of Deployment Stacks for Azure Resource Management Replacing Blueprints
Deployment Stacks, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit, is now generally available (GA). It allows for faster updates and deletions while also preventing unwanted changes to those resources.
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OpenSilver 2.2 Migrates LightSwitch Applications
The latest version of OpenSilver 2.2, a remake of Microsoft's retired Silverlight web application framework, includes support for migrating applications created with Visual Studio LightSwitch that targeted Silverlight.
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Chicory - a WebAssembly Interpreter Written Purely in Java with Zero Native Dependencies
Recently, multiple languages have begun supporting compilation to WebAssembly (Wasm), allowing developers to build real polyglot systems. Chicory is a Wasm interpreter for the JVM with zero native dependencies and can run on any JVM. As wazero in the Go ecosystem, Chicory promises developers to safely interact with libraries written in any language supported by the Wasm ecosystem.
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CO2.js Helps Developers Track Their Application’s Carbon Footprint
The Green Web Foundation published a new release of CO2.js, a JavaScript library that enables developers to access the Green Web API and estimate the carbon emissions associated with their apps, websites, and software. CO2.js supports developers who want to create a carbon budget for their site or include carbon footprint estimation in monitoring tools.
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JLama: The First Pure Java Model Inference Engine Implemented With Vector API and Project Panama
Karpathy's 700-line llama.c inference interface demystified how developers can interact with LLMs. Even before that, JLama started its journey of becoming the first pure Java-implemented inference engine for any Hugging Face model, from Gemma to Mixtral. Leveraging the new Vector API and PanamaTensorOperations class with native fallback the library is available in Maven Central.
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Microsoft Launches Preview of Arm-Based Azure VMs Featuring Cobalt 100 Processor
The new Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machine (VM), based on Microsoft’s custom silicon series announced in November 2023, is currently in preview.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 9 Preview 4: Support for OpenAPI Doc Generation, HybridCache and More
Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 4 which contains features regarding ASP.NET Core: built-in support for OpenAPI document generation, HybridCache API, and adding static SSR pages to a globally-interactive Blazor Web app. There is also an improvement implemented to avoid 503 errors during an app recycle in IIS.
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What's New in C# 13: Enhanced Params, Performance Boosts, and New Extension Types
Last week, during the Microsoft Build 2024, Microsoft announced the new preview features of C# 13, the latest version of the popular .NET programming language. As the most notable improvements to params parameters, the new extension types are announced, and the release includes several performance and memory enhancements for .NET developers.
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Fullstack TypeScript on AWS: Amplify Gen 2 Now Generally Available
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amplify Gen 2, a “code-first developer experience” that enables TypeScript and JavaScript developers to build and deploy fullstack applications on AWS.
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NIST Launches Program to Discriminate How Far from "Human-Quality" are Gen AI Generated Summaries
NIST launched a public Gen AI evaluation program for systems developed by the international research community. The pilot program focuses on systems that can generate human-like summaries from multiple documents, or discriminators to identify whether a summary was AI-generated. For now, information about text-to-text modality is available. The registration closes in May.
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Kotlin 2.0 Launched with New, Faster, More Flexible K2 Compiler
JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.0 along with the new K2 compiler. While the language itself introduces no new syntax, the K2 compiler brings several benefits, including faster builds, extended analysis capabilities with smart casts, and multiplatform support out of the box.
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Java News Roundup: Java Turns 29, Kotlin 2.0, Semantic Kernel for Java 1.0, More OpenJDK Updates
This week's Java roundup for May 20th, 2024, features news highlighting: Java’s 29th birthday; the release of Kotlin 2.0 and Semantic Kernel for Java 1.0; JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), targeted for JDK 23; and four JEPs proposed to target for JDK 23.