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Surfing the Web at Scale: Orca Explores a Human-Guided Future for AI Agents
Researchers at UC San Diego have released Orca, an open-source system that demonstrates how large language models (LLMs) can assist users on the web—not by taking control, but by guiding interaction.
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QCon London: How to Design GenAI Interaction from the Company That Designed Apple’s First Mouse
During her QCon London keynote, Savannah Kunovsky, managing director of emerging technologies at IDEO, talked about how design thinking can ensure that the products we build are not only technically impactful but genuinely impactful. She also discussed how we can use Gen AI to assist people in being more connected and adapting their interactions to their users' needs.
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Hugging Face Smolagents is a Simple Library to Build LLM-Powered Agents
Smolagents is a library created at Hugging Face to build agents based on large language models (LLMs). Hugging Faces says its new library aims to be simple and LLM-agnostic. It supports secure "agents that write their actions in code" and is integrated with Hugging Face Hub.
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GhostWrite Vulnerability in C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs
CISPA security researchers have discovered a vulnerability they’ve called ‘GhostWrite’ that’s caused by a hardware bug in T-Head’s XuanTie C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs. Vector extensions that are supposed to provide translation of virtual memory addresses to physical addresses don’t work, meaning that an attacker can gain access to the contents of memory and any attached devices.
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The AI Revolution Is Just Getting Started: Leslie Miley Bids Us to Act Now against Its Bias and CO2
At his inaugural keynote of the QCON London conference, Leslie Miley, technical advisor for the CTO at Microsoft, spoke about AI Bias and Sustainability, and how the march towards transformative technologies, like large-scale AI and even crypto, has an inherent cost in the increased CO2 that comes with deployment at scale. More than just context and impact, he suggests mitigation techniques.
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QCon Plus 2022: Join Us Virtually for Quality Content and Connections
QCon Plus, the online software development conference organized by InfoQ, is returning this November 29-December 9, with an international community of senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders joining. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this event!
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QCon Events 2022: Uncover Emerging Trends & Learn From Practitioners Driving Innovation in Software
QCon offers two international software development conference formats, in-person QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28) and online QCon Plus (Nov 29-Dec 9). Level up on the skills most in demand in the industry by uncovering emerging software trends to solve your complex engineering challenges.
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Google Open-Source Quantum Computing Framework Cirq Reaches 1.0
After over four years in development, Google open source quantum programming framework Cirq has reached stability and established itself as the lingua franca that Google engineers use to write quantum programs for Google's own quantum processors.
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Build Your Software Roadmap with QCon Plus; Kristen O’Leary Shares Top Topics
During a recent interview, Kristen O'Leary, senior developer relations engineer at Google and QCon Plus November 2021 Committee Member, shared with us the tracks she is most looking forward to at the event this November 1-12.
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Stack Overflow’s 2021 Developer Survey Uncovers New Trends in Tech and Work
Stackoverflow’s 2021 developer survey focuses mostly on work outside the traditional office. With younger respondents, this year's survey shows shifts in the way they learn and work, and with more interest in health. On the technology side, it has been a year of consolidation: React, Rust, and Clojure being more used and present, while Redis keeps attracting attention.
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ARM Releases PlasticARM, a Plastic-Based Flexible Microchip
ARM takes another step forward towards powering a real IoT revolution: PlasticARM, its newly announced plastic based microchip, brings 18000 logic gates, 12 times more than previous models, and is the most complex flexible microchip to date.
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Explore the Software Engineering Trends That Matter in 2021 at QCon Plus in November
This November at the QCon Plus software development conference, senior software engineers, architects, and team leads will learn from their peers and discuss emerging software trends and practices. Join them to develop your technical and non-technical skills and get valuable insights that you can take home to your team and implement right away.
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Quarkus 2.0 Delivers Continuous Testing, CLI and Supports Minimal JDK 11
Red Hat has released Quarkus 2.0 with new features such as continuous testing, a new CLI, and developer services. This version upgrades its core as well, moving to JDK 11, Vert.x 4.0 and MicroProfile 4.0, promising to have a seamless upgrade experience. InfoQ reached out to the Quarkus’ core team members to provide a brief description on the benefits of each newly-added feature in Quarkus 2.0.
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Three-Node Quantum Network is a Step towards the Quantum Internet
Researchers at the Delft University QuTech center created the first multi-node quantum network, which is a step in the direction of building a network of interconnected quantum computers. InfoQ has spoken with Ronald Hanson, principal investigator at QuTech, to learn more.
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Microsoft Retires Azure Blockchain
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Blockchain will be retired on September 10. Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain. Microsoft partners with ConsenSys to offer a migration path for existing customers. ConsenSys’s Quorum Blockchain Service claims to be fully compatible with Azure Blockchain.