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Teams Toolkit Rebranded to Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit
Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, a developer framework designed to streamline the creation of AI-powered agents that automate tasks across Microsoft 365 applications. The toolkit provides tools and APIs to build, test, and deploy intelligent agents capable of handling workflows in Outlook, Teams, Word, and other M365 apps.
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Deno 2.3 Now Supports Local NPM Packages
Deno Land recently released Deno 2.3, an update of the Deno runtime that adds support for local NPM packages. Deno 2.3 also brings improvements to deno compile.
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OpenAI Launches o3-pro Model Focused on Reliability, Amid Mixed User Feedback
OpenAI launched o3-pro, a new version of its most advanced model aimed at delivering more reliable, thoughtful responses across complex tasks. Now available to Pro and Team users in ChatGPT and via API, o3-pro replaces the earlier o1-pro.
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Agentica Project's Open Source DeepCoder Model Outperforms OpenAI's O1 on Coding Benchmarks
The Agentica Project and Together AI have released DeepCoder-14B-Preview, an open source AI coding model based on Deepseek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-14B. The model achieves a 60.6% pass rate on LiveCodeBench, outperforming OpenAI's o1 model and matching the performance of o3-mini.
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Biome Releases v2.0 Beta
Biome, the all-in-one JavaScript toolchain, has released v2.0 Beta. Biome 2.0 Beta introduces a number of new features in this beta which bring it closer to ESLint and Prettier, such as plugins, to write custom lint rules, domains to group your lint rules by technology and improved sorting capabilities.
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Java 25 Integrates Compact Object Headers with JEP 519
Java 25 introduces Compact Object Headers (JEP 519), delivering up to 30% CPU savings and reduced memory usage for applications with small objects. This user-friendly feature compresses object headers from 12 bytes to 8, requiring only a JVM flag to activate. Extensively validated by Amazon, it enhances performance, reduces GC pressure, and is ideal for modern cloud deployments.
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Svelte Releases Attachments to Enhance DOM with Interactive and Reactive Features
The latest version of Svelte includes a new functionality dubbed attachments that enhances a web application’s DOM with interactive and reactive features. Svelte Attachments replace Svelte Actions.
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DevSummit Boston: Humans in the Loop: Engineering Leadership in a Chaotic Industry
At the InfoQ Dev Summit, Google’s Engineering Director Michelle Brush addressed software leaders, emphasizing the evolving landscape of software engineering amidst rising automation. She championed a shift toward higher-level cognitive skills, systems thinking, and foundational knowledge, urging engineers to embrace complexity for enhanced resilience and decision-making in their work.
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GitHub CLI Enhances Support for Triangular Workflows
In April 2025, GitHub announced an update to its Command Line Interface (CLI), introducing enhanced support for triangular workflows - a common pattern among open-source contributors who work with forked repositories.
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How Docs-as-Code Helped Pinterest Improve Documentation Quality
Over the past few years, Pinterest engineers have been working to adopt Docs-as-Code across the organization. By using the same tools and processes for both code and documentation, they've improved overall documentation quality and team satisfaction. The shift also helped transform Pinterest's documentation culture, fostering collaboration, improving quality control, discoverability, and more.
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Mistral AI Releases Magistral, Its First Reasoning-Focused Language Model
Mistral AI has released Magistral, a new model family built for transparent, multi-step reasoning. Available in open and enterprise versions, it supports structured logic, multilingual output, and traceable decision-making.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Milestone, Payara Platform, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Apache Fory
This week's Java roundup for June 9th, 2025, features news highlighting: the sixth milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the June 2025 edition of Payara Platform; point releases of Apache Tomcat, Micrometer, Project Reactor and Micronaut; Jakarta EE 11 Platform on the verge of a GA release; and Apache Fury renamed to Apache Fory.
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HTAP: the Rise and Fall of Unified Database Systems?
A recent article by Zhou Sun sparked a debate in the data community about the future of HTAP systems. Hybrid transaction/analytical processing was meant to help integrate historical and online data at scale, supporting more flexible query methods and reducing business complexity.
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AWS CDK Toolkit Library Now GA for Automated Infrastructure Management
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the CDK Toolkit Library. This new Node.js library allows developers to programmatically control the CDK to build additional automation around the CDK, exposing classes and methods to synthesize, deploy, and destroy stacks, among other capabilities.
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Meta Introduces V-JEPA 2, a Video-Based World Model for Physical Reasoning
Meta has introduced V-JEPA 2, a new video-based world model designed to improve machine understanding, prediction, and planning in physical environments. The model extends the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) framework and is trained to predict outcomes in embedding space using video data.