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JetBrains AI Coding Agent Junie Provides Tight Integration with JetBrains IDEs
JetBrains has announced Junie, its new AI coding agent, in closed preview. Junie, says the company, is able to carry through the coding tasks you assign it and leverage the knowledge about your project context as available in the IDE.
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AMD and Johns Hopkins Researchers Develop AI Agent Framework to Automate Scientific Research Process
Researchers from AMD and Johns Hopkins University have developed Agent Laboratory, an artificial intelligence framework that automates core aspects of the scientific research process. The system uses large language models to handle literature reviews, experimentation, and report writing, producing both code repositories and research documentation.
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DeepSeek Release Another Open-Source AI Model, Janus Pro
DeepSeek has released Janus-Pro, an updated version of its multimodal model, Janus. The new model improves training strategies, data scaling, and model size, enhancing multimodal understanding and text-to-image generation.
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Git 2.48: Modernized with Meson Build System, Memory Leaks Fixed
Git 2.48 now supports the Meson build system, a modern alternative to the existing Makefile, Autoconf, and CMake-based systems. This change addresses limitations in IDE support and maintenance issues with older systems.
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Fluent Assertions Library v8 Abandons Apache Licensing
Fluent Assertions, a well-known .NET library that allows expressive asserts in unit tests, has launched version 8 with a proprietary license in partnership with Xceed, replacing the existing Apache 2.0 licence. The new license allows free non-commercial use, but any commercial use will require a paid license. The move has been negatively received by the developer community.
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Creating Accessible Websites Using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Web accessibility is about making web content available to users with disabilities. Development teams can use the success criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to improve accessibility and create an inclusive website.
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Apple New In-App Purchases API for Creator Platforms and Large Catalogs
Apple's new Advanced Commerce API provides iOS developers more flexibility to dynamically manage large content catalogs, creator experiences, and subscriptions with optional add-ons, such as premium features. For a developer to be allowed to use the new API, they must request access to Apple.
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Build Resilient Systems with Insights on AI, Multi-Cloud, Leadership & Security at QCon London 2025
From AI and ML to cloud, leadership, and modern data strategies, QCon London 2025, April 7-10, features 15 tracks of insights from 125+ senior practitioners. Discover practical solutions to scaling architectures, enhancing productivity, securing supply chains, and integrating cutting-edge technologies - all through real-world examples and actionable takeaways.
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Inside Atlassian Lithium: How a Dynamic ETL Platform is Transforming Data Movement and Cutting Costs
Atlassian recently introduced Lithium, an in-house ETL platform designed to meet the requirements of dynamic data movement. Lithium streamlines tasks such as cloud migrations, scheduled backups, and in-flight data validations by supporting ephemeral pipelines and tenant-level isolation while ensuring efficiency and scalability, resulting in significant cost savings.
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Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider
Yellowbrick, an SQL data platform provider, has significantly reduced costs by moving workloads from the public cloud to its own private Kubernetes-based infrastructure. It has reported an annual saving of $3.9 million by moving its development and testing environments away from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Meta Open-Sources Large Concept Model, a Language Model That Predicts Entire Sentences
Meta recently open-sourced Large Concept Model (LCM), a language model designed to operate at a higher abstraction level than tokens. Instead, LCM uses a sentence embedding space that is independent of language and modality and can outperform a similarly-sized Llama 3.1 model on multilingual summarization tasks.
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Java News Roundup: Stable Values, Payara Platform, Oracle Critical Patch Update, GraalVM, BellSoft
This week's Java roundup for January 20th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview); Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2025; the January 2025 release of the Payara Platform; GraalVM for JDK 23 Community 23.0.2; and BellSoft CPU patches for Liberica JDK.
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Synthetic Data Generator Simplifies Dataset Creation with Large Language Models
Hugging Face has introduced the Synthetic Data Generator, a new tool leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), that offers a streamlined, no-code approach to creating custom datasets. The tool facilitates the creation of text classification and chat datasets through a clear and accessible process, making it usable for both non-technical users and experienced AI practitioners.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration, Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of January 20th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Integration and Spring Modulith.
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Vite 6 Released: New Environment API Helps Supporting Edge Use Cases
The Vite team recently announced Vite 6, which they labeled as a significant major release. Vite 6 introduces the Environment API, a feature that targets framework authors. With the Environment API, authors may for instance support edge deployment cases and offer a dev experience closer to that of production.