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Android 15 Beta 4 Now Available for Developers to Bring their Apps Up to Date
Google released the last scheduled Android 15 beta, which brings stable developer APIs and allows developers to update their apps and publish them on Google Play before non-beta users get access to the official Android version.
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Experiences from Doing DORA Surveys Internally in Software Companies
Doing DORA surveys in your company can help you reflect on how you are doing software delivery and operation. The way you design and run the surveys, and how you analyze the results, largely impact the benefits that you can get out of them. Carlo Beschi shared his experiences from doing DORA surveys at Agile Cambridge.
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AWS Graviton-Based EC2 Instance Hibernation: Cost Efficiency and Faster Operations
AWS recently announced that customers can hibernate their EC2 instances (M3, M4, M5, C3, C4, C5, R3, R4, and R5) powered by AWS Graviton processors. According to the company EC2 instance, hibernation helps customers achieve significant cost savings and faster startup times by enabling them to pause and resume their running instances at scale.
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Uber Drives Apache Kafka's Tiered Storage Feature; Sparks Efficiency Debate
Apache Kafka, the popular distributed event streaming platform, has introduced a new tiered storage feature in version 3.6.0, initially proposed by Uber engineers. This feature, currently in early access, aims to address the scalability and efficiency challenges faced by organizations running large Kafka clusters.
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University of Pennsylvania Researchers Develop Processorless Learning Circuitry
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have designed an electrical circuit, similar to a neural network, that can learn tasks such as nonlinear regression. The circuit operates at low power levels and can be trained without a computer.
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Support for Microsoft .NET 6 Ends in November 2024
The long-term-support (LTS) version 6 of Microsoft .NET Framework is slated to go out of support on November 12, 2022. Microsoft recommends upgrading .NET 6 applications to .NET 8 to stay supported for the future.
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Null-Restricted and Nullable Types for Java
Draft JEP 8303099 was recently made public. This JEP discusses Null-Restricted and Nullable Types, and aims to bring optional nullness-marking to the Java language, in a similar way to that seen in other programming languages (such as Kotlin).
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Google Launches Pigweed SDK for Embedded Development on Pi Picos and Other Microcontrollers
Recently launched by Google in developer preview, the Pigweed SDK aims to make it easier to develop, debug, test, and deploy embedded C++ applications. At the heart of the SDK lies Bazel, Google's own build system, which has been extended to better support workflows and requirements typical of embedded development.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23 RC1, New HotSpot JEP, Hibernate and Tomcat Releases, GlassFish 8.0-M7
This week's Java roundup for August 5th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first release candidates of JDK 23 and Gradle 8.10; JEP 483, Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking, a new HotSpot feature; the releases of Hibernate ORM 6.6, Hibernate Search 7.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.4; multiple Apache Tomcat point and milestone releases; and GlassFish 8.0.0-M7.
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OpenTelemetry Adopts Continuous Profiling; Elastic Donates Their Agent
OpenTelemetry has announced that it has incorporated continuous profiling as a core telemetry signal, and Elastic has donated its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry project.
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JSpecify 1.0.0 and Nullability in Java
The JSpecify collective has made its first release. The group's mission is to define common sets of annotation types for use in JVM languages, to improve static analysis and language interoperation. The first release is centred on nullability, and aligns with a recently announced Draft JEP that is exploring this issue at language level.
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NVIDIA NIM Now Available on Hugging Face with Inference-as-a-Service
Hugging Face has announced the launch of an inference-as-a-service capability powered by NVIDIA NIM. This new service will provide developers easy access to NVIDIA-accelerated inference for popular AI models.
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Amazon MemoryDB Provides Fastest Vector Search on AWS
AWS recently announced the general availability of vector search for Amazon MemoryDB, the managed in-memory database with Multi-AZ availability. The new capability provides ultra-low latency and the fastest vector search performance at the highest recall rates among vector databases on AWS.
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MLow: Meta Introduces Audio Codec for Low-End Devices
Meta has recently announced the Meta Low Bitrate (MLow) audio codec, aimed at enhancing real-time communication (RTC) on low-end devices and slow-speed connections. This new codec is designed to deliver efficient, high-quality audio streaming, even under low bandwidth conditions.
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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.