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Meta Open-Sources MEGALODON LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling
Researchers from Meta, University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California San Diego recently open-sourced MEGALODON, a large language model (LLM) with an unlimited context length. MEGALODON has linear computational complexity and outperforms a similarly-sized Llama 2 model on a range of benchmarks.
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Slack Combines ASTs with Large Language Models to Automatically Convert 80% of 15,000 Unit Tests
Slack's engineering team recently published how it used a large language model (LLM) to automatically convert 15,000 unit and integration tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL). By combining Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformations and AI-powered automation, Slack's innovative approach resulted in an 80% conversion success rate, significantly reducing the manual effort required.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 23 in Rampdown, JDK 24 Expert Group, Apache NetBeans 22
This week's Java roundup for June 3rd, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 24 Expert Group; the release of Apache NetBeans 22; and five Jakarta EE specifications, namely: Jakarta Concurrency 3.1, Jakarta Data 1.0, Jakarta Faces 4.1, Jakarta Pages 4.0 and Jakarta Servlet 6.1, having passed their respective reviews.
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JetBrains IDE RustRover Officially Released with Free Non-Commercial License
Eight months after announcing its public preview, JetBrains has officially released RustRover, a dedicated IDE for Rust development. The new release brings many bug fixes and introduces a new licensing model that includes a free plan for non-commercial use.
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VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10: Diagnostics Explorer, XAML Support and More
The VisualStudio.Extensibility team has released several updates, including the new Diagnostics Explorer for debugging extensions and support for XAML resources. The update also includes file and directory picker prompts and the TrackUpdatesAsync() method, enabling more efficient tracking and management of project changes.
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Introducing New SKUs for Microsoft Azure Bastion: Developer and Premium Options Now Available
Microsoft recently announced new SKUs for its Azure Bastion service: a Developer SKU that is now generally available (GA) after its public preview last year and a premium SKU being rolled out in a public preview.
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Azure Eliminates Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Fees to Encourage Deployment Best Practices
Microsoft has recently announced that Azure will no longer charge for data transfer across availability zones whether using private or public IPs. This change will facilitate the development of resilient multi-AZ applications without the concern of additional data transfer expenses.
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AI and Software Development: Preview of Sessions at InfoQ Events
Explore the transformative impact of AI on software development at InfoQ's upcoming events. Senior software developers will share practical applications and ethical considerations of AI technology through technical talks.
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MSTest 3.4 Release: Improved Analyzers, WinUI, Playwright and Aspire Support Added
Microsoft released a new version of MSTest, a testing framework for .NET. Version 3.4 introduces a couple of improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Key updates include improvements to MSTest.Analyzers, MSTest.Sdk, and MSTest.Runner, along with added support for WinUI applications.
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Oracle Linux's UEK-Next Enables Developers to Explore and Validate the Latest Linux Development
Oracle Linux has recently launched UEK-next, an offering that combines upstream Linux kernels with Oracle Linux patches. This allows users to preview and test the latest Linux features and hardware support before they are officially released in Oracle Linux.
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Rampdown Phase One: What's to Expect in JDK 23
As Iris Clark declared, JDK 23 is now in the crucial Rampdown Phase One, a significant milestone in the JDK development process. This phase started on Thursday, June 6, and the Java community eagerly anticipates the new features and enhancements that will be part of this release. This crucial phase marks the transition of changes intended for JDK 23 into the mainline repository.
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Fostering Healthy Tech Teams in a DevOps World
Building healthy DevOps tech teams that are responsible for a broad area can be challenging. To measure the success of your team, several frameworks provide metrics indicating team health. Psychological safety matters for healthy teams to ensure each software engineer brings their own lived experiences to build better products and that they feel safe to do so.
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Combatting Alert Fatigue at Cloudflare
In a detailed blog post, Monika Singh at Cloudflare explores the stressful environment on-call personnel face. On-call staff frequently deal with numerous alerts, leading to alert fatigue—a state of exhaustion caused by responding to non-prioritised or unclear alerts. To combat this, Cloudflare teams conduct periodic alert analyses to enhance the accuracy and actionability of alerts.
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Falco 0.38.0 Released with Enhanced Driver Selection, Configurations and Real-Time Monitoring
The maintainers of Falco announced its latest version: 0.38.0. This is the first release since its graduation within CNCF.
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How GitHub iOS Team Leveraged Apple-Silicon Actions Runners to Reduce Testing Time
The GitHub iOS team adopted Apple Silicon-powered macOS runners to reduce the time required to build and test their app using GitHub Actions. In the process, they also refactored the app to better leverage GitHub Actions parallelism.