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Baidu’s PP-OCRv5 Released on Hugging Face, Outperforming VLMs in OCR Benchmarks
Baidu has released PP-OCRv5 on Hugging Face, a new optical character recognition (OCR) model built to outperform large vision-language models (VLMs) in specialized text recognition tasks. Unlike general-purpose architectures such as Gemini 2.5 Pro, Qwen2.5-VL, or GPT-4o, which handle OCR as part of broader multimodal workflows, PP-OCRv5 is purpose-built for accuracy, efficiency, and speed.
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Microsoft Extends Support Period for .NET Standard Term Support (STS) Releases from 18 to 24 Months
Microsoft announced an extension to its .NET Standard Term Support releases from 18 months to 24 months, as reported on the company's official development blog. The policy change, effective with .NET 9, will extend support for the latest release until November 10, 2026, matching the end-of-support date for .NET 8, a Long Term Support version.
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Growing Your Career towards Senior Roles in Software Development
Flexible working is key to career development, enabling people to stay in tech while balancing personal needs, Sophie Weston said. Flexibility widens the pool of potential talent and enables keeping the best talent. She has championed internal promotions and "squiggly careers," allowing role shifts, including in and out of management, to support long-term growth.
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AWS CDK Refactor Feature: Safe Infrastructure as Code Renaming
AWS's new Cloud Development Kit (CDK) refactor command allows engineers to safely rename and reorganize infrastructure as code without forcing a destructive rebuild. The feature, leveraging a similar AWS CloudFormation capability, automatically computes the necessary mappings to preserve resources like databases, solving a major pain point that previously led to data loss and downtime.
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How Netflix Powers Audience Insights at Trillion-Row Scale
In a recent blog post, Netflix engineers described how they scaled Muse, the company’s internal application for data-driven creative insights, to handle trillion-row datasets.
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Gitpod Rebrands to Ona, Aiming to Become the AI-Powered Center of Software Development
Gitpod, known for offering browser-based cloud development environments, has rebranded as Ona, signaling a major shift in its vision from IDE-centric workflows to AI-driven software engineering.
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Google Cloud Observability Adopts OpenTelemetry Protocol for Native Trace Ingestion
Google Cloud has announced native support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) in its Cloud Trace service, marking a significant step toward vendor-neutral observability infrastructure. The new capability allows developers to send trace data directly using OTLP through the telemetry.googleapis.com endpoint, eliminating the need for vendor-specific exporters and custom data transformations.
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Preact 11 Beta Introduces Hydration 2.0, Default Ref Forwarding, and Modernized Bundling
Preact 11 Beta is here! This lightweight React-compatible library modernizes hydration and API ergonomics with key updates like Hydration 2.0, default ref forwarding, and streamlined bundling. It ditches legacy features for improved performance and compatibility while maintaining a small footprint. Upgrade now for a faster, cleaner development experience!
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25, GraalVM for JDK 25, OpenJDK JEPs, LangChain4j, JBang, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for September 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 25 and GraalVM for JDK 25; new JEP candidates and JEPs targeted for JDK 26; point releases of Quarkus, the A2A Java SDK, Apache TomEE, LangChain4j and Gradle; the second alpha release of Hibernate Validator 9.1; and Oracle detaching GraalVM from the Java release train.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5-Codex Optimized for Complex Code Refactoring and Code Reviews
Introducing GPT-5-Codex: OpenAI's latest AI model revolutionizing software engineering with advanced capabilities in code refactoring and review. Operating autonomously for over 7 hours, it ensures efficiency and accuracy, achieving 51.3% accuracy in complex tasks. Adaptively reasoning, it enhances developer workflows, producing high-quality, tested code while minimizing noise.
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Datadog Launches Monocle, a Unified Rust-Powered Real-Time Metrics Engine
Datadog has launched Monocle, a new real-time time series storage engine written in Rust. The system unifies the company’s metrics storage infrastructure, delivering higher ingestion throughput and lower query latency while reducing operational complexity. Monocle replaces several generations of storage backends, addressing concurrency challenges and scaling limits that accumulated over time.
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Replit Introduces Agent 3 for Extended Autonomous Coding and Automation
Replit has introduced Agent 3, its latest autonomous software agent built to extend the use of AI in programming and workflow automation. Unlike earlier coding assistants that provide small pieces of help through autocomplete or single-step code generation, Agent 3 is designed to carry out tasks over an extended period of time.
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InfoQ Expands Architect Certification with Five-Week Online Cohort Program
InfoQ expands its architect certification offerings with a new online format. The InfoQ Certified Architect Program helps senior engineers translate technical skills into strategic influence and earn the ICSAET certification. Two cohorts begin on October 13th, 2025, for European and North American participants.
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Spring News Roundup: Third Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 15th, 2025, highlighting third milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch and Spring for Apache Pulsar. There were also resolutions to CVEs in Spring Framework and Spring Security.
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Cloudflare Adds Node.js HTTP Servers to Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare recently implemented the node:http client and server APIs in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to migrate existing Node.js applications to the serverless computing platform. These HTTP APIs enable popular Node.js frameworks, such as Express.js and Koa.js, to run on Workers.