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Google Releases Open-Source Vulnerability Scanning Tool
Google has released OSV-Scanner, an open-source front-end interface to the Open Source Vulnerability (OSV) database. The OSV database is a distributed, open-source database that stores vulnerability information in the OSV format. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project.
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Uber Improves Productivity with Remote Development Environment Devpod
Engineers at Uber created their own remote development environment to improve developer experience and productivity by fixing a number of issues brought about by their adoption of a code monorepo.
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.NET MAUI Framework and .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Updated for .NET 7
On November 8th, 2022, Microsoft announced the general availability of their .NET multiplatform framework MAUI for the recently launched .NET 7 major release. MAUI is now supported on both .NET 6 and .NET 7, running on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Tizen. The open-source MAUI Community Toolkit has also been updated in coordination.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, Introducing SourceBuddy, Jarviz and Just
This week's Java roundup for December 19th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, point releases for other Spring projects, Open Liberty 22.0.0.13, Quarkus 2.15.1, Micronaut 3.7.5, Helidon 3.1.0, Hibernate 6.2.CR1, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.7, point releases for Groovy, Camel 3.20, MicroStream joins Eclipse, Kotlin 1.8-RC2, and introducing SourceBuddy, Jarviz and Just.
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ML.NET 2.0 Release Contains New NLP APIs and AutoML Updates
Microsoft announced the release of ML.NET 2.0, the open-source machine learning framework for .NET. The release contains several updated natural language processing (NLP) APIs, including Tokenizers, Text Classification, and Sentence Similarity, as well as improved automated ML (AutoML) features.
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AWS Announces Upcoming Security Changes in April 2023 for Amazon S3
Recently AWS announced it would make two changes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): all buckets in a region will have S3 Block Public Access enabled and access control lists (ACLs) disabled by default. These changes will take effect in April 2023 and will be rolled out by the company in all AWS regions within weeks.
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Spotify Releases Enterprise Plugin Bundle for Backstage
Spotify has released five plugins for Backstage as a purchasable bundle. The five plugins cover a variety of use cases including compliance, access control, employee education and satisfaction, and usage metrics. The plugins are a mix of existing Spotify tooling and new development specifically for this bundle.
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OpenAI Unveils a Powerful, Cost-Effective, and User-Friendly Embedding Model
OpenAI is introducing text-embedding-ada-002, a cutting-edge embedding model that combines the capabilities of five previous models for text search, text similarity, and code search. This new model outperforms the previous most capable model, Davinci, on most tasks, while being significantly more cost-effective at 99.8% lower pricing.
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OCaml 5 Brings Support for Concurrency and Shared Memory Parallelism
Several years in the making, OCaml 5 introduces runtime support for shared memory parallelism and effect handlers, which are the basis for exception handling, concurrency, async I/O, and more.
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Google Cloud Introduces Autoclass for Cloud Storage to Automatically Optimize Costs
Google Cloud recently announced the availability of Autoclass for Cloud Storage, a bucket-level setting that automates the lifecycle management of objects based on their last access time. The new feature simplifies cost optimization for workloads with unpredictable and unknown access patterns.
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AWS Releases Open-Source Tool for Command-Line Container Management
AWS has released Finch, an open-source, cloud-agnostic, command-line client for building, running, and publishing Linux containers. Finch bundles together a number of open-source components such as Lima, nerdctl, containerd, and BuildKit. At the time of release, Finch is a native macOS client with support for all Mac CPU architectures.
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PostgreSQL-Compatible AlloyDB Now Generally Available on Google Cloud
Recently Google announced the general availability (GA) of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service providing scale-out compute and storage, integrated analytics, and AI/ML-powered management.
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Learnings from Applying Psychological Safety across Teams
Applying ideas from psychological safety can enable people to speak up in teams about what they don't know, don't understand, or mistakes they have made. Trust and creating safe spaces are essential, but more is needed. People need to feel that they will not be punished or embarrassed if they take interpersonal risks.
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Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Provides Oauth 2.1 and OpenID Connect 1.0 Implementations
More than two-and-a-half years after being introduced to the Java community, VMWare has released Spring Authorization Server 1.0. Built on top of Spring Security, the Spring Authorization Server project supports the creation of OpenID Connect 1.0 Identity Providers and OAuth 2.1 Authorization Servers. The project supersedes the Spring Security OAuth project which is no longer maintained.
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Microsoft Previews a Managed Migration Service with Azure Storage Mover
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Storage Mover, a fully-managed, hybrid migration service.