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MIT Technology Review Insights Survey on Zero Trust in Cybersecurity
MIT Technology Review released their findings from the Zero trust closes the end-user gap in cybersecurity on Sep 19, 2022. This report focused on the approach to cybersecurity and mainly demonstrates how organizations go beyond passwords to embrace a new approach to defending against cyberattacks.
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QCon Plus 2022: Join Us Virtually for Quality Content and Connections
QCon Plus, the online software development conference organized by InfoQ, is returning this November 29-December 9, with an international community of senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders joining. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this event!
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Confluent Introduces Stream Governance Advanced to Safely Extend Data Streaming Power
Confluent recently announced new enhancements to its Stream Governance product that will improve engineering teams' ability to discover, understand, and trust real-time data. Organizations can use Stream Governance Advanced to resolve issues within complex pipelines more easily with point-in-time lineage.
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Reliable Continuous Testing Requires Automation
Automation makes it possible to build a reliable continuous testing process that covers the functional and non-functional requirements of the software. Preferably this automation should be done from the beginning of product development to enable quick release and delivery of software and early feedback from the users.
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QCon Events 2022: Uncover Emerging Trends & Learn From Practitioners Driving Innovation in Software
QCon offers two international software development conference formats, in-person QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28) and online QCon Plus (Nov 29-Dec 9). Level up on the skills most in demand in the industry by uncovering emerging software trends to solve your complex engineering challenges.
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Fitbit Health Solution and Google Cloud Introduce Device Connect for Fitbit
Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud have recently announced the release of Device Connect for Fitbit, which will provide healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives.
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Google AI Introduces TensorStore, a High-Performance Open-Source Library for Array Storage
Google has introduced TensorStore, an open-source C++ and Python framework intended to speed up the design for reading and writing large multidimensional arrays.
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Transformers Can Mock Part of Human Brain
In recent years, neuroscientists have tried many types of neural networks to model the firing of neurons in the human brain. In a recent project, two researchers Whittington and Behrens found that the hippocampus, a structure of the brain critical to memory, works as a particular kind of artificial neural network called transformer.
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Meta Launches New Chromium-Based WebView for Android
Meta has been developing its own Chromium-based WebView for Android for a few years and has now started rolling it out to users of its Facebook app. The new WebView, which has not been open-sourced yet, improves security, stability, and performance, says Meta.
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Confluent Ships Stream Designer Democratizing Data Streams
Confluent recently released Stream Designer, a visual interface that lets developers quickly build and deploy streaming data pipelines.
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New JavaScript Interop Improvements in .NET 7 RC 1
The release of .NET 7 RC 1 has introduced the new wasm-experimental workload and new JavaScript interop features that allow invoking of .NET code in JavaScript applications running on WebAssembly without using the Blazor UI component model. Until now, it was possible to use WebAssembly without the need for Blazor by leveraging the Mono WASM SDK, Uno.Wasm.Bootstrap library or the NativeAOT LLVM.
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OpenAI Releases 1.6 Billion Parameter Multilingual Speech Recognition AI Whisper
OpenAI recently released Whisper, a 1.6 billion parameter AI model that can transcribe and translate speech audio from 97 different languages. Whisper was trained on 680,000 hours of audio data collected from the web and shows robust zero-shot performance on a wide range of automated speech recognition (ASR) tasks.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Workspaces Core and Support for Ubuntu Desktops on Amazon Workspaces
AWS recently introduced a new addition to Amazon Workspaces with a fully-managed, infrastructure-only Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offering called Amazon Workspaces Core. In addition, customers can provision Ubuntu desktops on Amazon Workspaces for their developers, engineers, or data scientists.
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Google 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report Finds Strong Culture Predictive of Strong Performance
Google has released their findings from the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. This year's report focused on security with a specific emphasis on the software supply chain. The report found a broad adoption of the inspected practices with organizations that have a high-trust, low-blame culture leading the way in both security and operational practices.
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Java News Roundup: BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux, GlassFish, WildFly, Hibernate, Tomcat
This week's Java roundup for September 26th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Alpaquita Linux, Native in Spring Boot 3.0-M5, GlassFish 7.0-M9, Open Liberty 22.0.0.10 and 22.0.0.11-beta, WildFly 27 Beta1, Micronaut 3.7.1, Quarkus 2.13, Hibernate ORM 5.6.12, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.8, Kotlin 1.7.20, TornadoVM 0.14.1, Apache Lucene 9.4, Camel Quarkus 2.13, Apache Tomcat updates and jConf.dev.