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Google Published Results on How ML-Enhanced Code Compilation Could Improve Developers’ Productivity
The rapid advances in natural language processing (NLP) opened a new direction to use deep learning models in providing smarter suggestions for developers while writing software codes. Google AI has recently published results on ML-enhanced code compilation and how it improved developers’ productivity considering different metrics.
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Google Cloud Blocks Largest Layer 7 DDoS Attack
Google claims to have recently fended off the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed denial of service attack, which peaked at 46 million requests per second. According to the cloud provider, the DDoS attack was quickly detected and stopped at the edge of Google’s network, and the customer was not impacted.
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Amazon Announces New Capabilities on Local Environments for SageMaker Canvas and Pipelines
Amazon is announcing multiple capabilities for SageMaker, including expanded capabilities to better prepare and analyze data for machine learning, faster onboarding with automatic data import from local disk in SageMaker Canvas, and the testing of machine learning workflows in local environments for SageMaker Pipelines.
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Berkeley Researchers Announce Robot Training Algorithm DayDreamer
Researchers from University of California, Berkeley, recently announced DayDreamer, a reinforcement-learning (RL) AI algorithm that uses a world model, which allows it to learn more quickly without the need for interacting with a simulator. Using DayDreamer, the team was able to train several physical robots to perform complex tasks within only a few hours.
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Discover, Copy, and Share Common Code with the New AWS Serverless Snippets Collection
Recently, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team released the Serverless Snippets Collection. This new Serverless Land page makes it easier to find, copy, and share common code that can enhance productivity in serverless application development.
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Processing Data with Kotlin Dataframe Preview
Kotlin DataFrame, available as a first public preview, is a new library for processing data from any source, such as CSV, JSON, Excel and Apache Arrow files. The DataFrame works together with Kotlin data classes and hierarchical data schemas by using a Domain Specific Language (DSL).
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19-RC1, Multiple Spring Updates, Micronaut, Helidon, Payara
This week's Java roundup for August 15th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Spring Boot versions 2.7.3 and 2.6.11, Spring Authorization Server versions 1.0.0-M1 and 0.4.0-M1, Spring Security versions 5.7.3 and 5.6.7 and 5.8.0-M2, Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.9.5, Spring Shell 2.1.1, Payara Platform 5 Community Edition, Micronaut 3.6.1, Helidon 3.0.1 and Apache Camel 3.14.5.
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Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Planned for November 2022
Spring Authorization Server 1.0 is planned for a GA release in November 2022, after starting the project two years ago. The Spring Authorization Server project replaces the, already End of Life, Spring Security OAuth project. The project is led by the Spring Security team and delivers support for OAuth 2.1 Authorization Server for Spring applications.
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New Stanford Compute-In-Memory Chip Promises to Bring Efficient AI to Low-Power Devices
In a paper recently published in Nature, Stanford researchers presented a new compute-in-memory (CIM) chip using resistive random-access memory (RRAM) that promises to bring energy efficient AI capabilities to edge devices.
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AWS Brings Support for GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio Events to Amazon EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that allows AWS services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events. The service now supports integrations with GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio via webhooks using Quicks Starts.
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AWS Private 5G Mobile Network Generally Available But without 5G Support
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Private 5G, a managed service to set up and deploy private mobile networks. The current lack of 5G support, the minimum price of a radio unit and the availability only in the United States raised some concerns in the community.
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Amazon's AlexaTM 20B Model Outperforms GPT-3 on NLP Benchmarks
Researchers at Amazon Alexa AI have announced Alexa Teacher Models (AlexaTM 20B), a 20-billion-parameter sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) language model that exhibits state-of-the-art performance on 1-shot and few-shot NLP tasks. AlexaTM 20B outperforms GPT-3 on SuperGLUE and SQuADv2 benchmarks while having fewer than 1/8 the number of parameters.
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The Announcement of Discontinuing Google Cloud IoT Core Service Stirs the Community and Customers
Google Cloud IoT Core is a fully-managed service that allows customers to connect, manage, and ingest data from millions of globally dispersed devices quickly and securely. Recently, Google announced discontinuing the service - according to the documentation, the company will retire the service on the 16th of August, 2023.
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Azure Optimized Stack with DeepSpeed for Hyperscale Model Training
Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) now provides an optimized stack that uses the latest NVIDIA GPU technology with Quantum InfiniBand to efficiently train and fine-tune large models like Megatron-Turing and GPT-3.
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Google Announces Three New Regions in Asia Pacific
Google has a global network of 34 regions and 103 availability zones, bringing its Cloud services to customers in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Recently, the company announced that it would expand its presence to three new cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand.