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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.
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Dealing with Cognitive Load Using Observability
We can make good decisions with speed when we limit the cognitive load on any one person or team. Observability can help to increase delivery speed, by providing information to developers that helps them to make decisions quickly.
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New Microsoft Defender Products: Threat Intelligence and External Attack Surface Management
Microsoft recently announced two security products: Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management. These new products are driven by their acquisition of RiskIQ just over a year ago.
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The LinkedIn Way of Building API Versions
LinkedIn recently revealed how they built a new versioned API framework for LinkedIn Marketing APIs that allows external partners to migrate to newer versions of APIs at their own pace.
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Android Adds Experimental Support for Predictive Back Gestures
To help users understand where a back gesture will land them in an Android app, Google has introduced a new predictive back gesture. The new feature allows the user to decide whether they want to complete the gesture or not by showing an animated preview of the gesture outcome.
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AWS Adds Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer to Lambda Console
AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer in the AWS Lambda console. Available as a native code suggestion feature in the code editor, the new functionality of the coding assistant can make code recommendations during Lambda function definition.
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Meta Develops Dataset Pruning Technique for Scaling AI Training
Researchers from Meta AI and Stanford University have developed a metric for pruning AI datasets which improves training scalability from a power-law to exponential-decay. The metric uses self-supervised learning and performs comparably to existing metrics which require more compute power.
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New Features with the GA Release of Second-Generation Cloud Functions
Like other public cloud vendors, Google has a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering with Cloud Functions – and recently announced the second generation's general availability (GA).
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Machine Learning Systems Vulnerable to Specific Attacks
The growing number of organizations creating and deploying machine learning solutions raises concerns as to their intrinsic security, argues the NCC Group in a recent whitepaper (Practical Attacks on Machine Learning Systems).
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Java News Roundup: Extent-Local Variables, Payara Platform, Project Reactor, Ktor, Spring Web Flow
This week's Java roundup for August 8th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, Jakarta EE 10, Spring WebFlow 3.0.0-M1, Spring Tools 4.15.3, Payara Platform Enterprise 5.42.0, Quarkus 2.11.2, MicroStream 7.0.1-beta, Piranha 22.8.0, JobRunr 5.1.7, Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.3, Project Reactor 2022.0.0-M5, Ktor 2.1.0, Apache Camel 3.18.1 and KCDC Conference.
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Uber Open-Sourced Its Highly Scalable and Reliable Shuffle as a Service for Apache Spark
Uber engineering has recently open-sourced its highly scalable and reliable shuffle as a service for Apache Spark. Spark is one of the most important tools and platforms in data engineering and analytics. It is shuffling data on local machines by default and causes challenges while the scale is getting very large. Shuffle as a service is a solution developed at Uber for this problem.
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.