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AWS Lambda Response Streaming Increases Payload Limit to 200 MB
AWS has revolutionized Lambda with an increased response streaming payload limit from 20 MB to 200 MB. This enhancement allows developers to stream larger data sets, improving Time to First Byte performance. By simplifying response handling and eliminating complex workarounds, AWS empowers developers to deliver rich content seamlessly, transforming serverless applications.
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Qwen Team Open Sources State-of-the-Art Image Model Qwen-Image
Qwen Team recently open sourced Qwen-Image, an image foundation model. Qwen-Image supports text-to-image (T2I) generation and text-image-to-image (TI2I) editing tasks, and outperforms other models on a variety of benchmarks.
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Google DeepMind Unveils AlphaEarth Foundations Model for Global Mapping
Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaEarth Foundations, an artificial intelligence model designed to integrate massive volumes of Earth observation data into a unified digital representation of the planet. The system, described as functioning like a “virtual satellite”, can process petabytes of multimodal inputs.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25-RC2, Eclipse JNoSQL, Quarkus, Apache TomEE, Apache Camel
This week's Java roundup for August 18th, 2025, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 25; a point release of Apache Camel; maintenance releases of Eclipse JNoSQL, Quarkus and Apache TomEE; and the Quarkus team implementing the resolution to CVE-2025-55163.
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Zemlin at Open Source Summit EU: Even in the Age of AI, the Software’s Future is Still Open Source
During the Open Source Summit Europe keynote, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, revisited the LLM landscape with an emphasis on the effect it has on the industry, the security, quantity and quality of the developed code. He emphasised that DeepSeek’s revolution was validated by the gpt-oss release, OpenAI’s first open-source model.
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Third Edition of PNG Specification Released, Adds HDR and Official APNG Support
The W3C recently published the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition), two decades after the second edition was accepted as a web standard. This update introduces High Dynamic Range (HDR) color, standardizes Animated PNGs (APNGs), and adds Exif metadata support, making PNG a valuable alternative to other formats like AVIF and WebP.
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Instacart Consolidates Search Infrastructure on PostgreSQL, Phasing out Elasticsearch
Instacart has redesigned its search infrastructure by replacing Elasticsearch with PostgreSQL, combining lexical and embedding-based retrieval in a single database engine. The change was driven by the cost and complexity of maintaining separate systems for search and transactional workloads. The company aimed to simplify operations, reduce overhead, and improve precision in search results.
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How Netflix is Reimagining Data Engineering for Video, Audio, and Text
Netflix has introduced a new engineering specialization—Media ML Data Engineering, alongside a Media Data Lake designed to handle video, audio, text, and image assets at scale. Early results include richer ML models trained on standardized media, faster evaluation cycles, and deeper insights into creative workflows.
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Cloudflare Rearchitects Workers KV Following GCP Outage, Achieves 40x Performance Gain
Cloudflare has recently redesigned Workers KV with a hybrid storage architecture that automatically routes objects between distributed databases and object storage based on size characteristics, while operating dual storage backends. This change improved the p99 read latencies from 200ms to under 5ms for their global key-value store while handling hundreds of billions of key-value pairs.
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Google Cloud Unveils New Data Security Posture Management Offering in Preview
Google Cloud unveils its new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) offering, enhancing data governance, privacy, and compliance. This innovative solution provides visibility into sensitive data, helping organizations identify risks and enforce controls. With advanced features integrated into the Security Command Center, it addresses the evolving challenges of cloud data security.
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Google Veles is a New Open-Source Secret Scanner Powering GCP
Google Veles is a newly released open-source secret scanner, launched as part of Google's broader OSV-SCALIBR (Software Composition Analysis LIBRary) ecosystem. Veles integrates seamlessly with other OSV-SCALIBR tools and also powers secret scanning in Google Cloud, while remaining available as a standalone module.
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Docker Content Trust Retired as Alternatives Flourish
With usage of Docker Content Trust (DCT) declining, and other similar offerings superseding its functionality and ease-of-use, Docker has announced the retirement of Docker Content Trust (DCT). Docker is recommending that organisations using DCT should move to alternatives such as Sigstore or Notation.
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Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Session, Integration
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of August 18th, 2025, highlighting second milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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.NET 10 Preview 7 Accelerates .NET MAUI with XAML Source Generator
On August 12th, Microsoft rolled out the seventh preview of .NET MAUI in .NET 10, introducing more performance improvements and some improvements in controls. This preview focuses on compile‑time XAML processing, richer media metadata support, safer UI layouts, and refined toolbar APIs.
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KubriX Launches as "Out of the Box" Internal Developer Platform
A new open-source platform named Kubrix has been launched into the developer community. It claims to create a fully functional Internal Developer Platform (IDP) without extensive custom development. The platform integrates established tools such as Argo CD, Kargo, Backstage, and Keycloak into what its creators describe as a ready-to-use solution for teams seeking to implement a modern IDP.