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Java News Roundup: CLI Tool for Quarkus MCP, Groovy 5.0 Milestone, JHipster, GraalVM
This week's Java roundup for July 21st, 2025, features news highlighting: a new tool to use Quarkus MCP Client to access a secure Quarkus MCP Server from the command line; the second beta release of Groovy 5.0.0; and point releases for GraalVM Native Build Tools and JHipster Lite.
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Apple Shares Details on Upcoming AI Foundation Models for iOS 26
In a recent tech report, Apple has provided more details on the performance and characteristics of the new Apple Intelligence Foundation Models that will be part of iOS 26, as announced at the latest WWDC 2025.
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The White House Releases National AI Strategy Focused on Innovation, Infrastructure, and Global Lead
The White House has published America’s AI Action Plan, outlining a national strategy to enhance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. The plan follows President Trump’s January Executive Order 14179, which directed federal agencies to accelerate AI development and remove regulatory barriers to innovation.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Kafka, Pulsar
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of July 21st, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka, Spring for Apache Pulsar and Spring Web Services.
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Vercel Adds External API Caching Analytics to Observability
Vercel has enhanced its observability platform by integrating external API caching insights, enabling developers to track how many requests to third-party APIs are served from the Vercel Data Cache versus being routed to the origin server.
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From Hadoop to Kubernetes: Pinterest’s Scalable Spark Architecture on AWS EKS
Pinterest revamped its data infrastructure by transitioning from a legacy Hadoop system to the Moka platform, leveraging Kubernetes and Spark on AWS EKS. This strategic shift enhances job isolation, simplifies deployment, and optimizes resource management, leading to reduced costs and improved efficiency.
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Databricks Agent Bricks Automates Enterprise AI Development with TAO and ALHF Methods
Databricks introduced Agent Bricks, a new product that changes how enterprises develop domain-specific agents. The automated workflow includes generating task-specific evaluations and LLM judges for quality assessment, creating synthetic data that resembles customer data to supplement agent learning, and searching across optimization techniques to refine agent performance.
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.NET MAUI 10 Preview 6 Brings Performance Updates, Small Enhancements
On July 15th, Microsoft rolled out the sixth preview of .NET MAUI in .NET 10, introducing a couple of new features and improvements aimed at enhancing developer productivity and framework performance. This preview focuses on refining three existing controls (MediaPicker, WebView, and HybridWebView), along with updates and stability fixes for platform-specific code.
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Kubernetes Introduces Post-Quantum Support for TLS
A recent Kubernetes enhancement aims to pave the way to future-proofing cluster security against quantum computing threats. In a blog post, the Kubernetes community highlighted support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) via a hybrid key exchange mechanism integrated with the Kubernetes Key Management Service (KMS) plugin system.
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Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-Coder, a Large Agentic Coding Model with Open Tooling
Qwen Team has announced Qwen3-Coder, a new family of agentic code models designed for long-context, multi-step programming tasks. The most capable variant, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, is a Mixture-of-Experts model with a total of 480 billion parameters and 35 billion active parameters per forward pass.
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AWS Introduces Vector Capabilities on Amazon S3
At the recent AWS Summit in New York City, AWS announced the preview of Amazon S3 Vectors, claiming to be the first cloud object store with native support for storing large vector datasets. The new option offers subsecond query performance, reducing the cost of storing AI-ready data compared to traditional vector databases.
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Google Apigee Adds Built-in LLM Governance with Model Armor
Google Cloud has launched the public preview of Model Armor, a native LLM governance framework integrated into the Apigee API management platform. Detailed in a community post, Model Armor introduces out-of-the-box enforcement for LLM-specific policies such as prompt validation, output filtering, and token-level controls at the API layer.
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Uber Unveils Multi-Cloud Secrets Management Platform to Secure 150,000+ Credentials
Uber has revealed details of its internally developed Multi-Cloud Secrets Management Platform, designed to address the security challenges of managing over 150,000 secrets across its massive distributed infrastructure. The platform represents a significant evolution in how large-scale technology companies approach credential security in multi-cloud environments.
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.NET 10 Preview 6 Introduces Blazor Enhancements, Memory Optimization, and SDK Improvements
Microsoft has announced the sixth preview of .NET 10, introducing a broad range of enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI. As stated in the official release, the update focuses on improving performance, developer experience, and cross-platform tooling.
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State Space Models Can Enable AI in Low-Power Edge Computing
At the the 2025 Embedded Vision Summit, Tony Lewis, chief technology officer at BrainChip, presented research done by his company into state space models (SSMs) and how they can provide LLM capabilities with very low power consumption in limited computing environments, such as those found on dashcams, medical devices, security cameras, and even toys.