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.NET 10 Preview 5 Brings Blazor Observability, XAML Simplification and More
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 Preview 5, delivering updates across multiple components, including ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Entity Framework Core, and more. As reported, this preview introduces new features and improvements to enhance developer productivity, application observability, and customization.
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OWASP Launches AI Testing Guide to Address Security, Bias, and Risk in AI Systems
The OWASP Foundation has officially introduced the AI Testing Guide (AITG), a new open-source initiative aimed at assisting organizations in the systematic testing and security of artificial intelligence systems. This guide serves as a fundamental resource for developers, testers, risk officers, and cybersecurity professionals, promoting best practices in AI system security.
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C++26 Draft Finalized with Static Reflection, Contracts, and Sender/Receiver Types
The next major release of C++ reached an important milestone earlier this month, when the ISO C++ committee froze the feature set that will go into C++26. Notable additions include compile-time reflection, contracts, asynchronous execution, and many others.
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AWS Lambda Gains Native Avro and Protobuf Support for Kafka Events with Schema Registry Integration
Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and filtering, and optimizes costs through efficient event handling. Integration with AWS Glue and Confluent registries simplifies development, allowing cleaner data consumption and enhanced scalability.
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MicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications
Ten months after the release of MicroProfile 7.0, the MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile to the Java community. This new release features continued alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and updates to two community-developed core APIs.
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Microsoft Introduces Mu: a Lightweight On-Device Language Model for Windows Settings
Microsoft has introduced Mu, a new small-scale language model designed to run locally on Neural Processing Units (NPUs), starting with its deployment in the Windows Settings application for Copilot+ PCs. The model allows users to control system settings using natural language, aiming to reduce reliance on cloud-based processing.
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Microsoft Enhances Developer Experience with DocumentDB VS Code Extension and Local Emulator
Microsoft has recently released an open‑source DocumentDB extension for Visual Studio Code alongside DocumentDB Local, a lightweight local emulator.
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The Rise of Energy and Water Consumption Using AI Models, and How It Can Be Reduced
Artificial intelligence's (AI) energy and water consumption has become a growing concern in the tech industry, particularly for large-scale machine learning models and data centers. Sustainable AI focuses on making AI technology more environmentally friendly and socially responsible.
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JSON Modules Can Now Be Imported in JavaScript in All Modern Browsers, CSS Modules to Follow
Thomas Steiner, developer relations engineer at Google, recently published a blog post announcing that JSON module scripts were now available in all modern browsers. Developers using the latest version of modern browsers can now directly import JSON modules into their JavaScript code. The feature builds on the Import Attributes proposal. Native CSS modules import may soon follow.
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LinkedIn Announces Northguard and Xinfra: Scaling beyond Kafka for Log Storage and Pub/Sub
LinkedIn today announced Northguard, a scalable log storage system that replaces Kafka, and Xinfra, a virtualized Pub/Sub layer. Northguard delivers sharded data & metadata, log striping, strong consistency, and self-balancing clusters at a larger scale than Kafka, while Xinfra enables seamless migration and unified access across Kafka and Northguard.
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SwiftUI for iOS 26 Embraces Liquid Glass, Introduces WebView and Rich Text Editing
At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled the latest iteration of its declarative UI framework, SwiftUI, featuring two major additions: a new SwiftUI-native WebView type and support for rich-text editing within TextView controls. The update also brings a plethora of additional improvements and new performance tools.
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MiniMax Releases M1: a 456B Hybrid-Attention Model for Long-Context Reasoning and Software Tasks
MiniMax has introduced MiniMax-M1, a new open-weight reasoning model built to handle extended contexts and complex problem-solving with high efficiency. Built on top of the earlier MiniMax-Text-01, M1 features a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and a novel “lightning attention” mechanism.
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AWS Introduces Exportable Public SSL/TLS Certificates
AWS has recently announced exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from AWS Certificate Manager, addressing a long-standing community request and allowing users to export certificates with their private keys for use beyond managed services on AWS.
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GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java
The University of Manchester's Beehive Lab has released GPULlama3.java, marking the first Java-native implementation of Llama3 with automatic GPU acceleration. This project leverages TornadoVM to enable GPU-accelerated large language model inference without requiring developers to write CUDA or native code, potentially transforming how Java developers approach AI apps in enterprise environments.
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Midjourney Debuts V1 AI Video Model
Midjourney has launched its first video generation V1 model, a web-based tool that allows users to animate still images into 5-second video clips.