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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.
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New Crypto-Jacking Attacks Target DevOps and AI Infrastructure
Security researchers at Wiz have uncovered a sophisticated crypto-jacking attack targeting publically accessible API servers for several popular DevOps tools. Similarly, researchers at Sysdig have uncovered an attack on the popular AI tool Open WebUI using many of the same techniques and crypto-miners.
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Java News Roundup: MicroProfile, Open Liberty, TomEE, JobRunr, LangChain4j, Apple SwiftJava
This week's Java roundup for June 16th, 2025, features news highlighting: point releases of MicroProfile 7.1, Apache TomEE 10.1 and LangChain4j 1.1; the June edition of Open Liberty; the second beta release of JobRunr 8.0; and Apple’s new SwiftJava utility.
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AWS Introduces Extended Threat Detection for EKS via GuardDuty
AWS has expanded GuardDuty’s threat detection capabilities on EKS clusters, introducing new runtime monitoring features that use a managed eBPF agent to detect container-level threats.
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CNCF Graduates in‑toto, Bolstering Software Supply Chain Security
On April 23, 2025, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the graduation of in‑toto, a framework designed to enforce supply chain integrity by ensuring that every step in the software development lifecycle, such as building, signing, and deployment, is properly authorized and verifiable.
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Microsoft Azure Enhances Observability with OpenTelemetry Support for Logic Apps and Functions
Microsoft has expanded OpenTelemetry support in Azure Logic Apps and Functions, enhancing observability and interoperability across platforms. This open-source framework enables seamless data generation and correlation, enhancing diagnostics beyond standard telemetry. With streamlined configuration and integration, Azure's offerings aim for standardized observability across cloud services.
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Spring News Roundup: Spring Vault Milestone, Point Releases and End of OSS Support
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 16th, 2025, highlighting: the first milestone release of Spring Vault 4.0; and point releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Kafka. Release trains for numerous Spring projects will also reach the end of OSS support on June 30, 2025.