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Docker Introduces Hardened Images to Strengthen Container Security
Docker has launched Docker Hardened Images, a catalog of enterprise-grade, security-hardened container images designed to protect against software supply chain threats. By relieving DevOps teams from the chore of securing their containers on their own, hardened images provide an easier way to meet enterprise-grade security and compliance standards, Docker says.
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.NET 10 Preview 4: Improved JSON Patch, Blazor Diagnostics, OpenAPI Integration, and More
Microsoft has released the fourth preview of .NET 10, bringing a range of enhancements across ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, WPF, Entity Framework Core, and the runtime.
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Gemma 3 Supports Vision-Language Understanding, Long Context Handling, and Improved Multilinguality
Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemma 3 supports vision-language understanding, long context handling, and improved multi-linguality. In a recent blog post, Google DeepMind and AI Studio teams discussed the new features in Gemma 3. The model also highlights KV-cache memory reduction, a new tokenizer and offers better performance and higher resolution vision encoders.
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Spring AI 1.0 Released, Streamlines AI Application Development with Broad Model Support
Introducing Spring AI 1.0: a groundbreaking framework that streamlines the creation of AI-driven applications in Java. Seamlessly integrate with top AI models for chat, image generation, and more. With portable abstractions and support for Retrieval Augmented Generation, developers can build scalable, production-ready solutions while adhering to Spring standards.
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AWS Transform GA: Agentic AI Automates Mainframe and VMware Modernization on AWS
AWS Transform, now generally available, is an innovative AI service designed to streamline enterprise mainframe and VMware modernization. Leveraging generative AI, it automates legacy systems' transformation into cloud architectures. With specialized multi-agent AI, it enhances code analysis and application migration.
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Java News Roundup: LangChain4j 1.0, Vert.x 5.0, Spring Data 2025.0.0, Payara Platform, Hibernate
This week's Java roundup for May 12th, 2025 features news highlighting: the GA releases of LangChain4j 1.0, Eclipse Vert.x 5.0 and Spring Data 2025.0.0; the May 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; second release candidates for Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the first beta release of Hibernate Search 8.0.
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Microsoft CTO Details Successes, Challenges, and Commitment to Rust at Rust Nation UK
Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, delved in a recent talk at Rust Nation UK into the factors driving Rust adoption, providing concrete examples of Rust usage in Microsoft products, and detailing ongoing efforts to accelerate the migration from C/C++ to Rust at Microsoft by leveraging generative AI.
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OpenAI Launches Codex Software Engineering Agent Preview
OpenAI has launched Codex, a research preview of a cloud-based software engineering agent designed to automate common development tasks such as writing code, debugging, testing, and generating pull requests. Integrated into ChatGPT, Codex runs each assignment in a secure sandbox environment preloaded with the user's codebase and configured to reflect their development setup.
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Windsurf Launches SWE-1 Family of Models for Software Engineering
Windsurf has introduced its first set of SWE-1 models, aimed at supporting the full range of software engineering tasks, not limited to code generation. The lineup consists of three models SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini, each designed for specific scenarios.
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How Allegro Does Automated Code Migrations for over 2000 Microservices
Allegro shared the details of the process it uses to manage code migrations at scale. The company combined GitHub’s Dependabot and OpenRewrite projects into a custom solution that helps developers perform mundane code migration tasks automatically across numerous source code repositories. The company tackled many edge cases to ensure the process operates smoothly, relieving initial trust issues.
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OpenJDK News Roundup: Key Derivation, Scoped Values, Compact Headers, JFR Method Timing & Tracing
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 12th, 2025, highlighting: two JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and four JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 25; and one JEP elevated from its JEP Draft to Candidate status. Two of these will be finalized after their respective rounds of preview.
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OpenAI’s Stargate Project Aims to Build AI Infrastructure in Partner Countries Worldwide
OpenAI has announced a new initiative called "OpenAI for Countries" as part of its Stargate project, aiming to help nations develop AI infrastructure based on democratic principles. This expansion follows the company's initial $500 billion investment plan for AI infrastructure in the United States.
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Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Now Available on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of Meta's latest foundation models, Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, in Amazon Bedrock and AWS SageMaker JumpStart. Both models provide multimodal capabilities and follow the mixture-of-experts architecture.
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Cloudflare Enhances Developer Experience with Vite Plugin and React Router v7 Support
Introducing Cloudflare's Vite Plugin (v1.0), revolutionizing web app development on Cloudflare Workers! Seamlessly integrate the Workers runtime into the Vite build process, enhance productivity with official React Router v7 support, and streamline deployment workflows. Experience faster builds, efficient hot module replacement, and robust ecosystem support for modern frameworks.
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SSL/TLS Certificate Lifespans to Shrink to 47 Days by 2029
In a move to enhance internet security, the CA/Browser Forum (CA/B Forum) has approved a proposal to reduce the maximum validity period of SSL/TLS certificates from the current 398 days to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.