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GitHub Leverages AI for More Accurate Code Secret Scanning
GitHub has unveiled a groundbreaking AI-driven secret scanning feature within Copilot, enhancing password detection in code while significantly reducing false positives. By leveraging advanced context analysis and collaboration with Microsoft, GitHub ensures robust repository security. Experience a new era of code integrity with precision-driven technology now available for all users.
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Atlassian Launches ARM Builds for Bitbucket Pipelines
Atlassian has announced ARM-based Linux runners for its Bitbucket Pipelines cloud service, allowing developers to build software artefacts and container images for ARM-based systems. The new feature is available exclusively to Standard and Premium plan customers.
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Fauna Shutting Down: Is the Future Open Source?
The team behind the distributed serverless database Fauna has recently announced plans to shut down the service by the end of May. While the managed database will be terminated soon and all customers will have to migrate to other platforms, Fauna is committing to releasing an open source version of the core database technology alongside the existing drivers and CLI tooling.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025: Real-World AI, Platform Engineering & DevEx Strategies
InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025 (June 9-10, 2025) is where senior software developers, architects, and engineering leaders come together to tackle today’s most pressing challenges in AI adoption, platform engineering, and developer experience (DevEx). This event delivers insights from practitioners building and scaling modern software systems.
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Microsoft Officially Supports Rust on Azure with First SDK Beta
Microsoft's beta release of the Azure SDK for Rust empowers developers to seamlessly connect with Azure services. Featuring libraries for Identity, Key Vault, Event Hubs, and Cosmos DB, this initiative underscores Rust's growing significance in high-performance applications. As Microsoft enhances the SDK, it aims to deliver a robust and user-friendly developer experience.
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OpenSilver 3.2 Extends Silverlight and WPF to Mobile Devices
The latest version of OpenSilver 3.2, a remake of Microsoft's retired Silverlight web application framework, extends the platform to mobile devices using a .NET MAUI Hybrid approach.
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.NET 10 Preview 2: Enhanced Reconnection UI, Improved Blazor Features, and Updates across the Stack
Last week, the .NET Team announced the second preview release of .NET 10 introducing several enhancements across various components, including .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 24, GraalVM for JDK 24, Payara Platform, Kafka 4.0, Spring CVEs, JavaOne 2025
This week's Java roundup for March 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 24 and Apache Kafka 4.0; the March 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; Spring Security CVEs; and JavaOne 2025.
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TikTok's Native Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Goes Open Source
TikTok maker ByteDance has open-sourced Lynx, a collection of frameworks and tools enabling the creation of native, cross-platform mobile apps using Web markup, CSS, and JavaScript. Lynx aims to deliver native performance thanks to its custom JavaScript engine and pixel-perfect UI rendering.
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Google Cloud Announces Kubernetes History Inspector to Visualise Cluster Logs
Google Cloud has released a new open-source tool that visualises cluster logs chronologically to simplify troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes History Inspector (KHI) is intended to help administrators to debug problems inside Kubernetes clusters and identify root causes.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Integration, AMQP
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of March 17th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring Web Services.
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GPT-4o Code Completion Model Now Available in Public Preview for VS Code Copilot
Recently, GPT-4o Copilot is introduced for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) users. This AI model is built upon the GPT-4o mini foundation and includes extensive training from over 275,000 high-quality public repositories across more than 30 widely used programming languages. The enhanced training is expected to provide more accurate and contextually relevant code suggestions.
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Roblox Releases Cube 3D, an AI Open-Source Model for 3D Model Generation
Roblox has introduced Cube 3D, a generative AI system designed for creating 3D and 4D objects and environments.
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How GitHub Leverages CodeQL for Security
GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team secures the code behind GitHub by developing tools like CodeQL to detect and fix vulnerabilities at scale. They’ve shared insights into their approach so other organizations can learn how to use CodeQL to better protect their own codebases.
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Google Cloud Introduces HDD Tier for Spanner Database, Cutting Cold Storage Costs by 80%
Google has recently introduced tiered storage for Spanner, its distributed SQL database on Google Cloud. This tiered storage is based on a new HDD storage option that is 80% cheaper than the existing SSD option, allowing for cost optimization of older data while minimizing the overhead associated with traditional data migration.