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Google DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry2 AI Achieves Gold-Medal Math Olympiad Performance
Google DeepMind's AlphaGeometry2 (AG2) AI model solved 84% of the geometry problems from the last 25 years of International Math Olympiads (IMO), outperforming the average human gold-medalist performance.
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AWS Introduces Centralized Root Access Management for Organizations
AWS has introduced a new capability for AWS Organizations members, allowing administrators to centrally manage and restrict root-user access across multiple AWS accounts. This update enhances security and governance by providing organizations with greater control over the most privileged access within their cloud environments.
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Go 1.24 Brings Generic Type Aliases, Weak Pointers, Improved Finalizers, and More
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.24, introduces several important features, including generic type aliases, weak pointers, improved cleanup finalizers, and more. It also enhances runtime performance in map default implementation, small object allocation, and mutexes handling.
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Perplexity Unveils Deep Research: AI-Powered Tool for Advanced Analysis
Perplexity has introduced Deep Research, an AI-powered tool designed for conducting in-depth analysis across various fields, including finance, marketing, and technology. The system automates the research process by performing multiple searches, analyzing extensive sources, and synthesizing findings into structured reports within minutes.
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GitHub Actions Adds Linux ARM64 Hosted Runners in Public Preview
GitHub recently announced the public preview of Linux arm64 hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Free for public repositories, this development provides developers with more efficient tools for building and testing software on Arm-based architectures.
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Farewell to Build Scripts as Docker Bake Goes GA
Docker has announced the general availability of Docker Bake, a build orchestration tool designed to simplify complex Docker image builds. The Bake functionality has been in an experimental phase for several years, and it aims to address common challenges in managing Docker build configurations by declaratively defining build stages and deployment environments.
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How Monzo Bank Built a Cost-Effective, Unorthodox Backup System to Ensure Resilient Banking
Monzo Bank recently revealed Stand-in, an independent backup system on GCP that ensures essential banking services remain operational during application and AWS infrastructure outages. Unlike traditional backups, it's a minimal stand-alone system that exclusively supports key operations and features a cost-effective design, resulting in 1% of the operational costs of the primary deployment.
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Java News Roundup: NetBeans 25, Payara Platform, Hibernate Reactive, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for February 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the release of Apache NetBeans 25; the February 2025 release of the Payara Platform; the second beta release of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the second release candidate of Gradle 8.13.
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Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, AI and AMQP
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of February 17th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Integration, Spring AI and Spring AMQP.
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How to Defend Amazon S3 Buckets from Ransomware Exploiting SSE-C Encryption
A new ransomware campaign, dubbed Codefinger, has been targeting Amazon S3 users by exploiting compromised AWS credentials to encrypt data using Server-Side Encryption with Customer-Provided Keys (SSE-C). Attackers then demand ransom payments for the symmetric AES-256 keys required to decrypt the data. AWS has released recommendations to help users mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks on S3.
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AWS Reduces Latency and Costs for Key/Value Datastores with AZ Affinity Routing and GLIDE Valkey
AWS recently introduced Availability Zone (AZ) awareness in version 1.2 of the open source Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE) client library. By implementing AZ affinity routing in the open source key/value datastore, developers can reduce latency and costs by directing requests to replicas within the same AZ as the client.
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Uber's Cloud Journey: Embracing ARM in an x86 World
Uber embarked on a strategic migration from on-premise data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Platform in February 2023. A key component of this migration was integrating ARM-based computers into their predominantly x86 fleet to reduce costs, improve price performance, and ensure hardware flexibility amid supply chain uncertainties.
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Google Gemini's Long-term Memory Vulnerable to a Kind of Phishing Attack
AI security hacker Johann Rehberger described a prompt injection attack against Google Gemini able to modify its long-term memories using a technique he calls delayed tool invocation. The researcher described the attack as a sort of social engineering/phishing attack triggered by the user interacting with a malicious document.
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Azure AI Agent Service Now in Public Preview for Developers in AI Foundry SDK and Portal
Introducing the Azure AI Agent Service: a groundbreaking platform that empowers developers to design, deploy, and manage intelligent AI agents seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft ecosystem. Automate tasks, access real-time data, and monitor performance, all while benefiting from easy setup and advanced orchestration. Transform your business with AI-driven efficiency and innovation.
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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Adds .NET 9, Offline Speech Recognition
Between December 2024 and January 2025, Microsoft released versions 10.0.0 and 11.0.0 of their open-source .NET MAUI Community Toolkit. The new versions add .NET 9 support and offline speech recognition to the toolkit. Many small updates and bug fixes are also released with the toolkit.