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OpenAI Features New o3-mini Model on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
OpenAI has launched the advanced o3-mini model via Microsoft Azure, enhancing AI applications with improved cost efficiency, faster performance, and adjustable reasoning capabilities. Designed for complex tasks, it supports structured outputs and backward compatibility. With widespread access, the o3-mini empowers developers to drive innovation across various industries.
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Micronaut Framework 4.7.0 Provides Integration with LangChain4j and Graal Languages
The Micronaut Foundation has released Micronaut Framework 4.7.0 in December 2024, four months after the release of version 4.6.0. This version provides LangChain4J support to integrate LLMs into Java applications. Micronaut Graal Languages provides integration with Graal-based dynamic languages such as the Micronaut GraalPy feature to interact with Python.
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Java News Roundup: LangChain4j 1.0-Beta1, JHipster Lite, GlassFish, Spring Cloud Stream Applications
This week's Java roundup for February 3rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the first beta release of LangChain4j 1.0; versions 1.27.0 and 1.28.0 of JHipster Lite; GlassFish 7.0.22; and versions 2025.0.0 and 2024.0.1 of Spring Cloud Stream Applications.
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Slack Enhances Accessibility Testing through Automation
Slack recently integrated automated accessibility testing into its software development lifecycle to improve user experience for individuals with disabilities. Slack has internal standards and the company further collaborates with external accessibility testers as well. These standards align with WCAG, an internationally recognized benchmark for web accessibility.
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FerretDB, an Open-Source Alternative to MongoDB, Releases Version 2.0
FerretDB has announced the first release candidate of version 2.0. Now powered by the recently released DocumentDB, FerretDB serves as an open-source alternative to MongoDB, bringing significant performance improvements, enhanced feature compatibility, vector search capabilities, and replication support.
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Recent Generations of Apple CPUs Affected by New Side-Channel Vulnerabilities
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ruhr University Bochum demonstrated two new side channel attacks on recent M and A CPUs from Apple that leak sensitive information when using Chrome and Safari to visit popular sites.
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How Locking, Saturation and CDN Network Issues Brought down Canva
The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident.
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OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development
A consortium of 20 European research institutions, companies, and EuroHPC centers has launched OpenEuroLLM, an initiative to develop open-source, multilingual large language models (LLMs). Coordinated by Jan Hajič and co-led by Peter Sarlin, the project aims to provide transparent and compliant AI models for commercial and public sector applications.
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How Data Contracts Support Collaboration between Data Teams
Data contracts define the interface between data providers and consumers, specifying things like data models, quality guarantees, and ownership. They are essential for distributed data ownership in data mesh, ensuring data is discoverable, interoperable, and governed. Data contracts improve communication between teams and enhance the reliability and quality of data products.
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Amazon EventBridge Event Bus Cross-Account Event Delivery
AWS enhances Amazon EventBridge, enabling direct event delivery across accounts. This feature simplifies architecture, boosts security, and reduces latency, allowing seamless routing of events to AWS services like SQS and Lambda. Leverage fine-grained IAM control for streamlined event sourcing. Discover more about this transformative update on AWS documentation and GitHub.
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OpenAI Launches Deep Research: Advancing AI-Assisted Investigation
OpenAI has launched Deep Research, a new agent within ChatGPT designed to conduct in-depth, multi-step investigations across the web. Initially available to Pro users, with plans to expand access to Plus and Team users, Deep Research automates time-consuming research by retrieving, analyzing, and synthesizing online information.
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DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information Highlights AI Security Risks
Cloud security firm Wiz uncovered unprotected DeepSeek database giving full control over database operations and access to internal data including millions of lines of chat logs. While the vulnerability has been quickly fixed, the incident shows the need for the AI industry to enforce higher security standards, says the company.
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InfoQ's New Certification Focuses on Practical Skills for Senior Developers and Architects
InfoQ is introducing its first hands-on software architecture certification at QCon London 2025 (April 7-10), the international software development conference. The certification will combine practitioner-led conference sessions with a hands-on workshop focused on real-world architectural challenges.
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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepSeek-R1 LLM with Performance Comparable to OpenAI's o1 Model
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement learning )RL) to improve reasoning capability. DeepSeek-R1 achieves results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on several benchmarks, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.
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Hugging Face Expands Serverless Inference Options with New Provider Integrations
Hugging Face has launched the integration of four serverless inference providers Fal, Replicate, SambaNova, and Together AI, directly into its model pages. These providers are also integrated into Hugging Face's client SDKs for JavaScript and Python, allowing users to run inference on various models with minimal setup.