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Stack Overflow Sentiment Survey Aims to Identify Experimental and Proven Technologies
Stack Overflow has published its 2023 Emergent Tech Sentiment Survey, aiming to gauge how developers perceive utility and impact of a range of "buzz-worthy" technologies like quantum computing, nanotechnology, blockchain, and others, as well as other more established ones including cloud computing, machine learning, robotics, and more.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.10 Released
Recently, the Dapr maintainers released V1.10 of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub-brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions.
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Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta
Microsoft has released the TypeScript 5.0 beta version, which aims to simplify, speed up and reduce the size of TypeScript. The beta release incorporates new decorators standards that enable users to customize classes and their members in a reusable manner. It also allows developers to write cleaner and more maintainable code.
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Integrating Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Power Platform and Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new set of integrations with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server and the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure- making it easier to develop solutions for analyzing data, automating processes, and building apps. These new integrations include PowerBI, Logic Apps, PowerApps, and Power Automate.
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Open-Source Package ngrok-go Aims to Make it Easier to Embed Ingress into Go Apps
Ngrok-go is an idiomatic Go package that enables Go applications to securely receive network requests through ngrok's ingress-as-a-service platform as if they were listening on a local port.
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JetBrains Adds Taint Analysis for PHP to Qodana Code Quality Platform
Qodana, JetBrains' code quality platform, now provides support for PHP taint analysis in early preview. The feature aims to allow developers to detect taints in their programs, i.e. spots that are vulnerable to malicious inputs.
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Traffic Protocol Analyzer Wireshark Gets its Own Foundation
The popular open-source protocol analyzer Wireshark has a new permanent home in the form of the Wireshark Foundation, which should provide the means for its further, long-term evolution, says Sysdig, which took over as the project's main sponsor in 2022.
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GitHub Enhances CodeQL, Extends Language Support, Available Queries, and More
After adding support for Ruby at GitHub Universe 2022, CodeQL introduced Kotlin support in beta. Additionally, support for other languages has been extended to include more recent versions. GitHub has also extended available queries to fully cover several industry-wide vulnerability directories, and improved the CodeQL ecosystem.
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Octosuite: a GitHub Open Source Intelligence Framework
Octosuite, an open-source intelligence (OSINT) framework, recently released its latest version 3.1.0. Octosuite provides a wide range of commands to investigate publicly-visible GitHub accounts and repositories through GitHub’s Public APIs. Written in Python, Octosuite provides a secure and user-friendly interface to easily search and explore data related to a repository, organization, or user.
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Go 1.20 Improves Compiler Performance and Extends Coverage Support
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.20, improves compiler performance, bringing it back in line with Go 1.17. Additionally, the language now supports conversion from slice to arrays and revises struct comparison.
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HC-tree is a High-Concurrency Backend for SQLite Supporting Replication
HC-tree is a project aimed at building a new backend for SQLite specifically optimized for high-concurrency and lead-follower style replication. While still experimental, HC-tree can be used as an SQLite drop-in replacement, albeit with limitations.
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Chromium to Allow the Use of Third-Party Rust Libraries to Improve Safety and Security
The Chromium Project is going to add a Rust toolchain to its build system to enable the integration of third-party libraries written in Rust, with the aim of improving security, safety, and speed up development.
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GitHub Releases Copilot for Business amid Ongoing Legal Controversy
GitHub has announced Copilot for Business, a business plan for their OpenAI-powered coding assistant Copilot. The release follows a recent class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for violating open-source licenses.
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Prometheus Adds Long Term Support Model and Improved Remote Write Mode
Prometheus, the open-source monitoring tool, has added a number of new features including a reduced functionality remote write mode. Additional improvements include a new HTTP service discovery mechanism, native histogram support, additional integrations for Alertmanager, and a new long-term support model.
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Android Extension SDK Aims to Simplify the Use of Modular System Components
Introduced with Android 10, Modular System Components enable updating end-user devices outside of the normal Android release cycles. The new Extension SDK framework, now public, aims to make their integration simpler for developers.