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Rust Rewrite Enables Cloudflare to Boost CDN Performance and Enhance Security
By adopting Rust for one of its core subsystems, Cloudflare succeeded in reducing response time by 10 ms and boosting performance by 25%. Additionally, the company emphasized that Rust made their system more secure and reduced development time.
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New Infrastructure-as-Code Tool "formae" Takes Aim at Terraform
Platform Engineering Labs has released formae, an open-source infrastructure-as-code platform. It is trying to address what they describe as fundamental limitations in existing infrastructure-as-code tools. In a press release, the New York-based company announced the launch on 22 October 2025, positioning formae as the first major innovation in infrastructure-as-code in nearly a decade.
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Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, BellSoft, Grails, Hazelcast, Langchain4j
This week's Java roundup for October 20th, 2025, features news highlighting: Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2025; BellSoft CPU patches for Liberica JDK; the GA release of Grails 7.0; point releases for Micronaut, Hazelcast, LangChain4j and OpenXava; and the November 2025 beta release of Open Liberty.
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HashiCorp Previews “Agentic Infrastructure” Future with Project Infragraph
At its annual conference, HashiConf 2025, the now-IBM-owned HashiCorp, revealed a new strategic initiative: Project Infragraph, a real-time infrastructure graph designed to underpin an era of agent-driven automation for hybrid clouds.
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Meta Open Sources OpenZL: a Universal Compression Framework for Structured Data
Meta’s OpenZL changes the way data is compressed by maximizing efficiency for structured datasets, outperforming traditional methods like Zstandard. With a universal decompressor and custom compression plans, it simplifies operational deployment while achieving superior compression ratios and speeds, making it an essential tool for modern data infrastructures.
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NVIDIA Introduces OmniVinci, a Research-Only LLM for Cross-Modal Understanding
NVIDIA has introduced OmniVinci, a large language model designed to understand and reason across multiple input types — including text, vision, audio, and even robotics data. The project, developed by NVIDIA Research, aims to push machine intelligence closer to human-like perception by unifying how models interpret the world across different sensory streams.
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Groupe SNCF Modernizes Infrastructure with Talos OS and Kubernetes
Groupe SNCF, a major railway operator, has successfully migrated from traditional VM-based Kubernetes deployments to a cloud-native platform built on Talos OS and OpenStack, addressing significant operational challenges while navigating complex organizational change. After his talk at TalosCon 2025, InfoQ interviewed Thomas Comtet, senior staff engineer, about this migration.
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Spring News Roundup: First Release Candidates of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of October 20th, 2025, highlighting first release candidates of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch and Spring for Apache Pulsar.
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Vercel Ship AI 2025 Key Announcements and Technical Updates
Vercel Ship AI 2025 unveiled AI SDK 6 beta, new Marketplace agents and services, workflow support for TypeScript, Vercel Agent for code reviews, Python SDK for FastAPI/Flask, and open-source templates for lead enrichment and Slack-SQL queries.
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas, a Browser with ChatGPT Built in
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser that integrates ChatGPT into the browsing experience. Rather than functioning as a separate assistant that users have to switch to, Atlas incorporates the model throughout the browsing process. It understands web pages, answers questions, and assists with tasks in real-time.
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Google Cloud KMS Launches Post-Quantum KEM Support to Combat "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Threat
Google Cloud's Key Management Service now supports post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs), addressing future threats from quantum computing. This update empowers organizations to prepare against "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" attacks while ensuring long-term data confidentiality.
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Anthropic Introduces Skills for Custom Claude Tasks
Anthropic has unveiled a new feature called Skills, designed to let developers extend Claude with modular, reusable task components.
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AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization
Introducing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: AWS's new centralized solution for streamlined monitoring and management of EC2 capacity across all accounts and regions. This innovative tool consolidates data into a unified dashboard, enhancing efficiency while reducing operational complexity.
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Cloudflare Introduces Email Service to Compete with Amazon SES, Resend, and SendGrid
During Cloudflare's recent Birthday Week, the company announced the private preview of its Cloudflare Email Service. This new globally managed service enables developers to send and receive emails directly from Workers using native bindings, without the need for API keys.
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PyTorch Monarch Simplifies Distributed AI Workflows with a Single-Controller Model
Meta’s PyTorch team has launched Monarch, a framework that simplifies distributed AI workflows across multiple GPUs and machines. It uses a single-controller model to manage computations across a cluster, making large-scale training and reinforcement learning tasks easier while allowing developers to keep their standard PyTorch coding practices.