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OpenAI Introduces GPT‑4.1 Family With Enhanced Performance and Long-Context Support
OpenAI has released a new family of language models—GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano—available via its API. The models improve on GPT‑4o and GPT‑4.5 across several technical benchmarks and introduce support for up to 1 million tokens of context.
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JEP 505 Delivers Fifth Preview of Java's Structured Concurrency with Key API Refinements
JEP 505, Structured Concurrency, has reached Targeted status in JDK 25. This refined API enhances parallel task management through static factory methods like StructuredTaskScope.open(). It improves cancellation, observability, and subtask lifetime handling, ensuring clearer, safer code. Developers are encouraged to explore and provide feedback on this innovative iteration.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hibernate Reactive, Infinispan, JHipster, Gatherers4j
This week's Java roundup for May 5th, 2025 features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Targeted and Proposed to Target for JDK 25; new HotSpot-related JEPs, the first release candidate of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; the first developer release of Infinispan 16.0; and the release of JHipster 8.11.0 and Gatherers4j 0.11.0.
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DeepSeek Launches Prover-V2 Open-Source LLM for Formal Math Proofs
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-Prover-V2 a new open-source large language model specifically designed for formal theorem proving in Lean 4. The model builds on a recursive theorem proving pipeline powered by the company's DeepSeek-V3 foundation model.
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QCon London 2025: How to Build a Database Without a Server
Alex Seaton, Staff Engineer at Man Group, presented “How to Build a Database Without a Server” at QCon London 2025. Seaton demonstrated how they migrated an older hedge fund trading system application using a cluster farm that was difficult to maintain to an application using a serverless database and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).
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Android Studio Meerkat Update Enhances Gemini Integration and More
The latest feature drop for Android Studio Meerkat brings a range of updates aimed at boosting developer productivity, including extended Gemini integration for crash analysis and unit testing, enhanced Jetpack Compose previews, better Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) integration, and more.
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Hugging Face to Democratize Robotics with Open-Source Reachy 2 Robot
Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup that developed the humanoid robot Reachy 2. The acquisition aims to make robotics more accessible by open-sourcing the robot’s design and allowing developers to modify and improve its code.
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Google Cloud Announces Rapid Storage for Millisecond-Latency Workloads
At the recent Google Cloud Next 2025, the cloud provider announced Rapid Storage, a new Cloud Storage zonal bucket designed to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. The new storage class provides under 1ms random read and write latency, 20x faster data access, and 6 TB/s of throughput.
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JBang Jash Brings Streamlined Process Execution to Java
The JBang team has introduced JBang Jash, a Java library designed to simplify the execution of external processes and shell commands through a fluent and predictable API, aiming to addresses the common complexities and boilerplate developers face when using standard Java APIs like java.lang.ProcessBuilder and Runtime.exec for these tasks.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025: AI, Platforms, and Developer Experience
Software development is shifting fast. Senior engineers need real-world insights on AI, platforms, and developer autonomy. InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10) offers 2 days with over 27 sessions of curated, technical talks delivered by engineers actively working at scale. We are focused on helping teams navigate the software evolution, with the clarity and context needed to make better decisions.
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Temporal on AWS Aims to Ease Building Resilient Distributed Systems
Temporal Technologies, the company that created Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration platform focused on durable execution, has made Temporal Cloud available on the AWS marketplace. By offering their services via AWS, the company aims to simplify the development of resilient distributed systems for large-scale applications.
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Using Social Drivers to Improve Software Engineering Team Performance
According to Lizzie Matusov, technical drivers like velocity offer an incomplete view of team performance. Social drivers—trust, autonomy, purpose, and psychological safety—provide a fuller picture and reveal important areas of opportunity for improvement. She spoke about the social drivers behind high-performing engineering teams at QCon San Francisco.
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Microsoft Pledges Deeper European Tech Ties amidst Sovereignty Debate
Microsoft's five digital commitments aim to bolster Europe's tech landscape and sovereignty through a 40% cloud and AI infrastructure expansion, enhanced cybersecurity, and a robust data privacy framework. By establishing a "European cloud for Europe," Microsoft reinforces its dedication to digital resilience while fostering economic competitiveness and supporting the open-source community.
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Uber’s Journey to Ray on Kubernetes
Uber has detailed a recent transition to running Ray-based machine learning workloads on Kubernetes. This marks an evolution in its infrastructure, with the aim of enhancing scalability, efficiency, and developer experience. The company recently published a two-part series from Uber Engineering delving into the motivations, challenges, and solutions encountered during this migration.
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Adoption of the Model Context Protocol within the Java Ecosystem
The Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for LLM tool integration, is gaining adoption in Java (Quarkus, Spring AI, etc.). Developers can now run MCP servers more easily using tools like JBang and the MCP Java catalog.