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29  mars     09h00
Microsoft unveils safety and security tools for generative AI
   Microsoft is adding safety and security tools to Azure AI Studio, the company’s cloud based toolkit for building generative AI applications. The new tools include protection against prompt injection attacks, detection of hallucinations in model output, system messages to steer models toward safe...
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The dawn of eco-friendly systems development
   In December , delegates from almost countries met in Dubai for the UN’s climate change conference, COP, to discuss the pressing need to reduce emissions, as reported by IEEE in this article.According to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder, and as the authors are quick to...
28  mars     17h57
Microsoft .NET 7 support ends in May
   NET, a version Microsoft’s open source, cross platform application framework that was released in November , will reach its end of support on May , , Microsoft said on March .After May , Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates including technical support or security fixes...
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDE to add K2 compiler mode
   JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA . , a release of the integrated development environment IDE due on April, will feature an optional K compiler mode, enabling developers to use K for faster and more robust Kotlin code analysis, the company said.With this planned release, the IDE for Kotlin and...
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JDK 22: An average Java release, sort of
   With atomic clock like regularity, the latest version of Java, JDK , was released last week. Although this is not a long term support LTS release, there is nothing to stop you from using it in production, and it contains some interesting new features.Let’s dive in and see what this brings us...
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Using Microsoft’s Retina to monitor Kubernetes networks
   Kubernetes plays an important role at Microsoft. The container management system is a foundational piece of the company’s many clouds, from Microsoft and Xbox, to Azure, to partners like OpenAI that use Microsoft’s Kubernetes to host their own services.As a result, Microsoft has invented many...
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5 easy ways to run an LLM locally
   Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude.ai, and phind can be quite helpful, but you might not always want your questions or sensitive data handled by an external application. That’s especially true on platforms where your interactions may be reviewed by humans and otherwise used to help train future models...
27  mars     09h00
Steampipe dashboards and benchmarks for your data
   In Steampipe unbundled we showed how its plugins, which originally worked only with the foreign data wrapper loaded into Steampipe’s batteries included Postgres, are now also available as stand alone distributions that you can load into your own instances of Postgres or SQLite. Now Steampipe itself...
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How to handle errors in React
   Graceful error handling is an essential aspect of well designed software. It’s also tricky. This article offers an overview of error handling in React applications and how to use React error boundaries to handle render time errors.React error types We can divide React application errors broadly...
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11 VS Code extensions you didn’t know you needed
   Visual Studio Code is a terrific software development environment, and not only because it has excellent code editing features and language support. Thanks to its rich culture of extensions, VS Code supports many tasks besides editing. You’ll find VS Code extensions for everything from a speedier...
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Intel taps developers in a massive AI push
   Intel Corporation has launched two new initiatives as part of its AI PC Acceleration Program to promote collaboration between software and hardware ecosystems, aimed at enhancing AI capabilities across over million Intel based AI PCs by .The first initiative, the AI PC Developer Program, is...
26  mars     23h09
Oracle’s GraalVM backs Java 22
   Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK , an update to the Java runtime with ahead of time AOT compilation that brings support for Java features.Released on the same day as Java , which was published March , GraalVM for JDK can be downloaded from the project website. Most features of JDK...
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Google Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI
   Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini, Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than proprietary models and more than open source...
25  mars     21h00
Redis moves to source-available licenses
   Starting with Redis . , all future versions of Redis software will be dual licensed under the Redis Source Available License RSAL and the Server Side Public License SSLPv, Redis announced. The popular NoSQL database will no longer be distributed under the three clause Berkeley Software...
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Hot code heap proposal would speed Java execution
   To reduce application execution time, Java’s segmented code cache would be extended with an optional hot code heap to compactly accommodate a part of non profiled methods, under a draft JDK enhancement proposal now floating in the OpenJDK community. Another success metric of the plan is reducing...
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Puppet’s devops report plumbs the benefits of platform engineering
   The key benefits of platform engineering are increased developer productivity, better quality of software, reduced lead time for deployment, and more stable applications, according to Puppet by Perforce’s State of Devops Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering.The report is based on a...
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Ensuring the open source moment continues
   Back in the s, we talked about open source a lot perhaps too much. We fought about whether code freedom GPL or developer freedom Apache BSD mattered more. We wondered when the year of the Linux desktop might finally arrive. TL;DR never. Or maybe it already happened. Or...whatever. We...
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4 steps to improve root cause analysis
   When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management ITSM incident management practices to restore service, then follow problem management procedures to perform root...
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The world needs more (and better) open map data
   The trend of open data is taking hold around the world and it will unleash untold innovation.McKinsey notes that open data, which is data that can be freely used and freely redistributed, could contribute trillion annually to the global economy and has the potential to unleash innovation and...
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10 cloud development gotchas to watch out for
   The benefits of developing software in the cloud include increased flexibility and reliability, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. But cloud based development also presents a host of challenges. Knowing what to watch out for is the first step to protecting your applications and development...