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| Alibaba has created an AI model called Multi-Modality to Multi-Modality Multitask Mega-transformer (M6). The model contains 10 billion parameters and is pretrained on a dataset consisting of 1.9TB of images and 292GB of Chinese-language text. M6 can be fine-tuned for several downstream tasks, including text-guided image generation, visual question answering, and image-text matching. (News) |
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 AWS Lambda users pay only when their code is run. This can result in massive cost savings over long-running workloads. The advantages start to disappear quickly when AWS Lambda is employed for batch processing. Enterprises can gain significantly from the scalability of FaaS - yet a price comparison between EC2, Lambda, and Fargate, the AWS-managed container service reveals an ugly truth. (Article) |
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| Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though. (News) |
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 Dan Heidinga discusses how to start a Java application faster, and how Graal Substrate VM, Quarkus, Project Leyden, and others can help with that. (Presentation with transcript included)
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| The last week was an eventful one for the .NET community, with multiple releases from Microsoft - including the third preview for .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, MAUI, and EF Core 6. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 5th, 2021. (News) |
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| Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) recently became a web standard. This is a major milestone on a long journey for WebRTC that started in 2011 with Google open-sourcing key necessary technologies. The new standard will continue to evolve as the WebRTC Working Group strives to integrate new use cases — live processing of audio and video feeds, Internet of Things use cases, and more. (News) |
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| Google will use Rust to prevent memory bugs in the Android OS, one of the most frequent causes of security vulnerabilities. As a first step in this direction, the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust as an OS development language. (News) |
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 Sha Ma discusses how GitHub migrates from a monolith architecture to microservices, detailing some best practices. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 When we assign measurable criteria to innovation, we can pinpoint which industries are falling behind the curve. Fortunately, there are many ways in which introducing agile processes can help organisations deliver innovation projects in quick succession for increased long-term value and customer satisfaction. (Article) |
 Testing video games goes beyond or differs in general from what Quality Assurance means and represents. It brings a new subset of responsibilities and skills intrinsic to the gaming industry. This article provides insights about the game industry, the role of the game tester, thoughts on challenges, and the learnings of testing games. (Article) |
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