GitHub Copilot expands AI model support
GitHub Spark, meanwhile, makes it easy for developers of all skill ranges to bring ideas to life by using natural language to build micro apps called a “spark,” GitHub said. Sparks are fully functional micro apps that can integrate AI features into external data sources without requiring any management of cloud resources. Using a creativity […]
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Why we get buggy software
As a result, an inevitable tension exists between the groups that are trying to produce new software and features and the groups that are trying to make money with these new products and features. Because software is so malleable and able to deliver new features, customers make purchasing decisions partly on current features, but often […]
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Enter the Neoverse with Azure’s Cobalt servers
If you don’t need as much RAM, you can take the second option, the Dplsv6 and Dpldsv6 VMs that offer the same number of vCPUs and up to 192GB of RAM. These work well for small workloads, for example, the various components of a microservice architecture. At the other end of the scale, the third […]
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Java proposal would shrink JDK by 25%
In an effort to improve Java performance in cloud environments, an OpenJDK proposal is afoot to reduce the size of the JDK (Java Development Kit) by about 25%. The plan calls for enabling the jlink tool to build custom runtime images without using the JDK’s JMOD files. The JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP), titled Linking Run-Time […]
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Hugging Face pitches HUGS as an alternative to Nvidia’s NIM for open models
HUGS supports 13 models: Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct, Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-FP8, Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B, Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B, Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B-FP8, Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO, Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3, Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1, Gemma-2-27b-it, Gemma-2-9b-it, and Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct. The documentation page on HUGS shows that Hugging Face is expected to add support for models such as Deepseek, T5, Phi, and Command R soon. Other multimodal and embeddings models that are expected to be added […]
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Next.js 15 arrives with faster bundler
Vercel has released Next.js 15, the latest version of the company’s React-based web framework, featuring a stable, production-ready version of the high-performance Turbopack bundler optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript. Written in the Rust language, Turbopack means an improved iteration velocity for developers, Vercel said. Turbopack is faster than the previous Webpack bundler, according to the […]
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Rust 1.82 brings Cargo info subcommand
Also in Rust 1.82, aarch64-apple-darwin for macOS on 64-bit Arm CPUs now is a tier 1 Rust target, backed by the highest guarantee of working properly. Every change in the Rust repository must pass full tests on every tier 1 target before it can be merged. This target had been introduced as tier 2 in […]
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Is data gravity no longer centered in the cloud?
AI’s capability to optimize resource allocation can identify the best location for workloads. AI-driven insights enable organizations to assess usage patterns, operational costs, and data flow, uncovering opportunities to streamline processes and identify when on-premises solutions might be more advantageous than cloud storage. This analytical prowess assists in creating more informed data management strategies, ultimately […]
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How Kubecost shines a light on GPU efficiency
With GPUs, you don’t have that visibility or the flexibility to request, “I want four gigabytes of that GPU, and I only want one gigahertz of that GPU to go with it.” Instead, the most common setup today is all or nothing—you request the whole GPU or none of it. The transparency challenge is that […]
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How do we fund open source?
Foundations also can help in more indirect ways, like mentorship, recognition, and community support, and by providing metrics to help business owners quantify the impact of projects and direct investments. “Foundations take up a huge portion of project support beyond straightforward funding,” says Brian Proffitt, senior manager of community outreach in the Open Source Program […]
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