Google’s Flutter framework has been forked
Carroll also claimed that Google’s focus on AI caused the Flutter team to deprioritize desktop platforms, and he stressed the difficulty of working with the current Flutter team. However, because Flutter is open source, Flutter app developers and package developers can contribute to the Flutter framework, he said. Described as “Flutter+” by Carroll, Flock “will […]
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Why use aspect-oriented programming
What is an aspect in AOP? An aspect in aspect-oriented programming may be defined as the modularization of a concern. In OOP, you achieve modularity by taking advantage of classes. In AOP, you achieve modularity by taking advantage of aspects. An aspect might be logging or authentication, for example. In AOP, the goal would be […]
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Securing the heart of your infrastructure: A comprehensive hybrid approach to server protection
Cloud computing’s advantages are ubiquitous in today’s digitally dominated landscape. More than 80% of organizations leverage Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) today. However, securing these dynamic environments remains a challenge for many. Cloud servers in particular are one of the most common vectors targeted by threat actors because they are often used to […]
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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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