AWS CodeWhisperer enters preview stage, early testers encounter snags

Tim Anderson -
AWS has commenced the invitation-only preview of CodeWhisperer, its AI-powered automatic coder, but early testers have hit problems including the mysterious appearance...
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Mintlify will document code with AI – but there is no substitute for the human factor

Tim Anderson -
Using Mintlify Writer to generate documentation. Select the code, then click Generate docs Mintlify, a startup specializing in...
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Chris Lattner cuts last ties to Swift project

Julia Schmidt -
Chris Lattner, the mind behind compiler infrastructure project LLVM and Apple's Swift language, has left the Swift core team and the Swift...
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TensorFlow 2.8 lends hand at text processing, continues to lure devs onto more powerful hardware

Julia Schmidt -
Machine learning practitioners with an interest in hardware acceleration can find some new things to try in the just released version 2.8...
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Here’s to easy access: Apache Kafka 3.1 presents OIDC support, open endpoint queries

Julia Schmidt -
The team behind distributed event streaming platform Apache Kafka is currently putting a lot of effort into following through with larger projects...
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Break point: Cloudera, NeuVector, Mirantis Secure Registry, Apache Hop, Java Operator SDK, and Istio

Julia Schmidt -
The team behind Cloudera Streaming Analytics has put the finishing touches to its 1.6 release. The update, available now, comes with a...
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Better, faster, stronger: CUDA 11.6 puts finishing touches to 128-bit int support

Julia Schmidt -
The toolkit for Nvidia’s parallel computing platform CUDA recently got updated and is now on version 11.6. With performance and programming model...
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IPython 8.0 out now with slimmer code base, enhanced coding experience

Julia Schmidt -
Interactive Python toolkit IPython has slimmed down a bit, gained some enhancements for readability and debugging, and is available for downloading in...
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Flink ML 2.0 paves way for better usability with algorithm implementations and Python SDK

Julia Schmidt -
After putting the project through a major refactoring and giving it a new home, the team behind machine learning library Flink ML...
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Elixir team advances numerical computing project, plans more machine learning additions

Julia Schmidt -
After 14 months of work, the developers behind multi-dimensional tensor library Nx have decided to cut their first official release and share...
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NumPy 1.22 kicks off windows/arm64 support, completes main annotation work

Julia Schmidt -
After more than a half year of work, the NumPy team has released version 1.22 of the scientific computing library - the...
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Break point: MariaDB, ONNX runtime, Seldon Core, GitLab, Go, and Oracle

Julia Schmidt -
The organisations behind relational database management system MariaDB announced that, starting with the next major update, the release frequency of MariaDB Server...
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Ray 1.9 makes Train beta, launches Ray Job Submission server

Julia Schmidt -
The team behind the Ray framework for building distributed applications has pushed version 1.9 of its project into the open — a...
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Break point: Grafana, Wasmer, Rust, Julia, PyTorch Live, Fleet, and Qt Creator

Julia Schmidt -
Version 8.3 of observability and data visualization platform Grafana has been made available. The update fixes a series of bugs, prevents folders...
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Who’s there? JupyterHub 2.0 gets role-based access control going

Julia Schmidt -
The team behind multi-user Jupyter notebook server JupyterHub has pushed version 2.0 out of the door, aiming to delight admins with the...
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OCR Engine Tesseract 5.0 converts to float for faster training and recognition

Julia Schmidt -
After more than 2.5 years in alpha, version 5.0 of the popular optical character recognition engine Tesseract has finally made it across...
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