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DBOS: A better way to build applications?

An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool.


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AI still has a ways to go in code refactoring

Without skilled developers supervising AI coding assistants, they are likely to break your code rather than write it. Right now, only people can fine-tune and evaluate AI.


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The end of vendor-backed open source?

The license changes of Redis and Elasticsearch may harken the end of open-source projects backed by solo vendors. Let’s work through what that means.


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React 19 builds on async transitions

Now in beta, React 19 supports using async functions in transitions to handle pending states, errors, forms, and optimistic updates automatically.


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TypeScript 5.5 moves to beta

List of improvements includes inferred type predicates, regular expression syntax checking, and performance and size optimizations.


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Meta’s Meditron LLM suite to fill gap in low-resource healthcare

Jointly developed by researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Yale School of Medicine, and supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the LLM is built upon the Meta Llama2 platform.


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The temptation of AI as a service

Enterprises may find it faster and easier to deploy their AI models in a public cloud that runs them as a service. AWS is jumping on this trend.


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Ubuntu Linux update brings performance boosts, tool updates

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS features the Linux 6.8 kernel with improved syscall performance and merges low-latency kernel features into the default kernel.


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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit adds TouchBehavior support

TouchBehavior provides the ability to interact with visual elements in .NET apps based on touch, mouse clicks, and hover events.


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Using Inspektor Gadget for Kubernetes observability

An open-source collection of low-level tools helps you troubleshoot cloud-native applications by delivering key data from the heart of the Linux kernel.


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Do you need to repatriate from the cloud?

Repatriation is one route to cost savings. Switching development patterns from long-running services to WebAssembly-powered serverless functions is another.


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5 easy ways to run an LLM locally

Deploying a large language model on your own system can be surprisingly simple—if you have the right tools. Here's how to use LLMs like Meta's new Llama 3 on your desktop.


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Node.js 22 arrives, backs ECMAScript modules

The latest Node release includes require() support for ES modules, improved WebSocket communications, and an update to Google's V8 JavaScript engine 2.4.


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JDK 23: The new features in Java 23

Due in September, Java 23 will include previews of stream gatherers, a class-file API, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch.


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Snowflake’s open-source Arctic LLM to take on Llama 3, Grok, Mistral, and DBRX

Arctic will be available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be accessed via Snowflake Cortex for serverless inference or across providers such as AWS, Azure, Nvidia, Perplexity, and Together AI.