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Technology
Implementation of Imagen, Google’s Text-to-Image Neural Network, in Pytorch.
👾 Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion
Broadcom is known for its chip business, designing and manufacturing semiconductors for modems, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth chips across multiple devices. VMware, which was owned by Dell until it was spun off last year, focuses on cloud computing and virtualization technology.
👾 Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered coding tool, will be free for students
Copilot is powered by an AI model called Codex that’s trained on billions of lines of public code to suggest additional lines of code and functions given the context of existing code.
👾 Introducing Microsoft Dev Box
It is a cloud solution that provides developers with self-service access to high-performance workstations preconfigured and ready-to-code for specific projects.
👾 Microsoft sounds the alarm on – wait for it – a Linux botnet
Microsoft has sounded the alarm on DDoS malware called XorDdos that targets Linux endpoints and servers.
👾 GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals
GitHub has revealed it stored a “number of plaintext user credentials for the npm registry” in internal logs following the integration of the JavaScript package registry into GitHub’s logging systems.
Engineering
Envoy Gateway is an open source project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway.
👾 How we deploy to production over 100 times a day
Less friction encourages smaller changes, and smaller changes are less risky.
👾 Kubernetes 1.24: Introducing Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Alpha
This feature allows stateful workloads to failover to a different node after the original node is shutdown or in a non-recoverable state such as hardware failure or broken OS.
👾 Stackrox
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
👾 How Airbnb Built “Wall” to prevent data bugs
Airbnb has embarked on a project of massive scale to ensure trustworthy data across the company.
Interesting reads
👾 Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
👾 DuckDuckGo caught giving Microsoft permission for trackers
👾 Weinberg’s explaination for DuckDuckGo
👾 The Day I Became Friends with a Robot
Crazy star of the week
This is a Ruby program that generates Rust program that generates Scala program that generates …(through 128 languages in total)… REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again.
Fun
