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NuGet API key durations will be reduced to 30 days starting August 17th. This change will significantly strengthen the integrity of the NuGet supply chain. The post Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime appeared first on .NET Blog.
Learn how to use the calling services feature in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights to identify which applications are calling your databases and view their performance metrics, so you can pinpoint root causes and contact the right team in minutes rather than hours.
Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), the foundation model behind ads recommendations across Instagram and Facebook, now trains at LLM scale on several thousand of the latest-generation GPUs. This post goes into the details on how we achieved: doubling end-to-end (E2E) training efficiency to 20–25% Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU) while scaling training FLOPs 4x in [...] Read More... The post GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model appeared fi
Software testing has always been binary at its core. A test passes, or it fails. The build is green, or it is red. The release goes out, or it gets blocked. This binary model has served software teams well for decades because the systems being tested were deterministic — the same input reliably produced the same output, every time. AI systems are not deterministic. And yet most teams are still testing them with a binary framework that was never designed to handle probabilistic behavior.
The EU made some AI labels that companies can use instead of designing their own. | Image: The European Commission / The Verge The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes online. The new transparency obligations under the bloc's landmark AI Act came into effect on August 2nd, requiring companies to disclose when people are interacting with AI models, and if content has been generated or altered by them. The
Formula 1® partnered with AWS to build the Data Accelerator, using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to transform its MarTech data platform. Learn how F1 cut data source onboarding from up to 8 weeks to about 40 minutes, automated schema evolution, and gained end-to-end observability across its fan-engagement data estate.
The Scribe comes with a Premium Pen, which includes a built-in eraser. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Kindle Scribe is worth considering if you’re heading back to school, as its large 10.2-inch screen can display textbooks and ebooks, or let you jot down handwritten notes during class. Now through August 8th, the first-gen model (with a Premium Pen) is down to just $149.99 with 16GB of storage in refurbished condition at Woot when you apply the promo code KINDLE25 at checkou
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