The Insider News

IT Ops Times[^]:

Called the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation, this group will invite participants across the industry to collaborate on an open standard for developing applications that will work across different architectures without sacrificing performance.

Steven Giesel[^]:

.NET 8 introduced a new way of doing reflection.

Bleeping Computer[^]:

Microsoft has released Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0.0 with a set of new opt-in experimental features, including a new network mode and automated memory and disk size cleanup.

Infoworld[^]:

Java 21 has arrived in a production release with 15 features including virtual threads, a generational Z garbage collector, and a key encapsulation mechanism API.

ZDNet[^]:

The photo editor has remained largely unchanged for nearly 40 years, but a pair of new features brings it to the level of today's options.

The Register[^]:

AI dev assistants can be convinced to spill secrets learned during training

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Because the model powering GitHub Copilot was trained on publicly available code, its training set may contain insecure coding patterns, bugs, or references to outdated APIs or idioms," a GitHub spokesperson said a statement to The Register after publication. In some cases, the model may suggest what appears to be personal data, but those suggestions are fictitious information synthesized from patterns in training data. When GitHub Copilot synthesizes code suggestions based on this data, it can also synthesize code that contains these undesirable patterns.

The Street[^]:

As it stands today, the technology to test fully autonomous vehicles is not feasible.