Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Have you ever wondered how Pandora works? Listen to this Swampcast interview with Tom Conrad, CTO as he explains Pandora's music genome project.
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Here's an app you'll like - it's called Omni Fluent and…
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Netbeans is a free integrated development environment and it's not just for Java! You can use it with C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy. Check out some of the incredibly cool projects coded using Netbeans…
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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To prevent agents from obeying malicious instructions hidden in external data, all text entering an agent's context must be treated as untrusted, says Niv Rabin, principal software architect at AI-security firm CyberArk. His team developed an approach based on instruction detection and history-aware validation to protect against both malicious input data and context-history poisoning.
By Sergio De Simone
Introducing Claude Cowork: Anthropic's groundbreaking AI agent revolutionizing file management on macOS. With advanced automation capabilities, it enhances document processing, organizes files, and executes multi-step workflows. Users must be cautious of backup needs due to recent issues. Explore its potential for efficient office solutions while ensuring data integrity.
By Andrew Hoblitzell
Meta has revealed how it scales its Privacy-Aware Infrastructure (PAI) to support generative AI development while enforcing privacy across complex data flows. Using large-scale lineage tracking, PrivacyLib instrumentation, and runtime policy controls, the system enables consistent privacy enforcement for AI workloads like Meta AI glasses without introducing manual bottlenecks.
By Leela Kumili
Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively decompose and process inputs, and can handle prompts up to 100x longer than base LLMs.
By Anthony Alford
Salesforce has completed a phased migration of more than 1,000 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters from the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter, AWS’s open-source node-provisioning and autoscaling solution.
By Craig Risi
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