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Following on from Google's acquisition of Instantiations and their relaunch of WindowBuilder products, Google has today announced that they are…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on December 21, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments
This is big news: "Good news all around! Oracle and Apple announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical…
Added by Michael Levin on December 14, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
EveryTrail impresses as a well thought out app with GPS, multimedia and social integration. Not only is it well coded and solid, but the marketing is to the point and clear as well.
Objective-C has its challenges and we certainly hear a lot about the memory management, etc... EveryTrail is on Android, too. I like how they give credit to the open source code they used to create it in their credits.
I just downloaded it. Can't…
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Does anyone own one of the android java-based tablets? If you do, how does it compare to an iPad, and does it properly run java applets and applications? Do you need to install everything through a 'store', similar to the iTunes app store?
Added by Kevin Neelands on December 12, 2010 at 1:42pm — No Comments
Andrew Mason appeared on Charlie Rose this week. Fortunately, Charlie Rose's website has all the archives, so you can watch the interview here. Thinking of doing a startup? Want to improve your existing web presence? Lots f thoughts in this fascinating show. Enjoy, and please let us know what you think…
Added by Michael Levin on December 11, 2010 at 4:18pm — No Comments
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The team behind Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) revealed that they successfully built and operated a Kubernetes cluster with 130,000 nodes, making it the largest publicly disclosed Kubernetes cluster to date.
By Craig Risi
Andra Lezza explains the criticality of data security for AI copilots, detailing the OWASP AI Exchange threat model and the OWASP Top 10 LLM risks. She reviews two copilot architectures - independent (single domain) and integrated (multi-tenant) - listing specific threats, controls, and best practices like granular authorization, templates, and DevSecOps to secure the entire AI data supply chain.
By Andra LezzaQCon AI New York Chair Wes Reisz talks with LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri about enabling AI agents at enterprise scale. They discuss how platform teams orchestrate secure, multi-agentic systems, the role of MCP, the use of foreground and background agents, improving developer experience, and reducing toil.
By Karthik Ramgopal, Prince Valluri
The 2025 edition of re:Invent recently took place in Las Vegas. As anticipated, AI was a significant focus of the keynotes, but the community was more intrigued by announcements in the serverless space, including Lambda Managed Instances and Lambda Durable Functions. The conference marked the final keynote for Amazon CTO Werner Vogels after 14 years.
By Renato Losio
An unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC) was recently reported with the highest severity (10.0). Amazon threat intelligence teams report active exploitation attempts by multiple China state-nexus threat groups. The critical vulnerability affects React versions 19.0.0 through 19.2.0 and Next.js versions 15.x and 16.x when using App Router.
By Bruno Couriol
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