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Embeddings aren’t exactly new, but they have become much more widely accessible in the last couple years. What embeddings offer to technical writers is the ability to discover connections between texts at previously impossible scales.
Assorted links for Thursday, October 31:
GraphQL’s structured query language proves to be an ideal match for AI tools, offering more reliable and focused results compared to broader LLM applications.
Assorted links for Wednesday, October 30:
Event streaming is ideal for RAG pipelines that feed generative AI applications the contextual data they need to produce accurate, timely results.
Never trust, always verify: The ZTA model presumes that no entity—be it a user, device, or software—warrants automatic confidence, irrespective of their physical position or historical clearance levels. Each request for entry must undergo scrutiny.
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Rather than fully hydrate the application immediately, partial hydration allows developers to identify portions of their application — maybe a footer or something that a user will not immediately need to see — and rather than ship all of the JavaScript in the app, it “hydrates” only the parts that are needed immediately.
OpenSearch, the popular open source, Apache 2.0-licensed, search and analytics suite, is celebrating a significant milestone - transferring OpenSearch to the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative under the Linux Foundation.
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This week, Amazon Web Services introduced new integrations with its Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB database management services that allow them to share data with the Amazon Redshift data warehouse services, without the need to set up ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) workflows between them.
Assorted links for Wednesday, October 23:
Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.
A paravisor executes within the confidential trust boundary and provides the virtualization and device services needed by a general-purpose operating system (OS), enabling existing VM workloads to execute securely without requiring continual service of the OS to take advantage of innovative advances in confidential computing technology. As confidential computing becomes available on more hardware platforms and evolves, the software stack can keep VMs running seamlessly thanks to the paravisor, in much the same way other advances in virtualization software enabled VMs to run seamlessly on ever evolving hardware.
Assorted links for Tuesday, October 22:
The 9.0 release of System.Text.Json includes many features, primarily with a focus on JSON schema and intelligent application support. It also includes highly requested enhancements such as nullable reference type support, customizing enum member names, out-of-order metadata deserialization and customizing serialization indentation.
The malware, tracked under the name FASTCash, is a remote access tool that gets installed on payment switches inside compromised networks that handle payment card transactions.
The purpose of FASTCash is to compromise a key switch inside the complex networks that broker payment transactions among merchants and their banks on the one hand and, on the other, the payment card issuers who must approve a transaction… When a compromised card is used to make a fraudulent translation, FASTCash tampers with the messages the switch receives from issuers before relaying it back to the merchant bank. As a result, issuer messages denying the transaction are changed to approvals.
If you need to access a variable during the build process but not at runtime, use
ARG. If you need to access the variable both during the build and at runtime, or only at runtime, useENV.
Assorted links for Monday, October 21:
The invisible characters, the result of a quirk in the Unicode text encoding standard, create an ideal covert channel that can make it easier for attackers to conceal malicious payloads fed into an LLM. The hidden text can similarly obfuscate the exfiltration of passwords, financial information, or other secrets out of the same AI-powered bots. Because the hidden text can be combined with normal text, users can unwittingly paste it into prompts.