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Snap OS debuts with developer-friendly Spectacles 5 AR glasses

Ryan Daws — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:46:44 +0000

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, has today announced the fifth generation of its ‘Spectacles’ AR glasses. These new see-through, standalone AR glasses are designed to enable users to interact with ‘Lenses’ and experience the world in novel ways alongside friends. The latest iteration of Spectacles is powered by Snap OS, an operating system crafted to... Read more »

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Sony bets on Web3 with Soneium blockchain and incubation programme

Ryan Daws — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:30:52 +0000

Sony Block Solutions Labs has announced the launch of Soneium Minato, a new Ethereum layer-2 testnet, alongside an incubation programme called Soneium Spark. Aimed at establishing Soneium as a key Web3 infrastructure, the initiatives leverage Sony Group’s reach to drive mainstream adoption across a range of applications. Driven by the vision to “Realise the Open... Read more »

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OpenAI cures structured data headache for developers

Ryan Daws — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:17:41 +0000

OpenAI has unveiled “Structured Outputs”, a new API feature designed to address the long-standing challenge of reliably generating structured data from large language models (LLMs). The feature, available now, guarantees that model-generated outputs will adhere to developer-defined JSON Schemas. Generating structured data from unstructured input is a cornerstone of many AI applications today. Developers leverage... Read more »

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Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

Ryan Daws — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:12:57 +0000

A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The lawsuit was initiated by a group of developers in 2022 and originally made 22 claims against the companies, alleging copyright violations related to the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant. Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling, unsealed... Read more »

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Sam Altman’s blockchain project ‘World Chain’ opens to developers

Ryan Daws — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:08:10 +0000

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project has launched a developer preview of World Chain, a new blockchain that claims to prioritise humans and scale with the growth of the Worldcoin ecosystem. World Chain – built on the OP Stack and integrated with the Worldcoin protocol – aims to provide developers with access to over 10... Read more »

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Dapp industry reached new heights in Q2 2024

Ryan Daws — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:46:25 +0000

The Web3 ecosystem has witnessed a resurgence in Q2 2024, with the NFT sector in particular experiencing its strongest performance since Q1 2023. According to a DappRadar report, the dapp industry has seen a 40% increase in usage compared to the previous quarter, reaching an impressive 10 million daily Unique Active Wallets (UAW). For software... Read more »

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Google unleashes 2M token context and code execution for Gemini developers

Ryan Daws — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:40:48 +0000

Google has announced a series of updates to its Gemini AI platform, offering developers enhanced capabilities and access to more powerful tools. The tech giant is opening up the two million token context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro to all developers, introducing code execution features, and adding Gemma 2 to Google AI Studio. The two... Read more »

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What developers can learn from the largest DDoS attack in history

Rene Mulyandari — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:21:59 +0000

This past October, Google Cloud disclosed that it had successfully mitigated the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history – and that this DDoS attack had been hitting businesses since August. What made it the worst DDoS to date? It was the volume. At its peak, the attack counted over 398 million requests... Read more »

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Bitwarden strengthens passwordless authentication with magic links API

Ryan Daws — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:36:11 +0000

Credential management firm Bitwarden has announced an enhancement to its Passwordless.dev platform with the release of a magic links API. Bitwarden’s latest offering empowers developers to seamlessly integrate passwordless authentication into their applications, providing a more secure and user-friendly experience for end-users. The magic links API enables developers to send unique one-time-use links via email,... Read more »

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Redis switches to more restrictive license

Ryan Daws — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:16:46 +0000

Leading in-memory database vendor Redis is adopting a dual-licensing model, imposing far stricter terms on companies offering Redis as a service. In an official announcement, Redis Labs stated that starting with version 7.4, Redis will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and the controversial Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). This is not... Read more »

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