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Android 17 QPR3 Beta 3 brings back app lock
The beta includes 26 more fixes and some interface improvements. QPR3 entered beta testing in early October.
Full story at Android Central ↗ - Chips & hardware · Smartphones & apps · Artificial intelligence
Arm releases the Neural Dawn demo for download
The demo shows neural graphics that use AI to reduce rendering workloads. Developers can then spend more graphics budget on lighting, shadows and motion.
Full story at newsroom.arm.com ↗ - Programming & dev tools
Vercel introduces the Geist Serif typeface
Vercel announces Geist Serif. No further details are given.
Full story at Vercel ↗ - Networking · Cloud & data centers · Cybersecurity
Cloudflare makes private origin services generally available
Cloudflare services for private origins are now generally available. A proxied DNS record can point at a private IP, and WAF, caching, bot management and Workers work as they do for public origins.
Full story at blog.cloudflare.com ↗ - Software & updates · Data & databases · Open source
Apache Kafka 4.4.0 has been released
The Apache Software Foundation announced the release of Apache Kafka 4.4.0. It contains many new features and improvements.
Full story at confluent.io ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Data & databases · Cybersecurity
Aurora PostgreSQL adds post-quantum TLS key exchange
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now offers post-quantum TLS key exchange for data in transit. In versions 18 and higher, the ssl_groups parameter can be modified.
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗ - Artificial intelligence · New AI models · Cybersecurity · Cloud & data centers
OpenAI's Daybreak Red arrives on AWS GovCloud
Daybreak Red from OpenAI is available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-East). It is built for authorized vulnerability research, exploit reproduction and mitigation development.
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗ - Cybersecurity · Networking · Cloud & data centers · Chips & hardware
Check Point introduces the Maestro MHO 200
Check Point introduced the Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator MHO 200 with 400GbE ports and four times the capacity. It is meant to secure AI traffic in the data center without slowing it down.
Full story at blog.checkpoint.com ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Data & databases
RDS for Oracle and SQL Server autoscale extra volumes
Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server now support storage autoscaling on additional storage volumes. Up to three additional volumes raise capacity up to 256 TiB.
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
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