1 | Google announced the general availability of the Assured OSS service for the Java and Python ecosystems enabling organizations to improve OSS security. Data from Mandiant indicates that supply chain attack was the initial infection vector for 17% of security breaches the company investigated between Oct. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2021, second only to exploits. 
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2 | The stable release of Android Studio Flamingo includes Jetpack Compose and Material 3 templates, live editing for Compose UIs, and new app inspection capabilities. It also introduces support for themed app icon preview, dynamic color preview, and build analyzer task categorization. |
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3 | In an event at MIT, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company is not training GPT-5, the successor to the recently launched GPT-4. He commented that the letter published by the Future of Life and cosigned by tech experts, including Elon Musk, lacked technical nuance about where to pause. |
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4 | On Friday, Google released an updated Chrome version with two security fixes. One high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2033, allows malicious websites to run arbitrary code in the browser. |
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5 | Gradle announced Kotlin DSL is now the default choice for new Gradle builds. A new project created in Cradle will include IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, and Kotlin DSL as the default option. |
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6 | Otterize, a platform for moving data between applications working on Kubernetes, raised an $11.5M seed round led by Index Ventures with participation from Dig Ventures, Vine Ventures, Jibe Ventures, Crew Capital, and Operators Partners. Otterize has two offerings: an open-source solution that can be embedded into a development pipeline and Otterize Cloud, a fully managed solution the company launched recently. |
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7 | Fireplane launched Autometrics, an open-source framework that simplifies tracking data in the observability stack through automatically generated queries, alerts, and dashboards. It is built on Open Telemetry and Prometheus, and libraries are available in Rust, TypeScript, Go, and Python. |
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