News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Framework, WildFly, Hibernate, EclipseStore, Piranha Cloud
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-dec09-2024/
• This Week in Spring – December 17th, 2024
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/17/this-week-in-spring-december-17th-2024

Articles

• The Foreign Function and Memory API
  https://dev.java/learn/ffm/
• Post-Quantum Cryptography in Java
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-post-quantum/
• InfoQ Java Trends Report – December 2024
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-trends-report-2024/
• Read the Code: Using Drop Safely in Rust
  https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/read-the-code/using-drop-safely-in-rust/
• Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA2 vs SHA3 vs BLAKE3
  https://kerkour.com/fast-secure-hash-function-sha256-sha512-sha3-blake3
• PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/promptwizard-the-future-of-prompt-optimization-through-feedback-driven-self-evolving-prompts/
• State-of-the-art video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3
  https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/video-image-generation-update-december-2024/

Videos

• Valhalla – Java’s Epic Refactor
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhn-JgZaBWo
• Spring AI Full Course with Projects – Build Smarter Spring Boot Applications
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Crrhz0pm8s
• Should you learn Rust in 2025?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJFWTS0ktXo
• Meet the Rustaceans – Episode 1 – Ethan Brierley
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0jZhcE71o
• All Machine Learning Beginner Mistakes explained in 17 Min
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMc9StPVzOU
• Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctWfv4WUp2I

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News

• Announcing Spring AI MCP: A Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/11/spring-ai-mcp-announcement
• Introducing Spring AI Amazon Bedrock Nova Integration via Converse API
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/10/spring-ai-amazon-bedrock-nova
• This Week in Spring – December 10th, 2024
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/10/this-week-in-spring-december-10th-2024
• Java News Roundup: JDK 24 in Rampdown, JDK 25 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile, Spring Cloud
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-dec02-2024/

Articles

• Exploring Advanced JVM Options
  https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-advanced-options
• State of the Crates 2025
  https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2024-12-state-of-the-crates/
• Parsing MIDI messages in Rust
  https://www.ntietz.com/blog/parsing-midi-rust/
• Enabling AI to explain its predictions in plain language
  https://news.mit.edu/2024/enabling-ai-explain-predictions-plain-language-1209
• AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/13/1108719/ais-emissions-are-about-to-skyrocket-even-further/
• Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
  https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024

Videos

• Java 24 Performance Improvements & Deprecations – Inside Java Newscast #82
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTc16DAMTqg
• Concerto for Java & AI – Building Production-Ready LLM Applications • Thomas Vitale • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la4kc57F6jU
• Vector Databases Explained (vs traditional databases & alternatives)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprMWe54kZE
• Stanford Seminar – Responsible AI (h)as a Learning and Design Problem
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCOdmcFiT-8

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Project Loom, Open Liberty, Groovy, Jakarta EE 11 Update
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/java-news-roundup-nov04-2024/
• OpenJDK News Roundup: Instance Main Methods, Flexible Constructor Bodies, Module Import Declarations
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/jdk-news-roundup-nov04-2024/
• Spring Framework 6.1.15 Available Now
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/14/spring-framework-6-1-15-available-now
• Spring Framework 6.2.0 Available Now
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/14/spring-framework-6-2-0-available-now
• Spring Framework CVE-2024-38828 published
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/15/spring-framework-cve-2024-38828-published
• This Week in Spring – November 12th, 2024
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/12/this-week-in-spring-november-12th-2024
• AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03708-4

Articles

• Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization
  https://foojay.io/today/why-java-8-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-hiding-within-your-organization/
• Java 24 to Reduce Object Header Size and Save Memory
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/compact-headers-java24/
• Building OpenJDK From Source On macOS
  https://www.morling.dev/blog/building-openjdk-from-source-on-macos/
• Rust needs an official specification
  https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/140/rust-needs-an-official-specification
• Perhaps Rust needs “defer”
  https://gaultier.github.io/blog/perhaps_rust_needs_defer.html
• How Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring
  https://engineering.fb.com/2024/11/12/security/how-meta-built-large-scale-cryptographic-monitoring/
• Redefining software engineering: The impact of generative AI
  https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/redefining-software-engineering-the-impact-of-generative-ai/
• Artificial intelligence
  https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-curriculum-connection/artificial-intelligence
• Generating zero-shot personalized portraits
  https://research.google/blog/generating-zero-shot-personalized-portraits/
• Airbnb’s AI-powered photo tour using Vision Transformer
  https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnbs-ai-powered-photo-tour-using-vision-transformer-e470535f76d4
• Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning
  https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/transforming-location-retrieval-at-airbnb-a-journey-from-heuristics-to-reinforcement-learning-d33ffc4ddb8f
• GraphRAG: Improving global search via dynamic community selection
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-improving-global-search-via-dynamic-community-selection/
• Orca-AgentInstruct: Agentic flows can be effective synthetic-data generators
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/orca-agentinstruct-agentic-flows-can-be-effective-synthetic-data-generators/

Videos

• Ask the Java Architects
  https://inside.java/2024/11/14/devoxxbelgium-ask-architects/
• Pattern Matching in Java – Past, Present, Future
  https://inside.java/2024/11/11/devoxxbelgium-pattern-matching/
• Build GraphQL Services with Spring Boot like Netflix
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn-oLXQQklU
• Rust 2024 Project Goals Update & Rust 1.80.1
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ2XqNB-0Qg
• Rust live – Smart Pointers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmWQUkqkxDs
• Architecture isn’t Kubernetes | Diana Montalion (Mentrix Group)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=570rFXHXlDY
• Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvHCXCOmm4
• The Ethics of AI Assistants with Iason Gabriel
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZc-as-soA

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