Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed 38TB of Sensitive Data
Security researchers at cloud-security company Wiz discovered a data leak affecting Microsoft’s AI GitHub repository, including a huge amount of private data and a disk backup of two employees’ workstations with sensitive data.
Eating One's Own Dogfood: GitHub Using Actions and Runners for GitHub.com
To improve how they ship software in a scalable and effective way, GitHub has adopted GitHub Actions for a part of their continuous integration system. In particular, they leveraged the new Actions larger runners to get to run 15,000 CI jobs across 150,000 cores. In the process they also extended larger runners capabilities for all their users.
Python-like Numerical Computation Library MatX Brings Transforms as Operators and Other Features
Developed by Nvidia for its own GPUs, MatX is a C++ library that aims to bring near-native performance in numerical computing using a high-level syntax not far from those available in Python scipy or MATLAB. Its latest release brings a number of new features, including the possibility to use transforms as operators, new operators such as upsample, downsample, pwelch, and more.
JetBrains Launches IntelliJ-Based Writing Tool WriterSide
With WriterSide, JetBrains aims to allow developers and writers to create technical documentation using a write, test, build workflow. The new tool is based on IntelliJ-platform IDEs and has been used to create most of JetBrains products’ documentation for the last few years.