AWS Lambda now supports fast polling for SQS queues, allowing customers to build event-driven applications with Lambda as the event source. This feature enables fast message processing and reduces the need for duplicate Lambda functions... read more  

SolarWinds and its Chief Information Security Officer Timothy Brown have been sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for allegedly hiding security failures that led to a major cyberattack. The attack, believed to be the work of Russian hackers, injected malicious code into SolarWind.. read more  

BitVM is a new proposal by Bitcoin developer Robin Linus that aims to bring Ethereum-style smart contracts to the Bitcoin network without the need for a soft fork, allowing for the verification of any computable function on Bitcoin. The proposal has received mixed reactions from the crypto community.. read more  

Type inference is the ability to automatically deduce the type of an expression at compile time, without explicit type annotations. With the introduction of generics in Go 1.18, Go's type inference abilities were significantly expanded, allowing for cleaner and more compact code... read more  

A malicious campaign has been planting info-stealing packages on open-source platforms, with about75,000 downloadsso far. The campaign has evolved to include more sophisticated obfuscation techniques, and the malware can steal sensitive data and manipulate app data... read more  

Large language models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 have shown impressive capabilities, passing tests that mimic human reasoning and intelligence. However, there is little agreement on what these results actually mean and how to interpret them, leading researchers to call for more rigorous evaluation methods.. read more  

DynamoDB does not support aggregation functionality, but the team at Deliveroo solved this issue by using DynamoDB Streams to aggregate their 'favorites' data in real-time and display the total favorite count per restaurant... read more