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Rust is the language we are all expecting to save us and it has just scored two more goals. The Chromium project has decided to support it and Mozilla, the home of Rust, has a revitalized Servo project.

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A pre-release beta of the Conan C/C++ Package Manager has been released on GitHub with new generators and a new graph model that provides better support for C and C++ binaries relationships, compilation, and linkage.

GitHub has introduced required workflows and support for configuration variables for Actions. The update is designed to standardize and enforce CI/CD best practices, and give developers working for large organizations a way to secure their code.

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Disney Research has a new visual effects tool that can make actors look older or younger for movies without needing to collect longitudinal data using photographs.

The Apache Software Foundation is being urged to change its name and the names of the projects it hosts by members of Natives In Tech, a collective of Native technologists crafting free and open source technology for Native peoples.

A self paced course by Microsoft Learn based on a real case study on how to apply Azure SQL with Prisma and Vue.

Ruby 3.2 has been released with an initial port of WASI-based WebAssembly support and production-ready YJIT.

ActiveState has finally let go of its venerable Komodo IDE, handing it over to the open source community which will now take the lead.

Author: Bradley Smith
Publisher: No Starch
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1718502482
Audience: Developers working in DevOps
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

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