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Microsoft and NVIDIA Announce Major Integrations to Accelerate Generative AI for Enterprises Everywhere

  • Microsoft Azure to Adopt NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchip to Accelerate Customer and First-Party AI Offerings

  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud’s Native Integration with Microsoft Fabric to Streamline Custom AI Model Development with Customer’s Own Data

  • NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs First on Azure Power Ecosystem of Industrial Design and Simulation Tools

  • Microsoft Copilot Enhanced with NVIDIA AI and Accelerated Computing Platforms

  • New NVIDIA Generative AI Microservices for Enterprise, Developer and Healthcare Applications Coming to Microsoft Azure AI

GTC—At GTC on Monday, Microsoft Corp. and NVIDIA expanded their longstanding collaboration with powerful new integrations that leverage the latest NVIDIA generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft 365.

“Together with NVIDIA, we are making the promise of AI real, helping to drive new benefits and productivity gains for people and organizations everywhere,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “From bringing the GB200 Grace Blackwell processor to Azure, to new integrations between DGX Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, the announcements we are making today will ensure customers have the most comprehensive platforms and tools across every layer of the Copilot stack, from silicon to software, to build their own breakthrough

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eBay’s Lessons Learned about Generative AI in Software Development Productivity

Recently eBay disclosed the lessons learned about the application of generative AI in the development process. eBay’s AI efforts have uncovered three pivotal avenues toward enhancing developer productivity: integrating commercial offerings, fine-tuning existing Large Language Models (LLMs), and harnessing an internal knowledge network.

Adopting commercial AI solutions such as GitHub Copilot has yielded promising results for eBay’s developer community. In a meticulously designed A/B test, developers using Copilot demonstrated heightened productivity, marked by a notable increase in code acceptance rates (27% code acceptance rate reported through Copilot telemetry), and efficiency metrics: 60% accuracy for the generated code. The introduction of Github Copilot also allows a decrease of PR (about 17%) and a decrease (about 12%) of the Lead time for Change. However, limitations such as prompt size constraints underscore the need for tailored solutions in the context of eBay’s vast codebase.

By post-training and fine-tuning open-source LLMs like Code Llama, and in particular Code Lllama 13B, eBay has unveiled new avenues for streamlining labor-intensive tasks and mitigating code duplication. The development of eBayCoder, a bespoke model trained on the organization’s proprietary data (code base and documentation), showcases the potential for LLM customization in addressing nuanced challenges unique to eBay’s ecosystem.

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Exascale’s New Software Frontier: Combustion-PELE – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era.

The scientific challenge

Diesel and gas-turbine engines drive the world’s trains, planes, and ships, but the fossil fuels that power these engines produce much of the carbon emissions that fuel the greenhouse effect and global climate change. Scientists have spent the past half-century in search of cleaner-burning fuels but have been hindered by the complexities of the high-pressure, turbulent reacting environment inside practical combustion chambers. Electrification trends ongoing across the automotive industry have yet to reach harder-to-electrify energy sectors such as off-grid power generation, marine shipping, agriculture, mining, and airplanes. A key decarbonization strategy calls for replacing the petroleum-based fuels for these types of engines with fuels from sustainable sources, while strictly maintaining requirements on reliability, safety, and cost.

Why exascale?

The Combustion-Pele project, named for the ancient Hawaiian goddess of fire, offers a means to overcome the obstacles to cleaner-burning fuels for these sectors. Over the past seven years, the Pele project team has developed simulation tools that harness the computational power of exascale to digitally recreate these complex combustion environments in

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GForce Software VSM IV: Virtual String Machine Gets Its Makeover

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Following the likes of M-Tron Pro, Oddity and Minimonsta, GForce Software’s Virtual String Machine puts on its glad rags and is brought up to date with a new UI and other features.

Some might argue that string machines were the first commercially successful types of polyphonic synths. For a while, it seemed that every manufacturer made some kind of string synth. And GForce Software’s VSM is a testament to those unique, if somewhat limited, devices.

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Now in its fourth iteration, VSM has given the full wardrobe and make-up redo that GForce has consistently brought to its portfolio. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this is most welcome in a world of large computer monitors.

Everything is now much clearer and easy to identify. The

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JFrog Software Supply Chain Report Shows Most Critical Vulnerabilities Scores Are Misleading

74% with High or Critical CVSS scores weren’t applicable in most common cases, but 60% of security and development teams still spend a quarter of their time remediating vulnerabilities

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“DevSecOps teams worldwide are navigating a volatile field of software security, where innovation frequently meets demand in an age of rapid AI adoption,” said Yoav Landman, CTO and Co-Founder, JFrog. “Our data provides security and development organizations with a comprehensive snapshot of the rapidly evolving software ecosystem, including notable CVE scoring errors, perspectives on the security implications of using GenAI to code, the most risky packages to allow your organization to use for development, and more, so they can make more informed decisions.”

Key Findings

JFrog’s Software Supply Chain State of the Union report combines JFrog Artifactory developer usage data amongst 7K+ organizations, original CVE analysis by the JFrog Security Research team, and commissioned third-party survey data of 1,200 technology professionals worldwide to provide context into the broad, rapidly evolving supply chain landscape software. Key findings include:

  • Not all CVEs are what they seem — Traditional CVSS ratings look purely at the severity of the exploit as opposed to the likelihood
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Space Force selects startup Defense Unicorns to update software at launch ranges

WASHINGTON — A startup called Defense Unicorns has won a $15 million contract to update IT systems and software applications used to support rocket launches at US Space Force ranges.

The company, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, won a so-called Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, agreement from SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the Space Force.

STRATFI contracts are awarded to companies that have won Small Business Innovation Research projects to help transition products from development to production and to help small businesses attract private investors.

Funding amounts for STRATFI contracts range from $3 million to $15 million per project. SpaceWERX last week announced STRATFI awards to Defense Unicorns and other firms.

Defense Unicorns’ STRATFI agreement is over five years.

The company last week announced it raised a $35 million Series A funding round led by Sapphire Ventures and Ansa Capital.

Transitioning legacy systems

Andrew Greene, co-founder of Defense Unicorns, said the company was formed three years ago by former developers from Department of Defense software factories. The. The firm specializes in transitioning legacy military systems that are typically disconnected from the internet to digital IT infrastructure.

Software modernization is sorely needed at Space Force launch ranges at Cape Canaveral, Florida;

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Don’t Ignore The Insider Selling In Constellation Software

We wouldn’t blame Constellation Software Inc. (TSE:CSU) shareholders if they were a little worried about the fact that Mark Leonard, the Founder recently netted about CA$23m selling shares at an average price of CA$3,764. However, that sale only accounted for 1.4% of their holding, so arguably it doesn’t say much about their conviction.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Constellation Software

Notably, that recent sale by Mark Leonard was the biggest insider sale of Constellation Software shares that we’ve seen in the last year. So what is clear is that an insider sees fit to sell at around the current price of CA$3,751. We generally don’t like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. Given that the sale took place at around current prices, it makes us a little cautious but is hardly a major concern.

Over the last year we saw more insider selling of Constellation Software shares, than buying. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when,

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Vectorworks, Inc. expands global presence with new office in Japan

Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc., part of the Nemetschek Group, is thrilled to announce the establishment of a new corporate office in Japan

The new Vectorworks Japan office comes as a result of Nemetschek Group’s acquisition of A&A Co., Ltd., the Japanese distributor of Vectorworks software since 1985, from its parent company, Canon Marketing Japan Inc.

With the formation of the new office in Japan, Vectorworks aims to offer its products and services to a broader range of designers in multiple industries and specialties including product, architecture, landscape and entertainment design.

The Japan office will leverage the robust sales infrastructure, in-depth market knowledge, and dedicated technical support offered by A&A for nearly four decades to deliver an enhanced customer experience.

A&A will be renamed Vectorworks Japan, Co., Ltd as of May 1

“Advancing our presence in Japan marks a significant milestone in our commitment to serving designers in East Asia and beyond,” said Vectorworks CEO Dr. Biplab Sarkar. “The A&A team has a rich history in the region and has been instrumental in delivering Vectorworks’ products while providing unparalleled support to our customers. With this committed and experienced team, I am confident in our ongoing success and

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NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Cloud APIs to Power Wave of Industrial Digital Twin Software Tools

Ansys, Cadence, Hexagon, Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Trimble Adopt Omniverse Technologies to Help Customers Design, Simulate, Build and Operate Physically Based Digital Twins

GTC—NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud will be available as APIs, extending the reach of the world’s leading platform for creating industrial digital twin applications and workflows across the entire ecosystem of software makers.

The five new Omniverse Cloud application programming interfaces enable developers to easily integrate core Omniverse technologies directly into existing design and automation software applications for digital twins, or their simulation workflows for testing and validating autonomous machines like robots or self-driving vehicles.

Some of the world’s largest industrial software makers that are embracing Omniverse Cloud APIs into their software portfolios include: Ansys, Cadence, Dassault Systèmes for its 3DEXCITE brand, Hexagon, Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens and Trimble.

“Everything manufactured will have digital twins,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Omniverse is the operating system for building and operating physically realistic digital twins. Omniverse and generative AI are the foundational technologies to digitalize the $50 trillion heavy industries market.”

New Omniverse Cloud APIs
The five new Omniverse Cloud APIs, which can be used individually or collectively, include:

  • USD Render —
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Computers are helping landlords fix price rentals. New law seeks to stop use of software

Price gouging software assists predatory landlords in raising rent for tenants. Proposed legislation would close a loophole and make the practice illegal.

Real estate software, used by many landlords, aggregates data on nearby rents and recommended rent hikes.

The practice impacts all renters, not just those living in buildings where landlords price is fixed with the software, according to Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

“Potentially every renter in Connecticut is paying more, because some significant proportion of property owners and landlords are benefiting by this rental price gouging,” Blumenthal said.

Companies like RealPage and Yardi advertise their products as “property management software.” The software instead helps landlords in Connecticut and across the nation coordinate prices to increase rent in the same market, according to Blumenthal.

The result is less competition and higher rent prices for consumers. RealPage increases rents for client landlords between 5% and 12%, according to Blumenthal.

“It automatically processes data to tell the landlords where rents can be inflated without losing tenants,” Blumenthal said. “The shortage of housing, in effect, is aggravated by this kind of high tech, cartel price fixing when it comes to rents. There’s so much information out there and so many landlords that it would

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