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GitHub Copilot Workspaces 🪄, New API-centric Language 👾, Airbnb Brandometer 🪡
Today's TechToks: GitHub announces Copilot Workspace environments, major SSH backdoor attack on Linux, TypeSpec language, GitHub trending repos, and more!
TechTok by João Martins
April 30, 2024
🤯 Game Changers
The most impactful articles of the day
GitHub introduces Copilot Workspace, an AI-powered development environment that aims to assist developers in brainstorming, planning, building, testing, and running code using natural language, building on the capabilities of its existing AI-powered coding assistant Copilot. |  |
🧐 Daily Picks
Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today
Threlte is a 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js, allowing developers to create immersive 3D experiences within web applications.
TypeSpec, a new tool focused on API-centric development, fosters an 'API First' approach and supports various protocols, aiming to streamline development process and enhance end product quality by defining APIs upfront; it also provides robust extensibility and a wide-reaching ecosystem.
An in-depth lecture of the XZ Utils Backdoor from Columbia Engineering by Denzel Farmer-- the SSH backdoor attack shipped to unstable and beta versions of Fedora, Debian, Kali, openSUSE, and Arch Linux. The package, also used by Ubuntu, was caught when Microsoft engineer Andres Freund noticed too many cpu cycles and valgrind memory errors.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
The OpenVoice project provides accurate tone color cloning, flexible voice style control, and zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning capabilities, with improved audio quality and native multi-lingual support in the latest version V2, which is released under the MIT license for free commercial use.
mistral.rs is a fast LLM inference platform that supports various devices and models, provides OpenAI API compatible server for convenience, offers Python bindings. Integrated with optimizations such as model quantization and inference acceleration with CPU, CUDA, and Apple's Metal framework.
IDM-VTON is the official implementation of the paper 'Improving Diffusion Models for Authentic Virtual Try-on in the Wild', which presents a method to improve diffusion models for virtual try-on tasks and provides a demo, inference code, and training code.
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt
Bright is your super app for health. We bring together body recomposition programs, recovery/stress/exertion scores, meal logging, energy tracking, sleep tracking, heart monitoring, nutrient analysis and 100m nutrition profiles into one platform.
PlayAI is a conversational voice AI platform for creating human-like voice agents. It makes conversations contextual, handles turn-taking, interruption, voice energy and emotion modulation for natural, fluid, and human conversations in real-time.
ProfessorAI is the personalized AI tutor for standardized tests. It addresses the issues of expensive tutors, limited time with teachers, and ineffective comprehension of course material through a custom chatbot and library system to help students perform better in AP classes.
Today from Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
Brandometer by Airbnb is an advanced natural language understanding technique to assess brand perception by analyzing social media data. Overcoming challenges of data quality and quantity with a variety of word embedding models (like Word2Vec, FastText) it measures the 'perception score' of the Airbnb brand based on the semantic distance between specific keywords and the concept of 'Airbnb'. |