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Amazon Redshift now supports CONJUNCTION TYPE support for you row-level security (RLS) policies and RLS support on standard views and late binding views, which enables you to apply granular access controls and ensure that users only can access rows that they are authorized to see, even when the underlying data evolves or user permissions change.  Post Updated on November 30, 2023 at 12:23AM

Today, AWS announces the preview release of AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy, a new capability that helps you protect the privacy of your users with mathematically-backed and intuitive controls in a few clicks. As a fully managed capability, no prior differential privacy experience is needed to help you prevent the re-identification of your users.  Post Updated on November 29, 2023 at 05:51PM

It was a busy week for the Visual Studio team, preparing for both Ignite and .NET Conf . And releasing the latest version of Visual Studio 2022 which is now up to version 17.8. There were lots of announcements of cool new features, AI enhancements, performance improvements, and much more. That was a lot to digest, so I thought I’d bring attention to some of my favorites. Case-preserving find and replace When you do a replacement, you can now preserve the original casing of each match in your code. Note that to get Pascal case and Camel case, your replacement string must also be in Pascal case or Camel case. Toggle case preservation in the Replace window with Alt + V or by clicking on the ‘Preserve case’ option. Here’s what it looks like in the Quick Replace UI ( Ctrl + H ). And here’s what it looks like in Replace in Files ( Ctrl + Shift + H ). This is a handy feature that I use all the time. Rich pull request experience This feature has been in development for a while and has b...

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Countdown, a service that enables successful migrations, modernizations, streaming, and go-live events. AWS Countdown helps you throughout the project lifecycle to assess operational readiness, identify and mitigate risks, and offers proven playbooks developed by AWS experts. Post Updated on November 28, 2023 at 05:34AM

As an industry, we are all collectively committed to bringing scaled quantum computing to fruition. Understanding what it will take to reach this goal is crucial not just for measuring industry progress, but also for developing a robust strategy to build a quantum machine and a quantum-ready community. That’s why in June 2023, we offered how quantum computing must graduate through three implementation levels to achieve utility scale: Level 1 Foundational, Level 2 Resilient, Level 3 Scale.  All quantum computing technologies today are at Level 1, and while numerous NISQ machines have been developed, they do not offer practical quantum advantage . True utility will only come from orchestrating resilient quantum computation across a sea of logical qubits — something that, to the best of our knowledge, can only be achieved through fault tolerance and error correction. And it has not yet been demonstrated. The next step toward practical quantum advantage, and Level 3 Scale, is to demon...

The 2023.11.20 release of the vcpkg package manager is available . This blog post summarizes changes from October 19 th , 2023 to November 19 th , 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg , Microsoft/vcpkg-tool , and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period: 34 new ports were added to the open-source registry. A port is a versioned recipe for building a package from source, such as a C or C++ library. 268 updates were made to existing ports. As always, we validate each change to a port by building all other ports that depend on or are depended by the library that is being updated for our nine main triplets . There are now 2,352 total libraries available in the vcpkg public registry. 22 contributors submitted PRs, issues, or participated in discussions in the main repo. The main vcpkg repo has over 5,800 forks and 20,200 stars on GitHub.   Key changes This vcpkg update includes some bugfixes, documentation improvements, as well as a new community triplet. No...

ML.NET is an open-source, cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers that enables integration of custom machine learning models into .NET applications. ML.NET version 3.0 is now released, with lots of new features and enhancements! Deep Learning scenarios were substantially expanded in this release with new capabilities in Object Detection, Named Entity Recognition, and Question Answering. That's all possible because of integrations and interoperability with TorchSharp and ONNX models. We've also updated our integration with LightGBM to the latest version. Data processing scenarios are greatly improved with a long list of enhancements and bug fixes to DataFrame , as well as new IDataView interoperability features. The important steps of loading, inspecting, transforming, and visualizing your data are much more powerful. While this post highlights several aspects of the ML.NET 3.0 release, the full list of updates is available in the release notes . Dee...