We all need all the help we can get in the kitchen. Whether that involves meal planning or roasting the perfect chicken, deep learning promises to help bring more to the joy of cooking. Thanks to deep learning, you’ll soon get the kind of help no cookbook can provide. Innit, a Bay Area startup, is […]

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Deaf people can’t hear. Most hearing people don’t understand sign language. That’s a communication gap AI can help bridge, Syed Tousif Ahmed, a research assistant at the Rochester Technology Institute’s Future Everyday Technology Lab explained at the the GPU Technology Conference this week. Ahmed and his colleagues are using computer vision, machine learning and embedded […]

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Learn more about a new Host Profiles Fling utility that previews a capability allowing vSphere administrators to fully customize stateless hosts prior to ever booting on the network, delivering a true zero-touch cluster deployment workflow.

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The Education Services program at VMworld 2017 (in both the US and Europe) is designed to hone and validate your knowledge of the latest VMware technologies and solutions. Whether you choose an instructor-led class or online and video training, these courses will prepare you for real-world success and for VMware Certification exams. The onsite certification […]

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Today we are pleased to announce the beta launch of the docs.vmware.com site. This portal unifies the product documentation for all products, versions, and languages into a single site so you can find the information that you are looking for more quickly. VMware products offer a wide range of business solutions from desktop virtualization to […]

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This is the second blog in a series. See the first blog here: VMTN Global Forums The foundation of VMware Technology Network is peer-to-peer support and engagement. Community is powered by human connection - the warm feeling of helping another person and the satisfaction of collaborating to solve a problem. And then there&#rsquo;s the added […]

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Stories are rife of the obstacles that developers of self-driving cars must overcome — challenges related to sensors, machine learning, real-time data analysis and reaction times. But we haven’t heard much about the passengers. Affectiva, maker of “emotion AI” software, wants to change that. The company is building a platform that would establish profiles of […]

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The visual world of architecture, engineering and design is a fertile field for VR, and attendees of the GPU Technology Conference got a broad view an industry being transformed by this fast-growing technology. From speeding the design process to enabling collaboration to ensuring worksite safety, AEC firms are finding that VR helps them implement leading-edge […]

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How do you teach a drone to fly better? Make it hallucinate. Okay. So how do you make a drone hallucinate? With VR, of course. Still with us? Good. Let’s explain. MIT’s Sertac Karaman has been building drones and teaching them to fly autonomously for awhile now. As associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and […]

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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12, 9.3.17, and 9.2.21. This release fixes three security issues. It also patches a number of other bugs reported over the last three months. Users who use the PGREQUIRESSL environment variable to control connections, and users who rely on security isolation between database users when using foreign servers, should update as soon as possible. Other users should plan to update at the next convenient downtime.

Security Issues

Three security vulnerabilities have been closed by this release:

• CVE-2017-7484: selectivity estimators bypass SELECT privilege checks
• CVE-2017-7485: libpq ignores PGREQUIRESSL environment variable
• CVE-2017-7486: pg_user_mappings view discloses foreign server passwords

The fix for CVE-2017-7486 applies to new databases, see the release notes for the procedure to apply the fix to an existing database.

Any user relying on the PGREQUIRESSL environment variable is encouraged to use the sslmode connection string option, as use of PGREQUIRESSL is deprecated. CVE-2017-7485 does not affect the 9.2 series. For more information on these issues and how they affect backwards-compatibility, see the Release Notes.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

This update also fixes a number of bugs reported in the last few months. Some of these issues affect only the 9.6 series, but many affect all supported versions. There are more than 90 fixes in this release, including:

• Fix to ensure consistent behavior for RLS policies
• Fix ALTER TABLE ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT to not recurse to child tables when the constraint is marked NO INHERIT
• Fix incorrect support for certain box operators in SP-GiST which could yield incorrect results
• Fixes for handling query cancellation
• Skip tablespace privilege checks when ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN TYPE rebuilds an existing index
• Fix possibly-invalid initial snapshot during logical decoding
• Fix possible corruption of init forks of unlogged indexes
• Several fixes to postmaster, including checks for when running as a Windows service
• Several planner fixes, among others assorted minor fixes in planning of parallel queries
• Avoid possible crashes in walsender and some index-only scans on GiST index
• Fix cancelling of pg_stop_backup() when attempting to stop a non-exclusive backup
• Updates to ecpg to support COMMIT PREPARED and ROLLBACK PREPARED
• Several fixes for pg_dump/pg_restore, among others to handle privileges for procedural languages and when using --clean option
• Several fixes for contrib modules, such as dblink, pg_trgm and postgres_fdw
• Fixes to MSVC builds, such as using correct daylight-savings rules for POSIX-style time zone names and supporting Tcl 8.6
• Several performance improvements
• Fix cursor_to_xml() to produce valid output with tableforest = false
• Fix roundoff problems in float8_timestamptz() and make_interval()
• Fix pgbench to handle the combination of --connect and --rate options correctly
• Fixes to commandline tools such as pg_upgrade and pg_basebackup
• Several fixes to VACUUM and CLUSTER

Users of replication tools based on logical decoding, as well as users of unlogged indexes, should consult the release notes for potential extra steps during the upgrade.

This update also contains tzdata release 2017b with updates for DST law changes in Chile, Haiti, and Mongolia, plus historical corrections for Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Liberia, and Spain. Switch to numeric abbreviations for numerous time zones in South America, the Pacific and Indian oceans, and some Asian and Middle Eastern countries. The timezone library is synchronized with IANA release tzcode2017b.

EOL Warning for Version 9.2

PostgreSQL version 9.2 will be End-of-Life in September 2017. The project expects to only release one, or two, more updates for that version. We urge users to start planning an upgrade to a later version of PostgreSQL as soon as possible. See our Versioning Policy for more information.

Updating

All PostgreSQL update releases are cumulative. As with other minor releases, users are not required to dump and reload their database or use pg_upgrade in order to apply this update release; you may simply shut down PostgreSQL and update its binaries.

After update, users of replication tools based on logical decoding, as well as users of unlogged indexes, should consult the release notes for potential extra steps during the upgrade. See the Release Notes for more details.

Users who have skipped one or more update releases may need to run additional, post-update steps; please see the release notes for earlier versions for details.

Links:

• Download
• Release Notes
• Security Page
• Versioning Policy

Hollywood-style lights in NVIDIA green. A champagne toast. And the envelope, please. The gala awards event celebrating winners of NVIDIA’s Inception competition for AI startups had the trappings of Tinseltown, with one key difference: Its envelope was stuffed with $1.5 million in cash prizes, to be split among six of the world’s most promising AI […]

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By: Christian Fernando   When using SAP native tools such as SAP Solution Manager, it lacks visibility into the underlying virtualization layers, which can result in a blind spot in understanding the complete performance story. The virtualization layer includes the virtual machine, ESXi server, CPU, memory and storage. The ability to quickly see contention of

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