“Application modernization continues to be a top priority for customers. Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 delivers enhancements that provide upgraded security integration and reduce operational overhead, enabling customers to not only extend the product life cycle for modern applications, but to take advantage of cloud native platforms that provide a connected foundation for applications to run seamlessly across environments”, said Joe Fernandes, vice president and GM, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat.

JBoss EAP 8 delivers security enhancements, advanced cloud tools and Jakarta EE 10 compatibility, contributing to streamlined application modernization for customers. JBoss EAP 8 also includes a new provisioning system that helps developers better manage application deployments no matter where they are deployed.

To improve security, Red Hat also added native OpenID Connect support. The company has also removed some legacy security frameworks from JBoss EAP.

Other new features in this release include an updated migration toolset, feature pack support for data sources, and JBoss EAP XP 5.0.

Adding the expansion pack to JBoss EAP enables developers to add cloud-native functionality to their existing Jakarta EE applications, such as adding metrics, health endpoints, and reactive messaging support.

JBoss EAP 8 builds on the lightweight, cloud-native capabilities of Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 to improve developer productivity, reduce operational overhead, and ease the path towards modernization. Some of the advancements customers can take advantage of in the latest version include:

Jakarta EE 10 support enables customers to benefit from the functionality provided by current versions of the Jakarta EE APIs. With this release, companies can extend the life cycle of their enterprise Java applications.

Improved provisioning tools empower developers and operations teams to manage and optimize the deployment of their Jakarta EE applications on all deployment targets, including bare metal, virtual machines, cloud, and Red Hat OpenShift.

Security enhancements introduce native support for OpenID Connect and remove legacy security frameworks, making it easier to integrate JBoss EAP with OpenID Connect compliant platforms.

Red Hat recommends using JDK 17 because JDK 11 support was deprecated in JBoss EAP 7.4. JDK 11 continues to be deprecated in JBoss EAP 8.0 while it is still supported. Support for Java SE 21 is planned for a future release of JBoss EAP 8.

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Especially for all iPhone lovers, today we have chosen to share with you a more interesting topic, namely some of the reasons why it’s worth waiting a few more months until the release of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, presented by XDA Developers.

The current iPhone cycle is nearing its end
Apple is notorious for keeping the prices of its iPhones the same from the moment they are released until the day they are discontinued or replaced. So even when an iPhone’s cycle comes to an end, customers still have to pay the same full price. Apple may have just released a new yellow iPhone 14, but the iPhone 14 is near the finish line.

In the fall, you can get the next-generation iPhone 15 for the same price you bought the older model, if you’re not in a hurry.

All iPhone 15 models could feature the Dynamic Island
With the launch of the iPhone 14 series, Apple has for the first time abandoned the controversial notch in favour of the all-new dynamic island. As expected, this new notch in the display is exclusive to the Pro variants for now. So if you’re not planning to get your hands on one of the iPhone 14 Pro models, you’ll have to make do with the notch. According to users who use Dynamic Island it is very good. It’s convenient and offers intuitive shortcuts.

There are rumors that Dynamic Island will debut on the iPhone without the Pro in September.

Apple could finally strike its Lightning port
A significant proportion of people don’t upgrade their iPhones every year. They can last for years, especially with Apple’s commitment in the software updates department. So if you’re inclined to upgrade every few years, you might really want to wait for the iPhone 15 for one main reason: Apple might finally be ditching the Lightning port in favor of the universally accepted USB Type-C port.

That means your iPhone, iPad, and MacBook will finally use the same charging cable. Many other non-Apple devices also use a USB Type-C port, saving you from having to carry around several different cables and adapters. However, if you rely exclusively on MagSafe charging and wireless data transfer, this point may not apply to you.

Pro iPhone 15 variants could get a fresh exterior
Apple typically introduces a change to the basic chassis design once every three years or so. Since the iPhone 12 Pro, Pro iPhones have looked almost identical, featuring a case made of stainless steel. If the weather stays consistent, the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max could finally bring some notable changes.

According to some sources of information, these premium phones may have a more curved edge that will make them more comfortable to hold. Additionally, they may have thinner display bezels, which will make room for more screen area. Also, Apple may abandon the use of stainless steel and instead introduce a titanium body.

The iPhone 15 Pro Max could pack a periscope lens
According to rumors, this device will be exclusively equipped with a periscope lens. This means you will be able to use better optical and digital zoom features. The leak hints at a 6x optical zoom, which is a significant jump over the 3x zoom available in the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. So if you tend to take a lot of photos, you might want to wait a few more months to get an improved camera system at a similar price.

There are a few differences between Amazon Linux 2 and AL2023. One of the most important differences is that Amazon Linux 2 offers long-term support until June 30, 2023, while AL2023 has a predictable two-year major release cycle and long-term support.

“The distribution locks to a specific version of the Amazon Linux package repository, giving you control over how and when you absorb updates. By default, and in contrast with Amazon Linux 2, a dnf update command will not update your installed packages. This helps to ensure that you are using the same package versions across your fleet”,

explained Sebastian Stormack, chief developer advocate at AWS.

AWS is also distributing Amazon Linux 2023 as Docker images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub. These images are built from the same software components included in the Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.

Most of you probably know that electron microscopes are pretty good at imaging materials and detailing their properties, possessing resolution which is 1,000 times greater than a light microscope. However, it has some disadvantages which need to be overcome or fixed.

Often, when working on an upgrade, scientists focus their efforts on the hardware, which is always really costly. Yet, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are giving us the opportunity to see how advanced software developments are able to push their performance even further.

Recently, a way to improve the resolution and sensitivity of an electron microscope by using an AI framework was introduced by some Argonne researchers. Their approach, which was published in npj Computational Materials, gives scientists a chance to get even more detailed information about materials and the microscope itself.  Tao Zhou, who is an Argonne assistant scientist and lead author, said:

“Our method is helping improve the resolution of existing instruments so people don’t need to upgrade to new expensive hardware so often.”

When a material is being exposed to a beam of electron waves this is the moment when Images are being formed. Because electrons act like waves when they travel, these waves interact with the material. As a result, this interaction is captured by a detector and is measured. Finally, these measurements are used to construct a magnified image.

Also, electron microscopes are able to capture information about material properties, such as magnetization and electrostatic potential. All of this information is stored in a property of the electron wave which is also known as a phase. The phrase describes the location or the timing of a point within a wave cycle.

Soon after all the measurements are taken, information about the phase is seemingly lost. That’s why scientists cannot access information about magnetization or electrostatic potential from the images they acquire. Charudatta Phatak, who is Argonne material scientist and group leader, as well as a co-author of the paper, said:

“Knowing these characteristics is critical to controlling and engineering desired properties in materials for batteries, electronics, and other devices. That’s why retrieving phase information is important.”

One of the most decades-old problems is retrieving phase information.  Eventually, it all started with X-ray imaging and now it is spread by other fields, including microscopy. With the aim of solving this problem, Mathew Cherukara, who is Phatak, Zhou, and Argonne computational scientist and group leader propose leveraging tools built to train deep neural networks, a form of AI.

What are neural networks and how do they work?

They are a series of algorithms that are designed to mimic the human brain and nervous system. When receiving a series of inputs and output, it seems that these algorithms seek to map out the relationship between the two. Cherukara said:

“Tech companies like Google and Facebook have developed packages of software that are designed to train neural networks. What we’ve essentially done is taken those and applied them to the scientific challenge of phase retrieval.”

Zhou pointed out:

“Normally when you’re trying to retrieve the phase, you presume you know your microscope parameters perfectly. However, that knowledge might not be accurate. With our method, you don’t have to rely on this assumption. Instead, you actually get the conditions of your microscope — that’s something other phase retrieval methods can’t do.”

The method they are using also improves the resolution and sensitivity of existing equipment. What does it mean? That means that researchers will be able to recover tiny shifts in phase, and in turn, get information about small changes in magnetization and electrostatic potential, all without requiring costly hardware upgrades. Zhou added:

“Just doing a software upgrade we were able to improve the spatial resolution, accuracy, and sensitivity of our microscopy,”

In his words, the fact that they didn’t need to add any new equipment to leverage these benefits is a huge advantage from an experimentalist’s point of view.