Meta releases SeamlessM4T AI model for text and speech translation

Meta‘s latest AI output is a major advancement for real-time text and speech translation. On Tuesday, the company released SeamlessM4T: a multimodal model that translates text to speech and vice versa. Meta claims SeamlessM4T is “the first all-in-one multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model,” meaning it is uniquely able to translate and transcribe languages…

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Using short-lived certificates to protect TLS secrets

Short-lived certificates (SLCs) are part of our latest efforts to further secure our Transport Layer Security (TLS) private keys on our edge networks. SLCs have a very short exposure compared to traditional certificates and lower the chances of a compromised private key being abused. Implementing SLCs has required us to address tradeoffs between operability and…

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Declarative Data Pipelines with Hoptimator

Table 1: Partial listing of user onboarding experiences The holes in the above chart – the majority of spaces – represent gaps where self-service does not exist yet. In those cases, creating an end-to-end data pipeline involves writing custom code to bridge the gaps. For streaming data pipelines, this involves writing stream processing jobs. For…

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