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Google DeepMind has launched Lyria 3.5, the newest music generation model, now available in Google Flow Music. This update brings significant improvements in musicality, enabling richer melodic structures; enhanced lyrics with better prompt adherence and structural awareness; more expressive and emotionally nuanced vocals with improved pronunciation; and greater creative control over tempo and duration. Users can try it today in Flow Music to create more refined tracks.

• Lyria 3.5 launches today in Google Flow Music
• Improved musicality with more complex melodic structures
• Enhanced lyrics with better prompt adherence and structural awareness
• Improved vocals with more expression, emotion, and pronunciation
• Creative control over tempo and duration of outputs

Google DeepMind / Lyria / music generation / AI / Google Flow Music / musicality / lyrics / vocals / creative control / model / Google Labs

This article from GitHub Blog explains how to reduce Dependabot pull request noise by grouping updates, slowing cadence to monthly, and leveraging security updates that bypass standard schedules. It uses the example of Microsoft's GCToolkit, which reduced from daily individual updates to monthly batched pull requests per ecosystem. Key configuration changes include setting schedule.interval to monthly, using groups with wildcard patterns, and covering all ecosystems. The new default cooldown delays version updates by three days for safety, while security fixes remain immediate. The recommendation is to combine these settings for quieter, more manageable dependency maintenance.

• Grouping all dependency updates into one weekly or monthly pull request reduces noise significantly.
• Setting schedule.interval to monthly or weekly prevents daily influx of update PRs.
• Cover all ecosystems actually used (e.g., Maven for Java) to ensure all dependencies are updated.
• Security updates are not affected by the cadence and are raised immediately upon vulnerability disclosure.
• The default three-day cooldown for version updates adds safety against potentially malicious releases.
• Use wildcard patterns ("*") in groups to batch all updates together, or split into named groups for finer control.
• For monorepos, use directories key with globs and group-by: dependency-name to consolidate updates.

Dependabot / GitHub Actions / supply chain security / open source / dependency management / version updates / security updates / cooldown / monorepo / Maven / GCToolkit / best practices