Weekly#557

  • What If Your EV Could Power Your Home During a Blackout?
  • Apple reports fourth quarter results
  • Obama reading list on AI
  • Boox’s latest e-readers combine quiet, compact styles with big customization
  • Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Bets AI Will Shake Up Scientific Research
  • Rocket Lab targets late 2024 for private Venus mission launch
  • ChatGPT: Timeline
  • Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users
  • Joe Rogan’s big decision
  • Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
  • The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook says AI is a fundamental technology, confirms investments in generative AI
  • Deft is building e-commerce search to help you find the right product quickly
  • DoorDash adds new safety tools for its delivery people, including ‘driving insights
  • Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM
  • Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm
  • NASA just patched Voyager 2’s software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite
  • Disney to acquire remaining stake in Hulu for expected $8.6 billion
  • LinkedIn hits 1 billion members
  • Apache Pulsar – Cloud-Native, Distributed Messaging and Streaming

Weekly#556

  • “…Google paid Apple $18B for search in 2021…”
  • “X daily active users:…in September it has 245 million daily active users, lower than the 259.4 million figure Musk shared in November 2022…”
  • Spotify is changing its royalty model
  • Google expands its bug bounty program to target generative AI attacks
  • IBM software sales up 8% as the company beats on top and bottom lines
  • Magic Leap Taps New CEO to Lead Augmented-Reality Headset Maker
  • Apple Adds Delivery Metrics to Its Push Notification Console
  • Job titles of the future: carbon accountant
  • How Ads on Your Phone Can Aid Government Surveillance
  • The restaurant nearest Google
  • Google Maps is getting new AI-powered search updates, an enhanced navigation interface and more
  • JPMorgan Says JPM Coin Now Handles $1 Billion Transactions Daily
  • Amazon’s virtual health clinic can now treat patients for a cough, cold or flu
  • Amazon discloses 181 mln users in EU in first store transparency report
  • Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images
  • Amazon Third Quarter Results
  • Mobile Tech Talk Slides from Droidcon and Mobile DevOps Summit
  • new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
  • Shift Left / Shift Down
  • …more than 22 min of MVPA eliminates the risk of high sedentary time
  • How AI reduces the world to stereotypes

Weekly#555

  • Connect/Enterprise: Building Products With Generative AI
  • CNCF Observability Whitepaper
  • 12 Microservices Patterns
  • Bring Your Own Algorithm to Anomaly Detection
  • The Future of Banking in a World of Digital Ecosystems
  • Leveraging LLMs for Sequential Recommendation
  • The Killer Use Case for LLMs Is Summarization
  • FADU’s CXL 2.0 switch concept augments next-generation data centers with more RAM for AI use cases
  • DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
  • NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon
  • Uber Migrates 4000+ Microservices to a New Multi-Cloud Platform Running Kubernetes and Mesos
  • Scientists surprised by source of largest quake detected on Mars
  • How Discord Stores Billions of Messages — Big Surprises in System Design
  • Sol Reader
  • Microsoft’s futuristic ‘Project Silica’ stores data on glass plates for 10,000 years
  • American Work-From-Home Rates Drop to Lowest Since the Pandemic
  • How to Assess an E-voting System, Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System

Weekly#554

  • State of AI: 2023 Report
  • Akka vs ZIO: Framework Battle
  • Apple Wallet app can now show current account balances from UK banks
  • Microsoft closes $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition as UK approves restructured deal
  • Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M
  • Video Game Cyberpunk 2077 Uses AI To Replace Deceased Voice Actor
  • Tesla API
  • SpaceX details Starlink-for-phones plan, launching in 2024
  • Cutting cloud cost by 99.9% when serving 128 TB data and 5 billion requests
  • What is a bank?
  • SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA Psyche mission to metal asteroid
  • Citi earning results
  • Netflix is opening physical stores in 2025 as marketing ploy
  • Adobe previews AI upscaling
  • Microsoft is officially splitting from VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release

Weekly#553

  • Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55% year-over-year
  • Amazon Prepares to Challenge SpaceX’s Starlink
  • The latest Android version (14) adds customizable lock screens, better passkey support, and new on-device health features
  • Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet Management
  • Digital nomads are travelling by day and working by night
  • QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 1: Architectures, Data Engineering, Infra Languages, Staff+ Skills
  • QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 2: Design for Resilience, Platform Engineering, Modern ML, JVM Trends
  • Sony’s high-bitrate movie service is now available on PS5 and PS4
  • Building a Global Experimentation Platform: The Technical Challenges
  • Resharper 2023.2 Brings Predictive Debugger
  • PayPay: QR the one to lighten SoftBank’s gloom
  • Spotify pushes into audiobooks in challenge to Amazon’s Audible
  • Spotify is adding auto-generated transcripts to millions of podcasts
  • Python 3.12 new features
  • Java 21, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching

Weekly#552

  • Thoughworks, Technology Radar, Volume 29, PDF
  • 2023 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report
  • Risk Entity Watch – Using Anomaly Detection to Fight Fraud
  • Every iPhone screen has a barcode to prevent a manufacturing scam
  • The Raspberry Pi 5
  • Jobs of Tomorrow: Large Language Models and Jobs
  • GitHub Copilot Chat to build a ReactJS gallery prototype
  • OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares
  • OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture
  • Meta: New AI Experiences Across Family of Apps and Devices
  • Amazon’s $4 Billion Anthropic Investment Looks to the Cloud
  • X (Twitter) has paid almost $20M to creators
  • The race for semiconductor supremacy | FT Film
  • First evidence of spinning black hole detected by scientists

Weekly#551

  • 49 Engineering blogs
  • Enabling Rate Limits using Envoy
  • Curated list of microservices patterns
  • Amazon to Run Ads on Prime Video in Key Markets Starting in 2024
  • Unity’s updated Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games made on Unity Personal, and will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity
  • Cisco to Buy Splunk for $28 Billion in Giant AI-Powered Data Bet
  • Microsoft Copilot for Windows launches September 26th and unifies several formerly separate Copilot assistants.
  • AI’s New Backer: Stablecoin Tether Makes A $420 Million Bet On Cloud GPUs
  • GitLab: 2023 Global DevSecOps
  • CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
  • Around the world, researchers are locked away in simulated space habitats in remote locations to see what it would be like to go to space for real
  • What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?
  • What’s New in the 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
  • Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
  • Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation
  • Bun 1.0…Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It ships as a single executable called bun​.

Weekly#550

  • Apple Taps New Chief for Team Developing Watch’s Glucose Tracker…”…Apple Inc. has named a new leader for its secret group working on a noninvasive blood sugar monitor, putting a veteran iPhone and Mac chip executive in charge of one of the company’s most ambitious forays into health technology…”
  • Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
  • “…Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature…”
  • Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
  • If you’d bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you’d now have $147,000
  • The SoftBank-backed company that lets you buy glasses over WhatsApp
  • DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.
  • Revel, the car subscription startup from Spain, raises $123M to take its business up a gear
  • AWS Lambda is deprecating the go1.x runtime
  • Where is the global economy heading in 2024?
  • Starlink, which relies on a satellite fleet to provide high-speed internet connections, reported $1.4 billion in revenue for 2022
  • For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic
  • Instacart aims for valuation of up to $10 billion in upcoming IPO
  • Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan
  • Amazon launches generative AI to help sellers write product descriptions
  • Amazon Searches for Its Next Big Hit

Weekly#549

  • How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
  • MLEnv: Standardizing ML at Pinterest Under One ML Engine to Accelerate Innovation
  • Apple Renews Qualcomm Deal in Sign Its Own Modem Chip Isn’t Ready
  • Apple inks new long-term deal with Arm for chip technology, according to filing
  • Instacart targets up to $9.3 bln valuation
  • iPhone 15’s shift to USB-C has hidden potential to streamline computing
  • Guess who’s getting the world’s first self-sovereign national digital ID?
  • An interpretable machine learning approach to multimodal stress detection in a simulated office environment
  • Apple Event 2023: iPhone 15, new Apple Watches, and everything else to expect
  • Nasdaq receives SEC approval for AI-based trade orders

Weekly#548

  • Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
  • EMEA Data Centre Report Q2 2023
  • Arm gets closer to creating full-blown server cpu designs
  • Indeed’s CEO Wants to Create ‘Cyborg’ Recruiters Using AI
  • OpenAI angles to put ChatGPT in classrooms with special tutor prompts
  • Klarna’s Q2 results include profitable month as GMV continues growth streak
  • Starfield review: Guns and ships galore, but a vacuum of wonder
  • Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
  • Apple to Buy TSMC’s Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023
  • Multi-layered calendars
  • Banking on Status
  • Generative AI and intellectual property
  • sketchplanations.com
  • Goodhart’s Law