• Uber Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development
• Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps — now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
• Podcast : Why are chips interesting again
• In February 2023, Chrome will include an ‘early stable’ preview in its update release cycle
• A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
• OpenAI releases Point-E, paper
• Digital Dollar Is a Long Way From Reality, US Treasury Official Says
• Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
• MariaDB uses SPAC to begin NYSE trading
• Turns Out You Can Turn Old Blu-Ray Players into Microscopes
• Inside Apple’s War for Chip Talent
• Qualcomm talks up RISC-V
• Tech giants ditch office space in London and Europe
• SpinQ presents world’s first portable quantum computers
• This British Hotel Offers a Butler to Help You Pick Out Books
• Podcast: Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
• Grafana Releases New Frontend Observability SDK and Backend Profiling Database
• Delivery Hero’s Global Tech Summit 2022

Unintended consequences.

Forcing the labelling of sesame as an alergen ingredient leads to the addition of sesame to MORE foods. https://t.co/yj4HKVM7EI pic.twitter.com/fYvVBWKc3N

— Polemic Paine (@PolemicTMM) December 22, 2022

• The days are long but the decades are short
• ChatGPT owner OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue by 2024
• ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment / Benedict Evans
• Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data
• Apple preps for ‘third-party iOS app stores’ in Europe
• GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
• Kodama has raised more than $6 million from Bill Gates’ climate fund and other investors, as it pursues new ways to reduce wildfire risks and lock away carbon in harvested trees.
• Accenture shares 9 cybersecurity predictions for 2023
• Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training
• Jamming and spoofing attacks can cripple GPS connections entirely or make something appear in the wrong location, causing disruption and safety issues
• Apple has Won a Patent relating to possible future Satellite Services beyond the iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS Satellite Service
• Sony camera sensors in iPhone
• Bob Iger vs. Bob Chapek
• Java InfoQ Trends Report – December 2022
• MacOS 9 in browser
• Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
• The state of AI in 2022—and a half decade in review / McKinsey
• Microsoft to take 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group (FT)
• The evolution of fraud (FT)
• Microsoft Tops the Best-Managed Companies of 2022…Drucker Institute’s annual Management Top 250 rankings (WSJ)

/1 What is a DDos (Distributed Denial-of-Service) Attack?

Why is it hazardous to the services?

Here is an example of how DDoS works. pic.twitter.com/Mxwx6pYsac

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) December 16, 2022

• Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
• Fjord Trends 2022
• Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.
• Amazon built a computer vision algorithm from scratch to identify products without barcodes to help robots ship products to you faster.
• Microsoft Open-Sources Agricultural AI Toolkit FarmVibes.AI
• Disney+ launches its ad-supported tier to compete with Netflix
• EU sets December 28th, 2024, deadline for all new phones to use USB-C for wired charging
• DNA that was frozen for 2 million years has been sequenced
• Chat GPT Model Size: 100 GB
• Chat GPT average cost per chat: single digits cents per chat
• Google combines Maps and Waze teams
• YOLOv5 PyTorch Tutorial
• Pixyle AI wants to make visual search more intuitive for online retailers
• Apple launches end-to-end encryption for iCloud data
• Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC
• ‘Pong’ is now half a century old
• Twitter to introduce new controls for ad placements

Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption. AI will eliminate the Search Engine Result Page, which is where they make most of their money.

Even if they catch up on AI, they can’t fully deploy it without destroying the most valuable part of their business! https://t.co/jtq25LXdkj

— Paul Buchheit (@paultoo) December 1, 2022

• #ProductCon NY ‘22
• Password manager LassPass said it’s investigating a security incident after its systems were compromised for the second time this year.
• AWS re:invent
  • data keynote
  • Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps
  • Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events from multiple services
  • Amazon CodeCatalyst provides blueprints for collaborative app development
• “….WSJ points out that “Don’t Look Up” was apparently too serious for the Netflix Preview Club, and creators took this feedback and added more humor before it was released…”
• X1 gets 50% valuation boost, aims to give consumers a way to buy stocks via credit card reward points
• Shield, a communication compliance platform for financial institutions, raises $20M
• Bret Taylor steps down as co-chair and CEO of Salesforce
• Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease
• Digital Banking Maturity 2022
• Uniswap launches an NFT aggregator after acquiring Genie
• Co-Ambidexterity: A Framework for Winning in a New Era of Competition
• Neuralink’s Brain Chip Plan
• Prime Video Replaces Netflix As No. 1 Streaming Service In U.S.
• Tesla Semi
• Google reports decline in Android memory safety vulnerabilities as Rust usage grows
• Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
• IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain
• Panasonic, Nikon quit developing low-end compact digital cameras…Departures come after smartphones wipe out 97% of market
• OpenAI’s new chatbot…blog post
• Brains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds
• More Than 1 Billion People Expected to Be Using 5G by Year’s End
• India may become the third largest economy by 2030, overtaking Japan and Germany

GPT is better than Google for many queries. Comes right at a time when Google search is so packed with ads it’s borderline unusable.

— cdixon.eth (@cdixon) December 2, 2022