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