October 2023

There were 4 posts published in October 2023 (this is page 1 of 1).

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