• Practitioner’s Guide to Security-First Design
• “…In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows…The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI” Bill Gates
• Revolut Issues Delayed Accounts to Bring UK Bank License Closer
• Vision Pro production moving at full speed, February launch planned
• Work Shift: What the Office Will Look Like in 2024
• Speaking Gen Z: How banks can attract young customers
• Fintech’s biggest hits and misses of 2023
• Get ready for smarter iPhones: Apple unlocks the power of LLMs on your device….LLM in a flash
• Foxconn: satellites are a smart hedging strategy
• Google makes bid to resolve competition concerns in Germany over its automotive services bundling
• Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down
• India boosts AI in weather forecasts as floods, droughts increase
• Beijing is moving to curb excessive spending on video games across the country, according to a new draft regulation
• Accenture chief says most companies not ready for AI rollout…Consultancy says lack of data capabilities or safety controls to hold back faster deployment
• AI generates proteins with exceptional binding strengths
• Midjourney V6 is here with in-image text and completely overhauled prompting
• US commits to landing an international astronaut on the Moon
• “…Despite having his laptop confiscated,  managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone…”
• The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024

Al is a brand-new dimension of work. pic.twitter.com/VBUTlrD05m

— Kpaxs (@Kpaxs) December 16, 2023

• Ben Evans: AI and everything else, presentation
• …Google’s plan to implement a new Tracking Protection feature in Chrome begins in January with the intention to completely disable third-party cookies in the second half of 2024
• Amazon’s Project Kuiper confirms its super-fast satellite communication tech works in space
• Production-Like Testing Environments in Software Development…why production-like testing environments can be critical for delivering high-quality, reliable software and how teams can detect and address issues early.
• Adobe Firefly
• Tesla to remote patch 2M vehicles
• Nvidia’s employees are suddenly so rich and happy that the company’s got a ‘semi retirement’ problem, insiders say
• Spotify confirms test of prompt-based AI playlists feature
• Top Business Leaders Pick the Year’s 62 Must-Reads
• “…NASA’s veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped transmitting engineering and science data back to Earth. The issue appears to be with the Flight Data System (FDS), which is not communicating correctly with one of the probe’s subsystems – the Telemetry Modulation Unit (TMU)…”
• Distributed Cloud Architecture for Resilient Systems
• Scaling an Engineering Org: A Journey Through Roles and Responsibilities

Tesla just introduced Optimus Gen-2, their most advanced humanoid robot yet.

Amongst the insanely smooth movement and sleek demo, the new Optimus has a 30% walk speed boost, and a whole lot more. pic.twitter.com/o4V19Z5w8R

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) December 13, 2023

• Google’s Gemini Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI…”…In reality, the demo also wasn’t carried out in real time or in voice…”
• The Frugal Architect
• AWS announced the general availability of S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-AZ storage class that provides single-digit millisecond data access
• While it’s true that 5G has actually arrived, the fantastic use cases we heard about years ago haven’t materialized
• Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack
• Apple Aims to Make a Quarter of the World’s iPhones in India
• Cybersecurity Futures 2030: New Foundations
• The Power of Storytelling in Cybersecurity Training
• The Long Road to Java Virtual Threads
• French AI start-up Mistral secures €2bn valuation
• Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $175 Billion or More in Tender Offer
• This German start-up can convert your petrol car into an EV in as little as 8 hours
• The Wall of Technical Debt
• Google launches NotebookLM powered by Gemini Pro, drops waitlist
• Crafting a compelling product vision |  Ebi Atawodi
• Cinnamon Auto-Tuner: Adaptive Concurrency in the Wild, netflix library
• Amazon’s humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost $3 per hour to operate.
• Reddit Recap: State of Mobile Platforms Edition (2023)
• 2024 Trends
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁

Dr. Werner Vogels at AWS re: Invent 2023 shared his view of the frugal architect.

He mentioned three pillars:

𝟭. 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻

𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: To balance features,… pic.twitter.com/omjhjKXE6J

— Dr Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) December 4, 2023

• Apple releases security updates for iOS, iPadOS and macOS, fixing two actively exploited zero-days
• AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more
• AWS Announces Amazon Q, a New Generative AI–Powered Assistant
• Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator
• AWS has announced the inclusion of IBM’s Db2 database — among the first relational databases on the market
• Build Resilient Applications by Simulating Outages with Azure Chaos Studio
• On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly $30M in revenue
• OpenAI Will Add Microsoft as Board Observer, Plans Governance Changes
• An In-Depth Exploration of REST, gRPC, and GraphQL in Web Projects
• Microsoft is in talks with partners about launching an Xbox mobile store
• Apple Pays Less Than 30 Cents in Royalties to Arm Per Chip
• Inside Apple’s chip lab, home to the most ‘profound change’ at the company in decades
• Global pay TV penetration to fall for the first time in 2024