Weekly#574

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  • Smartphone makers are dreaming of a ‘supercycle’ driven by AI. Analysts disagree cnbc.com
  • Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them theverge.com
  • Chip giant TSMC opens first Japan factory as it diversifies away from Taiwan cnbc.com
  • First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface…more commercial era for space exploration scientificamerican.com
  • Uber’s CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency infoq.com
  • Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding cnbc.com
  • Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users techcrunch.com
  • Photomath is officially Google’s latest app on the Play Store 9to5google.com
  • Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language infoq.com
  • An AI system that offers emotional support via chat techxplore.com
  • GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak bleepingcomputer.com
  • “…Just a decade ago, data centers drew 10 megawatts of power, but 100 megawatts is common today…enough to power around 80,000 U.S. households (U.S. DOE 2020).” nytimes.com
  • Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future techcrunch.com
  • Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention infoq.com
  • Search suggestions in Chrome techcrunch.com
  • Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed techcrunch.com
  • “…Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way…” wired.com
  • “…Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog…” arstechnica.com
  • The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to science sciencenews.org
  • Will NASA be able to return Mars samples to Earth? New audit raises doubts space.com
  • Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio cnbc.com
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