Weekly#585

GPT-4o blog post, Sam Altman’s blog post
Google I/O 2024 recap
iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before
ChatGPT now lets you import files directly from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive
Hong Kong Officially Launches Digital Yuan Payments Pilot
Hugging Face to make $10M worth of old Nvidia GPUs freely available to AI devs
VMware Fusion Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use
Microservices Design Patterns for Highly Resilient Architecture
Advanced Linux Troubleshooting Techniques for Site Reliability Engineers
Hugging Face Unveils LeRobot, an Open-Source Machine Learning Model for Robotics
Critical minerals problem
Strategic Cybersecurity Talent Framework
Shaping the Future of Learning: The Role of AI in Education 4.0
Realizing the Potential of Global Digital Jobs

Weekly#584

Big Tech companies sign CISA pledge to improve security practices
Google DeepMind’s new AI predicts how the molecules of life interact…that could open roads to new drugs or more resilient crops.
Moving from DynamoDB to tiered storage with MySQL+S3
Cloud Egress Costs Compared
Cloud Native AI (PDF)
OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday
Apple Event Summary
‘Warp drives’ may actually be possible someday
John Ternus emerging as most likely successor to Tim Cook as Apple CEO
WhatsApp officially rolling out update with refreshed design for iOS and Android
Google’s Sundar Pichai Lays Out His AI Roadmap
Jevons paradox
Elvish: scripting language
Meta Releases Llama 3 Open-Source LLM
Half grain-sized brain tissue with 1400 TB data mapped by Harvard, Google
NASA’s Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months
Microsoft is launching a mobile game store, taking on Apple and Google

Inside the AI research boom…The state of global AI research
How transcripts in Apple Podcasts became a time-saving killer feature
Apple announces Q2 2024 earnings, slightly beating expectations with $90.75 billion revenue
Governance as Code: An Innovative Approach to Software Architecture Verification
“…Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella was scheduled to send a companywide email Friday outlining the new measures and reinforcing the notion that security is “job #1…”
Global Smartphone Market Grows 6% YoY in Q1 2024
Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time
Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $76 billion during Q1 2024, up by $13.5 billion
How To Use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Go Applications
Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation