2024

• Apple announces sweeping EU App Store changes axios.com
• Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn ft.com
• Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4 9to5mac.com
• Google’s Project IDX brings Android and iOS simulators to the browser 9to5google.com
• The Future of Global Fintech: Towards Resilient and Inclusive Growth www3.weforum.org
• AI and emerging technology at Davos 2024 weforum.org
• Future of cities and local economies at Davos 2024 weforum.org
• “…“The GitHub token gave ‘unrestricted’ and ‘unmonitored’ access to the entire source code hosted at the internal GitHub Enterprise Server,” Mittal explained in a report shared by TechCrunch…” techcrunch.com
• Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT techcrunch.com
• Apple opens App Store to game streaming services theverge.com
• Amazon released a new generative AI feature to answer shopper’s questions qz.com
• Stopping Uber Fraudsters Through Risk Challenges uber.com
• The Mac turns 40 theverge.com
• Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight bbc.com
• Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 bloomberg.com
• Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0 infoq.com
• Discord Scales to 1 Million+ Online MidJourney Users in a Single Server infoq.com

Visualizing a SQL query

SQL statements are executed by the database system in several steps, including:
– Parsing the SQL statement and checking its validity
– Transforming the SQL into an internal representation, such as relational algebra
– Optimizing the internal… pic.twitter.com/cfUnoWTDaV

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) January 25, 2024

• Scott Galloway – 2024 Predictions medium.com
• Apple begins selling Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature 9to5mac.com
• Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Launch With Netflix App bloomberg.com
• Meituan Dips Below 2018 IPO Price as Selloff Reaches Extremes bloomberg.com
• Circle (or highlight or scribble) to Search blog.google
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 technologyreview.com
• Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet theregister.com
• Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuation techcrunch.com
• Meta will have a stockpile of almost 600,000 GPUs by the end of 2024 theverge.com
• Microsoft is expanding its Copilot AI subscription for Office apps qz.com
• High-Level System Architecture of Booking.com medium.com
• OpenAI announces first partnership with a university cnbc.com
• Your Tablet’s Light Sensor Can Spy On You spectrum.ieee.org
• Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems technologyreview.com

Took Apple less than a decade to rival Visa’s payment processing volume pic.twitter.com/0sfSc8MGdB

— rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg) January 17, 2024

• Presto at Uber uber.com
• Evolution of Ads Conversion Optimization Models at Pinterest medium.com
• Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers cnbc.com
• Google reorganizing Pixel hardware 9to5google.com
• How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority bloomberg.com
• How virtualisation came to Apple silicon Macs eclecticlight.co
• Kuo: Apple Will Only Produce Up to 80,000 Vision Pro Headsets for Launch
• Apple Vision Pro ordering process: iPhone or iPad with Face ID needed, ‘valid, unexpired prescription’ for optical inserts 9to5mac.com
• Global Risk Report 2024 www3.weforum.org
• Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024 www3.weforum.org
• Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth theregister.com
• Vector Databases tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com
• X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024 forbes.com
• Music streams hit 4 trillion in 2023 apnews.com
• HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks businesswire.com
• Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations theverge.com

IKEA for Apple Vision Pro

That's what I expect! Beautiful new apps that are volumetric and actually useful in real life. I really hope that developers will be interested in making apps for visionOS and will delight us with their awesome ideas for this new platform.

Spatial… pic.twitter.com/D0pQYVG5sX

— Ben Geskin (@BenGeskin) January 10, 2024

• Lesson #24:  favorite engineering management tools engineeringleadership.xyz
• Design Startup InVision, Once Valued at $2B, Is Shutting Down theinformation.com
• Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China Due to Autopilot Crash Risk bloomberg.com
• OpenAI to Launch Online Store for Custom Versions of ChatGPT Next Week bloomberg.com
• Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years theverge.com
• RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth theregister.com
• Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s…Musk has previously said SpaceX might need 1,000 Starships to enable regular flights back and forth between Earth and Mars, and SpaceX would need to build one per week arstechnica.com
• Here’s how HSBC’s international payments app Zing compares to Wise and Revolut techcrunch.com
• New Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape nytimes.com
• AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers theregister.com
• Google is preparing a paid version of Bard androidpolice.com
• Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search wsj.com
• Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter gamingonlinux.com
• How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now theverge.com

Linux file system explained.

The Linux file system used to resemble an unorganized town where individuals constructed their houses wherever they pleased. However, in 1994, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) was introduced to bring order to the Linux file system.

By… pic.twitter.com/JKfsmMO4pN

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) January 5, 2024