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Weekly#574

  • Smartphone makers are dreaming of a ‘supercycle’ driven by AI. Analysts disagree
  • Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them
  • Chip giant TSMC opens first Japan factory as it diversifies away from Taiwan
  • First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface…more commercial era for space exploration
  • Uber’s CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency
  • Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding
  • Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users
  • Photomath is officially Google’s latest app on the Play Store
  • Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language
  • An AI system that offers emotional support via chat
  • GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak
  • “…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).”
  • Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future
  • Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
  • Search suggestions in Chrome
  • Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed
  • “…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…”
  • “…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…”
  • The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to science
  • Will NASA be able to return Mars samples to Earth? New audit raises doubts
  • Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio

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