Weekly#559

  • OpenAI’s Sam Altman exits as CEO…for more updates https://twitter.com/karaswisher
  • Bill Gates: AI is about to completely change how you use computers
  • Engineering Blogs
  • AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods for first time
  • The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
  • Microsoft unveils the ‘Windows app’ for accessing Windows PCs in the cloud from any device
  • Amazon to sell cars online, starting with Hyundai
  • Microsoft renames Bing Chat to Copilot
  • Travel Planning With AI: I Tested It for a City I Know Inside and Out
  • AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods for first time… Research Article Link
  • Delivery Hero Global Hackathon 2023…The Price is Right’ Triumphs with AI-Powered Pricing Innovation
  • Real-Time Analytics for Mobile App Crashes using Apache Pinot
  • Microsoft Refreshes its Well-Architected Framework
  • Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention, by Neha Narkhede at QCon San Francisco
  • Everything you need to know about AI in 2023: the 6 must-read blogs
  • From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
  • Germany on Friday approved a litany of changes to its rules for stock-based compensation at tech startups
  • Noise-canceling headphones can filter specific sounds on command, thanks to deep learning
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Weekly#533

  • AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app
  • Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks (WSJ)
  • UK’s £1bn strategy for semiconductor industry lacks ambition, say critics
  • Amazon’s 100 drone deliveries puts Prime Air far behind Alphabet’s Wing and Walmart partner Zipline
  • YouTube 2023 Upfront: Platform to Launch Unskippable 30-Second Ads on TVs, Roger Goodell on Hand to Tout NFL Sunday Ticket Pact
  • Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range
  • Guardian has made significant improvements on push notifications
  • Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS
  • Learn x in y minutes for PL
  • An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute
  • Embracing chaos to develop resilience
  • DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
    • A new way to measure developer productivity – from the creators of DORA and SPACE
  • Teens Can Now Ride Ubers Solo With Supervised Accounts—and Parents’ Credit Cards…The app is granting 13- to 17-year-olds parent-supervised accounts for rides and food delivery
  • Disney World is shutting down its $2,500-a-night Star Wars-themed hotel
  • The amount of water stored in half of the largest lakes and reservoirs around the world is declining due to human activity and climate change, according to new research.
  • China’s semiconductor developers eye shift to RISC-V architecture amid growing chip demand in cars, data centres and AI, executive says
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Weekly#517

  • HBO’s ‘Succession’ Season 4 premieres on March 26
  • Intel posted a 32% year-over-year decline in revenue and a net loss of $644 million for the quarter
  • Report: Stripe tried to raise more funding at a $55B-$60B valuation
  • Uber Eats now shows you how much of your information is shared with delivery people
  • Evident, a benchmarking and intelligence company, says its inaugural Index can rank the 23 largest banks in North America and Europe on their competence in AI.
  • How Microsoft could use ChatGPT
  • Deepfakes for scrawl: With handwriting synthesis, no pen is necessary
  • Nvidia recently released a beta version of Eye Contact, an AI-powered software video feature that automatically maintains eye contact for you while on-camera by estimating and aligning gaze
  • AirPods are earplugs now
  • AI Developers Release Open-Source Implementations of ChatGPT Training Algorithm
  • Java Licensing Model
  • Performance Testing At Scale—for BFCM and Beyond
  • Google releases Flutter 3.7, teases future of app development framework

Weekly#511

  • The days are long but the decades are short
  • ChatGPT owner OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue by 2024
  • ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment / Benedict Evans
  • Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data
  • Apple preps for ‘third-party iOS app stores’ in Europe
  • GitLab Releases Single-Tenant SaaS Offering for Strict Security and Compliance
  • Kodama has raised more than $6 million from Bill Gates’ climate fund and other investors, as it pursues new ways to reduce wildfire risks and lock away carbon in harvested trees.
  • Accenture shares 9 cybersecurity predictions for 2023
  • Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training
  • Jamming and spoofing attacks can cripple GPS connections entirely or make something appear in the wrong location, causing disruption and safety issues
  • Apple has Won a Patent relating to possible future Satellite Services beyond the iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS Satellite Service
  • Sony camera sensors in iPhone
  • Bob Iger vs. Bob Chapek
  • Java InfoQ Trends Report – December 2022
  • MacOS 9 in browser
  • Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
  • The state of AI in 2022—and a half decade in review / McKinsey
  • Microsoft to take 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group (FT)
  • The evolution of fraud (FT)
  • Microsoft Tops the Best-Managed Companies of 2022…Drucker Institute’s annual Management Top 250 rankings (WSJ)
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Weekly#506

  • Twitter reactivated the ‘Official’ gray check for accounts that are actually verified
  • Amazon introduces ‘Sparrow’ robotic arm that can do repetitive warehouse tasks
  • Amazon’s ad revenue surpassed the money it makes from Prime, Prime Video, and its other audio and e-book subscriptions combined…Successful sellers have to spend anywhere between 10 percent and 20 percent of their sales on Amazon ads.
  • Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter
  • SoftBank Vision Fund Loses $7.2 Billion on Tech Writedowns
  • Debezium Releases Version 2.0 of Its Change Data Capture Tooldetails
  • Starlink announces 1TB monthly cap, users who go over will get slower speeds
  • Spotify is the first to launch non-Google Android billing in the US
  • …The latest Drewry composite World Container Index — a key benchmark for container prices — has fallen again to $2,773 per 40-foot container. That’s 73% lower than the peak rate in September last year
  • …Today, Spotify has more than 80 million tracks available to users to stream. In its most recent earnings report, the company touted its 456 million active users with 195 million paid subscribers across 183 markets
  • Apple’s Web Search Technology Chief Returns to Google
  • How reliant are banks and insurers on cloud outsourcing? (2020)
  • Chris Rock is set to be the first to perform live on Netflix
  • Meet Pineapple, the platform aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z
  • SoftBank, NEC, Sony, Toyota + more team up for Rapidus, Japan’s bid for next-gen chip domination
  • GitHub teases new Copilot feature that lets developers code with their voice
  • Apple limits AirDrop ‘Everyone’ option to 10 minutes in China
  • Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system
  • Consumer trends in digital payments
  • 2012 to 2022: What a decade of insights has taught us
  • High-Tech Cars Are Killing the Auto Repair Shop
  • 17 DevOps Metrics You Should Be Tracking
  • Studio Ghibli is teaming up with Lucasfilm
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Weekly#497

  • Apple Event: Everything Unveiled from iPhone 14 to Apple Watch 8
  • iOS 16 launches September 12
  • Steve Jobs archive
  • Predictive Maintenance: Developed by New York-based startup Augury Inc., the technology has helped Frito-Lay add some 4,000 hours a year of manufacturing capacity—the equivalent of several million pounds of snacks coming off the production line (WSJ)
  • Stanford classes on crypto
  • Microsoft invests in Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens start-up (FT)
  • AWS Compute Cost Calculator
  • ‘We don’t have enough’ lithium globally to meet EV targets
  • Google upgrades its Apple AirDrop competitor ‘Nearby Share’ and five other Android updates
  • Spotify exec says the company will begin testing audiobooks ‘very soon
  • Mercedes-Benz and Rivian partner to jointly build electric vans in Europe
  • US state of Virginia has more datacenter capacity than Europe or China
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