Weekly#567

  • Presto at Uber
  • Evolution of Ads Conversion Optimization Models at Pinterest
  • Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers
  • Google reorganizing Pixel hardware
  • How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority
  • How virtualisation came to Apple silicon Macs
  • 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
  • Global Risk Report 2024
  • Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024
  • Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth
  • Vector Databases
  • X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024
  • Music streams hit 4 trillion in 2023
  • HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks
  • Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations

Weekly#566

  • Lesson #24:  favorite engineering management tools
  • Design Startup InVision, Once Valued at $2B, Is Shutting Down
  • Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China Due to Autopilot Crash Risk
  • OpenAI to Launch Online Store for Custom Versions of ChatGPT Next Week
  • Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years
  • RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth
  • 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
  • Here’s how HSBC’s international payments app Zing compares to Wise and Revolut
  • New Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape
  • AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers
  • Google is preparing a paid version of Bard
  • Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search
  • Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
  • How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now

Weekly#565

  • OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion
  • Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS
  • “Figma…The AI can summarize your digital stickies and suggest next steps, and Jambot can rewrite meeting notes into the form of an email to a product manager…”
  • SpaceX came close to 100 launches in 2023
  • Microsoft disables MSIX protocol handler abused in malware attacks
  • How AI-created fakes are taking business from online influencers
  • AI stethoscope…The tool has been licensed by medical regulators
  • Volkswagen-backed JAC Yiwei EV powered by sodium-ion battery starts mass production in China
  • The AI revolution’s first year: has anything changed?
  • The Skills Revolution and the Future of Learning and Earning
  • Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit
  • Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles
  • uVitals – An Anomaly Detection & Alerting System
  • The Art of HPC
  • Microservices Resilient Testing Framework
  • How Did Companies Use Generative AI in 2023? Here’s a Look at Five Early Adopters

Weekly#564

  • Practitioner’s Guide to Security-First Design
  • “…In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface—the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows…The second big surprise came just last year. I’d been meeting with the team from OpenAI” Bill Gates
  • Revolut Issues Delayed Accounts to Bring UK Bank License Closer
  • Vision Pro production moving at full speed, February launch planned
  • Work Shift: What the Office Will Look Like in 2024
  • Speaking Gen Z: How banks can attract young customers
  • Fintech’s biggest hits and misses of 2023
  • Get ready for smarter iPhones: Apple unlocks the power of LLMs on your device….LLM in a flash
  • Foxconn: satellites are a smart hedging strategy
  • Google makes bid to resolve competition concerns in Germany over its automotive services bundling
  • Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down
  • India boosts AI in weather forecasts as floods, droughts increase
  • Beijing is moving to curb excessive spending on video games across the country, according to a new draft regulation
  • Accenture chief says most companies not ready for AI rollout…Consultancy says lack of data capabilities or safety controls to hold back faster deployment
  • AI generates proteins with exceptional binding strengths
  • Midjourney V6 is here with in-image text and completely overhauled prompting
  • US commits to landing an international astronaut on the Moon
  • “…Despite having his laptop confiscated,  managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone…”
  • The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024

Weekly#563

  • Ben Evans: AI and everything else, presentation
  • …Google’s plan to implement a new Tracking Protection feature in Chrome begins in January with the intention to completely disable third-party cookies in the second half of 2024
  • Amazon’s Project Kuiper confirms its super-fast satellite communication tech works in space
  • Production-Like Testing Environments in Software Development…why production-like testing environments can be critical for delivering high-quality, reliable software and how teams can detect and address issues early.
  • Adobe Firefly
  • Tesla to remote patch 2M vehicles
  • Nvidia’s employees are suddenly so rich and happy that the company’s got a ‘semi retirement’ problem, insiders say
  • Spotify confirms test of prompt-based AI playlists feature
  • Top Business Leaders Pick the Year’s 62 Must-Reads
  • “…NASA’s veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped transmitting engineering and science data back to Earth. The issue appears to be with the Flight Data System (FDS), which is not communicating correctly with one of the probe’s subsystems – the Telemetry Modulation Unit (TMU)…”
  • Distributed Cloud Architecture for Resilient Systems
  • Scaling an Engineering Org: A Journey Through Roles and Responsibilities

Weekly#562

  • Google’s Gemini Looks Remarkable, But It’s Still Behind OpenAI…”…In reality, the demo also wasn’t carried out in real time or in voice…”
  • The Frugal Architect
  • AWS announced the general availability of S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-AZ storage class that provides single-digit millisecond data access
  • While it’s true that 5G has actually arrived, the fantastic use cases we heard about years ago haven’t materialized
  • Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack
  • Apple Aims to Make a Quarter of the World’s iPhones in India
  • Cybersecurity Futures 2030: New Foundations
  • The Power of Storytelling in Cybersecurity Training
  • The Long Road to Java Virtual Threads
  • French AI start-up Mistral secures €2bn valuation
  • Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $175 Billion or More in Tender Offer
  • This German start-up can convert your petrol car into an EV in as little as 8 hours
  • The Wall of Technical Debt
  • Google launches NotebookLM powered by Gemini Pro, drops waitlist
  • Crafting a compelling product vision |  Ebi Atawodi
  • Cinnamon Auto-Tuner: Adaptive Concurrency in the Wild, netflix library
  • Amazon’s humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost $3 per hour to operate.
  • Reddit Recap: State of Mobile Platforms Edition (2023)
  • 2024 Trends

Weekly#561

  • Apple releases security updates for iOS, iPadOS and macOS, fixing two actively exploited zero-days
  • AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more
  • AWS Announces Amazon Q, a New Generative AI–Powered Assistant
  • Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator
  • AWS has announced the inclusion of IBM’s Db2 database — among the first relational databases on the market
  • Build Resilient Applications by Simulating Outages with Azure Chaos Studio
  • On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly $30M in revenue
  • OpenAI Will Add Microsoft as Board Observer, Plans Governance Changes
  • An In-Depth Exploration of REST, gRPC, and GraphQL in Web Projects
  • Microsoft is in talks with partners about launching an Xbox mobile store
  • Apple Pays Less Than 30 Cents in Royalties to Arm Per Chip
  • Inside Apple’s chip lab, home to the most ‘profound change’ at the company in decades
  • Global pay TV penetration to fall for the first time in 2024

Weekly#560

  • Anthropic Announces Claude 2.1 with Wider Context Window and Support for Tools
  • Nvidia beats TSMC and Intel to take top chip industry revenue crown for the first time
  • Korea to pilot digital currency with 100,000 citizens next year
  • Mockingjay: The Ultimate Mock Server Secrets Revealed for Mobile Apps
  • Shaping the Future of Cross-Border Fast Payment Systems: Revolutionizing Transactions inSouth-East Asia
  • Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board
  • Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now answer questions about YouTube videos
  • Apple’s Objective-C ‘appears to be reaching its end of life’ – or so says JetBrains survey
  • Visa/Mastercard: threat from open banking remains remote…Visa and Mastercard process $25tn of volumes annually
  • What is OpenAI, Really?

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

Weekly#558

  • Humane’s Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day
  • Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
  • “Call of Duty has generated more than $30 billion in revenue over the last two decades…The latest entry in Activision Blizzard’s popular Call of Duty video-game series was made in half the time of previous iterations, a fact that may be contributing to a spate of bad reviews about the game’s storyline, according to people familiar with the development process.”
  • Unity shares slide as the company posts a revenue miss and skips guidance
  • “…Two of tech’s largest players, Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., are testing a feature that lets shoppers buy Amazon products directly from ads on Instagram and Facebook…”
  • Amazon is building an alternative OS for Fire TVs, other devices
  • One year later: What Bob Iger’s return has done for Disney
  • Qualcomm-Iridium Deal to Bring Satellite Connectivity to Phones Collapses
  • Central Bank digital currencies
  • Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • Microsoft plans to bring its AI Copilot to 1 billion Windows 10 users