• “…Google paid Apple $18B for search in 2021…”
• “X daily active users:…in September it has 245 million daily active users, lower than the 259.4 million figure Musk shared in November 2022…”
• Spotify is changing its royalty model
• Google expands its bug bounty program to target generative AI attacks
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• JPMorgan Says JPM Coin Now Handles $1 Billion Transactions Daily
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• SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA Psyche mission to metal asteroid
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• Adobe previews AI upscaling
• Microsoft is officially splitting from VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release

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• Amazon Prepares to Challenge SpaceX’s Starlink
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• QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 1: Architectures, Data Engineering, Infra Languages, Staff+ Skills
• QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 2: Design for Resilience, Platform Engineering, Modern ML, JVM Trends
• Sony’s high-bitrate movie service is now available on PS5 and PS4
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• Resharper 2023.2 Brings Predictive Debugger
• PayPay: QR the one to lighten SoftBank’s gloom
• Spotify pushes into audiobooks in challenge to Amazon’s Audible
• Spotify is adding auto-generated transcripts to millions of podcasts
• Python 3.12 new features
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• 2023 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report
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• The Raspberry Pi 5
• Jobs of Tomorrow: Large Language Models and Jobs
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• OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares
• OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture
• Meta: New AI Experiences Across Family of Apps and Devices
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• X (Twitter) has paid almost $20M to creators
• The race for semiconductor supremacy | FT Film
• First evidence of spinning black hole detected by scientists

• 49 Engineering blogs
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• Cisco to Buy Splunk for $28 Billion in Giant AI-Powered Data Bet
• Microsoft Copilot for Windows launches September 26th and unifies several formerly separate Copilot assistants.
• AI’s New Backer: Stablecoin Tether Makes A $420 Million Bet On Cloud GPUs
• GitLab: 2023 Global DevSecOps
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• Around the world, researchers are locked away in simulated space habitats in remote locations to see what it would be like to go to space for real
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• Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
• Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation
• Bun 1.0…Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It ships as a single executable called bun​.

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• Apple Taps New Chief for Team Developing Watch’s Glucose Tracker…”…Apple Inc. has named a new leader for its secret group working on a noninvasive blood sugar monitor, putting a veteran iPhone and Mac chip executive in charge of one of the company’s most ambitious forays into health technology…”
• Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
• “…Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature…”
• Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
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• DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.
• Revel, the car subscription startup from Spain, raises $123M to take its business up a gear
• AWS Lambda is deprecating the go1.x runtime
• Where is the global economy heading in 2024?
• Starlink, which relies on a satellite fleet to provide high-speed internet connections, reported $1.4 billion in revenue for 2022
• For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic
• Instacart aims for valuation of up to $10 billion in upcoming IPO
• Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan
• Amazon launches generative AI to help sellers write product descriptions
• Amazon Searches for Its Next Big Hit

• How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
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• Apple Renews Qualcomm Deal in Sign Its Own Modem Chip Isn’t Ready
• Apple inks new long-term deal with Arm for chip technology, according to filing
• Instacart targets up to $9.3 bln valuation
• iPhone 15’s shift to USB-C has hidden potential to streamline computing
• Guess who’s getting the world’s first self-sovereign national digital ID?
• An interpretable machine learning approach to multimodal stress detection in a simulated office environment
• Apple Event 2023: iPhone 15, new Apple Watches, and everything else to expect
• Nasdaq receives SEC approval for AI-based trade orders

• Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
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• Arm gets closer to creating full-blown server cpu designs
• Indeed’s CEO Wants to Create ‘Cyborg’ Recruiters Using AI
• OpenAI angles to put ChatGPT in classrooms with special tutor prompts
• Klarna’s Q2 results include profitable month as GMV continues growth streak
• Starfield review: Guns and ships galore, but a vacuum of wonder
• Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
• Apple to Buy TSMC’s Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023
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