• Istio from A to Y
• AI Agentic 101: Understanding Artificial Intelligence Agents
• Crowstrike BSOD, Reddit Thread
• “…Just 15 companies worldwide account for 62 per cent of the market in cyber security products and services, according to SecurityScorecard…”
• Britain’s new government aims to regulate most powerful AI models
• Microsoft 365 remains ‘degraded’ as Azure outage resolved
• OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini
• Mistral NeMo
• Meta won’t release its multimodal Llama AI model in the EU
• The rise and fall of software developer jobs
• Navigating the LLM Landscape

• Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers
• Meta Platforms To Release Largest Llama 3 Model on July 23
• SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore in AI push
• Open AI – AI Stages
  • Level 1: Chatbots, AI with conversational language
  • Level 2: Reasoners, human-level problem solving
  • Level 3: Agents, systems that can take actions
  • Level 4: Innovators, AI that can aid in invention
  • Level 5: Organizations, AI that can do the work of an organization
• Strategic Inflection Point
• Pluto’s not coming back, but astronomers want to redefine planets again
• Optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta
• Apple settles EU case by opening its iPhone payment system to rivals
• Arm’s new graphics upscaler is like DLSS for smartphone gaming
• Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Cross 500,000 Sales This Year, IDC Says

• Cloudflare rolls out feature for blocking AI companies’ web scrapers
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
• In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service
• Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan
• Figma disables its AI design feature
• A new initiative for developing third-party model evaluations
• New AI hype alert: Cost-free knowledge
• Mary Meeker: AI and higher education to be partners
• Amazon is planning to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on data centers
• Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber
• Mechanical Computer Relies On Kirigami Cubes, Not Electronics
• Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024
• What are AI agents?

• Five new ways to catch gravitational waves
• Mastering System Design: A Comprehensive Guide to System Scaling for Millions ( Part 1 | Part2 )
• AI is already wreaking havoc on global power systems…By 2034, global energy consumption by data centers is expected to top 1,580 TWh, about as much as is used by all of India.
• AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload
• How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
• Report: Department of Homeland Security Report on Reducing the Risks at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence
• “…Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key – a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content…”
• Apple Vision Pro Launches in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore
• Hebbia raises nearly $100M Series B for AI-powered document search led by Andreessen Horowitz
• Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages
• Fujifilm once struggled to sell cameras. Now, it can’t keep up with demand
• McDonald’s says no thanks to plant-based burgers
• DNA-based bacterial parasite uses completely new DNA-editing method
• Out of Sight, ‘Dark Fungi’ Run the World from the Shadows
• From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts
• Code Galaxies

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— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) December 29, 2023

Today we’re announcing Meta LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Meta Code Llama with additional code optimization and compiler capabilities. These models can emulate the compiler, predict optimal passes for code size, and disassemble code. They can be fine-tuned for new… pic.twitter.com/GFDZDbZ1VF

— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) June 27, 2024

• Boost Your Android App’s Performance with Baseline Profiles
• Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet
• Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness”: AI from now to 2034
• Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership
• Responsible AI Playbook for Investors
• Batteries as a military enabler
• Apple Announces its First AI Code Generation Model, Swift Assist

• Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash
• Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step
• Hackers last week brought down the trust’s pathology services provider
• The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip…This phenomenon happens roughly every 11 years
• NVIDIA Warp
• Amazon will spend $230 million on generative AI startups
• Mars astronauts may require kidney dialysis on return
• Kubernetes is ten years old
• Sleep deprivation disrupts memory: here’s why
• Chief Asia Officer (in Turkish)
• Oracle Is Shutting Down Its Ad Business
• Norway discovers Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals
• SoftBank’s new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone

Top 5 common ways to improve API performance.

Result Pagination:
This method is used to optimize large result sets by streaming them back to the client, enhancing service responsiveness and user experience.

Asynchronous Logging:
This approach involves sending logs to a… pic.twitter.com/O23WPlVHCt

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) June 14, 2024

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— Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson) June 13, 2024

• The Simple Macroeconomics of AI, Daron Acemoglu
• HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic
• “…OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Helion to get access to the startup’s not-yet-possible nuclear fusion-driven electricity generators…”
• Cloud Efficiency Rate
• Managing Architectural Tech Debt
• 16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI
• Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and beyond
• Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event
• Developers of mini apps on Telegram will now be able to sell digital goods and services
• Apple will support the latest iPhones for at least five years
• Nearly all of Apple’s newest iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs have an unannounced Thread radio on board
• Rene Haas: ‘Arm has the most ubiquitous computer architecture on the planet’

• Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5 billion buyout
• Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram
• OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Edu, a specialized version for universities
• “…In less than four years of its life cycle, PlayStation 5 generated $106 billion in revenue. That is almost on par with what PS4 made over the seven years of its console generation — $107 billion…”
• ElevenLabs moves beyond speech with AI-generated Sound Effects
• Swedish climate-focused financial technology startup Doconomy
• CO2.js Helps Developers Track Their Application’s Carbon Footprint
• Apple Plans AI-Based Siri Overhaul to Control Individual App Functions
• MongoDB quarter outlook
• “…Alzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds…New research shows that people who develop dementia often begin falling behind on bills years earlier…”
• Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape
• Engineering for Slow Internet…How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica
• Feature Flags for Coordinated Spring API and Mobile App Rollouts
• Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Startup Signs Major Data Center Contract
• Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus
• Testing sync at Dropbox
• Saudi Fund Joins $400 Million Financing for China AI Firm Zhipu
• Five Levels Of AI Agents

• “…Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have held discussions with major Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in the tech giants’ artificial intelligence video generation software, according to people familiar with the matter…”
• Nvidia Company Overview
• When Online Content Disappears: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
• Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence
• On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests
• SEC approves 8 Ethereum ETFs including BlackRock and Fidelity
• Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
• New technique to freeze brain tissue without harm
• Reskilling Revolution: Preparing 1 billion people for tomorrow’s economy
• TIOBE Index for May 2024
• Vector DB Comparison
• How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe

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— Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam) May 24, 2024

Explaining 9 types of API testing.

🔹 Smoke Testing
This is done after API development is complete. Simply validate if the APIs are working and nothing breaks.

🔹 Functional Testing
This creates a test plan based on the functional requirements and compares the results with the… pic.twitter.com/KCyHF2uZda

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) May 22, 2024