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Weekly#551

  • 49 Engineering blogs
  • Enabling Rate Limits using Envoy
  • Curated list of microservices patterns
  • Amazon to Run Ads on Prime Video in Key Markets Starting in 2024
  • Unity’s updated Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games made on Unity Personal, and will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity
  • 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
  • CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
  • 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
  • What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?
  • What’s New in the 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
  • 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​.

Weekly#550

  • 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
  • If you’d bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you’d now have $147,000
  • The SoftBank-backed company that lets you buy glasses over WhatsApp
  • 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

Weekly#549

  • How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
  • MLEnv: Standardizing ML at Pinterest Under One ML Engine to Accelerate Innovation
  • 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

Weekly#548

  • Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
  • EMEA Data Centre Report Q2 2023
  • 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
  • Multi-layered calendars
  • Banking on Status
  • Generative AI and intellectual property
  • sketchplanations.com
  • Goodhart’s Law

Weekly#547

  • New York Times, CNN and Australia’s ABC block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing content
  • ARM IPO F-1 document
  • Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change
  • What prevents search orgs from being successful?
  • First Pass Ranker and Ad Retrieval, Ad Level Optimization for Reddit Ads
  • “…In 2022, AirPods reportedly brought in $14.5 billion in revenue. Assuming a 50% profit margin, that’s over $7 billion in profit just from a single product. To put this into perspective, AirPods is more profitable than Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Snapchat and eBay. Combined…”
  • AI-powered brain implants help paralyzed patients communicate faster than ever
  • California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems…New system scans over 1,000 cameras for signs of smoke—with 77 hits so far.
  • Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn…The average critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail is 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius).
  • Drought affecting Panama Canal threatens 40% of world’s cargo ship traffic
  • Nvidia press release announcing the company’s financial results, which include a quarterly revenue of $13.51 billion, up 101 percent from a year ago and 88 percent from the previous quarter.
  • Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

Weekly#546

  • “…Some of the world’s biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle to consumer goods multinational Unilever, are experimenting with using generative AI software like ChatGPT and DALL-E to cut costs and increase productivity, executives say…”
  • What Is FraudGPT?
  • SoftBank is currently in talks to list Arm at a valuation of $60 billion to $70 billion in the IPO, which is expected to happen in September
  • Best Books for Software Engineering Leaders
  • Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia’s H100 chips
  • OpenAI said it had acquired digital products company Global Illumination, in what comes as the first known acquisition by the storied artificial intelligence firm
  • SpaceX Targets $150 Billion Valuation
  • Neuroscientists decode song from brain recordings, revealing areas dealing with rhythm and vocals

Weekly#545

  • Blackhat 2023
  • Analyzing the Security of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
  • Ai4 2023 Day One Main Stage Recap
  • Ai4 2023 Day Two Main Stage Recap
  • China’s internet giants order $5 bln of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions
  • Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Project Worldcoin Is Having An Identity Crisis
  • To disallow GPTBot to access your site
  • Zoom Ends No-Meeting Wednesday Policy, Calling It ‘Barrier to Collaboration’
  • “…Once again we can learn about IT strategy and architecture from popular culture: the engine room matters…”
  • Volume Down, Subtitles On: 51% of Us Read Along With Our Favorite Shows
  • Anthropic launches improved version of its entry-level LLM
  • Jeli is bringing generative AI to incident report analysis
  • July was world’s hottest month on record, climate scientists confirm
  • Video calls are coming to X, formerly Twitter, CEO confirms

Weekly#544

  • Claimed superconductor LK-99 is an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short
  • Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood
  • Qualcomm, NXP Team Up to Develop Rival to Arm Chip Standard
  • Apple Tops 1 Billion Paid Subscriptions, Services Revenue Climbs to Record $21.2 Billion in June Quarter
  • AWS segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $22.1 billion…Amazon’s online advertising unit just brought in over $10 billion in the second quarter
  • Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI
  • Spotify introduces new product to help software development teams with A/B testing
  • The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber’s Tech-Wide Hackathon
  • Uber reports first quarterly operating profit in Q2 2023 results
  • Google is offering an on-campus hotel ‘special’ to help lure workers back to the office
  • Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles by Targeting One Platform
  • Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online
  • How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?
  • Google Cloud Skills Boost – generative AI courses
  • Introduction to Generative AI
  • Introduction to Large Language Models
  • Transformer Models and BERT Model
  • Introduction to Image Generation
  • Building Generative AI Applications with Gradio
  • Generative AI with Large Language Models

Weekly#543

  • Google Engineering Practices Documentation
  • Code Review Developer Guide
  • Ben Evans: AI and the automation of work
  • Cannes Ad Archive
  • Evliya Celebi – Book of Travel on google maps
  • AMD ‘Zenbleed’ Bug Leaks Data From Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4
  • AI Is Rewriting the Rules of $200 Billion Games Industry
  • Spotify forecasts 572 million active users for its third quarter, 224 million of them premium subscribers
  • Voicebox: The first generative AI model for speech to generalize across tasks
  • Sony has sold 40 million PS5s
  • Meta’s Reality Labs has now lost more than $21 billion since the beginning of last year
  • Intel jumps 7% as it returns to profitability after two quarters of losses
  • Stack Overflow saw a 14% drop in traffic month over month from March to April 2023…Stack Overflow unveils OverflowAI and VS Code add-in
  • Titanium Clouds Engulf This Ultrahot Neptune-like Planet
  • The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
  • NASA+ is the space agency’s very own streaming platform
  • Apple cracking down on ‘fingerprinting’ with new App Store API rules
  • Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI
  • a16z-backed Rewind launches an iPhone app to help you remember everything
  • Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time
  • How the Partnership Between Apple and Goldman Sachs Soured

Weekly#542

  • Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications
  • Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription“…It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions…”
  • Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk
  • Tractable snaps up $65M led by SoftBank for car and property damage appraisals using AI
  • Nvidia nears deal for stake in Lambda Labs – report
  • US government launches the Cyber Trust Mark, its long-awaited IoT security labeling program
  • Microsoft launches vector search in preview, voice cloning in general availability
  • Tesla launches ‘Charge on Solar’ to charge your cars with sunshine“…Your vehicle will charge from solar and the grid when your current charge level is below the left sun slider. After your vehicle’s charge level passes the sun slider, your vehicle automatically switches to only charge on excess solar up to your charge limit…”
  • “Telecom Italia…about 25 years ago a group of executives from the carrier flew to California to meet Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with an audacious plan to buy the tech company at a time it was struggling to make headway against rivals like International Business Machines Corp…”
  • Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October
  • “…The newest feature of ChatGPT…It’s called “custom instructions,” and it gives you a place to tell your chatbot the things it should always know about you and how you’d like it to respond to your questions. …It should be particularly helpful on mobile devices…”
  • GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
  • Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work
  • Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. Mojo programming manual
  • “…As of May 2023, around 440 nuclear reactors were operating in 33 countries with a capacity of 390GWe, according to the World Nuclear Association, while a further 60 power reactors are being constructed in 15 countries including China, India and Russia…”
  • Sergey Brin Is Back in the Trenches at Google
  • NASA’s Psyche Mission Enters Home Stretch Before Launch
  • Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month