• Apple announces sweeping EU App Store changes
• Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn
• Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4
• Google’s Project IDX brings Android and iOS simulators to the browser
• The Future of Global Fintech: Towards Resilient and Inclusive Growth
• AI and emerging technology at Davos 2024
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• “…“The GitHub token gave ‘unrestricted’ and ‘unmonitored’ access to the entire source code hosted at the internal GitHub Enterprise Server,” Mittal explained in a report shared by TechCrunch…”
• Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT
• Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
• Amazon released a new generative AI feature to answer shopper’s questions
• Stopping Uber Fraudsters Through Risk Challenges
• The Mac turns 40
• Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight
• Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028
• Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
• Discord Scales to 1 Million+ Online MidJourney Users in a Single Server

Visualizing a SQL query

SQL statements are executed by the database system in several steps, including:
– Parsing the SQL statement and checking its validity
– Transforming the SQL into an internal representation, such as relational algebra
– Optimizing the internal… pic.twitter.com/cfUnoWTDaV

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) January 25, 2024

• Scott Galloway – 2024 Predictions
• Apple begins selling Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature
• Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Launch With Netflix App
• Meituan Dips Below 2018 IPO Price as Selloff Reaches Extremes
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• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
• Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet
• Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuation
• Meta will have a stockpile of almost 600,000 GPUs by the end of 2024
• Microsoft is expanding its Copilot AI subscription for Office apps
• High-Level System Architecture of Booking.com
• OpenAI announces first partnership with a university
• Your Tablet’s Light Sensor Can Spy On You
• Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems

Took Apple less than a decade to rival Visa’s payment processing volume pic.twitter.com/0sfSc8MGdB

— rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg) January 17, 2024

• Presto at Uber
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• Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers
• Google reorganizing Pixel hardware
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• 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
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• 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

IKEA for Apple Vision Pro

That's what I expect! Beautiful new apps that are volumetric and actually useful in real life. I really hope that developers will be interested in making apps for visionOS and will delight us with their awesome ideas for this new platform.

Spatial… pic.twitter.com/D0pQYVG5sX

— Ben Geskin (@BenGeskin) January 10, 2024

• 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

Linux file system explained.

The Linux file system used to resemble an unorganized town where individuals constructed their houses wherever they pleased. However, in 1994, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) was introduced to bring order to the Linux file system.

By… pic.twitter.com/JKfsmMO4pN

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) January 5, 2024

• 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

TIL: AWS has 60,000 sales & marketing employees (~1/2 all AWS employees) pic.twitter.com/0cOjDGEYdu

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) December 20, 2023

• 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

Al is a brand-new dimension of work. pic.twitter.com/VBUTlrD05m

— Kpaxs (@Kpaxs) December 16, 2023

• 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

Tesla just introduced Optimus Gen-2, their most advanced humanoid robot yet.

Amongst the insanely smooth movement and sleek demo, the new Optimus has a 30% walk speed boost, and a whole lot more. pic.twitter.com/o4V19Z5w8R

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) December 13, 2023

• 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)
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁

Dr. Werner Vogels at AWS re: Invent 2023 shared his view of the frugal architect.

He mentioned three pillars:

𝟭. 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻

🔹 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: To balance features,… pic.twitter.com/omjhjKXE6J

— Dr Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) December 4, 2023

• 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