• 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)
• 2024 Trends
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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

• 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?

Just discovered, silently, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8gen 3 already supported 10b language model running locally on your smartphone.

Guess it may not be too far away from having a GPT-4 quality model locally in your pocket 🤔 pic.twitter.com/jvZl3wfwPW

— Yao Fu (@Francis_YAO_) November 24, 2023

• 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

David Attenborough is now narrating my life

Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabsio python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth: pic.twitter.com/desTwTM7RS

— Charlie Holtz (@charliebholtz) November 15, 2023

• 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

Embrace the 'Schutlz Hour'!

Protect one hour each week for quiet reflection to think about the strategic aspects of your job.

As George Shultz stated, "the only way to do great work, in any field, is to find time to consider the larger questions."

🔗 https://t.co/Ka0G8LswC6 pic.twitter.com/YbRizAhMc9

— Kpaxs (@Kpaxs) November 2, 2023

GET, POST, PUT, DELETE… A list of common HTTP “verbs” in one diagram. The method to download the high-resolution PDF is available at the end.

1. HTTP GET
This retrieves a resource from the server. It is idempotent. Multiple identical requests return the same result.

2. HTTP… pic.twitter.com/aqBavjhFED

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) November 6, 2023

• What If Your EV Could Power Your Home During a Blackout?
• Apple reports fourth quarter results
• Obama reading list on AI
• Boox’s latest e-readers combine quiet, compact styles with big customization
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Bets AI Will Shake Up Scientific Research
• Rocket Lab targets late 2024 for private Venus mission launch
• ChatGPT: Timeline
• Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users
• Joe Rogan’s big decision
• Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
• The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
• Apple CEO Tim Cook says AI is a fundamental technology, confirms investments in generative AI
• Deft is building e-commerce search to help you find the right product quickly
• DoorDash adds new safety tools for its delivery people, including ‘driving insights
• Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM’
• Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm
• NASA just patched Voyager 2’s software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite
• Disney to acquire remaining stake in Hulu for expected $8.6 billion
• LinkedIn hits 1 billion members
• Apache Pulsar – Cloud-Native, Distributed Messaging and Streaming

In 2008, Google Maps launched in India.

But we quickly ran into a problem:

Nobody used street names.

And street names were the foundation of Google Maps.

The team had to make some big adaptations.

15 years later, the changes have stood the test of time.

Here's how the team… pic.twitter.com/YfxzxzdyxB

— Elizabeth Laraki (@elizlaraki) October 31, 2023

Proxy Vs reverse proxy

A forward proxy is a server that sits between user devices and the internet. A forward proxy is commonly used for:
– Protect clients
– Avoid browsing restrictions
– Block access to certain content

A reverse proxy is a server that accepts a request from… pic.twitter.com/lG7NtXwrCZ

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) October 29, 2023

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁-𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Long Polling, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events (SSE) are different techniques to implement real-time communication between a client (typically a web browser) and… pic.twitter.com/V7LNpI0lQw

— Dr. Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) November 5, 2023

• “…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
• IBM software sales up 8% as the company beats on top and bottom lines
• Magic Leap Taps New CEO to Lead Augmented-Reality Headset Maker
• Apple Adds Delivery Metrics to Its Push Notification Console
• Job titles of the future: carbon accountant
• How Ads on Your Phone Can Aid Government Surveillance
• The restaurant nearest Google
• Google Maps is getting new AI-powered search updates, an enhanced navigation interface and more
• JPMorgan Says JPM Coin Now Handles $1 Billion Transactions Daily
• Amazon’s virtual health clinic can now treat patients for a cough, cold or flu
• Amazon discloses 181 mln users in EU in first store transparency report
• Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images
• Amazon Third Quarter Results
• Mobile Tech Talk Slides from Droidcon and Mobile DevOps Summit
• new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
• Shift Left / Shift Down
• …more than 22 min of MVPA eliminates the risk of high sedentary time…
• How AI reduces the world to stereotypes