Smartphone makers are dreaming of a ‘supercycle’ driven by AI. Analysts disagree
Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them
Chip giant TSMC opens first Japan factory as it diversifies away from Taiwan
First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface…more commercial era for space exploration
Uber’s CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding
Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users
Photomath is officially Google’s latest app on the Play Store
Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language
An AI system that offers emotional support via chat
GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak
“…Just a decade ago, data centers drew 10 megawatts of power, but 100 megawatts is common today…enough to power around 80,000 U.S. households (U.S. DOE 2020).”
Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future
Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed
“…Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way…”
“…Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog…”
The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to science
Will NASA be able to return Mars samples to Earth? New audit raises doubts
Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio
Apple's auto project was always a moonshot. Makes sense to move GenAI up in priority as that will yield more fruit over next 5-10 years than auto projects.
AI is handling 2/3 of Klarna’s customer service chats with a 2 minute resolution time vs. 11 minutes for previously and a 25% drop in repeat inquiries.
Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public…PyRIT can generate thousands of malicious prompts to test a gen AI model, and even score its response.
Windows is getting its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets…Sam Altman is aiming to raise as much as $7 trillion to significantly increase the world’s supply of semiconductor chips
US to Launch $5 Billion Research Hub to Stay Ahead in Chip Race
Ok… My first impressions after playing with it for a few hours:
1. The pass-through is not as mind-blowing as I expected. It's the best I've ever seen in a VR headset but, the way I was hearing it described was like looking through a piece of glass… It wasn't for me. I can… pic.twitter.com/vNAzzBj0VL
Future of cities and local economies at Davos 2024
“…“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 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
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.
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
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.
“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…”
