More than 20,000 iPhone workers have resigned due to not receiving bonuses and growing fears about a Covid-19 outbreak within the plant. Foxconn offered workers an exit payment equivalent to up to two months salary for new workers who wanted to leave. Up to 30% of production could be lost. iPhone 14 production is already falling behind in the run-up to the holidays. Apple has issued a warning that iPhone 14 Pro availability will be very constrained during the holiday sales period.
Twitter's check mark program could return on Friday with a new procedure for verifying identities. Identities will be manually authenticated. There will be three types of check marks - gold for companies, gray for the government, and blue for individual accounts. Individuals will be able to display a secondary logo showing they belong to an organization if verified by that organization.
OpenAI created a Minecraft-playing bot by making it watch 70,000 hours of people playing the game. The bot showcases a new technique that could be used to train machines to carry out a wide range of tasks. One of the biggest problems with imitation learning is that every step in each video needs to be annotated, and doing it by hand takes a lot of work. The OpenAI team trained a neural network to label videos automatically.
An mRNA vaccine was found to be effective in protecting mice and ferrets against severe influenza. The vaccine protects against all 20 subtypes of influenza A and B. It could provide protection against viruses with pandemic potential. Researchers are now moving on to human trials. The vaccine could be available within the next two years.
Act allows users to run GitHub Actions locally. It allows developers to receive fast feedback and it features a local task runner. Act supports using and authenticating against private GitHub Enterprise servers. It is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Finch is a client for container development. It features an opinionated distribution of open source components. Finch makes it easy to install and use other projects while offering a simple native client to tie everything together.
Shortcut unites planning and development with tightly integrated Docs, Issue Tracking, and Sprint Planning. “Engineers hate being pulled into other software… They don’t want to be in customer issues in Slack [or] help desk software. They just want to focus on what’s in Shortcut.” — Justin Maxwell, co-founder and CDO, Smith.
Most of the search results Amazon displays on the first page are advertisements. Amazon displays twice as many ads as Walmart and four times as many as Target in its search results. The company has shifted from helping customers with recommendations to building better advertising technology. Many other apps and online marketplaces are following Amazon's lead and displaying shill results.
Many tech workers have recently been laid off. This Hacker News thread looks at how these recently unemployed workers are finding the current job market. Many workers are finding the process difficult, with slow responses and a lack of interviews. It is important to remember that there is usually a slowdown in recruitment at this time of year due to holiday absences.
Soft-unicast allows for IP addresses to be stored on the cloud, resulting in great efficiency gains at a sensible cost and with no loss to performance and reliability.
