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Daily Update 2023-01-06
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Hire through TLDR's free job board (Sponsor)
If you're looking to hire top technical talent, sign up for our free job board. Over 5000 engineers, designers, and other tech workers visited the job board during yesterday's launch. I will be curating the most interesting job listings to showcase in the Jobs section below. Sign up here.
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OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, discusses tender offer that could value it at $29B (4 minute read)
A tender offer from Founders Fund and Thrive Capital could see OpenAI valued at as much as $29 billion. Its recent ChatGPT release is on track to revolutionize how people interface with computers. OpenAI's ultimate goal is to create artificial general intelligence. The company intends to achieve this without going public or getting acquired. Its investors are limited to profits of around 20 times their original investment.
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Qualcomm says it built a better satellite messaging system than Apple (3 minute read)
Qualcomm's Snapdragon Satellite system will allow Android users to send two-way SMS-style texts through satellite networks for casual conversations. It will run on the Iridium satellite constellation, a 66-satellite network that powers traditional satellite phones. The network runs on the same band as GPS and some mid-band cellular services. Snapdragon Satellite will be available for phones launched in North America and Europe in the second half of the year.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Government Scientists Discover Entirely New Kind of Quantum Entanglement in Breakthrough (5 minute read)
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an entirely new kind of quantum entanglement. The scientists captured interference patterns created by the entanglement of two particles with different charges. Previous experiments have always yielded entangled particles belonging to the same group with the same charge. The technique used in the experiment could help scientists reveal the details inside atomic nuclei and shed light on topics ranging from quantum computing to astrophysics.
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What’s next for mRNA vaccines (7 minute read)
Scientists have been working on mRNA-based treatments and vaccines for decades. These vaccines deliver genetic code that the body can use to make proteins for fighting disease. mRNA vaccines are now being developed for a wide range of other diseases such as cancer, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and Zika. It is theoretically possible to make mRNA for any protein to target any infectious disease. However, scientists still need to determine good targets for the vaccines, which can be difficult.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Vim Online Editor (Website)
This website features an in-browser Vim editor. Users can open files by dragging and dropping them into the frame. The editor supports text objects, syntax highlighting, clipboard register, Vim script, popup windows, and almost all other powerful Vim features.
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TLDR Job Board (Sponsor)
TLDR's job board is now live for applicants! We offer filtering jobs by over a dozen fields including compensation, remote friendliness, full time vs contractor, and more. Feel free to reply to this email with any questions/feedback!
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First LastPass, now Slack and CircleCI. The hacks go on (3 minute read)
Slack and CircleCI recently announced serious breaches. CircleCI customers are advised to rotate all secrets that they store on their devices. Attackers gained access to Slack employee tokens and used them to download private code repositories. Slack customers aren't affected by the breach. It is possible that these hacks are related to the recent LastPass hack.
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