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Big Tech & Startups

Apple beefs up smartphone services in “silent war” against Google (6 minute read)

Apple is taking steps to separate its mobile operating system from services offered by Google by making advances in areas like maps, search, and advertising. The company is increasingly positioning itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google. Apple is becoming more motivated to enter the search business as it expands its advertising division. Alphabet currently pays Apple between $8 billion to $12 billion a year for Google to be the default search engine on iOS.
The inside story of ChatGPT (40 minute read)

ChatGPT may have pushed artificial intelligence into the mainstream. Its ability to hold long dialogues, answer questions, and compose almost any kind of written material attracted more than a million users within five days of its release. This article talks about ChatGPT's impact on society, OpenAI, Microsoft, the history of ChatGPT, and how it was built. It covers OpenAI's successes, failures, projects, criticisms, and controversies.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

Rocket Lab’s first US launch: Big for the company and the site (5 minute read)

Rocket Labs' Electron rocket took off into orbit from its launch site in Virginia on Tuesday. The Electron rocket is relatively small and is capable of putting only a few hundred kilograms into orbit. Its launch experience is different from other conventional rockets due to its size. Rocket Labs is currently developing a larger rocket called Neutron that will have a fully reusable first stage.
World's first hydrogen-powered train built in China (4 minute read)

The world's first urban train powered by hydrogen has been produced in China. The hydrogen-powered train can reach speeds of up to 99 mph. It uses the same core technology as the Fuxing bullet train and has a 373-mile battery life. The train does not produce harmful pollutants or greenhouse gasses associated with fossil fuels. China aims to produce between 100,000 and 200,000 metric tons of hydrogen from renewable energy each year by 2025.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

Packaging Rust Applications for the NPM Registry (12 minute read)

This article discusses how the git-cliff changelog generator was written. It goes into technical depth about distributing binaries. The project is written in Rust and then packaged for NPM. NPM can package and run anything as long as the tools for packaging and executing a binary are available.
Transformer Reinforcement Learning (GitHub Repo)

Transformer Reinforcement Learning is a library that allows for the training of transformer language models using Proximal Policy Optimization. It is built on top of the transformers library by Hugging Face and pre-trained language models can be easily loaded. Most decoder and encoder-decoder architectures are supported.
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Miscellaneous

I outsourced my memory to AI for 3 weeks (15 minute read)

Humans have poor memories and the internet makes this problem worse. Studies have shown that reading offline results in better comprehension, concentration, and recall than reading online. Heyday is an AI-memory assistant that aims to fix this by requiring little effort from the user and helping them remember things better. This article examines the effectiveness of Heyday as a memory assistant.
Salesforce is now facing the very real threat of activist shareholders overthrowing its board and forcing the sale of mega-acquisitions like Slack and Tableau (4 minute read)

Salesforce is facing pressure from activist firm Elliott Management. The move has Salesforce employees worried about potential additional layoffs beyond those already announced. Elliott's involvement could result in the ousting of Salesforce's board of directors, divestment of acquisitions like Slack, MuleSoft, and Tableau, and an end to remote-work policies. Salesforce board members have to be reelected every year, a fact that may be exploited by investors at the next shareholder's meeting.

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Scientists Made a Liquid Metal Robot That Can Escape a Cage Like a Terminator (3 minute read)

Scientists have created robots, controlled by magnetic fields, that can shapeshift between solid and liquid states
Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT (2 minute read)

Amazon is taking measures to prevent its employees from leaking company secrets to ChatGPT after discovering snippets of text generated by the tool that closely resembles internal company data.
Google’s Flutter showcases new graphics capabilities, WebAssembly and RISC-V support (4 minute read)

Google's Flutter is hosting an event called Flutter Forward in Nairobi, Kenya to showcase new and upcoming features of the framework.
Android 14 set to block certain outdated apps from being installed (2 minute read)

Android 14 will start blocking apps that target outdated versions of Android from being installed to reduce the potential for malware.
SQLite-based databases on the postgres protocol? Yes we can! (4 minute read)

libSQL's 'server mode' enables access to SQLite-based databases using Postgres and HTTP network protocols.
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