The Daily Index — Friday, June 2, 2023 · TLDR Index

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THE DEATH OF SELF-DRIVING CARS HAS BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED

Seven years ago, hype about self-driving cars was off the charts. Several self-driving projects have shut down their efforts since. Many people now view self-driving technology as an expensive failure. However, a handful of well-funded projects have continued to work on the technology. This article looks at the current leaders in the self-driving industry, Waymo and Cruise, the state of the industry, the challenges the industry faces, and the future of the industry. It also covers Tesla's Full Self Driving technology.

arstechnica.com · 17 min

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OPEN SOURCE AI HAS A NEW CHAMPION

Falcon is a large language model developed by the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It offers better performance than LLaMA, a GPT-level large language model developed by Meta. Falcon is the most powerful open-source language model to date. It uses a modified Apache license, which means that it can be fine-tuned and used for commercial purposes. Falcon is the first open-source large language model that extends beyond research limitations.

analyticsindiamag.com · 3 min

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STARTING IN SEPTEMBER

The new policy will not impact existing workers who primarily work remotely.

cnbc.com · 2 min

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MALWARE

Several dozen employees from security firm Kaspersky were hit with an advanced cyberattack that used clickless exploits to infect their iPhones to collect microphone recordings, photos, geolocation, and other data.

arstechnica.com · 3 min

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TEMPERATURES IN A TOKAMAK

Researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Tokamak Energy Ltd recently achieved temperatures of nearly 100 million degrees Celsius in a compact tokamak.

interestingengineering.com · 4 min

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THE BIG QUESTION OF HOW SMALL CHIPS CAN GET

Moore's Law will likely end soon, but humans will likely find ways around bottlenecks and continue innovation.

archive.ph · 14 min

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PEAK CREDENTIALISM

There is evidence that the tech industry is moving away from credentials, which means that people can worry less about which college they attend or even whether they should attend college.

lemire.me · 3 min