The Daily Index — Monday, September 4, 2023 · TLDR Index

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AND COME IN 10 COLOR OPTIONS

Apple is rumored to be eliminating leather cases for the iPhone 15 lineup. It will replace them with a line of woven fabric cases. Images of Chinese clones with the FineWoven name have surfaced online. These clones are likely based on legitimate information about Apple's upcoming release on September 12. Apple will also release a watch band for the Apple Watch Series 9 made from the same material.

macrumors.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

ENTERPRISE

Founded by leaders in the retrieval research domain, this group hopes to allow enterprises to build on top of generative technologies by cheaply and effectively using their own data.

contextual.ai · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

COMPLETE VUE SUSPENSE GUIDE WITH EXAMPLES

This comprehensive guide goes over Vue Suspense. Vue Suspense allows you to handle async components easily and provides a better user experience while components are loading. To use Vue Suspense, you need to define an async component, dynamically import it, and have Vue take care of the rest. The guide gives detailed code examples in real-world scenarios for clarity.

beginnersoftwaredeveloper.com · 7 min

TLDR InfoSec

DOXXING NEARLY ANYONE IN AMERICA FOR $15

An investigation from 404 Media details a category of bots that utilizes credit headers to dox nearly anyone in America. Hackers seem to have acquired access to this data and are selling it for $15-$40. 404 Media has confirmed that at least some of the extensive data is accurate. Data that the tool provides include addresses, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, driver's license numbers, and even names and birth years of the target’s relatives.

404media.co · 8 min

TLDR Crypto

MAKERDAO CO-FOUNDER FLOATS USING SOLANA’S CODE TO BUILD NEW CHAIN

MakerDAO's co-founder, Rune Christensen, recently proposed using the Solana codebase for a dedicated appchain aiming to improve the DeFi lending protocol. This new appchain, part of MakerDAO's five-phases Endgame strategy, aims to improve governance and sustainability. Maker will not be directly building on Solana, but rather will be using the Solana stack. This proposal could potentially lead to a mutually beneficial relationship between MakerDAO and Solana.

blockworks.co · 2 min

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LENOVO’S NEW 27-INCH, 4K MONITOR OFFERS GLASSES-FREE 3D

Lenovo’s new 27-inch 4K monitor can produce 3D images without requiring viewers to wear glasses. It features a lenticular lens and real-time eye-tracking. The monitor works by projecting different images to each eye. Its 3D resolution is 1920x2160, but it can be switched to a 2D mode with 3840x2160 resolution. The 3D experience is limited to one user at a time. It is viewable from a 23.6 to 39.4-inch distance.

arstechnica.com · 7 min

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ARE SELF-DRIVING CARS ALREADY SAFER THAN HUMAN DRIVERS?

Waymo and Cruise have driven a combined total of over 8 million driverless miles. The two companies have reported 102 crashes, with most of the crashes being low-speed collisions that did not pose a serious safety risk and a large majority being the fault of the other driver. It will still take hundreds of millions more driverless miles to answer the question of whether driverless cars are safer than human drivers, but the evidence is starting to pile up.

arstechnica.com · 21 min

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CAN AN ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY FINALLY FREE PATIENTS FROM DIALYSIS?

Kidney cells housed within the Kidney Project's bioreactor can survive inside the body of a pig and mimic several important kidney functions for at least one week. The Kidney Project aims to create a device that can improve on dialysis. A bioartificial kidney would make treatments for kidney disease more effective, tolerable, and comfortable. The next steps for testing will be month-long trials, first in animals and then eventually in humans.

ucsf.edu · 4 min

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EXPLAINING THE POSTGRES MEME

This article analyzes the SQL Iceberg meme, which shows increasingly complex or advanced SQL commands or operations. The article goes through each of the zones and explains every concept. It starts with simple commands like CREATE TABLE, JOIN, and NULL and moves into intermediate and advanced topics like connection pools, denormalization, the volcano models, and the Halloween problem.

avestura.dev · 76 min