The Daily Index — Thursday, September 21, 2023 · TLDR Index

SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

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Researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from a thylacine. The sample was taken from a roughly 130-year-old museum specimen. The research could help scientists in bringing the species back from extinction. It also helped transform the way scientists view museum and archive specimens.

sciencenews.org · 3 min

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Varda Space Industries’ satellite has been in orbit for two months longer than originally planned as it waits for government approval to return to Earth with its cache of pharmaceutical specimens. The satellite launched on June 12 without a reentry license. Its purpose was to demonstrate Varda’s technology for producing commercial materials inside a recoverable capsule designed to return the products to Earth. The FAA denied Varda’s reentry license as the company did not demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements. A request for reconsideration is pending.

arstechnica.com · 7 min

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TESLA MIGHT HAVE 2 MILLION CYBERTRUCK RESERVATIONS, TALLY SAYS

Tesla received over 250,000 reservations for the Cybertruck within a week of its unveiling and continued getting hundreds more reservations every week since.

electrek.co · 3 min

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EVERY PROGRAMMER SHOULD KNOW #1: IDEMPOTENCY

Idempotency refers to the property of an operation or function that produces the same result when applied multiple times as it does when applied only once.

berkansasmaz.com · 6 min

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POST-QUANTUM MAKEOVER

The Signal Protocol added a layer of encryption using a post-quantum cryptography algorithm that the National Institute of Standards and Technology selected as a potential replacement for quantum-vulnerable forms of encryption last year.

arstechnica.com · 3 min

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FACEBOOK CHANGED ITS LOGO — SEE IF YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE

Facebook’s new logo features a darker blue and a few other subtle tweaks.

theverge.com · 2 min

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DESIGNER

This article covers how to overcome the two most common challenges when working with designers and product managers and how to build a working relationship that makes you one of their favorite engineers to work with.

careercutler.substack.com · 7 min

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XML IS BETTER THAN YAML. HEAR ME OUT...

XML is better than YAML as there are situations where XML is appropriate but there aren’t any situations where YAML is appropriate.

changelog.com · 3 min