The Daily Index — Thursday, November 16, 2023 · TLDR Index

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MICROSOFT IS FINALLY MAKING CUSTOM CHIPS — AND THEY’RE ALL ABOUT AI

Microsoft built its own custom AI chip for training large language models. It has also developed Arm-based CPU for cloud workloads. Both chips will arrive in 2024. They could potentially lessen the industry’s reliance on Nvidia. Microsoft is already designing the second-generation versions of these chips. More details about the new chips are available in the article.

theverge.com · 8 min

TLDR AI

GOOGLE’S GENERATIVE SEARCH ROLLED OUT TO 120 MORE COUNTRIES

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) is slowly being made available to more countries in many languages after debuting earlier this year. The company is taking a slow and measured pace to this release as it touches many of its key search systems.

engadget.com · 3 min

TLDR Web Dev

WHY STACK OVERFLOW PICKED SVELTE FOR ITS OVERFLOW AI FEATURE AND THE WEBSITE UI

StackOverflow picked Svelte as its frontend framework in the process of modernizing its UI. Traditional frameworks like React send the built runtime code for the browser to execute, so the browser will do work like initializing components and managing the virtual DOM. Svelte, on the other hand, does this work during compile time, on the developers machine. It does not push any framework-specific runtime library code to the client’s browser, thus resulting in better performance.

scaleyourapp.com · 10 min

TLDR Crypto

JP MORGAN’S ONYX TAPS AVALANCHE FOR TOKENIZED FUNDS, AVAX JUMPS 14%

Onyx by JP Morgan and Apollo Global has developed a proof-of-concept with Avalanche under Singapore's Project Guardian, aiming to transform asset and wealth management. Leveraging blockchain, smart contracts, and tokenization, this new development will enable efficient portfolio management. Additionally, the 'LayerZero' protocol will connect Onyx Digital Assets to an Avalanche subnet, providing access to tokenized funds offered by WisdomTree.

decrypt.co · 2 min

TLDR Design

PENTAGRAM’S NEW IDENTITY FOR PLACES FOR LONDON

Pentagram’s new logo forms a 3-dimensional frame that represents the physical places at the heart of the brand. The type is set in Johnston, the corporate font of Transport for London, which is synonymous with the London Underground. The cubic frame's 45° angle is also reflected in the Johnston typeface, a subtle graphic link to the parent brand.

pentagram.com · 3 min

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GOOGLE SEARCH WILL LET YOU LEAVE AND READ ‘NOTES’ ON WEB PAGES

Google is experimenting with a way for users to create and read Notes that contain tips from other people when searching for an article or topic. The feature is a response to the popularity of people adding ‘Reddit’ to their search queries for more human results. Users can like, share, save, or report Notes. More details about Notes and other new features Google recently added to Search are available in the article.

9to5google.com · 5 min

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CHINA CLAIMS WORLD’S FASTEST INTERNET WITH 1.2 TERABIT-PER-SECOND NETWORK

Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000-kilometer-long internet network linking Beijing to the south. The firms claim it is the world's first network to achieve a stable and reliable bandwidth of 1.2 terabits per second. The network uses domestically-owned key technologies.

finance.yahoo.com · 1 min

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CRISPR GENE EDITING SHOWN TO PERMANENTLY LOWER HIGH CHOLESTEROL

A single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment has been shown to reduce cholesterol in people with an inherited condition that causes extremely high LDL cholesterol levels. The treatment uses CRISPR to edit a gene in the liver. Gene editing could provide a longer-lasting option for treating hereditary high cholesterol compared to long-term medication. A lot of work still needs to be done to ensure that the treatment is safe.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF SERVERLESS DATA SYSTEMS

The future of cloud data services is large-scale and multi-tenant. This article looks at real-world serverless multi-tenant (MT) data architectures to understand how different types of systems implement serverless MT. While some patterns immediately jump out, there is a surprising amount of diversity among the systems surveyed. The article covers what serverless MT is and the generic challenges in building these systems.

jack-vanlightly.com · 14 min