The Daily Index — Thursday, January 18, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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BRACE YOURSELF, IPV6 IS COMING

AWS will start charging around $4 per month for IPv4 addresses on February 1. While IPv6 is clearly a good thing, there are still challenges to switching to it. The biggest challenge to global adoption is ISP support. A lot of developer tools aren't set up for IPv6 yet. If you want to ensure your company continues to run smoothly after February 1, start making as many changes as possible now.

supabase.com · 5 min

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I SPENT THE MORNING WITH THE APPLE VISION PRO

Apple is giving select members of the media Vision Pro demos this week. This article describes to readers what the experience is like. The demo aims to walk through as many elements as possible in roughly 60 minutes, from face scans to the spatial desktop to movie watching, while unfortunately skipping over gaming. The author wasn't fully convinced the device was a compelling buy at $3,500 as the price is prohibitively expensive for the majority of people interested in the system and there is still a lack of Vision Pro-specific apps on the system.

techcrunch.com · 11 min

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AMAZON REPORTEDLY UNSATISFIED WITH A PAID VERSION OF ALEXA, FACES INTERNAL CONFLICT

Amazon has been working on a paid subscription for Alexa, but there have been company conflicts revolving around the new technology. Alexa Plus will supposedly feature all the functionalities that the current Alexa offers, but with a more personalized and conversational AI. It is expected to launch on June 30. Amazon has been struggling to improve the AI, which still provides inaccurate information, and reduce costs.

neowin.net · 3 min

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NOTION’S NEW CALENDAR APP IS DESIGNED TO KEEP YOUR MEETINGS ORGANIZED

Notion Calendar is a standalone app that integrates with databases and notes in Notion.

theverge.com · 2 min

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DOJ ANTITRUST LAWSUIT AGAINST APPLE EXPECTED AS SOON AS MARCH

Apple is alleged to have imposed software and hardware limitations on its iPhones and iPads to stop rivals from effectively competing.

9to5mac.com · 2 min

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HOW APPLE BUILT ICLOUD TO STORE BILLIONS OF DATABASES

Apple uses FoundationDB and Cassandra for iCloud and CloudKit, using billions of databases in its extreme multi-tenant architecture.

read.engineerscodex.com · 14 min

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MICROSOFT TAUGHT APPLE NOTHING

Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft in the late 90s, during its darkest monopoly days.

world.hey.com · 3 min

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EVALUATIONS ARE ALL WE NEED

While large language models seem intelligent and highly capable, we still don't know how to evaluate them and spot talent within them.

strangeloopcanon.com · 32 min

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