The Daily Index — Monday, February 26, 2024 · TLDR Index

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TESLA SHARES MORE FOOTAGE OF OPTIMUS WALKING IMPROVEMENTS

Tesla's latest clip of its Optimus humanoid robot shows it smoothly walking around one of its testing facilities. The robot can currently walk at around 0.6 meters per second, a 30% speed boost compared to the robot's last appearance. Tesla is aiming for the robot to be eventually able to walk up to five miles per hour. A link to the video is available in the article.

teslarati.com · 4 min

TLDR AI

MICROSOFT REPORTEDLY MAKES AI SERVER GEAR TO CUT NVIDIA DEPENDENCE

Microsoft is creating its own AI server hardware to decrease its dependency on Nvidia.

breakingthenews.net · 1 min

TLDR Web Dev

GPT IN 500 LINES OF SQL

This article explains how GPT is built and then proceeds to implement it in SQL. Yes, SQL. ChatGPT itself couldn’t figure out how to implement GPT in SQL, but the author builds it step-by-step in about 500 lines. Each part of the implementation is explained, including the tokenizer, embeddings, and the attention mechanism.

explainextended.com · 22 min

TLDR InfoSec

U-HAUL TELLS 67K CUSTOMERS CROOKS DROVE AWAY WITH THEIR PERSONAL DATA

U-Haul has reported a cyberattack where 67,000 customers in the United States and Canada had their personal data compromised, including names, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers. No financial information was taken. The attack targeted the U-Haul Dealer and Team Members system used for reservations and customer records.

packetstormsecurity.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

$30 BILLION RIA PLATFORM CARSON GROUP APPROVES TO OFFER SPOT BITCOIN ETFS TO CLIENTS

Carson Group, a $30 billion investment advisory platform, is set to offer four spot Bitcoin ETFs to its clients, greenlighting options from BlackRock, Fidelity, Bitwise, and Franklin Templeton. It based its selections on AUM, trading volume, and cost-effectiveness. The move puts Carson Group at the front of the pack amongst RIAs approving spot Bitcoin ETFs, marking a contrast to firms like Vanguard, which blocked clients from buying these SEC-approved ETFs.

bitcoinmagazine.com · 2 min

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GOOGLE SAYS MICROSOFT OFFERED TO SELL BING TO APPLE IN 2018, BUT SEARCH-QUALITY ISSUES GOT IN THE WAY

A document from Google's antitrust case against the US Justice Department revealed that Microsoft offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple several times over the past few decades, with Apple declining the offer over quality issues every time. Microsoft's almost $100 billion investment into Bing over 20 years was not enough to create a product comparable to Google's. Google's case centers over whether the company has a monopoly in web search. Microsoft's CEO previously testified that he has focused every year of his tenure as CEO to see if Apple would be open to a default search arrangement for Bing.

cnbc.com · 3 min

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FIRST PRIVATE MOON LANDER TOUCHES DOWN ON LUNAR SURFACE TO MAKE HISTORY

Odysseus landed successfully on the Moon on 22 February. Built by Intuitive Machines, Odysseus is the first private lunar lander and the first US lunar lander since 1972. It is currently around 300 kilometers from the lunar south pole, an area that may contain ice. The lander experienced a malfunction that required a software patch hours before landing. It will collect data for up to seven days until night falls at the landing site.

nature.com · 6 min

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HOW DOES BLUESKY WORK?

BlueSky (the company) is using BlueSky (the microblogging application) to prove the viability of the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (atproto), a federated protocol for large-scale distributed social applications. atproto can't be controlled by any one organization due to its federated nature - various parts of the system that communicate with each other can have multiple people running them. This article takes a close look at how atproto works, explaining its structure, how the system is supposed to work, potential issues, and more.

steveklabnik.com · 17 min

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LESSONS FROM MY THIRD YEAR RUNNING A SAAS

This post summarizes a developer's learnings from three years of running a SaaS app. In three years, their product had grown from a toy to something people were paying for. The developer learned to stop being afraid of success and calmed down on their software releases and content marketing. They experimented with onboarding, which massively paid off, and started to understand their own product philosophy. The developer learned that, once their product became sustainable, they only had to focus on quality.

maxrozen.com · 8 min