The Daily Index — Wednesday, April 24, 2024 · TLDR Index

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TESLA TEASES ITS UPCOMING UBER-LIKE SELF-DRIVING RIDE-HAILING APP

Tesla teased screenshots of its ride-hailing feature along with the release of its Q1 2024 financial results. The feature allows people to summon self-driving Teslas for rides. Riders can adjust the temperature and music inside the vehicle from their phones. The feature will be integrated into the existing Tesla app. Tesla has yet to achieve unsupervised self-driving, so it is unknown when the ride-hailing feature will be available. The screenshots are available in the article.

links.tldr.tech · 3 min

TLDR AI

THE RAY-BAN META SMART GLASSES HAVE MULTIMODAL AI NOW

Meta has rolled out multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, allowing users to process photos, audio, and text through voice commands for tasks like identification and translation, although the AI's capabilities are limited and sometimes inaccurate.

links.tldr.tech · 5 min

TLDR Web Dev

LATENCY NUMBERS EVERY FRONTEND DEVELOPER SHOULD KNOW

Frontend developers should know some basic latency numbers as web page load times and user action responsiveness online are often influenced by network latency. For example, 200ms is the duration of time perceived by humans as “sluggish.” It takes about 150ms to parse about 1MB of JavaScript.

links.tldr.tech · 3 min

TLDR InfoSec

MITRE SAYS STATE HACKERS BREACHED ITS NETWORK VIA IVANTI ZERO DAYS

MITRE announced that it has discovered a network breach due to two chained Ivanti VPN zero days. The threat actors bypassed MFA via session hijacking to move laterally across the network and deployed a combination of webshells and backdoors to harvest credentials and maintain access. Evidence collected thus far shows that the attackers did not breach the core enterprise network or partner networks.

links.tldr.tech · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

PHILIPPINES SEC WORKS TO REMOVE BINANCE FROM GOOGLE AND APPLE APP STORE

The Philippines' SEC has ordered Google and Apple to delist the Binance app from the Filipino app store, following a push to restrict access to unlicensed crypto trading platforms and protect the local economy and investors. This comes after prior warnings, as part of the SEC's ongoing efforts to regulate crypto activities.

links.tldr.tech · 2 min

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APPLE REPORTEDLY DEVELOPING ITS OWN CUSTOM SILICON FOR AI SERVERS

Apple reportedly has ambitious plans to design its own artificial intelligence server processor using TSMC's 3nm node. TSMC's 3nm technology is one of the most advanced semiconductor processes available. A specialist AI server processor would allow Apple to tailor hardware specifically to its software needs, potentially leading to more powerful and efficient technologies. While Apple is rumored to be prioritizing on-device processing for many of its upcoming AI tools, some operations will inevitably have to occur in the cloud.

links.tldr.tech · 2 min

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HERE'S WHY RISC-V IS SO IMPORTANT

RISC-V is an instruction set architecture freely available for commercial purposes. The open source chip design is helping to drive innovation in custom hardware. RISC-V competitors may eventually emerge to challenge AMD and Intel. The combined resources working to develop faster and more efficient RISC-V chips may one day outpace that of major players in the CPU space.

links.tldr.tech · 8 min

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IS UMAINE'S EXPERIMENTAL 3D-PRINTED DWELLING THE FUTURE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

UMaine's experimental 3D-printed dwelling, BioHome3D, is the result of a two-and-a-half-year effort to create a technology for building homes faster, more efficiently, and less expensively than conventional construction. BioHome3D is made from logging and sawmill wood waste. It has an open-concept living/kitchen/dining room, one bedroom, and one bath. The dwelling has two mini-split heat pumps and roughly 30 sensors that measure temperature, humidity, wind, and other weather factors. Pictures of the dwelling are available in the article.

links.tldr.tech · 3 min

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LINUX CAN FINALLY RUN YOUR CAR'S SAFETY SYSTEMS AND DRIVER-ASSISTANCE FEATURES

Elektrobit's EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications is a new Linux distro designed to comply with the automotive industry's functional safety requirements. It was developed with Canonical, who will help with keeping the system compliant with safety requirements over time. The operating system uses an external safety monitor to intercept and validate kernel actions. This allows its developers to keep up to speed with the developer community.

links.tldr.tech · 4 min