The Daily Index — Friday, May 10, 2024 · TLDR Index

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LEAKED DECK REVEALS HOW OPENAI IS PITCHING PUBLISHER PARTNERSHIPS

OpenAI has been pitching partnership opportunities to news publishers through its Preferred Publishers Program. The company has been courting premium publishers since July last year when it struck a deal with the Associated Press. It has since inked deals with Axel Springer, The Financial Times, Le Monde, Prisa, and Dotdash Meredith. OpenAI negotiates deals on a per-publisher basis rather than structuring all of its deals uniformly. While some publishers have opted to partner with OpenAI, others have sued the tech firm for using copyrighted articles without permission.

adweek.com · 6 min

TLDR AI

YELLOW RAISES $5M FOR ASSISTIVE 3D MODELING

A former Google ML Head of Product and an MIT professor have raised money from a16z's new game fund for generative 3D character creation.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

WHY REACT RE-RENDERS

Many developers work professionally with React for years without understanding how its re-rendering process works. This tutorial helps readers build a mental model for when and why React re-renders and how to tell why a specific component re-rendered. Knowing how React's render cycle works can help developers understand when to use React.memo and when to wrap functions in useCallback.

joshwcomeau.com · 17 min

TLDR InfoSec

ASCENSION HEALTHCARE TAKES SYSTEMS OFFLINE AFTER CYBERATTACK

Private healthcare system Ascension reports that it has taken some systems offline to investigate a suspected cyberattack. Ascension has advised all partners to sever connections to its networks and has retained Mandiant for incident response. Clinical operations have also been impacted due to the attack.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

ROBINHOOD MET SEC 16 TIMES

Robinhood received a Wells Notice from the SEC indicating the SEC will proceed with civil enforcement despite meeting with the SEC 16 times to discuss registering as a special purpose broker-dealer for crypto assets. Vlad Tenev, Robinhood's CEO, criticized the SEC's approach as "regulation by enforcement" and emphasized the importance of defending both Robinhood's position and customer's right to access crypto.

decrypt.co · 2 min

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MICROSOFT'S NEW XBOX MOBILE GAMING STORE IS LAUNCHING IN JULY

Microsoft is aiming to launch its Xbox mobile gaming store in July. The company plans to bring its own first-party portfolio to the store. The store will also provide key parts of the Xbox experience, allowing players' identities, libraries, and rewards to travel across ecosystems. It is unclear how Microsoft will position the store as an alternative for games already existing on rival app stores. The store will initially be web-only.

theverge.com · 3 min

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INTUITIVE MACHINES ON TRACK FOR SECOND MOON TRIP, FOUNDER SAYS

Intuitive Machines Inc. is planning for another trip to the Moon during the last three months of 2024. The mission will aim to install a 4G network on the surface of the Moon. Intuitive Machines made history less than a year ago by setting down the first privately built lander intact on the Moon's surface. The company went public last year via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company, making its founder a billionaire several times over.

bloomberg.com · 3 min

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A SKEPTIC'S TAKE ON BEAMING POWER TO EARTH FROM SPACE

While the idea of space-based solar power sounds good, there are many potential problems that could doom such a project. Such a misadventure would undermine the credibility of the responsible space agency and waste capital that could be spent improving less risky methods of renewable energy. This article presents a roadmap of the potential challenges that must be overcome before orbital solar power can become truly appealing to electrical utilities.

spectrum.ieee.org · 13 min

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THE SEARCH FOR EASIER SAFE SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING

Getting to a level where you're comfortable using Rust can be difficult. June is a safe systems language that can be learned as quickly as one can learn Go. It features grouped allocations, arbitrary data structures, full encapsulation, and safe memory recycling. This article introduces June and discusses its features and development. June could become a good complement to Rust once Rust has a stable ABI.

sophiajt.com · 14 min