The Daily Index — Monday, May 13, 2024 · TLDR Index

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WHAT WILL OPENAI ANNOUNCE MONDAY? QUITE POSSIBLY AN AI VOICE ASSISTANT

OpenAI's big announcement today may be a voice assistant. The company is reportedly working on a technology that rolls audio, text, and image recognition into one product. OpenAI will be holding a livestream at 10 am PT to announce the product. Google is expected to announce updates to Gemini at its developer conference tomorrow.

mashable.com · 4 min

TLDR AI

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What are you waiting for? GenAI is moving quickly...and so should you!

neo4j.com

TLDR Web Dev

THE API DATABASE ARCHITECTURE - STOP WRITING HTTP-GET ENDPOINTS

Instead of writing HTTP GET endpoints manually, it might be better to use a PostgREST server that directly exposes (with security enabled) database views and tables. This allows data modification to be handled by the existing backend. It also allows adjustments of HTTP-GET APIs through SQL views.

fabianzeindl.com · 10 min

TLDR InfoSec

OHIO LOTTERY DATA BREACH IMPACTED OVER 538,000 INDIVIDUALS

The Ohio Lottery cyberattack conducted by the DragonForce ransomware group in late 2023 impacted over 500,000 individuals. The hackers claim to have obtained over 1.5 million records of employee and player information, including sensitive data like social security numbers, addresses, winnings, and dates of birth, and have leaked over 90GB of stolen files as backups.

securityaffairs.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

BINANCE GETS APPROVAL FOR INDIA RETURN

Binance has secured approval to re-enter India from the country's Financial Intelligence Unit. Both Binance and KuCoin were banned from operating in India earlier this year due to non-compliance issues. The two exchanges are two of the first off-shore exchanges to re-enter the Indian market.

cointelegraph.com · 2 min

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APPLE, NETFLIX, AND AMAZON WANT TO CHANGE HOW THEY PAY HOLLYWOOD STARS

Apple will soon begin basing pay on how a series or movie performs. Talent would receive bonuses on a points system, with the size of the bonuses being based on the number of people who signed up for Apple TV+ to watch, how much time they spent viewing, and the cost of the program relative to the size of its audience. Netflix and Amazon have also spent months developing plans for performance-based compensation, but neither have gone public yet with their models. Streaming services are becoming increasingly more transparent - the practice will make it easier to tie pay to performance.

bloomberg.com · 12 min

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COMMERCIAL SPACE STATIONS APPROACH LAUNCH PHASE

A number of private-sector companies are aiming to harbor commercial activities in low Earth orbit (LEO) as the International Space Station approaches its end of service. This article discusses the various projects, with a focus on Blue Origin's Orbital Reef program, which recently aced testing milestones for its critical life support system with assistance from NASA. Orbital Reef plans to build a space habitat with NASA as a main client starting out, with a wider goal of fostering a sustainable commercial presence in LEO. The initiative is backed by NASA's Commercial LEO Destinations program, which is providing funding to encourage the private sector to build space habitats.

spectrum.ieee.org · 3 min

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'TUNGSTEN WALL' LEADS TO NUCLEAR FUSION BREAKTHROUGH

Encasing fusion plasma inside tungsten allowed a tokamak in France to set a new record by sustaining plasma at about 50 million degrees Celsius for six minutes. Tungsten has an extraordinarily high melting point. Using a tungsten-wall environment is for more challenging than using carbon, but the material allows physicists to sustain hot plasmas for longer and at higher energies and densities. While research into nuclear fusion has been slow, the field has made significant strides over the last few years.

qz.com · 4 min

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POPOVER API

The Popover API allows developers to easily display popover content on top of other page content. It has a standard, consistent, and flexible mechanism that creates popover content that can be controlled declaratively using HTML attributes or via JavaScript. This documentation covers how to use the Popover API with examples.

developer.mozilla.org · 6 min