The Daily Index — Monday, June 24, 2024 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI'S GPT-5 PUSHED BACK TO LATE 2025, BUT PROMISES PH.D.-LEVEL ABILITIES

GPT-5 will be significantly more intelligent than GPT-4. It is still at least a year and a half from release. The model will have advanced memory and reasoning capabilities and Ph.D.-level intelligence in specific tasks. A short video of OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati comparing the different GPTs is available in the article.

in.mashable.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI ACQUIRES ROCKSET

Rockset is a powerful database with indexing and querying capabilities. OpenAI has acquired the company to improve its retrieval infrastructure.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

EXPOSITION OF FRONTEND BUILD SYSTEMS

Frontend build systems evolved as JavaScript codebases grew larger and developer needs became more complex. They consist of three steps: transpilation to address unsupported language features, bundling to reduce network requests, and minification to decrease file sizes. These steps are facilitated by tools like Babel, SWC, and Webpack, among others, and enhanced by developer tools like meta-frameworks, sourcemaps, hot module replacement, and monorepo tools.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 14 min

TLDR InfoSec

CDK GLOBAL BEGINS TO RESTORE SYSTEMS AFTER CYBER HACK HITS THOUSANDS OF RETAILERS

CDK Global, a retail technology provider serving over 15,000 North American locations, is working to restore systems after a cyberattack. Hackers have reportedly demanded a multi-million dollar ransom.

finance.yahoo.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

THE IMPACT OF THE ETHEREUM ETF ETF

Bitcoin and Ethereum have had similar returns since the cycle bottom, raising questions about whether an ETF would provide much upside. After accounting for GBTC rotations and conversions of spot BTC to ETF, the total true net buying inflow from the BTC ETFs was $5B, which implies $0.84B in net buying for ETH based on analysis. Crypto natives' expectations for the ETF are overinflated, as Bitcoin has a better mind share within institutional investment circles while selling ETH as a tech asset is more difficult.

x.com · 8 min

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TIKTOK CONFIRMS IT OFFERED US GOVERNMENT A 'KILL SWITCH'

TikTok offered the US government the power to shut the platform down in 2022 in an attempt to address lawmakers' data protection and national security concerns. It suggested a mechanism that would have allowed the government to suspend the platform in the US if it did not follow certain rules such as properly funding its data protection units and making sure that ByteDance did not have access to US users' data. The US government refused to engage in serious settlement talks after 2022. It ignored requests to meet for further negotiations and did not respond to TikTok's invitation for it to visit and inspect its Dedicated Transparency Center in Maryland.

bbc.com · 3 min

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RADIOACTIVE DRUGS STRIKE CANCER WITH PRECISION

Radiation therapy has come a long way since X-ray therapy was born in 1896. Targeted radiopharmaceuticals helped the field achieve a new level of molecular precision. These agents deliver their radioactive payloads directly at tumor sites. While there are only a handful of these therapies commercially available for patients, the number is poised to grow as major players in the biopharmaceutical industry start to invest heavily in the technology.

arstechnica.com · 15 min

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NASA INDEFINITELY DELAYS RETURN OF STARLINER TO REVIEW PROPULSION DATA

NASA has adjusted the date of the Starliner spacecraft's return to Earth to an unspecified time in July. The spacecraft was originally due to undock and return to Earth on June 14, but return opportunities have been waved off as more time is needed to review the data from the vehicle's problematic flight to the International Space Station. There were five separate leaks in the helium system that pressurizes Starliner's propulsion system and five of the vehicle's 28 reaction-control system thrusters failed as Starliner approached the station. NASA has not specified why it is not yet comfortable with releasing Starliner to fly back to Earth.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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LLAMA.TTF

llama.ttf is a font file, large language model, and inference engine for that model. Harfbuzz, a font shaping engine, has a Wasm shaper that allows arbitrary code to be used to shape text. This code can be anything - so llama.ttf uses an entire LLM inference engine with trained parameters bundled inside. The result is a font that can generate text locally in any Wasm-enabled Harfbuzz-based application. A video demonstration is available.

fuglede.github.io · 3 min