The Daily Index — Tuesday, July 16, 2024 · TLDR Index

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APPLE RELEASES IOS 18 PUBLIC BETA FOR IPHONE — HERE'S WHAT'S NEW AND HOW TO GET IT

The iOS 18 public preview is now available. The update allows users to put icons anywhere on the home screen, change app icon color, add lock screen shortcuts for apps other than camera and flashlight, and more. It has a more customizable Control Center menu and a redesigned Photos app. The update will only run on iPhones released in 2018 or later.

cnbc.com · 4 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI DEFINES FIVE 'LEVELS' FOR AI TO REACH HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

OpenAI recently shared a five-level system for tracking its artificial general intelligence progress. The levels go from what is currently available to AI that can perform the same amount of work as an organization. They may change based on feedback from employees, investors, and the company's board. OpenAI executives believe the company's AI is currently on the first level, but it is getting close to level two, where AI can perform basic problem-solving.

qz.com · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

FOG OF WAR

Remix's "Fog of War" feature dynamically loads route information based on user interactions. This optimizes React Router SSR applications by decoupling rendering from fetching, resulting in a "fetch then render" approach that eliminates network waterfalls. It uses a Route Manifest to prefetch route data and components so that navigation is smooth.

remix.run · 9 min

TLDR Crypto

BLACKROCK CEO LARRY FINK SAYS HE'S A MAJOR BELIEVER IN BITCOIN

Larry Fink stated in an interview with CNBC that while he was originally a skeptic on Bitcoin, he now believes it is a legitimate financial instrument. Fink sees it serving a purpose for investors afraid of currency debasement and as a hedge against government financial control. Equating it to “digital gold,” he believes it is a hedge against hope with strong industrial use.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min

TLDR Product

STARTING AN ANALYTICS ORG FROM SCRATCH — LESSONS FROM A DECADE AT DOORDASH

This piece outlines the essentials for establishing and evolving an analytics function in a startup, covering the importance of focusing on organizational needs, structuring data consumption, hiring the right talent with a mix of hard and soft skills, and adapting the team as the company grows and concluding with an analytics readiness checklist.

review.firstround.com · 14 min

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ZERO TO BILLIONS: THE STARTUP ON THE VERGE OF THE BIGGEST TECH EXIT IN YEARS

Cloud cybersecurity company Wiz was founded four years ago by four former Israeli military officers. It grew quickly to become the dominant company in cloud cybersecurity and is headed toward the largest exit for any tech startup since Rivian's $77 billion initial public offering in November 2021. Google is looking to acquire the company for a $23 billion sale price. The deal will likely draw scrutiny from antitrust regulators in the US and EU.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

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IMMUNOTHERAPY IS CHANGING CANCER TREATMENT FOREVER

The human immune system is very good at attacking anything it registers as a disease - if it could be turned against cancer, it could eliminate tumors more thoroughly than surgery and more durably than chemotherapy. Scientists have managed to modify T cells to react to cancer as if it were a virus and destroy it. The therapy has been used to remove glioblastomas, a common type of brain cancer with a median time of diagnosis to death of just over a year.

nymag.com · 39 min

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WHERE'S THE SYNTHETIC BLOOD?

The creation of synthetic blood is one of the holy grails of biomedical research. There are two main approaches to making synthetic blood products: the biologist's approach and the chemist's approach. The biologist's approach involves coaxing stem cells into becoming blood cells, while the chemist's approach synthesizes molecules and particles that mimic the functions of blood cells. Both approaches need to overcome economic and manufacturing challenges before they can scale for use in patients.

asimov.press · 32 min

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SCALE BY SPECTRAL COMPUTE#

SCALE is a GPGPU programming toolkit that allows programs written using the popular CUDA language to be natively compiled for AMD GPUs. It accepts CUDA programs as is and serves as a drop-in replacement for nvcc. SCALE acts as an installation of the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, so it will work with existing build tools and scripts. It offers opt-in language extensions that can make writing GPU code easier and more efficient.

docs.scale-lang.com · 3 min