The Daily Index — Monday, August 5, 2024 · TLDR Index

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INTEL CEO PAT GELSINGER'S DREAM JOB TAKES A NIGHTMARISH TURN

Intel's stock ended Friday trading down 26 percent. The company recently reported financial results and an outlook with lower-than-expected revenue and profit-margin forecasts. It plans to lay off around 15,000 employees, target $10 billion in cost cuts next year, and suspend dividend payments in the fourth quarter. Intel's market value is now at a level last seen 15 years ago.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

TLDR AI

CHARACTER CO-FOUNDERS RETURN TO GOOGLE

Noam Shazeer, one of the authors of the original Transformer paper, is returning to Google after Character.AI licensed its tech for 2x the last funding valuation.

techcrunch.com · 5 min

TLDR Web Dev

HOW NOTION DECREASED LATENCY BY 20% WITH CACHING

Notion recently improved its browser performance by using SQLite for client-side caching. This led to a 20% increase in page navigation speeds through a SharedWorker architecture to manage concurrency and prevent database corruption. SQLite was implemented using WebAssembly for local data storage and offline functionality. In this post, the team at Notion goes through challenges they faced with slow disk reads and initial page load times.

blog.quastor.org · 6 min

TLDR InfoSec

MASSIVE SMS STEALER CAMPAIGN INFECTS ANDROID DEVICES IN 113 COUNTRIES

Researchers are tracking a campaign that utilizes 2,600 Telegram bots to promote malicious Android APKs controlled by 13 C2 servers. The bots deliver the malware by either directing victims to fake download pages that mimic Google Play or by promising to deliver victims a pirated APK. The malware transmits captured SMS messages to a website that offers anonymization services by using these phone numbers to relay OTP codes.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

CFTC SUBPOENAS BEN ‘BITBOY' ARMSTRONG'S FORMER COMPANY IN FRAUD INVESTIGATION

The CFTC has subpoenaed Hit Network, a crypto-focused media company that previously had Ben 'BitBoy' Armstrong as its public face. It has requested information about trading activity and wallets associated with 15 tokens featured in the company's media content, some that were in videos speculating about 100x returns. Armstrong, who was forcibly removed from the company after legal issues, "could not be more happy about" the subpoena.

theblock.co · 3 min

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NVIDIA REPORTEDLY DELAYS ITS NEXT AI CHIP DUE TO A DESIGN FLAW

Nvidia's Blackwell B200 chips will take at least three months longer to produce than was planned. The delay is due to a design flaw that was discovered unusually late in the production process. Nvidia is now working through a fresh set of test runs and won't ship large numbers of the chips until the first quarter. Microsoft, Google, and Meta have already ordered tens of billions of dollars worth of the chips.

theverge.com · 2 min

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NEURALINK INSTALLS ITS BRAIN IMPLANT INTO A SECOND HUMAN PATIENT

Elon Musk announced on a recent podcast that Neuralink has installed its second implant into a human patient. The implant is apparently working very well. Musk said last month that there could be over 1,000 humans with Neuralink implants by 2026. A link to the podcast, in which Musk discusses Neuralink and its brain implant technology at length, is available in the article - Musk shares the news near the beginning of the four hour conversation.

teslarati.com · 3 min

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CONSIDER THE EEL

Forsea Foods is an Israeli startup focused on growing eel meat in the lab. The company believes that starting with a premium offering makes the most sense due to the high costs of production. The price of eel meat is set to rise as the global population is cratering - the European eel population has fallen by 98% since 1980. Forsea's technology allows it to grow different types of cells in a single bioreactor, cutting down on both production time and costs. It plans to launch its product commercially starting in Japan in 2026.

generalist.com · 32 min

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REAL-TIME DATABASE STARTUP CLICKHOUSE ACQUIRES PEERDB TO EXPAND ITS POSTGRES SUPPORT

ClickHouse has acquired PeerDB, a company focused on cost-effective Postgres replication and change data capture. PeerDB offers speed improvements and a number of specialized capabilities that ClickHouse didn't previously offer. Its open source components will remain open source without any change to their licenses and ClickHouse will also open source the production-grade Helm charts for PeerDB's enterprise offering. Existing commercial customers will be able to use the PeerDB Cloud service until July 24 next year.

techcrunch.com · 4 min