The Daily Index — Wednesday, October 2, 2024 · TLDR Index

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APPLE READIES NEW IPHONE SE MODEL THAT KILLS THE HOME BUTTON

Apple is nearing production of an updated iPhone SE that will become its new entry-level model. This will be the first update to the iPhone SE since 2022. It is expected to support Apple Intelligence and resemble the iPhone 14. Apple is also aiming to manufacture new iPad Air models and keyboards for release around the same time.

bloomberg.com · 3 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI DEV DAY 2024

There were lots of great announcements at OpenAI's Dev Day 2024, like vision model fine-tuning, real time API, prompt caching, and model distillation.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

TLDR Web Dev

TESTING FRONTEND — LESSONS FROM OVER A MILLION LINES OF TYPESCRIPT AT PALANTIR

Focus on unit tests with the right scope, avoid unnecessary component tests, and leverage stable APIs to create scalable integration tests that require minimal maintenance. Having good tests helps maximize engineering velocity, and automated generated tests may help codebases be better tested in the future.

meticulous.ai · 15 min

TLDR InfoSec

T-MOBILE PAYS 31.5M IN FCC SETTLEMENT OVER 4 DATA BREACHES

The FCC has announced a settlement with T-Mobile over a string of data breaches that impacted customers from 2021 to 2023. Half of the settlement will be used for cybersecurity enhancements and the other half will be paid to the U.S. Treasury as a penalty. T-Mobile has committed to introducing modern security practices such as zero trust and MFA as part of the settlement.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

CRYPTOQUANT SAYS RECENT STABLECOIN MARKET CAP GROWTH IS PROVIDING LIQUIDITY FOR BITCOIN PRICE INCREASE

Recent stablecoin market cap growth is increasing overall crypto market liquidity, potentially driving price increases for bitcoin and other major cryptos. Bullish factors like the FedReserve's policy changes, China's liquidity boosts, and SEC approvals for institutional bitcoin options trading are expected to positively impact BTC market price in Q4.

theblock.co · 2 min

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ANTHROPIC HIRES OPENAI CO-FOUNDER DURK KINGMA

One of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, Durk Kingma, is joining Anthropic. He has not revealed which org he will be joining or leading. Kingma will be working remotely mostly from the Netherlands, but will visit the San Francisco Bay Area as frequently as possible. Anthropic has also previously recruited OpenAI's former safety lead and another OpenAI co-founder. Its CEO was once the VP of research at OpenAI.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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WORLD'S FIRST 3D-PRINTED HOTEL RISES IN THE TEXAS DESERT

3D-printed architecture firm Icon is now constructing its El Cosmico campground hotel project in the Texas desert. The 3D-printed hotel will have camping areas, a central swimming pool, vacation homes, shared amenities, and some permanent residences. The permanent residences will be up for sale starting at $2.29 million. There will be some affordable 3D-printed housing for the local community. Renders of the project are available.

newatlas.com · 2 min

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EARTH HAS CAUGHT A 'SECOND MOON,' SCIENTISTS SAY

Asteroid 2024 PTS, which usually orbits the Sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth, should now be orbiting Earth as a second moon. The mini-moon event will end on November 25. These gravitational capture events are quite common. 2024 PTS won't be observable to the average skywatcher. After its brief stay around Earth, the asteroid will continue to orbit the sun as part of the Arjuna family of asteroids.

space.com · 3 min

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OPENAI UNVEILS EASY VOICE ASSISTANT CREATION AT 2024 DEVELOPER EVENT

OpenAI unveiled four major API updates for developers on Monday at its DevDay 2024 event in San Francisco. The most notable new API feature is the Realtime API, which enables developers to build features similar to ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode into their applications. It streamlines the process of creating voice assistants so developers can handle speech recognition, text processing, and text-to-speech conversion with a single API call. The other API updates enable developers to fine-tune smaller and cheaper models from more advanced models, speed up inference by remembering frequently used prompts, and fine-tune models using images.

arstechnica.com · 4 min