The Daily Index — Tuesday, November 19, 2024 · TLDR Index

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ELON MUSK WANTED TO BUY SUBSTACK AFTER TWITTER PURCHASE

Elon Musk reportedly had plans to combine Twitter and Substack. He saw acquiring Substack as a way to aid Twitter's subscription service. Substack executive Chris Best declined the acquisition despite Musk offering him a chief executive position at the combined company. Substack pivoted to politics soon after the offer as some of the largest election pundits found a home on the platform.

newsweek.com · 2 min

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FILE OVER APP: A PHILOSOPHY FOR DIGITAL LONGEVITY

Creating digital artifacts that last requires using open file formats that are easy to retrieve and read. This means using tools that give people this freedom. While it isn't always possible to choose 'file over app', there are almost always options that allow users to export their data, which can later be scraped into usable formats. This post provides links to tools and projects that align with the 'file over app' philosophy.

rishikeshs.com · 6 min

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AMD DOMINATES CHIP SALES ON AMAZON

The top 10 best-selling CPUs on Amazon are AMD processes from the Ryzen 5000, 7000, and 9000 processor series.

tomshardware.com · 2 min

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SECURITY MEANS SECURING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE

Security at scale means deciding how to divide a limited pool of engineering resources such that the largest demographic of users benefits from a security initiative.

blog.yossarian.net · 14 min

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CHATGPT IS SLIPPING

Production code that utilized gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini suddenly stopped working on November 13, suggesting there was an update to the model that made them incapable of doing the previous task.

adriano.fyi · 6 min

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MISTRAL UNLEASHES PIXTRAL LARGE AND UPGRADES LE CHAT INTO FULL-ON CHATGPT COMPETITOR

Mistral has added image generation, web search, and an interactive 'canvas' to its free web-based chatbot, Le Chat.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 8 min

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GOOGLE IS TURNING CHROME OS INTO ANDROID TO COMPETE WITH THE IPAD

Google is also building a new version of Chrome for Android with extensions support and a Terminal to run Linux apps on Android.

androidauthority.com · 3 min

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INSIDE ELON MUSK'S MESSY BREAKUP WITH OPENAI

Elon Musk's suit against Sam Altman has given Musk a chance to reveal how Altman secured power in the company's early days and his willingness to go toe-to-toe with for-profit competitors from the beginning.

theverge.com · 13 min