The Daily Index — Friday, December 13, 2024 · TLDR Index

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GOOGLE STEPS INTO “EXTENDED REALITY” ONCE AGAIN WITH ANDROID XR

Android XR is a mixed-reality operating system that will power future headsets and glasses. The first headset powered by the OS will be Project Moohan, a mixed-reality headset built by Samsung available for purchase next year. Project Moohan seems to be aimed at the same use purposes as the Apple Vision Pro. Android XR is available for developers now.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

$1M K PRIZE LAUNCHES

Andy Konwinski has launched a new prize for an open source AI agent that can get 90% on a private contamination free SWE agent benchmark. The competition is hosted on Kaggle and runs for the next 3 months.

kprize.ai · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

HOW GOOGLE TAKES THE PAIN OUT OF CODE REVIEWS, WITH 97% DEV SATISFACTION

Google's code review tool, Critique, is highly rated among software engineers internally. This article looks at what makes Critique so loved and explains how it pairs with Google's code review process. It covers Google's guidelines for efficient code review, internal statistics on Google code reviews, and how Google uses AI to speed up code reviews for engineers.

read.engineerscodex.com · 10 min

TLDR InfoSec

NEW EVILMSGSPY ANDROID SPYWARE USED BY CHINESE POLICE

Researchers from Lookout have discovered a spyware app developed by Wuhan Chinasoft Token Information Technology Co., Ltd and used by Chinese law enforcement. The spyware collects messages from chat apps, screen recordings, screenshots, audio recordings, location information, network activity, installed apps, browser bookmarks, and external storage files. Lookout found evidence that the app is still in active development and that an iOS equivalent may exist.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

GRAYSCALE LAUNCHES LIDO, OPTIMISM INVESTMENT FUNDS

Grayscale Investments has launched two new single-asset funds for Lido's LDO and Optimism's OP tokens, offering exposure to Ethereum's largest liquid staking protocol (LDO) and a popular layer-2 scaling solution (OP). This expansion adds to Grayscale's growing suite of crypto investment products, highlighting its focus on protocols that improve Ethereum's scalability, security, and adoption within the DeFi ecosystem.

cointelegraph.com · 2 min

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IOS 18.2 REVIEW: THE AI APPLE PROMISED US

iOS 18.2 introduces several long-awaited Apple Intelligence tools. These features require an iPhone 15 Pro or the latest iPhone 16 models. This article looks at the new features, which include ChatGPT integration, emoji generation, and more. Examples of emojis generated by the new Genmoji feature are available in the article.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

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WAYMO'S MARKET SHARE IS NOW EQUAL TO LYFT WITHIN SF

When Waymo launched in August last year, Uber and Lyft were at 66% and 34% market share in San Francisco. 15 months later, Waymo is at 22% market share, the same as Lyft, while Uber sits at 55%. Waymo's wait times are longer than Uber and Lyft because the company doesn't have enough cars on the road. It's possible that Waymo's market share will climb even faster as it puts more cars on the road and reduces wait times to be in line with its competition.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

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THOSE DESIGNER BABIES EVERYONE IS FREAKING OUT ABOUT – IT'S NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN

Geneticists cannot read the genetic code and know who will be about average in intelligence and athleticism. Traits and diseases that result from multiple genes and lifestyle factors cannot be predicted using just DNA. Designer babies aren't possible now and will unlikely be possible in the future. The creation of designer babies is not limited by technology, but by biology.

theconversation.com · 7 min

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HARVARD AND GOOGLE TO RELEASE 1 MILLION PUBLIC-DOMAIN BOOKS AS AI TRAINING DATASET

Harvard University plans to release a dataset that includes around one million public-domain books that are no longer copyright-protected due to their age. The dataset's release is aimed at leveling the playing field in the AI industry, allowing research labs and AI startups to access a huge dataset to train large language models. It is unclear when or how the dataset will be released.

techcrunch.com · 1 min