The Daily Index — Tuesday, January 7, 2025 · TLDR Index

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NVIDIA ANNOUNCES $3,000 PERSONAL AI SUPERCOMPUTER CALLED DIGITS

Nvidia announced a personal AI supercomputer called Digits at CES. It can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. Similar in form to a Mac Mini, Digits has a starting price of $3,000. Each system comes equipped with 128GB of unified, coherent memory. Two systems can be linked together to handle models with up to 405 billion parameters.

theverge.com · 3 min

TLDR AI

FACTS GROUNDING: A NEW BENCHMARK FOR EVALUATING THE FACTUALITY OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

The FACTS Grounding benchmark evaluates LLMs' ability to generate factually accurate responses grounded in provided source material to reduce hallucinations. A leaderboard on Kaggle tracks industry progress, with initial results from leading LLMs. The evaluation involves diverse, long-form examples judged by multiple LLMs to ensure comprehensive and bias-free assessments.

deepmind.google · 5 min

TLDR Web Dev

Codeium, Indeed, and many others, in 25+ talks and workshops

productivityconf.com

TLDR InfoSec

WINDOWS 10 USERS URGED TO UPGRADE TO AVOID SECURITY FIASCO

ESET is urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 before Oct 2025, which is when Windows 10 reaches EoL and stops receiving security updates. Almost 63% of Windows users are still running Windows 10. Adoption has been slow due to missing features and the TPM requirement. Microsoft will be offering Extended Security Update plans for businesses and individuals.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

GLOBAL CRYPTO INVESTMENT PRODUCTS HIT RECORD $44 BILLION NET INFLOWS IN 2024

Crypto investment products like ETFs reached $44.2 billion in net inflows in 2024, nearly quadrupling 2021's record of $10.5 billion. This increase was driven largely by US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF launches. Bitcoin products boasted $38 billion in inflows, while Ethereum products saw late-year momentum pushing them to $4.8 billion.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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LG JUST UNVEILED THE WORLD'S FIRST BENDABLE GAMING MONITOR

The LG UltraGear GX9 45GX990A is a bendable gaming monitor with an ultra-high 5K2K resolution that can accurately depict rich blacks, vibrant colors, and dynamic brightness levels with pinpoint accuracy. It can curve its 45-inch body to 900R curvature, providing a level of immersion that is rarely offered by more conventional monitors. The screen has the performance specs to back up its stylish looks. LG has not released the price or commercial release date for the screen.

robbreport.com.sg · 2 min

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IN 2025, PEOPLE WILL TRY LIVING IN THIS UNDERWATER HABITAT

Ocean exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the sea floor at depths of up to 200 meters. It is currently developing and testing a small modular habitat called Vanguard that is capable of housing up to three divers for up to a week or so. Vanguard is a steppingstone to a more permanent modular habitat system called Sentinel set to launch in 2027. Deep is aiming for a permanent human presence in the ocean by 2030. Its plans are possible thanks to an advanced 3D printing-welding approach that can print these large habitation structures.

spectrum.ieee.org · 7 min

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HOW I PROGRAM WITH LLMS

This post contains a summary of a developer's personal experiences using generative models while programming over the last year. The developer currently uses large language models regularly while programming and considers their benefits a net-positive on their productivity. They discovered some often-repeated steps that can be automated and are currently working with a team to build them into a tool specifically for Go programming.

crawshaw.io · 28 min

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF GHOSTTY

Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. It contains many modern opt-in features that can improve the terminal experience. This article provides a review of Ghostty from a user's point of view. Overall, Ghostty improved the reviewer's setup - while setup took some time, it wasn't a big deal.

jonashietala.se · 6 min