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

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MICROSOFT IS USING BING TO TRICK PEOPLE INTO THINKING THEY'RE ON GOOGLE

Searching for Google on Bing (without signing in) takes users to a page that looks a lot like Google. It's a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query. Other search results return without the special interface. Bing still surfaces search results for Google underneath the spoofed Google UI. Microsoft has used similar tactics over the years to convince people to switch to its products.

theverge.com · 3 min

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DELL ANNOUNCES ALL-NEW BRANDING WITH DELL, DELL PRO, AND DELL PRO MAX LAPTOPS

Dell is rebranding its laptop and desktop lines for 2025. It has just dropped its longtime model names for more simplified nomenclature. Dell's laptop and PC series will now be simply labeled as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, with base, Plus, and Premium versions of each. The Dell, Dell Plus, and Dell Premium series will be the models previously labeled as either Inspiron or XPS, the Dell Pro series replaces the Latitude line, and the Dell Pro Max will replace the Precision workstation line.

cnet.com · 5 min

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HOW UBER AND LYFT ARE GEARING UP FOR THE ROBOTAXI REVOLUTION

Uber and Lyft are preparing to bring driverless taxis to several cities in the US this year.

wsj.com · 8 min

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AMERICA'S FIRST BIRD FLU DEATH REPORTED IN LOUISIANA

The person was over 65 and reportedly had underlying medical conditions - they were hospitalized with the flu after exposure to a backyard flock of birds and wild birds.

cnn.com · 4 min

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META'S ZUCKERBERG ADDS UFC'S DANA WHITE, TWO OTHERS TO BOARD

Meta has added UFC CEO Dana White, investor and former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and CEO of Exor NV John Elkann to its board.

bloomberg.com · 3 min

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WHO WOULD HAVE WON THE SIMON-EHRLICH BET OVER DIFFERENT DECADES, AND WHAT DO LONG-TERM PRICES TELL US ABOUT RESOURCE SCARCITY?

We produce far more materials than we did in the past, yet prices have barely changed, which suggests that we're not close to running out of these materials any time soon.

ourworldindata.org · 11 min

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THEY SQUANDERED THE HOLY GRAIL

Apple made the holy grail of remotely attested trusted compute, but its AI is much worse than integrations made with Ollama on the same device, which would be just as private.

xeiaso.net · 20 min

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THIS IS NOT YOUR LAST JOB

People who like to learn and grow will change their roles many times throughout their lifetimes.

v5.chriskrycho.com · 4 min