The Daily Index — Monday, February 24, 2025 · TLDR Index

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IOS 18.4 WILL BRING APPLE INTELLIGENCE-POWERED ‘PRIORITY NOTIFICATIONS'

The iOS 18.4 beta adds a new 'Priority Notifications' feature. Powered by Apple Intelligence, the feature is designed to help users manage notifications by prioritizing important alerts and minimizing distractions from less important ones. Priority Notifications will be displayed in a separate section on the iPhone's Lock Screen. Users will still be able to swipe to view all of their notifications. The feature will be off by default but can be enabled through the Notifications section in Settings.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI'S SHIFT FROM MICROSOFT TO SOFTBANK

OpenAI plans to source most of its computing power from SoftBank's Stargate project by 2030, marking a significant departure from its reliance on Microsoft.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

TLDR Web Dev

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qawolf.com

TLDR InfoSec

CRYPTO EXCHANGE BYBIT SAYS IT WAS HACKED AND LOST AROUND $1.4B

Crypto exchange Bybit has suffered a major hack, losing approximately $1.4 billion worth of Ethereum from a multisig wallet. CEO Ben Zhou confirmed the breach, which represents the largest crypto theft in history and potentially the largest single theft ever.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

TLDR Crypto

$1.43B HEIST ON BYBIT

ByBit recently suffered the largest crypto hack in history, losing $1.43 billion in Ethereum and other assets after hackers exploited a front-end spoofing attack, deceiving multisig signers into approving malicious transactions. The attack, linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group, highlights critical vulnerabilities in multisig and hardware wallet security, particularly the risks of "blind signing" and compromised interfaces. ByBit has assured users their funds are safe and launched a $140 million recovery bounty, but the incident underscores the urgent need for stronger security measures across the crypto industry.

threadreaderapp.com · 10 min

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MICROSOFT OUTSOURCES OPENAI'S AMBITIONS TO SOFTBANK

The announcement around the Stargate project made it clear that Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI was to evolve, allowing OpenAI to use other cloud providers. Microsoft is not fully breaking up with OpenAI - it will remain a key partner in many regards. However, what was a tight coupling of OpenAI and Microsoft will now be a tight coupling of OpenAI and SoftBank.

spyglass.org · 5 min

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HOW TO MAKE SUPERBABIES

Genetic technology could create humans that live longer, have the raw intellectual power to do Nobel Prize-worthy scientific research, and very rarely suffer from health disorders. Scientists don't do this though due to ethical issues. As a result, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in this field of research. This post looks into how to do large-scale, heritable editing of the human genome to improve everything from diabetes risk to intelligence. It summarizes the state of knowledge in the field and lays out a technical roadmap that examines how remaining barriers may be overcome.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 64 min

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EARTH'S 1ST ASTEROID MINING PROSPECTOR HEADS TO THE LAUNCHPAD

AstroForge is planning to heave a microwave oven-sized spacecraft toward an asteroid later this week as part of the company's plans to create a future where precious metals are mined around the solar system. Its Odin spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as soon as Wednesday. Odin's target is an object called 2022 OB5, which is about the size of a football field and is likely to contain a high amount of metal. Odin will arrive in late 2025 after a journey of about 300 days.

nytimes.com · 7 min

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HOW TO BUILD AN LLM CHAT APP: THE NEW LITMUS TEST FOR JUNIOR DEVS

Building an LLM (Large Language Model) chat app is way more complicated than just making an API call. There are many considerations required - building an LLM chat app is the gauntlet that separates the juniors from the devs who actually know what they are doing. This article discusses how to start building a scalable LLM chat app. Learning how to build the backend architecture allows developers to build better apps that can handle more users and dodge the shame of a launch-day crash.

x.com · 4 min