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TLDR 2024-05-07

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01GENERAL

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FOR DEVELOPERS

WorkOS is bolstering its vision to become the world's best identity platform with the acquisition of Warrant - an open source authorization service.

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

'IPHONE 17 SLIM' WITH SMALLER DISPLAY RUMORED TO LAUNCH NEXT YEAR

Apple is reportedly planning an 'iPhone 17 Slim' model to replace the Plus model in its lineup. The Slim model will have around a 6.6-inch display, a slimmer design, an A18 or A19 chip, 8GB of RAM, a 24-megapixel front camera, and a 48-megapixel telephoto camera. It is expected to have an aluminum chassis and some other external design changes. Apple will likely announce the iPhone 17 lineup in September 2025.

macrumors.com1 min read

APPLE REPORTEDLY BUILDING M2 ULTRA AND M4-POWERED AI SERVERS

Foxconn is reportedly assembling Apple AI servers that contain the M2 Ultra. It is planning to assemble AI servers powered by the M4 chip in late 2025. While Apple is prioritizing on-device processing for many of its upcoming AI tools, some operations will inevitably have to occur in the cloud. The company is expected to announce on-device AI features at WWDC in June. 2025's iPhone 17 models will apparently be more focused AI devices.

macrumors.com2 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

HOW BOEING LOST THE SPACE RACE TO ELON MUSK'S SPACEX

The US provided Boeing and SpaceX with funding to build a crewed space vehicle in 2014. Boeing received far more funding than SpaceX and it had far more experience, but the company still allocated fewer resources to the project than it needed to thrive. The company kept carrying technical debt forward so that additional work was lumped onto the final milestones. Other issues, such as the way the company was structured, cost fixation, siloed development, and a lack of proper testing, all worked together to kneecap the project.

qz.com4 min read

IN A HIGH-STAKES TEST, BOEING WILL LAUNCH NASA ASTRONAUTS TO SPACE FOR THE FIRST TIME

Boeing is set to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on its Starliner spacecraft. The inaugural crewed flight is a crucial final test before NASA can authorize Boeing to conduct routine flights to and from the space station for the agency. This will be Boeing's first launch with humans aboard its spaceship. The astronauts will spend about a week at the space station before returning to Earth. While SpaceX has been ferrying astronauts to the ISS since 2020, NASA does not want to rely on a single company.

nbcnews.com5 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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INTRODUCING ARTIFACT ATTESTATIONS – NOW IN PUBLIC BETA

GitHub's Artifact Attestations allows project maintainers to create a tamper-proof, unforgeable paper trail linking their software to the process that created it. It creates metadata that can be used as a foundation for new security and validity checks through policy evaluation. Verification support will be expanded to the Kubernetes ecosystem later this year.

github.blog12 min read

A USEFUL PRODUCTIVITY MEASURE?

Software productivity is famously unmeasurable. This article suggests using value-add capacity as a measure for software productivity. In the absence of measures for return on investment, the percent of engineering time spent on value-add activities is a pretty good proxy for productivity. Using this metric can help organizations identify what to focus on to achieve the goals they want.

jamesshore.com12 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

TENSIONS RISE IN SILICON VALLEY OVER SALES OF START-UP STOCKS

Private stock sales have always felt a bit like the Wild West. Investors continue to find ways around companies' attempts to restrict stock sales using techniques such as forward contracts, which allow employees to cash out their future shares through a pledge to sell the shares to an investor in the future. Some companies forbid these practices and say such deals are void. Companies creating funds with these shares say they are making the market more accessible and that shares obtained through forward contracts are legal.

nytimes.com11 min read

TESLA ANNOUNCES FOURTH ROUND OF LAYOFFS IN FOUR WEEKS

Multiple recently-former Tesla employees posted on social media on Sunday to share that they were no longer with the company. The company started laying off employees last month ahead of the release of its Q1 financial results. While Elon Musk has said that he plans to reduce headcount by more than 10% globally, the total may be closer to 20% by the time everything has settled. The latest round of layoffs affected service advisers, engineers, and HR.

arstechnica.com2 min read