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Amazon has announced a new Kindle e-reader with a color display. The Kindle Colorsoft has weeks of battery life and a display that's designed to ensure colors don't appear washed out or pixelated even when users zoom in on images. It can be preordered now for $279 and will ship on October 30. Amazon also announced a refreshed Kindle Scribe with new note-taking features for $399, an updated Kindle Paperwhite for $159, and a 12th generation Kindle for $109.
Uber may be exploring a potential bid for Expedia Group. The company has approached advisers about a deal. Its interest is at a very early stage. Uber's CEO was Expedia's CEO from 2005 to 2017 and remains on the company's board. Expedia declined to comment on the deal.
Amazon has signed an agreement with Dominion Energy to explore the development of a small modular nuclear reactor near Dominion's existing North Anna nuclear power station. Google and Microsoft have announced similar plans. Tech companies are increasingly buying into nuclear power to fuel the growing demands of data centers. Nuclear power will also help these companies reach net-zero carbon emissions.
Scientists have created a new form of insulin that can modify its activity in response to glucose levels in the blood, reducing high blood sugar concentrations while preventing levels from dropping too low. It has been tested in pigs and rats with encouraging results. Further research to optimize the molecule is ongoing. There are several smart insulin drugs in the works - scientists aim to generate a suite of smart insulin drugs to enable doctors to individualize therapies for their patients.
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Arch is an intelligent Layer 7 gateway designed to protect, observe, and personalize LLM applications. It handles tasks related to the handling and processing of prompts. Arch features function calling, prompt guardrails, standards-based observability, and more. Demos are available.
Socket Optimize is a tool for proactive dependency hygiene that secures open source dependencies with tested and optimized package overrides. It helps solve security challenges and various quality concerns. Socket Optimize makes it easy for developers to reduce dependencies, leverage new platform features, improve performance, and address security issues, all with one simple CLI command. The project is initially focused on the JavaScript ecosystem, but its team has plans to expand into other ecosystems such as Ruby and Python.
While Manifest V3 makes things harder for ad blockers, it's not the death of ad blockers by any stretch. uBlock Origin already has a new version built on Manifest V3 that works almost as well as the Manifest V2 version and with added privacy and performance benefits. However, there are quite a few filtering capabilities that can't be ported to Manifest V3. There are tools in Chrome's Extensions settings that help users determine whether an extension is compatible with Manifest V3 and find alternatives for incompatible extensions.
The FTC has finalized a rule that makes canceling subscriptions and services as easy as signing up for one. Businesses offering online signups will be required to implement a click to cancel and there must be a way for customers to cancel online or over the phone if they signed up in person. Most of the final rule's provisions will go into effect 180 days after it is published in the Federal Register.
The smaller cuts seem to coincide with reorganizations of specific teams.
Code that is working for the wrong reasons is code that is going to break when you least expect it.
Moflin is a hypoallergenic, robotic AI-powered pet that will be released in Japan on November 7 - a video of the hamster-like device is available.
Kloudlite is an open-source platform designed to provide seamless and secure development environments for building distributed applications that connects local workspaces with remote Kubernetes environments via a WireGuard network.
Palantir has produced a remarkable number of founders and technology leaders - this article looks at what makes the company special through the lens of company building and helping other founders apply best practices.
Nostr uses a new fundamental architecture for distributed protocols: Relay.