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GOOGLE'S JARVIS AI EXTENSION EXISTENCE LEAKED ON THE CHROME STORE

Google's Jarvis AI extension was leaked for a brief time on the Chrome Web Store. The store page described Jarvis as a helpful companion that surfs the web. It supposedly works by taking and analyzing screenshots, similar to Apple's 'onscreen awareness' and Microsoft Recall. The extension will likely go live after Gemini 2.0's official release, which should be sometime next month.

OPENAI ACQUIRED CHAT.COM

Chat.com now redirects to OpenAI's ChatGPT. The domain was registered in September 1996. It was sold to HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah last year for $15.5 million. Shah sold the domain to OpenAI in March. It is unknown how much the deal was worth. Shah implied that he had been paid in OpenAI shares.

SPACEX TO LAUNCH STARSHIP FOR THE SIXTH TIME THIS MONTH

The sixth flight test of SpaceX's Starship may be as soon as November 18. It will have many of the same objectives as the previous test, which is part of the reason for the fast approval. SpaceX will also attempt to relight one of the Starship's six Raptor engines in orbit, test new secondary thermal protection materials, and stress the limits of flap control to gain data on future landing profiles. Its engineers have introduced a number of upgrades to the system, including more redundancy in the booster propulsion system and updated software controls.

A NEW STRONGER OZEMPIC IS COMING. HERE'S WHAT TO KNOW

Novo Nordisk's CagriSema combines semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, with an amylin and calcitonin receptor agonist. Amylin helps regulate blood sugar levels while calcitonin controls calcium levels in the blood. An early-stage clinical trial of CagriSema found it helped patients lose more weight faster compared to the highest dose of Wegovy. Late-stage trials of the drug are expected later this year and in the first half of 2025.

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CLOUD GUARDRAILS

This site contains an open-source collection of cloud infrastructure best practices. It provides a high-level view of best practices. Each guardrail is contained in a YAML file for easy reading and sorting. Readers can filter through for practices that are most applicable to their technology/cloud/maturity.

HOW WEBSOCKETS COST US $1M ON OUR AWS BILL

Inter-process communication (IPC) can result in enormous AWS bills if done inefficiently. Recall.ai discovered that its Python WebSocket client and Chromium's WebSocket implementations were calling two functions that were taking up a majority of its CPU time. This article looks at how the company discovered the issue, why it chose to use WebSockets in the first place, and how it fixed the issue and reduced the CPU usage of its bots by up to 50%. This exercise in optimizing IPC for CPU efficiency reduced Recall.ai's AWS bill by over a million dollars per year.

TIKTOK CANADA UNIT ORDERED TO DISSOLVE OPERATIONS ON NATIONAL-SECURITY CONCERNS

Canada has ordered TikTok Technology Canada to dissolve its business operations due to national security concerns. TikTok says the order would eliminate hundreds of jobs and isn't in anyone's best interest. It will challenge the order in court. The Canadian government will not be blocking citizens' access to the TikTok app or their ability to post content on the platform. Banning the company and not the app could make things worse as the risks associated with the app will remain but the ability to hold the company accountable will be weakened.

ONCE THOUGHT A FANTASY, EFFORT TO SEQUENCE DNA OF MILLIONS OF SPECIES GAINS MOMENTUM

The Earth BioGenome Project, which started six years ago, aims to sequence the genomes of essentially all known eukaryotes. While the project is still short on funds and years behind schedule, it is no longer pure aspiration. The project has now sequenced 3,000 genomes and is on track to reach 10,000 species by 2026. Project leaders now hope to meet the 1.67 million species goal by 2032. Advances in DNA sequencing technology will help lower the costs of the project.

NINTENDO SAYS THE SWITCH SUCCESSOR WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH SWITCH GAMES

The successor to the Nintendo Switch will be able to play current Switch games and access data from users' Nintendo Switch Online services accounts.

AI STARTUP PERPLEXITY TO TRIPLE VALUATION TO $9 BILLION IN NEW FUNDING ROUND

Perplexity is finalizing a $500 million funding round that would value it at $9 billion.

DOCLING

Docling is a tool that parses documents and exports them to other formats.

AUSTRALIA PROPOSES 'WORLD-LEADING' BAN ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CHILDREN UNDER 16

Australia is trialing an age-verification system that will block children under 16 from accessing social media platforms.

MONOREPO - OUR EXPERIENCE

This article describes Ente's experience with switching to a monorepo.

MOATS AREN'T USEFUL

A startup's success is not a static victory protected by a moat - it's an iterative process of understanding users and shipping improvements.