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01GENERAL

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GOODBYE LOW TEST COVERAGE AND SLOW QA CYCLES

Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. However, getting that kind of coverage (and staying there) is hard and pricey for any team.

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

JEFF BEZOS CREATES AI START-UP WHERE HE WILL BE CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Jeff Bezos' new company, Project Prometheus, is coming out of the gates with $6.2 billion in funding and nearly 100 employees, including researchers poached from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. The company is focused on AI that will help engineering and manufacturing in a number of fields. It will create systems that can learn from the physical world in more complex ways than chatbots do. Bezos will be co-chief executive - this is the first time he has taken a formal operational role in a company since stepping down as chief executive of Amazon in July 2021.

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BLUE ORIGIN NO LONGER JUST A ROCKET COMPANY AS MARS ‘ON RADAR'

Blue Origin is now a manufacturing company that can build rockets at scale. The firm's mission has grown beyond just launching payloads. To go to the Moon, the company must be able to build all of the hardware needed to get to orbit at a rate fast enough to sustain large-scale missions. Blue Origin successfully landed its New Glenn booster for the first time last week. It is looking to conduct another New Glenn launch next year.

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03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

TODAY, VALAR ATOMICS BECAME THE FIRST STARTUP IN HISTORY TO SPLIT THE ATOM

Valar Atomics' Project Nova core achieved zero-power criticality for the first time yesterday morning. Zero-power criticality is a foundation milestone that precedes nuclear operation with power. The achievement will allow Valar to gain a greater understanding of the neutronic characteristics of the core and verify assumptions about fuel, moderators, active reactivity control, and burnable poisons. It marks a decisive step toward commercial-scale, factory-built nuclear reactors capable of powering heavy industry, hydrogen production, and AI-era data infrastructure with carbon-free energy.

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CHINA IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO PERPETUAL ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

An experimental reactor built in the Gobi Desert has achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, bringing humanity one step closer to an almost endless supply of nuclear energy. Thorium is much more abundant and accessible than uranium and generates far less radioactive waste. The entire thorium-to-uranium process takes place inside the reactor core, eliminating the need for external fuel fabrication. The system, which uses molten salt, requires no water at all, allowing it to be built almost anywhere.

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04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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112 TOOLS, $5,000 PER EMPLOYEE: FORRESTER REVEALS THE REAL COSTS OF TOOL SPRAWL

Large organizations spend nearly $5,000 per person annually on enterprise tools. But according to Forrester's latest research [14], cutting costs isn't about eliminating tools — it's about cutting friction. In this webinar with Miro, Forrester's Bobby Cameron breaks down why consolidation only focused on ROI fails and introduces the High-Performance IT framework for smarter tool consolidation

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CRAFT YOUR CHROME DEVTOOLS PROTOCOL (CDP) COMMANDS EFFICIENTLY WITH THE NEW COMMAND EDITOR

Chrome Devtools has introduced a new CDP editor that auto-completes commands, auto-populates command parameters, simplifies the typing of parameters, and improves prototyping speed. It can be used to view parameters alongside documentation. This post provides an overview of what the new CDP editor offers and how users can make the most use of it.

developer.chrome.com6 min read

TOWARDS INTERPLANETARY QUIC TRAFFIC

Deep space is big, making it challenging to run a network. One of the promising ways seems to be adopting the IP protocol suite. QUIC is becoming the protocol of choice for reliable communication. This post looks at how QUIC can reliably operate in deep space and provides guidance on how to deploy it.

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05MISCELLANEOUS

EUROPE BEGINS RETHINKING ITS CRACKDOWN ON BIG TECH

The European Commission plans to unveil a 'digital package of simplification' tomorrow that will rewrite key aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation and delay parts of a law restricting certain uses of AI. The EU's tech laws have long been criticized for stifling economic growth. The digital simplification package is part of a broader deregulatory push.

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