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01GENERAL

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02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

APPLE INTROS M5 PRO AND MAX MACBOOK PROS AND ITS FIRST NEW MONITORS IN YEARS

Apple has added the M5 Pro and M5 Max to its MacBook Pro lineup. The M5 Pro now comes with 1TB of storage by default, while the M5 Max comes with 2TB of storage by default. The base storage for the M5 MacBook Pro has increased to 1TB. The upgrades come with increases to starting prices. Apple has also introduced a pair of new displays.

arstechnica.com5 min read

OPENAI'S NEW GPT-5.3 INSTANT

OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Instant is a conversational model designed to have smoother conversations. The model has improved contextual understanding of user queries, so it can answer more questions without assuming bad intent without any loosening of safety controls. This also makes it better at web searches. The model generates more useful direct responses rather than presenting users with lists of links.

sherwood.news1 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

AS MOON INTEREST HEATS UP, TWO COMPANIES UNVEIL PLANS FOR A LUNAR “HARVESTER”

Astrolab and Interlune are forming a partnership to build a fleet of electric harvesters to excavate, extract, and separate Helium-3 from lunar regolith on the Moon. The companies have not announced when they are scheduled to deploy an initial harvester, but both are working toward that goal. Astrolab's FLEX rover will likely be one of the first payloads on the first SpaceX Starship mission to the lunar surface. Helium-3 doesn't occur naturally on Earth. It has several applications, but the most near-term use is in cryogenics.

arstechnica.com3 min read

QUANTUM DECRYPTION OF RSA IS MUCH CLOSER THAN EXPECTED

The Jesse-Victor-Gharabaghi (JVG) quantum decryption algorithm completely upends existing time projections for quantum decryption. It requires a thousand-fold less quantum computer resources to break the encryption methods used in RSA and ECC than Shor's approach. Shor's algorithm requires an estimated one million qubits, but JVG requires less than 5,000. Researchers previously believed we were a decade away from quantum decryption, but that timeline has now moved up significantly.

links.tldrnewsletter.com3 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

HOW TO KILL THE CODE REVIEW

Humans already couldn't keep up with code reviews when humans wrote code at human speed, so there's no way we can manually review AI-generated code at scale, especially when reviewing AI-generated code requires more effort. Developers need to move upstream and focus on encoding the constraints. The future is ship fast, observe everybody, and revert faster.

latent.space10 min read

NOBODY GETS PROMOTED FOR SIMPLICITY

Engineering teams praise engineers who overbuild, but the ones who ship simple things get nothing. This is what happens when companies evaluate work incorrectly. Complexity looks smart, and our systems are set up to reward it. Engineers need to learn how to describe the judgment behind their work to show how decisions were made and why complexity was avoided.

terriblesoftware.org7 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

GIVING LLMS A PERSONALITY IS JUST GOOD ENGINEERING

AI skeptics often argue that while AI can pretend to be people, it shouldn't. However, the biggest AI labs build human-like systems because that is the best way to build a capable AI system. Personalities are the medium that make language models useful. They guide models to pull from the helpful parts of their training data.

seangoedecke.com3 min read

M5 PRO AND M5 MAX ARE SURPRISINGLY BIG DEPARTURES FROM OLDER APPLE SILICON

Apple's Pro and Max chips usually take the same basic building blocks from the basic chip and just scale them up. However, the M5 Pro and Max chips use a different CPU architecture. The new Fusion Architecture welds two silicon chiplets into a single processor. Rather than just a pair of M5 chips welded together, Apple has one chiplet handle the CPU and most of the I/O, while the other chiplet is used mainly for graphics. Apple is also introducing a new type of 'performance core' that prioritizes multi-threaded performance.

arstechnica.com7 min read