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ANNOUNCING DENO 2

Deno is a modern, all-in-one, zero-configuration toolchain for JavaScript and TypeScript development. The recently announced Deno 2 update includes backwards compatibility with Node.js and npm, native support for package.json and node_modules, a stabilized standard library, support for private npm registries, work spaces and monorepo support, and more. This article highlights the main changes. Links to resources to learn more about Deno are available.

DON'T LET DICTS SPOIL YOUR CODE

Dicts make functions difficult to modify and their mutable nature hinders the structure of data and makes it dependent on the workflow of applications. This article discusses some better ways to handle data. The longer a developer postpones introducing proper data structures, the more complex the transition becomes.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER PAY HEATMAP

This site contains an interactive heatmap of total compensation pay ranges for software engineers across the US. It provides insights on salary percentiles, breaks down total compensation components, and reveals top-paying companies. The data is organized by DMA regions and accompanied by a color-coded legend.

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS UNDER ATTACK, WITH A BREACH REVEALING INFO FOR 31 MILLION ACCOUNTS

The Internet Archive was hacked and defaced with a notification telling users their information was stolen. Have I Been Pwned? received a file containing email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data for 31 million unique email addresses from the attackers and confirmed that it was valid by matching data with a user's account. The Internet Archive also experienced a DDOS attack, which has been fended off for now - the attackers implied that another attack has been planned.

EATING LESS CAN LEAD TO A LONGER LIFE: MASSIVE STUDY IN MICE SHOWS WHY

Dietary restriction boosts longevity due to favorable metabolic changes.

AMAZON'S NEW WAREHOUSES WILL EMPLOY 10X AS MANY ROBOTS

Amazon's next-generation fulfillment center located in Shreveport, Louisiana, will employ 2,500 humans once fully ramped up.

OPENAI PROJECTIONS SUGGEST NO PROFITS UNTIL 2029

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FROM SOFTWARE TO REALITY?

Computer scientists are changing how natural sciences are studied, promising a new era of discovery and efficiency, but we have yet to see this era in concrete terms.

THE OPEN SOURCE AI DEFINITION RC1 IS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENTS

The Release Candidate clarifies that all training data needs to be shared and disclosed.

ARE THESE 18 THINGS ALL THAT'S KILLING YOU?

This post contains a list of factors for aging that are under investigation and what you can do about each.

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ALPHAFOLD WINS NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and David Baker won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to protein folding with AlphaFold among other innovations.

GENOMIC FOUNDATION MODEL BENCHMARKING

GFMBench is a new framework designed to address challenges in genomic foundation model (GFM) development by providing standardized benchmarking tools. With millions of genomic sequences and hundreds of tasks, GFMBench automates benchmarking for open-source GFMs.

OPENAI REDUCING DEPENDENCY ON MICROSOFT DATA CENTERS

OpenAI is reducing its dependence on Microsoft data centers by securing its own compute capacity. Microsoft is also decreasing its reliance on OpenAI as it competes in the AI product market.

LLMS KNOW MORE THAN THEY SHOW: ON THE INTRINSIC REPRESENTATION OF LLM HALLUCINATIONS

Another study that shows language models encode internally when they aren't factual. This evidence can help us steer them and mitigate hallucinations.

DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORMER

Transformers tend to over-allocate attention to irrelevant context. This work introduces Diff Transformer, which amplifies attention to the relevant context while canceling noise. Specifically, the differential attention mechanism calculates attention scores as the difference between two separate softmax attention maps. The subtraction cancels noise, promoting the emergence of sparse attention patterns

A SIMPLER CLIP FINE-TUNING

This paper introduces ProLIP, a method for adapting vision-language models like CLIP without adding extra parameters. By fine-tuning just the last projection matrix of the vision encoder, ProLIP achieves strong results in few-shot classification.

SCIENCE AGENT BENCH

Benchmark code for the science agent test. This essentially serves to measure how good models are at producing novel scientific advances.

CONTROLLED VISUAL GENERATION

Controllable AutoRegressive Modeling (CAR) is a new framework that brings precise control to pre-trained visual autoregressive models. The approach allows fine-tuned image generation with fewer resources by progressively refining control representations.

SPATIOTEMPORAL PREDICTION WITH PREDFORMER

PredFormer is a new transformer-based approach for spatiotemporal predictive learning that outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and efficiency.

TIKTOK PARENT COMPANY BYTEDANCE HAS A TOOL THAT'S SCRAPING THE WEB 25 TIMES FASTER THAN OPENAI

ByteDance is aggressively using its web crawler, Bytespider, to amass data, potentially for developing its own LLM. Bytespider's data consumption rate is significantly higher than its competitors, including OpenAI and Anthropic. The purpose of the collected data remains unclear, but TikTok has been integrating AI-powered features like AI-generated ads and avatars.

SONAIR TAKES A CUE FROM DOLPHINS TO BUILD AUTONOMOUS 3D VISION WITHOUT LIDAR

Sonair has developed an ultrasound-based 3D computer vision technology for autonomous hardware. Aiming to replace lidar by offering a cost-effective and low-energy alternative, the system uses AI for object recognition and provides a 180-degree field of view. Sonair is initially targeting autonomous mobile robots. It recently raised $6.8 million to support technology aimed at enhancing robot perception.

AI WILL USE A LOT OF ENERGY. THAT'S GOOD FOR THE CLIMATE.

AI data centers are driving demand for clean, 24/7 energy, pushing tech giants to invest heavily in renewable and nuclear power solutions. This surge in demand could accelerate the cost reduction of clean energy technologies due to their learning rates. In the long run, AI's energy needs may spur policy changes and advancements in clean energy infrastructure.

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GENSIM SCALING ROBOT DATA WITH SYNTHETIC DATA

A great paper that shows how to scale robotic collection data with an improved high quality physics simulation dataset.

IMAGE RESTORATION

This project introduces a new differential equation-based method for image restoration.

TESLA'S HEAD OF VEHICLE PROGRAMS JUMPS TO WAYMO AHEAD OF ROBOTAXI REVEAL

Tesla's former head of vehicle programs, Daniel Ho, has joined Waymo as programs director.

MANGO DAO FAILS TO PASS PROPOSAL TO APPROVE SEC SETTLEMENT

In a sad example of DAO voter apathy and a lack of incentives, the Mango DAO could not accrue votes from a mere 2% of token holders to accept its lawsuit settlement with the SEC. Though the proposal was passing, one large voter withdrew their vote with four hours remaining. Had the vote passed, the DAO would have paid the SEC $670,000 and ceased interactions with MNGO in the United States.

WHO IS PETER TODD, AND WHY DOES HBO THINK HE IS SATOSHI?

HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery suggests Peter Todd, a prominent Bitcoin developer, as a potential candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, citing circumstantial evidence like a mistaken forum post reply and shared communication patterns. However, the crypto community has largely dismissed these claims as speculative and unsupported, with Todd himself denying being Satoshi.

VANECK LAUNCHES $30M FUND TO SUPPORT INNOVATION IN FINTECH, CRYPTO, AND AI

VanEck argues that the crypto industry is focusing too much on infrastructure rather than value-driven products. It is introducing a $30M early-stage fund dedicated to building innovation at the intersection of fintech, crypto, and AI. This initiative aims to support founders who are defining the application layers in their markets, emphasizing tokenized assets, marketplaces, and on-chain payments.

AZTEC'S ROAD TO MAINNET

After seven years of public development, the privacy-focused Aztec L2 has finally released its road to mainnet with an interactive roadmap. It is similar in structure to Ethereum's roadmap, with several categories like programmable privacy, decentralization, and proving system with several steps in each ultimately leading to the mainnet launch. As one of the original privacy projects, Aztec enables private smart contracts and interactions through its Noir programming language and zero-knowledge proofs.

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GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, US JOBS REPORT, BASE GROWTH, AND RESTAKING TRENDS

The crypto market saw major fluctuations last week, with Bitcoin dropping to $60,000 before rebounding to $62,000 due to geopolitical tensions between Israel and Iran and a strong U.S. jobs report. Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, reached $2 billion in total value locked (TVL), driven by the success of Aerodrome, while Ethereum's liquid restaking protocols saw explosive growth, with TVL surging from 112,000 ETH to 3.5 million ETH in 2024.

APPLICATIONS CAPTURE FEES, BLOCKCHAINS STORE VALUE

Blockchain-based applications like pump.fun are increasingly out-earning infrastructure and smart contract platforms. There has been a shift toward “fat applications” and modularization across blockchains as apps seek greater economic control and technical flexibility. While apps capture a larger share of the blockchain fee pool, L1s could compete as digital money, acting as a store of value and medium of exchange.

DEFI AS THE TRADFI LIQUIDITY LAYER

DeFi might pay TradFi for asset flow, like how startups pay Google for search result ranking. Since TradFi owns distribution, they can integrate with existing DeFi protocols and incentivize the movement of assets to their platforms for custody, insurance, and other benefits.

PROTOCOL VALUE ACCRUAL BLACK PILL

Blockchains face complex challenges in value accrual and must balance revenue from transaction fees, MEV, and token emissions while navigating the trade-off of higher per-transaction value or maximum volume capacity. Appchains and application-specific sequencing could internalize priority fees and MEV for apps, potentially reducing protocol revenue. With enough misalignment between protocols and apps, there could be a shift in value accrual from protocols to the apps, forcing protocols to rely on high transaction volumes rather than individual transaction value.

TAIWAN TO TRIAL CRYPTO CUSTODY SERVICES THROUGH LOCAL BANKS IN 2025

Taiwan plans to begin a pilot for crypto custody services through local banks in 2025, with the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) beginning to accept apps in Q1.

THE EFFECT OF THE US ELECTION ON BITCOIN AND CRYPTO

There's unlikely to be much difference between the candidates for Bitcoin, as both are expected to continue printing large amounts of money.

ONLY 12.7% OF CRYPTO WALLETS REPORT PROFITS ON POLYMARKET

~12.7% of Polymarket user wallets have seen profits, with most gains under $100, revealing a challenging landscape for the majority involved in the prediction market.