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NUEJS

An exceptionally small (2.3kb minzipped) alternative to React, Vue, and Svelte for building UI with cleaner code.

NEXT.JS 13.5

Next.js 13.5 introduces several improvements that enhance local dev performance and reliability

DON’T CROSS THE BEAMS

One of the challenges of refactoring is succession, or how to slice the work of refactoring into safe steps and how to order those steps. The two factors complicating succession in refactoring are efficiency and uncertainty. It’s important to stay focused during refactorings as a loss of focus can increase uncertainty and reduce efficiency. Furthermore, it’s important to take safe steps forward as refactoring continues, as it can quickly become a mess if not planned out properly.

LANGUAGE MODEL UXES IN 2027

The future of large language model user experience might not look like ChatGPT. Instead, LLMs will be more integrated into current applications and into our entire digital lives. They will have long-term memory across uses, access to more of our data, more privacy controls, and possibly run fully offline.

HOW TO REMOVE ALL EVENT LISTENERS FROM A DOM ELEMENT

A nuclear option to remove all existing event listeners on a DOM element by replacing the element with a copy of itself.

HARLEQUIN

A drop-in replacement for the DuckDB CLI.

STRADA

Strada enables you to create fully native controls in your hybrid mobile apps. Build web components and native components that work together in WebView screens to elevate your Turbo Native apps to the next level.

XBOX LEAK: NEW XBOX SERIES X DESIGN, NEXT-GEN IN 2028, AND MORE

Unredacted documents from the FTC v.Microsoft case have revealed plans for a new disc-less Xbox Series, a gyro controller, and a next-gen hybrid Xbox in 2028. This is the biggest leak in Xbox history. Xbox chief Phil Spencer has hinted that Microsoft's plans may have changed. This page contains a collection of articles with more details about the leak.

“DOUBLE-CHECK” ANSWERS

Google Bard is now integrated with Google apps and can double-check answers against web content. It can now also work in over 40 languages. Bard Extensions are opt-in features that let Bard pull data from Google's other services for integration into a Bard conversation. They allow Bard to pull real-time flight and hotel information, suggest YouTube videos about a topic, and more. Data from Google apps used in AI conversations will not be viewed by human reviewers or be used to train future versions of the model.

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE

Neuralink is looking for its first human test subjects for an initial six-year trial. The trial will test Neuralink tech designed to help those with paralysis control devices. The company is looking for people with quadriplegia due to vertical spinal cord injury or ALS who are over the age of 22 and have a consistent and reliable caregiver. The study is not related to the all-encompassing brain computer that Elon Musk has been talking about for years.

TOYOTA REVEALS ITS PLAN TO CATCH UP ON EV BATTERY TECHNOLOGY

Toyota has released a new roadmap showing how it will regain competitiveness and sell 3.5 million EVs by 2030. It is working on four battery technology solutions. Three of the solutions use liquid electrolytes and the fourth is a solid-state battery. The company is also putting a lot of effort into shrinking the height of its battery packs. This article goes into detail about Toyota's plans.

KAMAL

Kamal is a tool for deploying web apps anywhere with zero downtime. It works seamlessly across multiple hosts and can hold requests while a new app container is started and the old one is stopped. Kamal will work with any type of web app that can be containerized with Docker.

A (MORE) MODERN CSS RESET

A CSS reset can help make browsers behave better and reduce compatibility issues. This article discusses a modern CSS reset that prevents font size inflation, sets core body defaults, balances text wrapping on headings, and more. The article breaks down each part of the CSS reset and explains the reasons for the code and how it works. Browsers are getting better and better, so resets like this are becoming less necessary.

THE BEST STUFF SAM BANKMAN-FRIED’S PARENTS BOUGHT USING FTX MONEY

Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are being accused of exploiting their access and influence within FTX to enrich themselves. FTX lawyers are suing them to try to get some of the money back. This article lists some of the things they allegedly received from FTX. These include a $16.4 million property in the Bahamas, funds for donations, expensive hotel rooms, tickets to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in France, and a $200,000 annual salary.

CORE ULTRA

Intel has been hyping up its Meteor Lake chips for months - the company has now set a launch date for December 14. The chips will be the most power-efficient client processor Intel has ever made, with up to twice the graphics performance, a low power island, and hooks for Microsoft Windows to intelligently control them. This article details the many features of the new Intel Core Ultra chips.

TRACING: STRUCTURED LOGGING, BUT BETTER IN EVERY WAY

Tracing can result in larger files, but it provides much more information than logging.

EVENT

It's likely that Amazon's hardware team could see its resources cut further - it's also possible the team could be folded into the Amazon Web Services Division.

AN EXCRUCIATINGLY DETAILED GUIDE TO SSH

SSH can give users immense power, but sometimes the syntax and other concepts can get in the way of accomplishing things.

HOW MICROSOFT DOES QUALITY ASSURANCE

Microsoft was the first major company to come up with a specialized testing role - the company has played an outsized role in the development and importance of quality assurance across the industry.

EXISTED

The structure was found two proteins whose interactions are essential for cell division.

FOR ACCELERATOR PROGRAMMING

The Unified Acceleration Foundation's founding members include Arm, Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung - but not Nvidia.

OPENAI LAUNCHES A RED TEAMING NETWORK

OpenAI has introduced the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a group of experts that will assist in assessing and mitigating the risks associated with its AI models.

ANYSCALE OPTIMIZES OPEN SOURCE AI DEPLOYMENTS WITH ENDPOINTS

Anyscale has unveiled Endpoints, which allows developers to integrate fast, cost-efficient, and scalable LLMs into their applications using popular LLM APIs. The company also announced a new integration with NVIDIA to boost the performance and development of LLMs on Ray, Anyscale’s open-source framework for distributed machine learning.

BARD CAN NOW FIND ANSWERS IN YOUR GMAIL, DOCS, AND DRIVE

Google's Bard chatbot can now scan Gmail, Docs, and Drive to retrieve information and perform tasks. Google says these new integrations, called extensions, aim to save users time when searching for specific information within their documents and emails.

6T MULTILINGUAL TOKENS

Hot on the heels of Google's new dataset comes CulturaX. A cleaned dataset of trillions of multilingual tokens will be a great boost for multilingual language models.

IMPROVING TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATION

Turning long texts into images can be tough, especially when there are lots of items or details to show. This new method breaks down long descriptions into simpler steps and makes sure each detail fits perfectly in the picture, setting a new high standard for creating images from text.

MAKING DEPTH ESTIMATION MORE FLEXIBLE

Figuring out 3D depth from a single 2D image is tricky because many 3D scenes can look the same in 2D. This method separates camera details from the picture's content, making it easier to guess the depth in various situations.

TRACK HUNDREDS OF POINTS IN REAL TIME

PIPS2 is a state-of-the-art point-tracking system that performs dense pixel-level tracking and is robust to basic occlusions and fast motion.

USING LANGUAGE MODELS TO IMPROVE HOW THINGS LOOK ONLINE

Creating eye-catching designs online is important for getting users interested and helping them understand information. This new method, called LayoutNUWA, makes these designs smarter by using language models to turn coding instructions into awesome layouts.

DOLA: A SIMPLE WAY TO MAKE LANGUAGE MODELS STICK TO THE FACTS

Researchers have introduced a new method called DoLa that helps large language models (like the ones that chat with you or write articles) stop making stuff up and stick to the facts. It uses a smart way of comparing different layers inside the model to filter out false information.

STATE-OF-THE-ART BACKGROUND REMOVAL IN HF TRANSFORMERS

Matting is the process of creating a black-and-white mask to segment out important parts of an image. It is usually used for foreground and background segmentation. The portrait mode on smartphones uses a method similar to ViTMatte described here.

EXISTED

Google’s AlphaFold played a crucial role in determining the specific structures of two intrinsically disordered proteins that induce previously unidentified structures when they interact. The discovery sheds light on how such proteins function and brings valuable insights into complex biological questions that were previously challenging to answer.

$26 MILLION IN GIFTS AND PROPERTY

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is suing the parents of its disgraced ex-CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, claiming they wrongfully acquired millions of dollars and property from the company, in an attempt to recover these assets. The lawsuit asserts that his parents used their influence in FTX to obtain a $10m cash gift and a $16.4m Bahamian luxury property while FTX teetered on the brink of insolvency. Additionally, the suit accuses the couple of urging for political and charitable contributions that increased their professional and social standing.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

Nomura subsidiary, Laser Digital Asset Management, has launched the Bitcoin Adoption Fund to provide an easy path for institutional investors to enter the digital asset space. According to management, this is the first step in plans to launch a broader platform of digital asset investment products. Led by Sebastien Guglietta and Fiona King, the fund aims to capitalize on long-lasting transformational changes in the economy caused by technology.

APTOS LABS ADDS COINBASE PAY TO ITS PETRA CRYPTO WALLET

Petra, a crypto wallet developed by Aptos Labs, is integrating Coinbase Pay into its platforms. The goal of this integration is to improve ease of use and onboarding for users in the web3 space. This integration could potentially attract users to Aptos by creating more seamless onramps and offramps. Petra has integrated 160+ dApps into its wallet offering so far, including LayerZero and PancakeSwap.

ECLIPSE MAINNET: THE ETHEREUM SVM L2

Eclipse is planning to launch a general-purpose L2 solution that combines Ethereum's security and liquidity, Solana's speed and scalability, and Celestia's data availability to massively scale Ethereum. The platform aims to improve user experience and ease of development. Key features include Ethereum settlement, a Solana Virtual Machine execution environment, Celestia for scalable data availability, and ZK proofs of fraud via RISC Zero.

THE FUTURE OF OWNYFANS

This article discusses the evolution of social media towards an "asocial" model, with a focus on financial transactions and capital extraction. It further dives into web3's potential to revolutionize online commerce through tokens associated with specific social "tribes" or communities. This sort of tokenization of culture could fundamentally transform social interactions online by monetizing internet subcultures and trending memes.

ARBITRUM STYLUS - A WORLD OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES

This article provides an overview of the Arbitrum ecosystem and the newly-released Arbitrum Stylus. Stylus allows smart contract developers to use various programming languages to build on Arbitrum. The article also discusses potential ecosystem growth due to a new governance proposal for ARB incentives and upcoming protocols including Tapioca, Dolomite, Parallax, Empyreal, and Hyperliquid.

GENERATIVE MANUFACTURING: TRANSMUTING CODE INTO PHYSICAL GOODS

Generative art has taken the crypto world by storm over the past couple of years. This article argues that the unique combinations of generative algorithms and blockchain tech will eventually enable generative manufacturing of consumer and luxury goods. It argues that the generative manufacturing stack will be comprised of the creation layer, including on-chain engines and coding libraries, a curation layer, a translation layer, a fabrication layer, and an authentication layer.

TO STAKE

Crypto influencer Gainzy announced that he was switching from crypto gambling site Rollbit to its competitor Stake.com, leading to a 5.3% drop in Rollbit's token. While his sports betting and casino gameplay generally generates interest on social media, his move to Stake.com has generated quite the buzz thus far. Stake has built an impressive roster of celebrities and mainstream influencers to represent its brand, while Rollbit has leaned heavily on Crypto Twitter influencers.

THE BEST STUFF SAM BANKMAN-FRIED’S PARENTS BOUGHT USING FTX MONEY

The lawsuit against SBF’s parents for improper compensation practices has made headlines - this article details some of the most interesting aspects of these compensation packages.

LAWMAKER SAYS

Hong Kong is in its second consultation for stablecoin issuance guidelines, aiming to release regulations by mid-2024.

OPTIMISM QUIETLY ROLLS OUT THIRD COMMUNITY AIRDROP

Optimism recently conducted its third community airdrop, distributing $27 million in OP tokens to 31,000 addresses.

BRIEF HISTORY OF DEFI

From its roots in Bitcoin all the way back in 2010 to present day, DeFi evolved from decentralized digital currency to complex financial systems. This post highlights some of the biggest milestones along the way in that journey.

APPLE'S JOYFUL IOS 17 ANIMATIONS MESMERIZE IPHONE FANS

EXPERIENCE