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Tesla was the most quoted battery brand in the second half of last year. It was also the second-most quoted inverter brand - its Powerwall 3 includes an integrated inverter that works for both solar and storage applications. Tesla's growth is lowering storage and solar prices. It is unclear whether brand backlash or equipment shortages will affect Tesla's marketplace share this year.
Intel's 14A chip node will feature a mysterious 'turbo cell' technology designed to boost CPU and GPU speeds. It will offer a 15% to 20% performance-per-watt increase over the 18A process. The 14A process will arrive in 2027 alongside a '14-E' node developed to contain additional feature extensions. The company is also currently developing another node called 18A-P, scheduled to arrive next year, designed to deliver enhanced performance to a broader set of foundry customers.
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Meta's Llama API is now available in a limited preview. The API allows developers to build Llama-driven services, tools, and applications. It comes with an evaluation suite for testing the quality of custom models. Meta says it won't use customer data from the API to train its models. Models built using the Llama API can be transferred to another host. Access to the API will be expanded in the coming weeks and months.
While most bots are just trying to discover new content, there are some created to spam, scrape content, or hack - one way to deal with these bots is by using zip bombs. A zip bomb is a relatively small compressed file that can expand into a very large file that can overwhelm a machine. This post walks readers through how to create a zip bomb to prevent malicious bots from accessing their servers. While zip bombs can be easily detected and circumvented, they are good enough for protecting servers from unsophisticated bots.
The relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft has become strained. The companies' chief executive officers are increasingly at odds over the computing power Microsoft provides to OpenAI, the access OpenAI gives Microsoft to its models, and whether OpenAI's AI systems will soon achieve humanlike intelligence. The companies wield tremendous power over one another: Microsoft can effectively block OpenAI's effort to restructure into an independent for-profit company, and OpenAI's board can prevent Microsoft from accessing its most cutting-edge technology. While they helped each other become power players in generative AI, they are now preparing for independent futures.
There are many stories about companies replacing human engineers with AI. This thread contains responses from real engineers that discuss the current industry landscape. While there is a lot of hype about AI, much of it is built on a misunderstanding of what real engineering work is. Most of an engineer's time is spent thinking and talking about the problem and solutions, not coding. The hard part of software engineering isn't making new code - a large portion of the work is dealing with people, understanding what they really want or need, and helping them understand it.
Performance optimization is hard because you have to explore dozens of cases manually, iterate with inadequate tooling, and merge incompatible optimizations while dealing with both corporate greed and cultural apathy.
The company is seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.
Zero-day attacks are expected to continue increasing over time - the lag time before anyone notices these threats can be very rewarding for hackers.
Starlink's new 12-month residential service plans bring the price of the dish and router down to $0 in select markets.
Apple chose not to include rsync 3.x in macOS due to licensing issues, instead using a variant called openrsync, which does most of what rsync does - those who need to have the 3.x version of rsync can install it via Homebrew.
About a quarter of all clinical trials and early drug development now happens in China.
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OpenAI has announced new shopping features in ChatGPT Search that will allow users to search for products and purchase them through merchant websites after being redirected from the ChatGPT interface. The experience resembles Google Shopping - users click on a product image and the interface displays multiple retailers on the right side of the screen with buttons to complete purchases. Product reviews come from various online sources and users can choose which review sources for ChatGPT to prioritize. The product results are not sponsored for now, but the company is likely working towards enabling sponsored placements.
Amazon launched its first batch of 27 Kuiper internet satellites into space on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida shortly after 7 PM ET yesterday. The Federal Communications Commission expects Amazon to launch half of its total constellation up in the air by July 2026. Amazon has booked more than 80 launches with ULA, SpaceX, Arianespace, and Blue Origin to deploy dozens of satellites at a time. The company will invest up to $10 billion to build the Kuiper network.
A new 3D-printed Starbucks has opened in Brownsville, Texas. The Cobod BOD2-printed concrete fabricated shop is open for both in-person pickup and drive-through orders. It is not a very large store - its 1,400 sq ft shell is just enough for a mobile order pick-up desk and a drive-through coffee shop. There is no indoor seating and no in-person walk-in order system.
Scientists from London's King's College and Imperial College have grown a tooth in a lab. They used a specially developed material to mimic the conditions required for natural tooth development. The technology could eventually offer patients a biological alternative to artificial fillings and implants. Now that researchers have replicated the right environment, the challenge is in translating the discovery into a clinical setting.
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Magnitude is an end-to-end testing framework powered by visual AI agents that can see interfaces and adapt to any changes in them. It features a strong reasoning agent for planning and adjusting tests, a fast visual agent for reliably executing runs, and a reasoning agent that steps in if there is a problem. Magnitude saves plans to execute runs in the same way locally or in CI/CD pipelines.
PlanGo had one developer until 2025. This was made possible through Rails, which allowed the developer to be fast and efficient. The company's apps combined have over 100,000 yearly downloads, all built and maintained by one Rails developer. This post discusses how PlanGo was developed, the lessons learned over 14 years of building as a solo technical founder, and PlanGo's future plans.
OpenAI's models being overly sycophantic is bad because it's dangerous to validate people's belief that they're always in the right. This sycophancy is a dark pattern - a user interface designed to trick users into doing things they'd prefer not to do. The whole process of turning an AI base model into a model you can chat to is a process of making the model want to please the user. The problem happens when users collide with the real world and do things because a large language model has convinced them it is a good idea - and then they return to the model for comfort, and sink even deeper into the illusion.
Many in the tech industry arrived at where they are through their own work and research - reading the source code, books, and manuals and trying things out. While this may make some of them think they're better than college graduates, this is likely not the case: people are really good at justifying their status, and this is just another way for some people to reinforce existing power structures. A lot of college dropouts worked really hard to get where they are, but that doesn't mean they didn't also just get very lucky.
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A screenshot of what looks to be a WhatsApp group chat in a web browser that shows camera and phone icons is available in the article.
The new format omits additional information needed by the hard of hearing, including character names, music cues, and sound effects.
BYD has set an ambitious target to double its overseas sales to more than 800,000 cars in 2025.
It is unclear whether the lighter version will be considered a replacement for the Vision Pro or a cheaper alternative.
Large language models will need to be able to build theories about programs before they can replace human programmers.
Founders often struggle to find a cofounder because they are not as valuable to the startup endeavor as they think they are.
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Modern bots are smarter than ever [5]—executing JavaScript, storing cookies, rotating IPs, and even cracking CAPTCHAs with AI. As attacks grow more sophisticated, traditional detection just isn't enough.
Waymo's long-term business plans include the possibility of personal ownership. The company recently expanded testing to Japan and plans to introduce robotaxis in Austin this summer. Waymo previously floated the idea of selling self-driving cars when it made a deal with Chrysler in 2018 to build self-driving Pacifica minivans. Tesla also aims to release a personal self-driving car - it announced at an event last year that the Cybercab will be available by 2026 for $30,000.
Google claims that it is the only company capable of running Chrome effectively due to complex service integrations. Separating the browser from the company's servers could make some features unusable. Despite Google's claims, experts believe that a Chrome divestiture is technically feasible. There are many parties interested in buying Chrome, including OpenAI and Yahoo.
Humanoid robots are becoming increasingly capable as more and more companies invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the technology. Some are now being tested in the field to see if they can do useful work. Humanoid robots can now dance, run, and do flips, but while manipulation capabilities are improving, they still have a long way to go. While it's possible to automate any specific task, building a robot that can flexibly perform a variety of actions in a novel or highly variable environment is much harder.
Chongqing, China, is as big as Austria. With 34 million inhabitants, the city is the emblem of the fastest urban revolution on the planet. It has become a symbol of the Chinese ability to reshape the world. This article contains a gallery of images from all over the city showing sights like the Yangtze River, street food stalls, various shopping centers, and more.
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TmuxAI is an AI-powered assistant for the terminal that works alongside users in a tmux window. It observes and understands the content of tmux panes to provide assistance without users changing their workflow or interrupting terminal sessions. TmuxAI features context-aware terminal assistance, universal terminal compatibility, prepare and watch modes, and zero-configuration setup. It can understand context across multiple panes.
Magnitude is an AI-native testing framework for web apps. It uses visual AI agents to provide end-to-end testing, allowing it to adapt to any changes. Magnitude can be used to build test cases easily with natural language. It can run tests locally or in CI/CD pipelines.
Huawei's new Ascend 910D AI chip could be more powerful than Nvidia's H100, a popular chip used for AI training. It is still in early development and still needs to be tested to assess performance. The company will receive its first batch of samples of the processor as soon as late May. Huawei faces challenges in producing its chips - it has been cut off from TSMC and China's closest alternative is blocked from purchasing the most advanced chip-making equipment.
Tech positions nowadays are starting to look like regular jobs. Workers are contending with the constant fear of layoffs, longer hours, and increasing responsibilities for the same pay. A few years ago, tech talent was so in demand that some people were being hired to do virtually nothing. Employees are now doing the work of multiple laid-off colleagues. Changing jobs used to be a surefire way to secure a raise, but now, asking for more money can lead to a job offer being withdrawn.
The funding would value the company at over $120 billion.
Slate Auto's first trucks will be available to customers for under $20,000 with the federal EV tax credit by the end of 2026.
Deel has filed a civil suit against Rippling alleging that Rippling was not remitting its customers' payroll tax and social benefits dollars to local taxation authorities but rather categorizing and reporting the funds as its own earnings.
A look at what traits and characteristics could be desirable to have for a Kafka rebuild that looks beyond separating storage and compute and object store support.
Big tech companies have packed in as many features as possible to make money - the interaction of these features adds an unimaginable amount of cognitive load.
India currently produces about 40 million iPhones per year, a bit less than a fifth of Apple's global iPhone production.