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PostgreSQL 16 has notable improvements to query parallelism, bulk data loading, and logical replication. It also features more SQL/JSON syntax, new monitoring stats for your workloads, and greater flexibility in defining access control rules for the management of policies across large fleets.
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows. npm-check-updates upgrades your package.json dependencies to the latest versions, ignoring specified versions.
Companies building apps have strong incentives to gain more users, even users who derive very little value from the app. The metric usually used to track if more users are using an app is DAUs, or daily active users. This means that designers and engineers start targeting “marginal users”, or people who are on the fringe of being regular users. They start changing the product to pull in these marginal users, but this usually makes the product worse for the core user base as a result.
Unity recently announced some pricing changes for game developers that received a lot of backlash. Even though they backtracked many of their changes, many game developers have lost trust in Unity. This article goes over many alternatives to Unity, such as Unreal Engine and Godot, while explaining their respective development languages, benefits, and drawbacks.
git stores files in .git/objects.
Chromebooks get automatic updates every four weeks for the next 10 years that will make the laptop more secure.
Google is on trial in Washington DC over US allegations that it illegally maintained a monopoly in the online search business. The US government has said that Google avoids using certain words internally in order to protect themselves from scrutiny
Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to make websites with tens of thousands of pages searchable in the browser while consuming as little bandwidth as possible. It exposes a JavaScript search API that can be used anywhere. Pagefind can run a full-text search on a 10,000-page site with a total network payload of under 300kB.
Lunar brings e-commerce functionality to Laravel.
A collection of signs that someone might have exceptional talent, created more as a brainstorming exercise rather than as a list of requirements.
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TED AI [https://bit.ly/3PAF69J] is a TED event focusing on the power and impact of AI and what's next, happening on the 17th and 18th of October in San Francisco. Meet the pioneers and trailblazers shaping the future of AI — Andrew NG, Reid Hoffman, Ilya Sutskever, Stephen Wolfram, and many others
Stability AI has released Stable Audio, a text-to-audio generator that provides anyone with the ability to use simple text prompts to generate short audio clips.
Google has launched an AI-driven interface for Data Commons, simplifying data access and analysis through natural language queries.
Salesforce has unveiled Einstein Copilot, a conversational AI for more intuitive user queries. Enhanced with a "trust layer" for security and linked to Salesforce's Data Cloud, it aims to reduce AI inaccuracies while acknowledging limitations.
Researchers looked into how well pretrained language models understand the basic building blocks and rules of the world, like 'a dog is an animal' or 'an apple is a fruit.' They found that these programs are decent at remembering some of this foundational knowledge, but aren't perfect at reasoning with it.
With the rise of fake content made by AI, there's a need to spot the specific parts of videos that are altered. The new tool "UMMAFormer" can identify these fake segments in videos more effectively than older methods.
While big models like MiniGPT-4 are good at understanding images, they struggle with detailed anomalies in industrial settings. This solution, AnomalyGPT, trains these models on simulated anomaly images and their descriptions, and can detect industrial faults without manual adjustments.
Researchers have figured out a way to speed up the process of turning text into images using a technique called Rectified Flow.
An inference library for running local LLMs on modern consumer GPUs.
This research shows that if a model is trained to understand one programming language, it gets better at understanding others too.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel reveals the company's extensive use of AI, which predates the ChatGPT era, in drug development, emphasizing its role in creating the COVID-19 vaccine, inventing enzymes, and interacting with regulators.
OpenAI has responded to lawsuits from authors who allege ChatGPT was trained on pirated books. Arguing transformative use, the firm seeks dismissal of most claims, comparing the situation to a Google Books copyright case and refuting Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations.
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Amazon is launching a new AI tool that generates product listings.
The SEC charged crypto-project Stoner Cats for conducting an unregistered NFT offering that raised $8 million. One of the arguments the SEC used was that the entity promoted the potential for its NFTs' prices to increase in the secondary market. Stoner Cats agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and to destroy all NFTs in its possession but did not have to admit that it was guilty of the charges.
Yesterday, FTX received approval from a US bankruptcy court to sell and hedge its crypto holdings, valued at over $3.4 billion - $1.16 billion worth of solana and $560 million in bitcoin, and the rest in other tokens. The court ruling permits FTX to use the funds raised in this liquidation to repay its creditors. FTX claims that hedging its assets will limit downside risk, while staking certain digital assets will generate low-risk returns for creditors. FTX also requested to hire Mike Novogratz from Galaxy Digital as an adviser in this process.
Telegram, in conjunction with the TON Foundation, announced the introduction of a self-custodial crypto wallet named TON Space at Singapore’s Token2049 crypto conference. The wallet, linked with the Telegram Open Network blockchain, was developed by the Open Platform, a company aligned with the TON ecosystem. The wallet offering follows Telegram's three million-user-strong custodial wallet version. Launching in November, TON Space expands Telegram's functionality and freedom while excluding certain jurisdictions like the US.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced that the crypto exchange will integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster, cheaper transactions. This signifies a shift for Armstrong, who was previously opposed to this solution. Armstrong also acknowledged Bitcoin as the "most important" digital asset, backing its position in the industry. While the timeline for the integration is not yet clear, the decision underscores Coinbase's focus on enhancing the Bitcoin experience for users.
In this article, Ethereum infrastructure company Astria emphasizes the need for decentralized sequencers in rollup protocols over the centralized ones used currently. Although centralized sequencers offer faster transaction validations, they pose risks such as potential invalid commitments and manipulation for the operators' own benefit. To counter this, Astria suggests either a simple leader rotation mechanism or a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus algorithm for rollup decentralization, bringing more security and redundancy while avoiding single-party dependency.
The fourth annual Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Index has been released. The index measures grassroots crypto adoption in various countries. It considers factors such as on-chain data and real-world data to identify countries where average people are embracing cryptocurrencies the most. The index evaluates each country's cryptocurrency usage through centralized exchanges, retail transactions, peer-to-peer exchanges, and DeFi protocols.
This article analyzes the potential scenario of the Federal Reserve continuing to raise rates instead of cutting them. It questions what would happen if there was no recession, inflation didn't fall, and there were no financial system breakdowns. The article also discusses the concept of real yields and argues that they should match nominal GDP growth. It examines the current state of real yields in the US and discusses the implications for future growth. Despite uncertainties, the current environment is bullish for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
This statement from SEC commissioners presents dissenting views on a recent NFT settlement against Sonter Cats spearheaded by Chair Gensler. The application of securities laws to NFTs is criticized for lacking clear guidelines and potentially stifling artistic creativity. The release compares NFTs to physical collectibles and highlights the importance of providing artists with clear guidance on how securities laws apply to their work. The dissenting views argue that the enforcement action against Stoner Cats inhibits artists from utilizing NFTs to monetize their talents and engage their fan bases.
Rep. Tom Emmer sponsored an amendment restricting the SEC's digital asset enforcement funding, criticizing Chair Gary Gensler's overreach. Emmer emphasizes the need for regulatory clarity and supports other crypto-related legislation.
Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder resigned three months after SEC charges were levied against the firm. The firm announced a second round of layoffs, totaling over 100 staff members.
MobileCoin, responsible for Signal's crypto payments, appointed Sara Drakeley as CEO, aiming to enhance encrypted global money transfers.
Google Cloud has become an oracle provider on the LayerZero network, facilitating data transfer between chains.
TikTok has officially launched its online shopping feature in the US, nearly a year after it first started testing the waters. The Chinese-owned app added a “shop” button to the homepage to bring its TikTok Shop service to more than 150 million users in the US. TikTok Shop will add in-feed videos and Live Shopping to its For You feed while also showcasing product reviews and connecting users with sellers for marketing opportunities.
Google's device tracking platform will receive a design refresh to reflect plans to expand its reach to include devices other than just smartphones. The new version will allow users to mark a device as lost, temporarily share a device's location, and edit contact info for accessories.
All Adobe customers can now access the company's generative AI image creation and editing features. Users will receive 100 to 3,000 generative credits from their subscription plans. They will be able to add more credits.