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Elon Musk reportedly had plans to combine Twitter and Substack. He saw acquiring Substack as a way to aid Twitter's subscription service. Substack executive Chris Best declined the acquisition despite Musk offering him a chief executive position at the combined company. Substack pivoted to politics soon after the offer as some of the largest election pundits found a home on the platform.
Creating digital artifacts that last requires using open file formats that are easy to retrieve and read. This means using tools that give people this freedom. While it isn't always possible to choose 'file over app', there are almost always options that allow users to export their data, which can later be scraped into usable formats. This post provides links to tools and projects that align with the 'file over app' philosophy.
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The top 10 best-selling CPUs on Amazon are AMD processes from the Ryzen 5000, 7000, and 9000 processor series.
Security at scale means deciding how to divide a limited pool of engineering resources such that the largest demographic of users benefits from a security initiative.
Production code that utilized gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini suddenly stopped working on November 13, suggesting there was an update to the model that made them incapable of doing the previous task.
Mistral has added image generation, web search, and an interactive 'canvas' to its free web-based chatbot, Le Chat.
Google is also building a new version of Chrome for Android with extensions support and a Terminal to run Linux apps on Android.
Elon Musk's suit against Sam Altman has given Musk a chance to reveal how Altman secured power in the company's early days and his willingness to go toe-to-toe with for-profit competitors from the beginning.
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The case between Elon Musk and OpenAI has exposed a batch of emails sent between Musk, Sam Altman, and others during OpenAI's early days. The emails were revealed as part of an attempt to prove OpenAI is somehow breaking antitrust law. They reveal how OpenAI's team felt about Musk being the leader of the company, their worries about Altman, Microsoft's early relationship with OpenAI, the company's plans to buy Cerebras, and more. This article provides a summary of the content of the emails.
Bluesky saw more than a million users sign up to its platform over 24 hours last Thursday. Its app was placed at the top of the free apps chart on the App Store in the US. The platform's CEO claims that Bluesky has a higher engagement than X. Bluesky has plans to launch subscriptions. It recently raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Blockchain Capital.
There is a new form of cosmetic surgery that can permanently change people's eye color. Many doctors say the procedure hasn't been proven safe and that it could cause lasting damage. The procedure involves cutting donut-like tunnels into the cornea, widening the tunnels, then filling them with dye. It takes about half an hour and the effects are immediate. Pictures of a patient before and after the procedure are available in the article.
US firm Agility Robotics recently demonstrated its Digit humanoid robot at this year's Web Summit. The robot's ability to sift through a pile of colored T-shirts and place them in a basket raised discussions about safety, jobs, AI's effect on the climate, and its influence across a huge range of industries. This post summarizes some of the discussion points from the Web Summit. The development of generative AI has opened up the doors for new types of companies to solve problems that otherwise would not have been possible.
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Framer Motion is now completely independent and is now Motion. The change will bring improved support and documentation, a stronger community, and a renewed focus on developer-facing features. Motion has become wildly successful in its own right and is the go-to React animation solution. Spinning it out as an independent open source project will help ensure its future as a core driver of animations on all sites.
Programming-by-example is a technique where users provide examples of the outcome they want and the system generates code that can perform it. Mirror is a proof-of-concept AI-powered programming language that only allows programming-by-example. Users define functions through a set of example input-output pairs. Everything must be expressed through examples. This post explains how Mirror works and provides examples and links to resources.
A Chinese cyber-espionage operation successfully gained entry into multiple US and international telecommunications companies, including T-Mobile. The months-long operation aimed to spy on the cellphone communications of high-value intelligence targets. Attackers were able to access cellphone lines used by senior national security and policy officials across the US government, stealing call logs, unencrypted texts, and some audio from targets. The hackers were able to access information from systems maintained by the carriers to comply with US surveillance requests.
Apple is making moves to take advantage of Adobe's struggling public perception. Its recent strong push back into creative applications is providing users with good alternatives and unbeatable performance. There were rumors that Apple shuttered the development of Aperture to give Adobe Lightroom the space it needed to take over the photography industry. Adobe has recently been courting Windows aggressively, which may be why Apple has decided to increase investment in its creative applications.
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This post details the technology behind the social network Bluesky, showing how it is currently neither federated nor decentralized.
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xAI is raising up to $6 billion at a $50 billion valuation, with $5 billion expected from sovereign funds in the Middle East.
Google's 'Shielded Email' system will hide users' emails behind an email forwarding alias system to keep users' email addresses secure and help them steer clear of spam.
ByteDance investors view Donald Trump's return to the White House as an overall positive for TikTok's hopes in the US.
A substantial number of emails between Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman have been released as part of the court case between Musk and Altman - this page compiles them all in an easy-to-read format.
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If you are modeling a multi-tenant SaaS app [4], an organization will usually represent one of your customers. For authentication and authorization purposes, you'll want each connection, directory, and audit log event to belong to an organization.
Google has launched a dedicated Gemini app for iOS. It allows iPhone users to interact with Google's AI through text or voice. The app supports iOS-specific features like Dynamic Island integration. It is free to download. Premium features can be accessed through Gemini Advanced subscriptions available as in-app purchases.
Spotify plans to start paying podcast hosts who make popular videos and meet a certain viewing threshold. It will offer premium subscribers in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada a way to watch podcast shows without ads starting in January. Many people watch or listen to their favorite shows on YouTube. Spotify is hoping to differentiate its videos from shows on YouTube, where users have to pay more for ad-free viewing.
SpaceX's Starship has been transported to a launchpad in preparation for a scheduled flight test on November 18. SpaceX has already performed a static fire, so launch preparations should only involve checkouts, filling the tanks with fuel, and lighting the engines. The sixth test flight will be similar to the fifth - there are a few changes, but not enough to require modifications to the launch license. Bigger changes are planned for the seventh flight test, including larger propellant tanks and a new generation of thermal protection tiles.
Researchers from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials have developed a morphing wheel that can roll over obstacles up to 1.3 times the height of its radius. The wheel's spokes automatically adjust their stiffness to the terrain, allowing them to navigate all manner of obstacles, including curbs and staircases. The technology could be used for many applications, including unmanned delivery vehicles, wheelchairs, and movement in industrial settings. The researchers aim to make the wheels viable for speeds up to 100 kilometers per hour.
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OpenAI's containerized ChatGPT environment lets users interact with the model's underlying structure. OpenAI uses a Debian-based sandbox environment to run ChatGPT code. The environment's internal directory structures can be exposed and manipulated using simple prompt injections, but this is intentional rather than a security gap. OpenAI appears to draw the line at breaking out of the containerized environment.
This article explores how to integrate the Stripe agent toolkit to enhance AI agents' functionality. Stripe can enable agents to access financial services and tools to help customers earn and spend funds, facilitate common support operations, and bill for usage with metered billing. Its agent toolkit gives AI agents access to the Stripe API, allowing developers to create agentic workflows.
This post looks at different AI models' performance at playing chess. Almost all large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess except gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct. It is unknown what is causing this, but it may be due to different training data, the quality of training data, the effects of instruction tuning, or there may be something particular about different transformer structures. This may explain why people got good results with LLMs and chess two years ago and why the field has been quiet since.
Google may soon be placed under formal federal supervision by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is tasked with keeping financial institutions accountable to consumers. Google handles a lot of funds that it doesn't own and the CFPB has received hundreds of complaints over the years from consumers experiencing problems with billing through Google. Google has reportedly been pushing back as hard as it can against the inquiry as if things move forward, the bureau could gain unprecedented access to internal company records.
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AI tools struggle to generate useful responses in high-debt environments with subtle control flow, long-range dependencies, and unexpected patterns.
Stack Overflow is moving its public platform to Google Cloud to become more flexible and ship new features faster.
The FTC is looking into whether Microsoft used anti-competitive tactics to maintain its dominant position in the cloud market.
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This looks at exciting advancements in software engineering that haven't received the hype they deserve because of the AI craze.
Professionals in the legal system rely on inefficient and error-prone manual 'version control' processing.