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The European Salary Transparency Law, aimed at strengthening equal pay between men and women for work of equal value, requires all companies to make public the salary ranges for all their employees.
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Tesla's Giga Train has debuted in Germany. The all-electric battery-powered train can currently transport 500 people, with 120 seats and space for bicycles. It takes passengers to a station located near Tesla's manufacturing facility about 20 miles southeast of Berlin. It's free to ride for regular passengers, not just Tesla employees. The train is expected to eventually transport 4,500 employees to and from the factory. An additional stop will be added once construction in the area is completed.
Apple is reportedly considering developing non-AR smart glasses to rival the Meta Ray-Ban glasses. It was previously renewing its efforts to build augmented reality smart glasses but is now considering less ambitious options. Removing AR features should result in a cheaper bill of materials and less complex development, allowing Apple to bring them to market much faster than AR-equipped specs. Samsung is also working on a pair of smart glasses, expected to be powered by Google software.
SpaceX aims to send its Starship megarocket on Mars missions two years from now. The company will start with uncrewed tests, with the first crewed flights starting in four years. It aims to build a self-sustaining city in about 20 years. Starship's fifth test flight could take place soon - the company has already performed test-fires with the Super Heavy and the Starship that will fly the mission. The next test will involve the first attempt to land Super Heavy back on the launch mount.
Stanford University researchers have discovered a yellow dye that transforms opaque tissue into a transparent window, allowing them to see the inner workings of living animals. Applied to the abdomen of a mouse, the dye allowed scientists to see its liver, small intestine, bladder, and other organs down to the resolution of microns. Rinsing off the dye with water reverses the process. The technology could have many applications, including assisting in the early detection and treatment of cancers. A picture of the transparent mouse abdomen is available in the article.
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Version controlling dotfiles adds a layer of robustness and flexibility to managing system configurations. It gives developers the combined benefit of a consistent environment with an undo command and restore from backup. chezmoi is an app focused exclusively on home directory management. It allows developers to manage configuration files across multiple machines running diverse operating systems. This article discusses how to use chezmoi for dotfile management.
car is a tool that creates and extracts archives without copying data. It uses file system capabilities to reflink data to and from the archive. car requires a file system with reflink support, like BtrFS or XFS. It uses syntax that mimics the tar tool.
It might not be possible anymore to create a broadly horizontal consumer app. Easy growth is mostly over and building an ad-supported business is harder than ever. The next generation of apps may be 'vertical apps' that appeal to a vertical market segment with smaller audiences but higher 'whale' monetization. These apps will be focused on solo, useful interactions and may target productivity/utility use cases.
The punishment for Google's internet search monopoly will be announced by August 2025. The Justice Department will submit a proposal by the end of the year, after which a new trial will be held to hear evidence on how to proceed. The consideration of remedies will include a period of investigation into penalties and hearings. The judge on the case will take into account the swiftly changing technological landscape, including potential new competition from companies like OpenAI and Microsoft.
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Frontier, which has nearly 50,000 processors, can create cutting-edge models of everything, from subatomic particles to galaxies.
The iPhone 16 lineup isn't expected to have many new hardware features - Apple is relying on Apple Intelligence as a main selling point.
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People are turning away from dating apps and toward apps that promise to connect them to people with whom they share common interests.
There's a cost to going Founder Mode, which if ignored, will result in CEOs finding themselves more likely to have to intervene as the complexity of the interactions between decisions grows.
At some point, Google will have to give up and realize that it needs to change its business model.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov says that innovators should not be personally liable for the potential abuse of the tools they create. He says that growing pains on Telegram made it easy for criminals to abuse the platform, but that he aims to significantly improve the platform. French authorities arrested Durov in part due to Telegram's apparent lack of response to requests related to criminal investigations, but Durov says Telegram has official representatives in the EU and that he had personally helped French authorities establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France. Telegram is expected to announce changes to address the abuse of its platform very soon.
OpenAI executives are reportedly considering $2,000 per month subscription prices for the company's upcoming large language models. The company plans to release its next-level artificial intelligence product, Strawberry, in the fall. Strawberry will be able to solve novel math problems, develop market strategies, and perform deep research. OpenAI is also reportedly considering changing its corporate structure to be more simple and attractive to financial backers. It is aiming to raise several billion dollars in a funding round that would value it at above $100 billion.
It is now possible for humans to genetically modify entire species by inserting genes into them with brute force. The technology has so far gone unused, even though its deployment could mean the end of diseases like malaria. It could be used for many positive things such as giving raccoons immunity to rabies, editing insects so that they're more vulnerable to safer pesticides, and preventing the spread of deadly diseases. However, its existence presents many issues, such as the possibility of a harmful gene being released into human populations.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is currently seeking regulatory approval for a new drug that looks promising in clinical trials. Suzetrigine could be the first of an entirely new class of pain therapy. It targets specific sodium ion channels found on pain-sensing nerve cells. While the effect of the drug is modest, it demonstrates that the strategy of targeting sodium channels specific to pain-sensing neurons works, leading to hope that the next generation of these compounds could perform much better. Suzetrigine could be approved by early 2025.
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This article presents an informal explanation of the OAuth flow. Skipping over a lot of the nitty-gritty details, it details the problems that OAuth solves by looking at various potential security flaws. Resources for a deeper dive into the topic are available.
LMSYS' Chatbot Arena has become an industry obsession over the past few months. It lets anyone on the web ask questions of two randomly selected, anonymous models and then vote on their preferred answers. Critics say that LMSYS has not been completely transparent about the model capabilities, knowledge, and skills it's assessing on Chatbot Arena. The limited data released by the company makes it challenging to study the limitations of models in depth. While Chatbot Arena is framed as an empirical test, it amounts to a relative rating of models.
Bill Gates has spent billions on funding technologies he thinks will shape the future. He has a new Netflix series that covers these technologies, including AI, climate change, inequality, misinformation, and global health. 'What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates' is set to launch on September 18. This article contains an interview with Gates where he discusses why he is so optimistic about these technologies.
Hackers recently leaked a trove of data from Disney that included financial and strategy information on the entertainment giant's operations. It also included personally identifiable information of some staff and consumers and granular details about revenue generated by Disney products, park pricing offers that the company has modeled, and login credentials for some of Disney's cloud infrastructure. Disney says that it doesn't expect the incident to have a material impact on its operations or financial performance. This article provides an overview of the leaked data.
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Visa plans to launch a dedicated service for account-to-account payments in Europe next year that will allow users to set up direct debits on merchants' e-commerce stores with just a few clicks.
The number of older singles will expand significantly in the coming years, but it is difficult to monetize dating apps.
Larry Ellison, the megabillionaire founder of Oracle, will be the majority shareholder for the company that controls Paramount Global after the deal closes next year.
Beginning with iOS 18.1, third-party developers will be able to enable tap-to-pay transactions in their own apps - opening up NFC access has the potential to turn tap-to-pay into tap-to-everything.
One of the developers of the Rust for Linux project recently resigned from the project, a sign of deeper issues in Linux, both technical and cultural.
In a scenario where AI is useful but humans retain some comparative advantage, we might not like where that comparative advantage lies.
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Tesla's FSD v12.5.3 features Actually Smart Summon, a type of summon available on vehicles without ultrasonic sensors. The update is currently going out to early-access customers. It is being rolled out to both AI4 and HW3 cars. Actually Smart Summon has greatly improved capabilities over its predecessor and uses end-to-end AI rather than relying on hand-coded features to control vehicles. The feature is expected to roll out to North America first before gradually rolling out to additional countries.
OpenAI's SearchGPT aims to rival Google Search by offering a new AI-driven approach to finding information online. It compiles its answers using data from Bing and other sources. Reports from early users say that the tool sometimes provides inaccurate or hallucinated information. The tool is not yet ready to challenge Google's dominance.
NASA made the announcement that Boeing's Starliner would return uncrewed on August 24. Starliner is now scheduled to undock this Friday, with another window four days later if conditions are unfavorable. The decision took many weeks to make. While Boeing believed Starliner was capable of bringing back its crew, NASA was not comfortable with the idea due to uncertainty in the modeling. The astronauts will return home on a SpaceX Dragon vehicle in late February 2025 at the earliest.
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft flew for the second time ever on Monday. It reached an altitude of 10,400 feet and a speed of 277 mph during the 15 minute flight. The flight demonstrated landing gear being retracted and extended for the first time and tested a new digital stability augmentation system to improve handling. The company expects to achieve supersonic flight later this year.
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Mem0 adds an intelligent memory layer to AI assistants and agents to enable personalized AI interactions. It remembers user preferences, adapts to individual needs, and continuously improves over time. Mem0 associates each memory with a unique identifier, allowing it to organize and access memories specific to an individual or context.
This page proposes a method to help large language models identify the most important information on websites and projects to provide to AI helpers. It suggests adding a /llms.txt file to let models learn more detailed information with context. The specification is open for community input.