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‘IT'S THE PERFECT PLACE': LONDON UNDERGROUND HOSTS TESTS FOR ‘QUANTUM COMPASS' THAT COULD REPLACE GPS

Scientists in the UK are developing very precise new sensors using quantum mechanics to create a quantum compass - an instrument that exploits the behavior of subatomic matter to accurately pinpoint their locations no matter where they're placed. This could result in a new generation of underground and underwater sensors that can provide location information without interference from weather and other obstructions. Their device could be ready for widespread use in just a few years. It works well in a stable laboratory environment but needs to be tested in more extreme conditions to be turned into a transportable, standalone device that can be used in remote or complex locations.

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THE THREADS API IS FINALLY HERE!

Meta's Threads API is now available to all developers. The API will enable creators, developers, and brands to build their own unique integrations, manage their Threads presence at scale, and easily share content with their communities. It allows people to publish posts, fetch content, set reply and quote controls, retrieve and respond to replies, hide and unhide specific replies, and retrieve key metrics. Links to developer documentation and a sample app are available.

COGNITIVE LOAD IS WHAT MATTERS

Confusion, which costs time and money, is caused by high cognitive load. Cognitive load is how much a developer needs to think in order to complete a task. Developers should constantly ask themselves whether they are embedding excessive cognitive load into their code as far more time is spent reading and understanding code than writing it. They should make things easy to understand to avoid creating unnecessary cognitive load for themselves and their colleagues.

THE PUBLIC INTEREST INTERNET

This article looks at the global digital architecture required to make the internet a public interest technology. It looks at what should be considered as digital infrastructure and the consequences of its capture, the problems with current approaches to internet standards, limits to the main approach to digital regulation that states are deploying, how to approach the governance of transnational public infrastructure, how to pay for this, and more. While creating a public interest internet would be difficult, the alternative, keeping our digital infrastructure entirely in the hands of a few megacorporations, could be more costly.

AIS ARE COMING FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS

Butterfly is a social network made up of AI characters. Its app allows users to create AI characters, or Butterflies, which generate photos and interact with other accounts on their own. There's no limit to the number of Butterflies users can create. These AI profiles coexist with human accounts, which can also post and comment. The app provides a peek into a somewhat dystopian future where AIs start invading social media feeds - Mark Zuckerberg shared in September that Meta is building an AI Studio that would let users build AIs that can post and interact with people on their behalf.

ELON MUSK RUSHES TO DEBUT X PAYMENTS AS TECH ISSUES HAMPER CREATOR PAYOUTS

Elon Musk is pushing to launch X payment services, arguably one of the reasons he paid so much to acquire Twitter in 2022, by the end of 2024.

TIKTOK IS COPYING INSTAGRAM AGAIN WITH WHEE

Whee is an app for sharing photos with close friends.

GITHUB COPILOT WORKSPACE REVIEW

GitHub Copilot Workspace failed a super simple task for this review - in every way it could at every step.

META FORMS NEW WEARABLES GROUP AND LAYS OFF SOME EMPLOYEES

Meta's Reality Labs is undergoing its biggest restructuring in years - it will separate into two organizations: Wearables and Metaverse.

APPLE REFUSES TO NOTARIZE EMULATOR APPS

Apple has rejected the UTM emulator app from its App Store and all third-party app stores in the EU by refusing to notarize it.

VISUAL STUDIO CODE EXTENSIONS ARE MUCH LESS SECURE THAN BROWSER EXTENSIONS OR EVEN NPM PACKAGES

Extensions in Visual Studio Code can do pretty much whatever they want, they automatically update, publisher accounts are too easy to verify, the code shipped in an update can differ from what's on GitHub, and there's no way to verify the data being used in the extension store indicating popularity or trust-worthiness.

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APPLE'S FANCY NEW CARPLAY WILL ONLY WORK WIRELESSLY

Apple has released details on the architecture and design of next-gen CarPlay. This article discusses how next-gen CarPlay will work. Automakers will have a lot of control over how things look and work. They will be able to use their own interfaces for various features. Next-gen CarPlay will only support wireless connections.

US SUES ADOBE FOR ‘DECEIVING' SUBSCRIPTIONS THAT ARE TOO HARD TO CANCEL

The US government is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription. The complaint claims that Adobe failed to properly disclose an early termination fee that can amount to hundreds of dollars. Customers have to go through an onerous and complicated process when canceling their subscription that involves navigating through multiple webpages and pop-ups. They encounter similar obstacles when attempting to cancel their subscriptions over the phone or via live chats. A copy of the complaint against Adobe is available at the end of the article.

SCIENTISTS PRESERVE DNA IN AN AMBER-LIKE POLYMER

MIT researchers have developed an amber-like polymer that can be used for long-term storage of DNA. It can store DNA at room temperature while protecting the molecules from damage caused by heat or water. The DNA can be easily removed from the polymer without damage. The process of embedding DNA into the polymer takes a few hours, but the researchers believe that the process can be sped up with further optimization.

TDK CLAIMS INSANE ENERGY DENSITY IN SOLID-STATE BATTERY BREAKTHROUGH

Japanese company TDK claims it has made a material that provides an energy density of 1,000 watt-hours per liter, about 100 times greater than TDK's current batteries. The material will enable smaller device sizes and longer operating times. It offers a higher degree of stability and safety, but its fragility makes it impractical for use in cars or smartphones. TDK plans to start shipping samples of its new battery prototypes to clients next year before moving into mass production.

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HTMX 2.0.0 HAS BEEN RELEASED!

htmx 2.0 ends support for Internet Explorer and tightens up some defaults. It replaces the selectAndSwap() internal API method with a public swap() method. Support for web components has been improved dramatically. The htmx website now supports dark mode. Details about the changes are available in the article.

NUMPY 2.0: AN EVOLUTIONARY MILESTONE

NumPy 2.0 brings a wealth of enhancements and improvements and sets the stage for future feature development. Some of the key changes include a cleaned-up and streamlined Python API, improved scalar promotion rules, Windows compatibility enhancements, and support for the Python array API standard. There are also significant performance and documentation improvements. Some API and ABI changes are backwards-incompatible and users will likely need to adjust existing code when adopting the release.

WELLS FARGO BET ON A FLASHY RENT CREDIT CARD. IT IS COSTING THE BANK DEARLY

Wells Fargo launched a credit card with Bilt Technologies in 2022. The card allows users to pay for rent without incurring fees from their landlords while also earning rewards points. Wells is reportedly losing as much as $10 million every month on the program. The bank has told Bilt that it doesn't intend to renew the contract, which is scheduled to end in 2029.

THE MODERN SPIRIT OF STATISTICAL ARBITRAGE

This article introduces the concept of statistical arbitrage. Statistical arbitrage is a class of short-term financial trading strategies. One of the most well-known implementations of statistical arbitrage is pairs-trading.

LOOKING FOR A TALENTED OPERATOR WITH HEALTHCARE DOMAIN EXPERTISE? (LINKEDIN PROFILE, NYC OR REMOTE)

A close friend of mine (HBS/UPenn) is looking for his next mission, ideally a director-level strategy/ops/partnerships role in healthcare.

A NOTE ON ESSENTIAL COMPLEXITY

Complexity is anything that makes it hard to understand and modify a system - essential complexity is inherent in, and the essence of, the problem (as seen by the users).

HOW TO CREATE SOFTWARE QUALITY

Quality is created both within the development loop and across iterations of the development loop.

YOUTUBE IS EXPERIMENTING WITH NOTES, A CROWDSOURCED FEATURE THAT LETS USERS ADD CONTEXT TO VIDEOS

The feature will help minimize the spread of misinformation on the platform.

UIKIT

uikit enables developers to build performant 3D user interfaces for Three.js using react-three-fiber and yoga.

THE CASE AGAINST MORNING YOGA, DAILY ROUTINES, AND ENDLESS MEETINGS

A tiny number of high-upside tasks will drive the most impact in your life - this article discusses how to create an environment where these tasks are more likely to come up.

HOW REACT 19 (ALMOST) MADE THE INTERNET SLOWER

The React team has decided to hold off on a change that disables parallel rendering of siblings within the same Suspense boundary.

YOUTUBE LOOKS TO BE TESTING SERVER-SIDE AD INJECTION TO COUNTER AD BLOCKERS

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. It is making ads part of the video being streamed instead of delivering them separately, resulting in them being indistinguishable from videos. The implementation breaks extensions like SponsorBlock, which depend on timestamps to mark video sections. Server-side ad injection is still in testing and not yet widely rolled out.

SAM ALTMAN SAYS OPENAI COULD BECOME A FOR-PROFIT MEANING IT COULD EVENTUALLY IPO

Sam Altman is reportedly considering making OpenAI a for-profit company that the current non-profit board wouldn't control. One possible option being considered is making the company a for-profit benefit corporation. This would mean the company will have to consider its impact on society and the environment and balance the interests of its shareholders with the interests of employees, customers, the community, and the environment. Becoming a for-profit could open up the path to an initial public offering that would give the public a chance to own its shares.

SPACEX'S FIFTH STARSHIP TEST FLIGHT TIMELINE REVEALED BY MUSK

SpaceX aims to fly its full stack Starship rocket for the fifth time in late July. The rocket was able to make a successful soft splashdown during its fourth test, giving the company the confidence to try a tower catch for the fifth test. Another area SpaceX will be testing is the second stage ship's heat shield, which is made of thousands of tiles. Many of the tiles fell off in the previous test even when the ship was on the ground.

‘SON OF CONCORDE' COMPANY'S SUPERFACTORY WILL PRODUCE 33 SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT A YEAR

Boom Supersonic's Overture airliner can reach New York from London in just 3.5 hours. The company's superfactory is set to be finished by the end of the year. Boom is aiming to produce 66 supersonic aircraft every year and totally revolutionize air travel. It plans to start carrying passengers by 2029. The Overture will carry up to 80 passengers at a cruising speed of Mach 1.7 up to a range of 4,250 nautical miles.

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NVIDIA WARP

NVIDIA Warp is a Python framework for writing high-performance simulation and graphics code. It takes regular Python functions and JIT compiles them to efficient kernel code that can run on the CPU or GPU. Warp comes with a rich set of primitives that make it easy to write programs for physics simulation, perception, robotics, and geometry processing. Its kernels can be used as part of machine learning pipelines with frameworks such as PyTorch and JAX.

GPT-2 FROM SCRATCH IN MLX

This repository contains a Python script that defines and trains GPT-2 from scratch. The model is trained on around 1 million characters from Shakespeare. It can be trained in around 10 minutes on a MacBook to produce coherent Shakespeare-like text. The script only uses MLX and NumPy as dependencies.

APPLE ANNOUNCED RCS WITH A WHIMPER WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A BANG

Apple skipped over RCS during its keynote, making it seem like the company didn't think it was worthy enough to show off. RCS implementation in iOS is a massive improvement for both Android and iPhone users. Both platforms will now be able to exchange high-resolution media with each other without having to download a third-party messenger.

THE BIG LOSER IN TESLA'S SHAREHOLDER VOTE IS DELAWARE

Tesla's reincorporation in Texas is an attempt by Elon Musk to loosen Delaware's grip on US corporations. Around two-thirds of S&P 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware. The state has specialized courts that handle business matters with stacks of legal precedents to address disputes. Texas offers lower taxes and a newer and less predictable business court system. The move will save Tesla about $250,000 a year in tax payments.

SENIOR ENGINEER FATIGUE

Senior fatigue is a sign of maturity in engineering - it's an indicator that you're transitioning from doing everything to ensuring that everything that needs to be done gets done in the most effective way.

WE'RE ABOUT TO LEARN A WHOLE LOT MORE ABOUT HOW THE HUMAN BODY REACTS TO SPACE

A record number of private citizens are set to head to space in the next few years.