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APPLE, SPACEX, MICROSOFT RETURN-TO-OFFICE MANDATES DROVE SENIOR TALENT AWAY

A study published by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers suggests that return-to-office mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, leaving their companies, often to work with competitors.

THE HUNT FOR RARE BITCOIN IS NEARING AN END

Satoshis produced in the year bitcoin was created are considered vintage and can sell for tens of millions of times their face value.

AI ENGINEER COMPENSATION TRENDS Q1 2024

There's a noticeable difference in how much money software engineers who specialize in artificial intelligence make compared to those who don't.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES CEO TO STEP DOWN

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky will step down effective June 3 and will be replaced by Matt Garman, a senior vice president who has overseen sales and marketing at AWS.

WHAT FACTORS EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF SOFTWARE?

This post looks at factors that allow one to make reasonable quality predictions about any given piece of software.

WHAT OPENAI DID

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MAJOR CHATGPT-4O UPDATE ALLOWS AUDIO-VIDEO TALKS WITH AN “EMOTIONAL” AI CHATBOT

OpenAI announced a new AI model yesterday called GPT-4o that can converse using speech in real time, read emotional cues, and respond to visual input. It will roll out over the next few weeks for free to ChatGPT users and as a service through API. Paid subscribers will have five times the rate limits of free users. The API will feature twice the speed, 50% lower cost, and five times higher rate limits compared to GPT-4 Turbo. A 26-minute long video that introduces GPT-4o and demonstrates its abilities is available in the article.

META IS REPORTEDLY WORKING ON CAMERA-EQUIPPED AI EARPHONES

Meta is reportedly working on AI-powered earphones equipped with cameras. Internally codenamed 'Camerabuds', the earphones will leverage AI capabilities for real-time object identification and foreign language translation. Meta's leadership sees AI-powered earphones as the next logical step in the evolution of wearable technology. It has partnered with Kansas-based electronics company Ear Micro to explore the possibilities of this emerging technology.

$16K G1 HUMANOID RISES UP TO SMASH NUTS, TWIST, AND TWIRL

Unitree has released the first few details on its G1 Humanoid Agent, a $16,000 robotic helper. The robot is equipped with 3D LiDAR sensors, a depth camera, three-fingered grippers, and a 9,000-mAh battery pack. It can recover from brutal kicks and punches, as seen in the short demo video in the article. At around 35 kg, the robot can fold itself down to 690x450x300-mm proportions for compact carry.

USING MRI, ENGINEERS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO DETECT LIGHT DEEP IN THE BRAIN

Scientists often label cells with proteins that glow to measure changes in gene expression, but this technique is difficult to apply to structures deep within the brain as light scatters too much before it can be detected. MIT engineers have engineered blood vessels to express a protein that causes them to dilate in the presence of light. This dilation can be observed with magnetic resonance imaging, allowing researchers to pinpoint the source of light. The new technique allows researchers to explore the inner workings of the brain in more detail than previously possible.

PG_LAKEHOUSE

pg_lakehouse is an extension that transforms Postgres into an analytical query engine over object stores. Querying non-operational data by moving it into a cloud data warehouse or operating a new query engine is expensive and time-consuming. pg_lakehouse allows this data to be queried directly from Postgres, eliminating the need for new infrastructure, loss of data freshness, data movement, and non-Postgres dialects of other query engines.

THE ALTERNATIVE IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEM

Positioning a project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. Building an alternative implementation means reacting to the whims of the canonical implementation - they have control over the direction of the project and you can only keep up. It's better in most cases to make an original system rather than being chained by expectations to match another implementation.

BEFORE LAUNCHING, GPT-4O BROKE RECORDS ON CHATBOT LEADERBOARD UNDER A SECRET NAME

The mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as 'gpt2-chatbot' that had been undergoing testing on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena has been revealed to be OpenAI's newly announced GPT-4o model. The model had topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, achieving the highest documented score ever. OpenAI tested multiple versions of GPT-4o on Chatbot Arena before its announcement yesterday. The models surpass all other models by a significant gap and have become the strongest ever in the Arena.

GAMESTOP, AMC SOAR MORE THAN 70% EACH AS ‘ROARING KITTY' MEME TRADER RESURFACES

'Roaring Kitty', the man who inspired the epic short squeeze of 2021, posted online for the first time in roughly three years on Monday, causing GameStop and AMC shares to rally dramatically. The picture he posted of a video gamer leaning forward on their chair garnered 63,000 likes in 13 hours. He later posted a few videos with scenes from popular TV shows and movies, but there is no clear indication of what these posts mean. GameStop's stock has started to move higher recently, which, along with the enormous amount of short interest in the stock, may have rekindled his interest.

PROTECTING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS VIA SVG INSTEAD OF JS

This article presents an email-protection technique based on SVG that will keep emails hidden from any simple or amateurish scripts trawling the web seeking to copy any unprotected email addresses they find.

GOOGLE IS BRINGING PROJECT STARLINE'S ‘MAGIC WINDOW' EXPERIENCE TO REAL VIDEO CALLS

Google is teaming up with HP to commercialize Project Starline and bring its futuristic videoconferencing technology to Zoom and Meet calls.

IT'S AN AGE OF MARVELS

A look at the world we live in and the amazing technologies humanity has developed.

APPLE FINALLY ADDS IPHONE ALERTS FOR THIRD-PARTY BLUETOOTH TRACKERS

iOS 17.5 enables iPhones to alert users when unauthorized third-party Bluetooth trackers are following them.

RECENT DOCKER BUILDKIT FEATURES YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON

BuildKit, an improved builder backend for Docker, introduced many new features to Docker.

GPT-4O

A key part of OpenAI's mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people - GPT-4o makes talking to a computer feel natural and it will allow people to do much more with computers than ever before.

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WHAT WILL OPENAI ANNOUNCE MONDAY? QUITE POSSIBLY AN AI VOICE ASSISTANT

OpenAI's big announcement today may be a voice assistant. The company is reportedly working on a technology that rolls audio, text, and image recognition into one product. OpenAI will be holding a livestream at 10 am PT to announce the product. Google is expected to announce updates to Gemini at its developer conference tomorrow.

APPLE, NETFLIX, AND AMAZON WANT TO CHANGE HOW THEY PAY HOLLYWOOD STARS

Apple will soon begin basing pay on how a series or movie performs. Talent would receive bonuses on a points system, with the size of the bonuses being based on the number of people who signed up for Apple TV+ to watch, how much time they spent viewing, and the cost of the program relative to the size of its audience. Netflix and Amazon have also spent months developing plans for performance-based compensation, but neither have gone public yet with their models. Streaming services are becoming increasingly more transparent - the practice will make it easier to tie pay to performance.

COMMERCIAL SPACE STATIONS APPROACH LAUNCH PHASE

A number of private-sector companies are aiming to harbor commercial activities in low Earth orbit (LEO) as the International Space Station approaches its end of service. This article discusses the various projects, with a focus on Blue Origin's Orbital Reef program, which recently aced testing milestones for its critical life support system with assistance from NASA. Orbital Reef plans to build a space habitat with NASA as a main client starting out, with a wider goal of fostering a sustainable commercial presence in LEO. The initiative is backed by NASA's Commercial LEO Destinations program, which is providing funding to encourage the private sector to build space habitats.

'TUNGSTEN WALL' LEADS TO NUCLEAR FUSION BREAKTHROUGH

Encasing fusion plasma inside tungsten allowed a tokamak in France to set a new record by sustaining plasma at about 50 million degrees Celsius for six minutes. Tungsten has an extraordinarily high melting point. Using a tungsten-wall environment is for more challenging than using carbon, but the material allows physicists to sustain hot plasmas for longer and at higher energies and densities. While research into nuclear fusion has been slow, the field has made significant strides over the last few years.

POPOVER API

The Popover API allows developers to easily display popover content on top of other page content. It has a standard, consistent, and flexible mechanism that creates popover content that can be controlled declaratively using HTML attributes or via JavaScript. This documentation covers how to use the Popover API with examples.

AVOIDING THE SOFT DELETE ANTI-PATTERN

Programmers hate deleting things, leading people to advocate for soft deletion, where instead of really deleting a record, you add a field that marks the record as deleted. This is generally a bad idea and there are a number of better ways to ensure access to old data. This article discusses why soft deletion is a problem and discusses several alternatives that may better meet the needs of developers.

AN ODE TO EARLY EMPLOYEES

Being a founder used to be a fancy way of saying 'unemployed'. The environment was very different back in the 90s, so those who had the courage to start something were celebrated once they succeeded. Founders today are still treated as if in a class of their own, but things are very different. Virtually any founder can raise millions of dollars before there's a product or revenue, and creating a prototype has never been easier. This article discusses how things have changed and how that has affected both founders and their employees. It also provides suggestions on how founders can start building trusting relationships and celebrate those who help enable their companies in their earliest days.

ANALYST ON STARLINK'S RAPID RISE: “NOTHING SHORT OF MIND-BLOWING”

SpaceX's Starlink satellite Internet business is now profitable. The company's first batch of 60 satellites was launched just five years ago. It will have an estimated free cash flow of about $600 million this year. The business is now self-sustaining and there's still room for significant growth.

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IS DARK MATTER'S MAIN RIVAL THEORY DEAD? THERE'S BAD NEWS FROM THE CASSINI SPACECRAFT AND OTHER RECENT TESTS

Recent data suggests that Mond, as presently formulated, is no longer a viable alternative to dark matter.

SUPERFILE

superfile is a modern terminal file manager.

WAYMO SAYS ITS ROBOTAXIS ARE NOW MAKING 50,000 PAID TRIPS EVERY WEEK

Waymo has had over one million rider-only trips across four cities.

HOW TO PRICE A DATA ASSET

The value of data comes from the value of what can be done with it - every discussion of price has to begin with understanding how the data will be used and by whom.

GPUS GO BRRR

This post looks at what a team at Stanford learned by making GPUs run more efficiently and how what they learned has changed the way they think about AI compute.

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LEAKED DECK REVEALS HOW OPENAI IS PITCHING PUBLISHER PARTNERSHIPS

OpenAI has been pitching partnership opportunities to news publishers through its Preferred Publishers Program. The company has been courting premium publishers since July last year when it struck a deal with the Associated Press. It has since inked deals with Axel Springer, The Financial Times, Le Monde, Prisa, and Dotdash Meredith. OpenAI negotiates deals on a per-publisher basis rather than structuring all of its deals uniformly. While some publishers have opted to partner with OpenAI, others have sued the tech firm for using copyrighted articles without permission.

MICROSOFT'S NEW XBOX MOBILE GAMING STORE IS LAUNCHING IN JULY

Microsoft is aiming to launch its Xbox mobile gaming store in July. The company plans to bring its own first-party portfolio to the store. The store will also provide key parts of the Xbox experience, allowing players' identities, libraries, and rewards to travel across ecosystems. It is unclear how Microsoft will position the store as an alternative for games already existing on rival app stores. The store will initially be web-only.

INTUITIVE MACHINES ON TRACK FOR SECOND MOON TRIP, FOUNDER SAYS

Intuitive Machines Inc. is planning for another trip to the Moon during the last three months of 2024. The mission will aim to install a 4G network on the surface of the Moon. Intuitive Machines made history less than a year ago by setting down the first privately built lander intact on the Moon's surface. The company went public last year via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company, making its founder a billionaire several times over.