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IN A HIGH-STAKES TEST, BOEING WILL LAUNCH NASA ASTRONAUTS TO SPACE FOR THE FIRST TIME

Boeing is set to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on its Starliner spacecraft. The inaugural crewed flight is a crucial final test before NASA can authorize Boeing to conduct routine flights to and from the space station for the agency. This will be Boeing's first launch with humans aboard its spaceship. The astronauts will spend about a week at the space station before returning to Earth. While SpaceX has been ferrying astronauts to the ISS since 2020, NASA does not want to rely on a single company.

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INTRODUCING ARTIFACT ATTESTATIONS – NOW IN PUBLIC BETA

GitHub's Artifact Attestations allows project maintainers to create a tamper-proof, unforgeable paper trail linking their software to the process that created it. It creates metadata that can be used as a foundation for new security and validity checks through policy evaluation. Verification support will be expanded to the Kubernetes ecosystem later this year.

A USEFUL PRODUCTIVITY MEASURE?

Software productivity is famously unmeasurable. This article suggests using value-add capacity as a measure for software productivity. In the absence of measures for return on investment, the percent of engineering time spent on value-add activities is a pretty good proxy for productivity. Using this metric can help organizations identify what to focus on to achieve the goals they want.

TENSIONS RISE IN SILICON VALLEY OVER SALES OF START-UP STOCKS

Private stock sales have always felt a bit like the Wild West. Investors continue to find ways around companies' attempts to restrict stock sales using techniques such as forward contracts, which allow employees to cash out their future shares through a pledge to sell the shares to an investor in the future. Some companies forbid these practices and say such deals are void. Companies creating funds with these shares say they are making the market more accessible and that shares obtained through forward contracts are legal.

TESLA ANNOUNCES FOURTH ROUND OF LAYOFFS IN FOUR WEEKS

Multiple recently-former Tesla employees posted on social media on Sunday to share that they were no longer with the company. The company started laying off employees last month ahead of the release of its Q1 financial results. While Elon Musk has said that he plans to reduce headcount by more than 10% globally, the total may be closer to 20% by the time everything has settled. The latest round of layoffs affected service advisers, engineers, and HR.

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NEW MICROSOFT AI MODEL MAY CHALLENGE GPT-4 AND GOOGLE GEMINI

Microsoft's new large-scale AI language model, MAI-1, could potentially rival state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

OPENAI AND STACK OVERFLOW PARTNER TO BRING MORE TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE INTO CHATGPT

Stack Overflow and OpenAI have announced a partnership that will give OpenAI access to Stack Overflow's API.

NEW DISPOSABLE APIS IN JAVASCRIPT

This article presents an overview of how to get started with JavaScript's `using`, Disposables, and explicit resource management.

QUORA CEO ADAM D'ANGELO TALKS ABOUT AI, CHATBOT PLATFORM POE, AND WHY OPENAI IS NOT A COMPETITOR

Quora's Poe (short for Platform for Open Exploration) lets users ask questions of and talk to a variety of chatbots, lets developers build their own bots, and offers a bot monetization program and marketplace.

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SIRI FOR IOS 18 TO GAIN MASSIVE AI UPGRADE VIA APPLE'S AJAX LLM

Safari, Spotlight Search, and Siri will gain significant AI-related enhancements with the release of iOS 18. One of the key features in the works for Safari is text summarization. Siri will also receive a similar update, allowing it to generate responses to relay the content of messages in a simplified way. Apple's AI model will generate basic responses entirely on-device. More advanced replies or text summaries will need server-side processing.

READ THE WILD EMAIL TESLA IS SENDING TO SUPPLIERS AMID SUPERCHARGER CHAOS

Tesla sent out an email to suppliers showing how chaotic the decision-making leading up to the company firing its entire Supercharging team was. The email shows there was a lack of structure and consideration in the decision to fire the team. It mentions that suppliers are expected to be paid, suggesting that Tesla is behind on its payment obligations. The email asks suppliers to continue construction on active projects but to hold on breaking ground or doing pre-construction site walks. A copy of the email is available in the article.

THE TEENS MAKING FRIENDS WITH AI CHATBOTS

Many young users have discovered AI companions. While chatbots have been described as helpful, entertaining, and supportive, some users describe feeling addicted to them. This is raising questions about how AI is impacting young people and their social development and what would happen if society becomes more emotionally reliant on bots.

WORLD'S 1ST 'TOOTH REGROWTH MEDICINE' TO BE TESTED IN JAPAN FROM SEPT. 2024

Trials of the world's first tooth regrowth medicine are set to commence in September at Kyoto University Hospital. The researchers behind the medicine hope to start selling it in 2030. There have been no major side effects confirmed in animal studies to date. The medicine deactivates a protein called USAG-1, which inhibits the growth of teeth. The medicine is currently targeted at patients congenitally lacking a full set of teeth.

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FIGMA'S JOURNEY TO TYPESCRIPT

This article discusses how the team at Figma automatically migrated Skew, a custom programming language, to TypeScript without disrupting a single day of development. Figma created Skew to squeeze additional performance out of its playback engine. Using Skew made it difficult to onramp new hires. Skew couldn't easily integrate with the rest of Figma's code base and it was missing a developer ecosystem outside of Figma. Using TypeScript enabled streamlined integration, modern JavaScript features, and seamless onboarding.

HOW I GOT PROMOTED AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

This article discusses how a senior frontend engineer and team lead decided to take on more responsibilities at their existing company and worked to get promoted as a staff software engineer. Before asking for more responsibilities, they demonstrated to their CTO that they were excelling at their current role. They then asked for more responsibility and then doubled down on their efforts and shipped more things. The engineer was eventually able to demonstrate undeniably that they were capable of working at a higher level than their current role and pushed for a promotion, which was granted.

AI ENGINEERS REPORT BURNOUT AND RUSHED ROLLOUTS AS 'RAT RACE' TO STAY COMPETITIVE HITS TECH INDUSTRY

Accelerated timelines, competition, and a lack of concern from superiors about real-world effects are themes common across a broad spectrum of the biggest effect companies. Engineers are increasingly saying that a large part of their jobs is focused on satisfying investors and not falling behind in the competition rather than solving actual problems for users. Some have been switched over to AI teams to help support fast-paced rollouts without adequate training, even if they are new to the technology. The immense pressure, long hours, and constantly changing mandates are causing burnout.

THE BUSINESS OF WALLETS

This article discusses digital wallets - electronic systems that hold money. It covers the regulations surrounding them, their history, different types of wallet products, and more. The article details the various revenue streams that wallets use to make wallet providers money.

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MICROSOFT TIES EXECUTIVE PAY TO SECURITY FOLLOWING MULTIPLE FAILURES AND BREACHES

Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative will make its Senior Leadership Team's pay partially dependent on whether the company is meeting its security plans and milestones, although it is unclear how much executive pay would be dependent on meeting those goals.

AI COPILOTS ARE CHANGING HOW CODING IS TAUGHT

Educators are shifting away from syntax and emphasizing higher-level skills.

WHO PAYS YOU? AND WHY?

Asking yourself these questions can help you confront the reality of what it will take to get to the next level of your career.

HOW TO BUILD A $20 BILLION SEMICONDUCTOR FAB

Manipulating huge volumes of matter on the atomic level repeatedly and reliably 24 hours a day 365 days a year is an enormously expensive undertaking.

MICROSOFT PLANS TO LOCK DOWN WINDOWS DNS LIKE NEVER BEFORE. HERE'S HOW

Zero trust DNS (ZTDNS) encrypts and cryptographically authenticates connections between end-user clients and DNS servers and enables administrators to tightly restrict the domains these servers will resolve.

WHY I'M OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE TECH RECESSION

The tech recession will mean companies will need good ideas that actually work - it will also force workers to develop better skills.

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OPENAI TO CHALLENGE GOOGLE WITH ITS OWN SEARCH ENGINE IN MAY

Reports indicate that OpenAI is looking to launch a search engine soon. OpenAI's in-house event on May 9 may focus on its release, although the event times and date may be subject to change. Google has scheduled its annual developer conference for May 14 - OpenAI's event may be a strategy to upstage Google before the search giant makes its AI announcements. This article presents the evidence for OpenAI's search plans.

TESLA IS PREPARING TO LAUNCH ITS OWN IN-CAR VOICE ASSISTANT

Tesla's latest software update includes hidden code that suggests that the company is preparing for the launch of its voice assistant. Little is known about the new Tesla voice assistant, but Elon Musk has previously said that he wants Tesla drivers to be able to do everything in the car with no manual input. The software update also introduces a native Audible app.

SPACEX ADDS COSMIC TOURISM OFFERING TO WEBSITE

A new 'Human Spaceflight' tab on SpaceX's website offers flights to Earth's orbit, the International Space Station (ISS), the Moon, and Mars, with missions beginning as early as this year. There is no pricing information for the offerings and interested customers will have to inquire through email. The Earth orbit mission, which will last three to six days, offers a view of the planet from 300 kilometers high for two to four passengers. Ten-day commercial missions to the ISS will be available as early as 2025. The missions to lunar orbit and Mars do not have listed timelines.

FOUND: THE DIAL IN THE BRAIN THAT CONTROLS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Scientists have identified the brain cells that regulate inflammation and determined how they keep tabs on the immune response. The neurons that act as the master dial for the immune system live in the brain stem, the stalk-like structure that connects the bulk of the brain to the spinal cord. The finding could lead to treatments for autoimmune diseases and other conditions caused by an excessive immune response. The mechanism by which the brain sends signals back to the immune system to regulate inflammation remains unclear.

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OFFSET-ALLOCATOR

offset-allocator is a fast, simple, and hard real-time allocator especially useful for managing GPU resources. It is a port of Sebastian Aaltonen's OffsetAllocator package for C++, rewritten in 100% safe Rust. While the general algorithm in the crate could be adapted to construct a Rust allocator, this is beyond the scope of the implementation. offset-allocator is completely agnostic to what it's allocating. It only knows about a contiguous block of memory of a specific size.

NOT ALL GRAPHS ARE TREES

Relational algebra can easily be represented as trees as formulas are already structurally rooted trees where each operator has its inputs as children. Things get more complicated when introducing non-tree structures, like some kind of self-join. This can be resolved using inlining (simply duplicating the expression you want to reference twice) or let binding. Common methods to open up unrestricted access to represent graphs containing cycles in programs include self-referencing, using a fix point operator, and explicitly listing edges.

U.S. V. GOOGLE: AS LANDMARK 'MONOPOLY POWER' TRIAL CLOSES, HERE'S WHAT TO LOOK FOR

The trial for the US Department of Justice's case against Google for using anti-competitive tactics to monopolize online search is now over and closing arguments are underway. Google's parent company Alphabet controls roughly 90% of the US search engine market, but the company claims its success is due to the quality of its product, not because of its business dealings. The ruling for the case could have far-reaching effects on how people use and interact with the internet. If the judge rules against Google, the consequences could be anything from fines to a restructuring of the company.

BUILDING A ROCKET ENGINE FROM SCRATCH

Engine development is unforgiving - thousands of decisions have to go right for them to work. This article looks at how ABL went from nothing to having ten flight-worthy engines tested and installed on a rocket in under four years. It covers the decision-making that went into developing ABL's engines, testing, the company's growth, and more. Pictures of the company's engines and engine testing rounds are available in the article.

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THE WORLD IS NOT CONSPIRING AGAINST YOU

A list of 10 thoughts on careers that covers a range of ideas, mindsets, and predictions.

TESLA MAKES ITS NEWEST CUT: INTERNS

Tesla has cut Summer internships, leaving those impacted in a tough position as it may be difficult to find something comparable.