Several agencies are now preparing impact statements for SpaceX's Starship launch plans. SpaceX plans to launch its Starship mega-rocket up to 44 times per year from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and up to 76 times per year from the Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Elon Musk aims to eventually launch Starship multiple times per day, with each launch delivering hundreds of tons of cargo to low Earth orbit or beyond. Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance have expressed concerns that SpaceX's high flight rate will have effects on other launch providers with infrastructure at Kennedy and Cape Canaveral.
2024.07.03·techcrunch.com·5 min read·TLDR University of Michigan researchers have created mice with supercharged hearing abilities by dialing up the expression of a nerve growth gene called neurotrophin-3 (Ntf3). Previous research has shown that increasing Ntf3 expression can improve hearing in middle-aged mice and help recover some hearing in mice with damaged inner ears. The treatment works by increasing the number of connections between hair cells in the ear's cochlea and the brain. The researchers believe the treatment could potentially work in humans.
2024.07.03·sciencealert.com·4 min read·TLDR Mako is a production-grade web bundler. It is used by companies like Ant Group and projects like Umi and Father to make web apps and websites and for bundling. Mako is extremely fast and built in Rust.
2024.07.03·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR SmoothMQ is a drop-in replacement for SQS. It has a much smoother developer experience, a functional UI, observability, tracing, message scheduling, and rate-limiting. SmoothMQ allows users to run private SQS instances on any cloud. It is deployed as a single Go binary and can be used by any existing SQS client.
2024.07.03·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR Japan seems immune to many of the layoffs and trends seen abroad. Employee protections play a major factor in ensuring this stability for employees. Layoffs are incredibly difficult to implement under Japanese employment law. Companies need to be under severe financial difficulty and at risk of insolvency and they have to have exhausted all other cost-saving measures. There are also cultural factors - reducing their workforce can reflect poorly on a company's reputation with the public and prospective future employees.
2024.07.03·gamesindustry.biz·14 min read·TLDR This article looks into the history of the research into subterranean life and how it has changed the way scientists see life and the planet. Earth's crust is teeming with subterranean life that scientists are just starting to begin to understand. These microbes may closely resemble some of the earliest single-celled organisms that ever existed. They make up an estimated 10 to 20 percent of the biomass on Earth.
2024.07.03·nytimes.com·37 min read·TLDR Meta 3D Gen has the potential to reshape numerous industries and create new opportunities for innovation in 3D content creation and visualization.
2024.07.03·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR RegreSSHion allows for remote code execution with root system rights on Linux systems based on glibc.
2024.07.03·arstechnica.com·4 min read·TLDR A collection of beliefs that covers topics like how to approach tasks, how to design software, coding details, people, careers, and more.
2024.07.03·evanhahn.com·7 min read·TLDR Planning programming involves providing an initial state, a set of actions, and a target, then using a tool to find the shortest sequence of actions that reaches the target.
2024.07.03·buttondown.email·5 min read·TLDR BB(5) may be the last busy beaver number that humans discover.
2024.07.03·quantamagazine.org·10 min read·TLDR OmniParse is a completely local platform that ingests and parses unstructured data into structured, actionable data optimized for GenAI applications.
2024.07.03·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR Sponsored
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2024.07.03·drinklmnt.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI Amazon is enhancing its AI capabilities by hiring top talent from AI startup Adept and licensing its technology.
2024.07.03·cnbc.com·2 min read·TLDR AI YouTube has updated its policies to allow individuals to request the takedown of AI-generated or synthetic content that mimics their voice or likeness.
2024.07.03·techcrunch.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Google's AI Overviews (AIO) feature now appears in only 8.71% of SERPs for 100K keywords, a significant decrease from 64% pre-rollout, with most AIOs linking to top 10 organic results. The length of AIO content and number of links have both increased post-rollout, indicating Google's emphasis on detailed answers and authoritative sources. SEO strategies must adapt to remain relevant in this evolving search landscape, where user queries with more words, lower search volumes, and lower CPC are more likely to trigger AI-generated responses.
2024.07.03·seranking.com·22 min read·TLDR AI Meta has trained a state-of-the-art 3D object generation model along with a PBR texture generation system. It uses the company's internal 2D image generation model as a tool for synthetic data generation.
2024.07.03·ai.meta.com·18 min read·TLDR AI This work allows for interactive text editing and controlling model generation at inference time. It allows for logical constraints in generation and achieves strong performance with small models.
2024.07.03·arxiv.org·24 min read·TLDR AI Researchers have extended Pairwise Difference Learning (PDL), initially a regression technique, to the task of classification. Instead of predicting outcomes directly, PDL predicts differences between pairs of instances.
2024.07.03·arxiv.org·22 min read·TLDR AI An open-source language agnostic LLM-based mutation testing for automated software testing.
2024.07.03·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI LLaRA is a framework that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve robot action policy through conversation-style instruction-response pairs. By integrating visual inputs, these Vision Language Models (VLMs) process state information and generate optimal policy decisions.
2024.07.03·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI MM-Instruct is a large-scale dataset aimed at enhancing the instruction-following abilities of large multimodal models (LMMs).
2024.07.03·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Great keynote talk from CVPR.
Octomind abandoned the LangChain framework for AI test automation in favor of simpler, modular building blocks, which improved its codebase and team productivity. It encountered inflexibility with LangChain's high-level abstractions, complicating development and maintenance. By switching strategies, Octomind now enjoys a leaner architecture and faster iteration for its AI agent tasks.
2024.07.03·octomind.dev·6 min read·TLDR AI Benjamin Bratton, the director of the Antikythera program at the Berggruen Institute and a professor at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the global reaction to artificial intelligence as a “Copernican Trauma," equating it with past shifts that have redefined humanity's self-perception. Bratton proposes five stages of "AI grief" — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — to frame societal responses to AI's evolution, from skepticism to integration into our understanding of intelligence. He argues that the integration of AI reflects a broader biological and technological evolutionary process, rather than a distinctively human narrative.
2024.07.03·noemamag.com·22 min read·TLDR AI Style transfer with modern diffusion models and content embedders.
2024.07.03·instantstyle-plus.github.io·2 min read·TLDR AI Apple Fellow Phil Schiller will attend OpenAI board meetings without voting power, mirroring Microsoft's role.
2024.07.03·9to5mac.com·1 min read·TLDR AI Researchers have introduced a new method, RSCaMa, for describing changes in remote sensing images using natural language.
2024.07.03·arxiv.org·7 min read·TLDR AI Robinhood Crypto has expanded its availability to all U.S. states, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, giving users across all territories the ability to trade 15 different crypto assets (e.g., BTC, ETH, etc.). This expansion was facilitated by regulatory adaptations (e.g., the Hawai'i-specific MTL license is no longer required) and additional licensing. Robinhood is now well positioned to be ahead or already ahead of U.S.-based competitors like Coinbase and Kraken in terms of geographical availability.
Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a total net inflow of ~$129M on July 1, marking five consecutive days of net inflows. Fidelity's FBTC and Bitwise's BITB ETFs achieved ~$65M and $41M in single-day inflows.
Charon is a middleware client that allows distributed validators (DVs) to stake ETH on behalf of users. It has already been adopted by Lido and EtherFi, with $1.5 billion staked to Obol DVs. This release marks a step toward long-term support of DVs and the beginning of rapid scaling.
RISC Zero has collaborated with Celestia to create Blobstream Zero, which bridges Celestia's DA layer to other prominent chains. It allows modular apps to access ZK Coprocessors, meaning there can be data-intensive ZK programs on chains like Ethereum and Solana but enabled by Celestia and RISC Zero. It also allows for apps to prove and verify Celestia DA on any chain, effectively bridging Celestia DA to the rest of the crypto ecosystem.
The Lightning Network operates as an L2 protocol on top of the Bitcoin network, permitting faster, low-cost transactions through private, secure channels between nodes without the need for broadcasting on the main blockchain. This network improves Bitcoin's functionality by allowing immediate settlements and reduced transaction fees through a system of bilateral payment channels and commitment transactions, improving Bitcoin's utility for everyday transactions.
This post explains why blockchain, with its payment and ownership properties, is an excellent fit for AI agent use cases. It expands upon the difference between single-agent and multi-agent architectures, memory and planning considerations, and examples in literature and crypto, like agent-managed multisig wallets, game NPCs, and autonomous onchain artists. The post concludes by highlighting agent-specific projects and ideas for onchain agents.
Bittensor developers have halted their blockchain network following the discovery of a suspected security exploit targeting users' wallets initially reported by on-chain analyst ZachXBT. The halt was enacted to prevent further unauthorized access while an investigation is conducted. Approximately $8 million worth of TAO tokens were stolen, causing a 15% drop in the token's value.
On the product side, mobile will become increasingly normalized, NFTs will evolve and become relevant, and stablecoin rails will become sufficient for global adoption.
Paymasters are simple, and serve the role of executing calldata and taking a fee in account-abstracted systems, while solvers take an intent, do intelligent order routing, compete for the most liquidity, and complete the trade.
Evolve Bank, a crypto-friendly bank, has acknowledged a significant data breach involving the theft of 33 terabytes of user data by the Russian ransomware group Lockbit affecting users of Bitfinex, Copper Banking, and Nomad.
Tools for Humanity, the builder of Worldcoin, has hired former execs from Google, X, and Apple to improve the privacy, security, and identity management aspects of its project.
Figma CEO Dylan Field announced the temporary disabling of the company's “Make Design” AI feature after it was found to replicate designs from Apple's Weather app, sparking controversy in the design community. The AI tool, intended to generate UI layouts and components from text prompts quickly, faces accusations of being trained on existing apps, which Field denies, attributing the issue to inadequate quality assurance. Figma will suspend the feature until a robust QA process is implemented to ensure the originality and reliability of its outputs.
Captions, a video editing app backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and Sequoia Capital, has launched a feature that automates video editing with custom graphics, zooms, music, and more using AI. This tool targets vertical videos of a single person but also allows users to create AI-generated videos from prompts, which can then be edited with the same features.
Snapchat has introduced new personalization features that allow users to design personalized houses on Snap Map, edit Bitmojis, and add pets in chats. The update distinguishes Snapchat from other social media platforms and incentivizes users to subscribe to its premium service. Snapchat is enhancing the user experience with lightning-quick Snaps and a "live mirror" for Bitmoji creation, making the app more user-centric and creative.
Figma AI, a suite of features like automatic layer renaming and design generation from text prompts, uses user-generated content to train AI models, which may spark concerns about data privacy and intellectual property. Users can opt out of content training before August 15 without losing access to AI features.
Elevate your product design portfolio to attract top tech companies like FAANG by focusing on clarity, storytelling, and relevance, using tools like ChatGPT or Hemingway editor to enhance readability. Summarize your case studies into concise paragraphs, tailor your content to job descriptions, highlight key insights, and continuously seek feedback to improve your chances of landing interviews.
2024.07.03·links.tldrnewsletter.com·7 min read·TLDR Design Figma and other industry leaders share insights through essays and interviews, underscoring prompt engineering's role in eliciting effective AI responses and its interplay with human creativity. The magazine "The Prompt" highlights the importance of high-quality data, the balance between efficiency and creativity, and the collaborative potential of AI in making design processes more innovative and accessible.
Multiplayer.app is a collaborative tool that helps teams design, develop, and manage distributed software. It offers effortless architecture visualizations, seamless collaboration, version control, and centralized platform assets.
Able is a Figma plugin that simplifies accessibility by adding color contrast and color blindness checks to your workflow.
Vizzu is a no-code data visualization tool that effortlessly transforms complex data into memorable, animated stories.