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GOOGLE CLOSES SOME CAFÉS 'UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE' AS IT CUTS COSTS

"SCALING LAWS" FOR AI AND SOME IMPLICATIONS

FOUNDATIONAL MODELS ARE NOT ENOUGH

AMAZON CEO ANDY JASSY RELEASES ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER LETTER

GENERATOR

GOOGLE LAUNCHES THE FIRST PUBLIC BETA OF ANDROID 14

EUROPE IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH ONE OF ITS MOST AMBITIOUS MISSIONS EVER

AGEING STUDIES IN FIVE ANIMALS SUGGESTS HOW TO REVERSE DECLINE

GITHUB ACCELERATOR: OUR FIRST COHORT AND WHAT’S NEXT

ARROYO

Arroyo is a distributed stream processing engine designed to efficiently perform stateful computations on streams of data. It can operate on both bounded and unbounded sources and emit results as soon as they are available. Arroyo lets users ask complex questions of high-volume real-time data with subsecond results. It can be used for real-time product and business analytics, to detect fraud and security incidents, for real-time ML feature generation, and more.

MASS LAYOFFS AND ABSENTEE BOSSES CREATE A MORALE CRISIS AT META

Meta's 'year of efficiency' has so far translated into mass layoffs. There have been two rounds of cuts over the past six months, with two more to come that will eliminate over 21,000 positions. Some of Meta's top executives have moved away and are managing large parts of the company from London and Tel Aviv. There is increased scrutiny in workplace reviews and workers are being asked to justify why their jobs are crucial to Meta's goals. Workers are creating memes about how much time they have left in the company.

TECH COMPANIES RAID TOP UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES FOR RARE AI TALENT

NO, FUSION ENERGY WON’T BE ‘LIMITLESS’

Fusion energy will likely be more costly than wind or solar power.

TWITTER

SCAFFOLDED LLMS AS NATURAL LANGUAGE COMPUTERS

WITHOUT A PRICE TAG

LLM FOR COMMERCIAL USE

POE’S AI CHATBOT APP NOW LETS YOU MAKE YOUR BOTS USING PROMPTS

LICENSE

PLASTIC CUPS

SPACEX LAUNCH BEGINS STARTUP'S PLAN FOR 'CELL TOWERS IN SPACE"

DEEP SCATTER

This library enables zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scale over a billion points. It uses a custom quadtree format that only loads data when zooming to increase speed. The library also uses the Apache Arrow Feather format, which is quick to parse, compresses well, and can copy directly to the GPU without JavaScript transformation. It runs in completely static settings, making it possible to host million-point scatter plots over services such as GitHub Pages.

LUCIA

Lucia is a flexible library for user and session management. It was designed to create an easy-to-understand abstraction layer between applications and their databases. Lucia makes authentication simple and clean.

AS TECH JOBS DISAPPEAR, SILICON VALLEY VETERANS RESET THEIR CAREERS

Laid-off tech workers are expanding their horizons and landing jobs in smaller and midsize firms, freelancing, and nontech companies. Many are now considering tech jobs outside the industry or with startups that are more aligned with their values. The job market remains strong, with low unemployment rates and growing technical services and software development sectors. Many companies that were previously unable to compete with big tech for workers are now able to hire again.

CHROME JUST SHIPPED WEBGPU WITHOUT FLAGS

HOW COMPANIES ARE PUNISHING WORK-FROM-HOME HOLDOUTS

DASHCAM FOOTAGE SHOWS DRIVERLESS CARS CLOGGING SAN FRANCISCO

Autonomous vehicles are stopping in the middle of roads in San Francisco, creating traffic hazards and problems for other drivers.

WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT FORMAL METHODS IN HALF A YEAR

USE GITHUB ACTIONS TO MAKE YOUR GITHUB PROFILE DYNAMIC

50 IDEAS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

RASPBERRY PI LAUNCHES ONLINE CODE EDITOR TO HELP KIDS LEARN

TWITTER IS NOW MARKING SUBSTACK LINKS AS UNSAFE

A MANAGEMENT OVERHAUL

LANDING

THIS STARTUP WANTS TO CREATE A PENICILLIN FOR VIRUSES

PERSEUS

Perseus is a frontend web development framework. It supports generating page state at build-time, request-time, incrementally, or at any other time. Perseus aims to support every major rendering strategy to provide developers with the ability to efficiently create super-fast apps.

CRONER

Croner is Cron for JavaScript and TypeScript. It lets users trigger functions, evaluate cron expressions, and obtain a list of upcoming run times without any dependencies. Croner operates in-memory, requiring no configuration files or databases. It supports Node.js, Deno, and Bun. Croner features built-in overrun protection and error handling. Users can pause, resume, or stop execution after a task is scheduled.

METAVERSE

Programmers capable of building out virtual reality games, apps, and technology earned total compensation packages from $600,000 to up to $1 million from Meta. The company is paying much more than other gaming companies. It is also trying to reign in costs while investing in the metaverse. Meta's high salaries are part of a larger trend where the company is willing to outspend competitors to lure in the best talent. It will likely be years before the company's metaverse ambitions come to fruition.

INSIDE GOOGLE'S PLAN TO KILL THE COOKIE

PL/RUST

PL/Rust is a loadable procedural language that enables writing PostgreSQL functions in the Rust programming language.

WE’RE ONE STEP CLOSER TO READING AN OCTOPUS’S MIND

IS THE EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE SOCIAL CONTACT IN TECH ... NOW BROKEN?

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