📰 News
Looks like 2024 is the year tech went on a diet, with layoffs trimming the fat like a New Year's resolution gone sideways! Even Google's Cloud teams are under a gray cloud—a true case of "Welcome to the Thunderdome!"
Boeing's new CEO Robert “Kelly” Ortberg must feel like he's boarding a plane with both wings on fire! After $1.4bn quarterly loss and serious safety issues, he's got his work cut out. Ortberg promises top-flight standards, but let’s hope this journey’s not “plane” painful!
Looks like Xbox sales are plummeting faster than my New Year’s resolutions. Microsoft might want to invest in parachutes instead of consoles. Expect more Xbox Game Pass promos, because soon the only thing shipping faster than PS5 units will be Microsoft’s optimism!
Microsoft is finally ditching those pesky Skype ads. Now you can awkwardly pause in your video calls without any distractions! Plus, they’ve beefed up AI image tools – because if Skype can’t read your emotions, at least it can draw them.
AMD's sales are soaring, now half from data centers. They've turned the MI300 chip into a billion-dollar quarterly blockbuster! With AMD and Nvidia in an AI chip arms race, PC gamers might just feel like they're waiting for WiFi at grandma's house. Buckle up for zen laptops and AI chips outpacing your snack runs!
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman demands Microsoft stop treating Reddit like the free sample section at Costco. He's blocking Bing data scrapers faster than I block my ex's texts! Next up: captcha challenges in Morse code.
Remember when your mom used to tell you to always wash behind your ears? Well, Google Play didn't, and a family of malware threw a two-year family reunion in plain sight! So much for clean apps, am I right?
OpenAI’s new GPT-4o Voice Mode lets ChatGPT sound like a real person—until Scarlett Johansson lawyers up. You get Juniper, Breeze, Cove, and Ember instead, making ChatGPT sound more like a hippie commune. Next release: ChatGPT’s karaoke night!
Dogs: The new "beware of the mailman" sign! Who knew postal workers had a secret life as gladiators facing off against Fido? Maybe next time, we should train posties with chew toys and bacon armor! Bat-signal for dog trainers, anyone?
☠️ Postmortem of the day
Elastic Cloud customers with deployments in the AWS eu-west-1 (Ireland) region experienced severely degraded access to their clusters for roughly 3 hours. During this same timeframe, there was an approximately 20 minute period during which all deployments in this region were completely unavailable.
💡📚 Articles
Taipy Designer: where Python data scientists can finally avoid the painful export-import dance! Now, with drag-and-drop ease, creating GUIs feels like making a Lego masterpiece, minus the foot injury. Beats Power BI and Tableau… no da(n)sh!
Wow, building an AgentCloud RAG chatbot seems simpler than assembling IKEA furniture – and less likely to leave you with extra screws! Just replace the wooden dowels with MongoDB data and the Allen wrench with Docker. Voilà: instant tech wizardry!
It looks like React 19 is turning developers into actual wizards—with a spellbook full of 17 magical libraries! Whether it's adding AI sidekicks with CopilotKit or whipping up entire dashboards with Tremor, these tools make coding feel like a Hogwarts elective. Forget wands, just update npm and you're set—Hagrid would be proud!
🚀 App of the Day
AI feedback meets art - anyone can learn to draw. This is your go-to app, blending innovation with artistic freedom to unlock creative potential. Perfect for all ages, it offers step-by-step lessons and AI feedback to enhance your drawing skills, at your own pace. Simply Draw makes art accessible to everyone!
👨‍💻 Repositories
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Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.
⭐ 11804, 🖖 2878
👑 Easy-to-use and powerful NLP and LLM library with 🤗 Awesome model zoo, supporting wide-range of NLP tasks from research to industrial applications, including 🗂Text Classification, 🔍 Neural Search, ❓ Question Answering, ℹ️ Information Extraction, 📄 Document Intelligence, 💌 Sentiment Analysis etc.
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A cloud-native vector database, storage for next generation AI applications
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Open-source high-performance RISC-V processor
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Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
🧩 Puzzle of the Day
🎯 Survivorship bias
You're a World War II statistician analyzing returning US bombers. Your task is to recommend where to add armor to reduce losses. The data shows the following distribution of bullet holes on returning aircraft:

- Fuselage: 2.0 bullets/sq ft
- Wings: 1.5 bullets/sq ft
- Tail: 0.1 bullets/sq ft

Therefore, most bullets are visible on fuselages and the least - on tails.
Which one part would you recommend reinforcing to minimize future losses?

1. Fuselage
2. Wings
3. Tail
🗝️ Last Puzzle Solution
🧦 The Sock Drawer Puzzle
1) On the first pick, we get either a black or a white sock. Let's say we get a black sock.

2) On the second pick, for the worst-case scenario, we get the opposite color - a white sock.

3) On the third pick, we're guaranteed to match one of the two socks we already have:
- If it's black, it matches the first sock.
- If it's white, it matches the second sock.

So the maximum number of times we need to remove a sock from the drawer to guarantee a matching pair is actually 3.
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