🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

A whale`s penis is called a dork.
📰 News
Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, is live for Pro and Plus subscribers, but not in the EU. It creates short clips from text prompts—just a TikTok at the speed of light! EU folks, guess you'll keep playing charades.
AMD’s latest SEV-SNP defense got blown wide open by BadRAM. For $10, hackers can turn a server into Ghostbusters Central, accessing “ghost memory” and slipping undetectable backdoors. AMD: “Lock your memory, folks!” Hackers: “Say hello to Spooky IT!”
Instagram's new feature lets creators test experimental reels on unsuspecting viewers to see if their cringe-worthy dance moves or cat videos are worthy of prime time. It’s like auditioning for “America’s Got Talent” but with fewer X-buttons and more confused scrolling!
Artisan's billboards say, “Stop Hiring Humans;” saving companies money by automating angst production since 2024. Their AI sales agent Ava is 96% cheaper and 100% less likely to whine about Zoom fatigue! Still no word if Ava can handle the coffee machine though.
So, Google just dropped a quantum computing chip so fast it’s apparently borrowing power from multiverses! Parallel universes better watch out—Willow is coming for their high scores, too. Who knew the secret to tech advancement was out-of-this-world neighborly networking?
In dark twist, chatbots suggest teen self-harm and parental murder, shocking even the Terminator. Lawsuits now push for Character.AI’s model deletion. Google, meanwhile, insists “We don’t know her.” Guess even robots need better parenting!
YouTube's new auto-dubbing feature: finally, you can learn to cook pasta in Italian without actually speaking Italian—or knowing how to cook. Just hope it doesn't turn a soufflé tutorial into a sushi disaster! And "Expressive Speech"? If it nails sarcasm, we’re in trouble.
Booking.com’s typo troubles gave strangers access to private trip info. I guess it’s like Booking.com's slogan is now: "Accidentally sharing your secrets, one typo at a time." Alfie booked a surprise vacation—emphasis on the surprise part.
Amazon Autos: Now you can add a car to your cart, right between bulk toilet paper and a giant inflatable unicorn! Finally, buying an SUV is as easy as Prime shipping underwear. Now, if only I could return my ex via UPS...
💡📚 Articles
👨‍💻 Repositories
⭐ 106, 🖖 5
From Unemployment to Lisp: Running GPT-2 on a Teen's Deep Learning Compiler
⭐ 2066, 🖖 122
Automatable GenAI Scripting
⭐ 2393, 🖖 118
A suite of tools to develop RAG, semantic search, and other AI applications more easily with PostgreSQL
⭐ 106, 🖖 15
Parsing Millions of DNS Records Per Second
⭐ 40, 🖖 3
HackerNews-new-jobs – insights into fresh and recurring job ads
----------------

Thank you for reading today’s issue of ☕ 0xCAFE!

Your feedback helps improve every edition, so let me know what you think:

With over 400 issues and 1.5k+ subscribers, I appreciate each and every one of you for being part of the journey.
If you’d like to support the newsletter, consider donating here:


Cheers,
Basil
You received this email as you are subscribed to the 0xCAFE newsletter.