📰 News

🚗 Ford to spend $1.3B to transform Canada factory into EV manufacturing hub

Ford has announced that it will spend $1.3 billion to transform its Oakville facility in Canada into an assembly plant for its next-generation of electric vehicles, which will feature a battery plant, and workers will assemble the components into battery packs and then install them into EVs produced at the plant.

💸 FTC cracks down on Amazon ‘review hijacking’ with $600k fine

The Federal Trade Commission has fined The Bountiful Company, which makes Nature’s Bounty supplements, $600,000 for "review hijacking" on Amazon, where it lumped several different products into the same listings to share the same reviews and labels, deceiving buyers and artificially inflating the ratings and reviews of its newer and less successful supplements.

📈 Amount of office space available for rent hits new record high

Office space available for lease in the U.S. hits a new record high, indicating that the distress in the office market is going to get worse, as remote work crushes the market and vacancies are expected to rise even higher.

📧 Elon Musk tweets, then deletes DMs from Matt Taibbi over his Substack snit

Elon Musk tweeted and then deleted a DM conversation with writer Matt Taibbi over his Substacks, where it appears Musk learned details of the "TwitterFiles" writer's connection with the platform, which raises concerns about privacy on Twitter.

👾 $2,500 hoodie makes you look like you were plucked out of Minecraft

Luxury fashion brand Loewe has released a new line of clothing that evokes memories of low-resolution graphics reminiscent of games like Minecraft, with pieces including a $2,500 hoodie, $3,400 purse, $2,500 pants, $1,850 T-shirt and $790 denim skirt.

🤖 Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches?

Regulators are cracking down on artificial intelligence (AI) companies such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion for hoovering up content without consent or notice, raising concerns that they are operating in breach of personal data and copyright laws, and lawsuits have emerged with Getty Images suing British startup Stability AI and a group of artists suing Midjourney and Stability AI in the US for using artists’ work without permission, prompting some companies to keep their datasets secret.

💰 Uber sells $400M stake in Careem super app business

Ride-hailing company Careem, which was bought by Uber in 2019, is spinning out its superapp business into a new startup backed with $400m from Emirates Telecommunications Group Company, aiming to dominate the SuperApp unit; following the deal, Careem will be broken into two companies, Careem Rides and Careem Technologies.

👨 Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI

A developer has created "self-healing" programs called Wolverine that use OpenAI's GPT-4 language model to fix Python bugs on the fly and explain what went wrong.

💀 Twitter Is Dead: It's All 'X Corp' Now

Billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp has officially acquired Twitter, with plans to reinvent the platform into a closed and monetized app, according to court documents from an ongoing lawsuit; Musk has previously discussed his goal of a blockchain-based social media system that would charge users for registering a message on the blockchain, and has given access back to far-right figures and some literal nazis.

🤡 FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad

Crypto exchange FTX failed to protect customers' digital assets due to extremely poor cybersecurity practices, according to its latest bankruptcy report which shows the company never hired a chief information security officer and never put basic digital protections in place. The report also reveals FTX did not use cold storage, keeping virtually all clients' assets in hot wallets but claiming to investors it used cold storage. FTX also kept clients' sensitive cryptographic keys and seed phrases stored in plaintext documents and failed to enforce basic web security measures like multi-factor authentication.

🔄 The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge

In a recent interview, Steve Yegge, the Head of Engineering at Sourcegraph and a seasoned software engineer with over 30 years of experience at companies like GeoWorks, Amazon, Google and Grab, shared his insights on developer productivity and how developertools play a crucial role in it, along with his learnings and experiences from his career.

🤖 Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town

Researchers at Stanford University and Google have created a miniature RPG-style virtual world similar to The Sims, where 25 characters, controlled by ChatGPT and custom code, live out their lives independently with a high degree of realistic behavior, in order to study emergent AI behaviors in a sandbox world.

🌀 Climate models warn of possible ‘super El Niño’ before end of year

Climate models predict a potential El Niño weather event before the end of the year, but disagree on its intensity, with some suggesting the possibility of a "super El Niño" that will "rock the planet." The last extreme El Niño in 2016 led to the highest temperatures on record, resulting in floods, droughts, and disease outbreaks, underpinned by human-caused global heating.

🌟 For the first time, you can now watch every Star Trek movie in 4K HDR

All 13 Star Trek movies, including the original series and The Next Generation cast, are now available in 4K and HDR, with Dolby Atmos audio support.

💡📚 Articles

🎉 One Platform Event (I guess two technically) to rule them all (4 min read)

One Platform Event to Rule Them All: The Insane Yet Genius Framework You Must Try Now

💾 Design architecture for large file downloads (4 min read)

Streamlining Large File Downloads: Optimal Solutions for Efficient Delivery

🏢 Multi-tenant implementation approaches with Prisma and ZenStack (8 min read)

Discover the benefits and drawbacks of multi-tenant architecture while exploring different possible approaches, and learn how to implement them quickly and easily.

💰 Split Bill App Design: A Guide to Creating a Seamless Splitwise-like Experience (6 min read)

Designing a Seamless Splitwise-like Experience for Split-Bills App: A Guide to Managing Shared Expenses with Ease.

🏢 38 Architecting for Enterprise Product Line Evolution (9 min read)

Architecting for Enterprise Product Line Evolution: How to Build for Tomorrow's Problems Today. Learn how to simplify your architecture by isolating design elements that change from those that don't, and how to easily evolve components as a product and product lines grow and mature. Explore the challenges and opportunities of evolutionary architecture, and discover valuable strategies and patterns for success.

🏢 Clean architecture tutorial: Design for enterprise-scale apps (9 min read)

Get started with clean app architecture: breaking down core principles and diagrams to create stable apps that easily adapt to changes in outer elements. Discover the benefits of clean architecture, principles, and what to learn next.

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