📰 News
So OpenAI wants $6.5 billion, bumping its valuation to a sky-high $150 billion. Rumor has it, even my grandma is investing, trading her cookie jar money for AI stock. It’s like Silicon Valley's version of "Who Wants to be a Billionaire?"
iFixit’s USB-C soldering iron: the Swiss Army knife of hot sticks! At $250, it’s more expensive than Pinecil, but comes with its own magic tricks: auto-shutoff, mag cap, and even a workout regime for your magnets—apparently, they drag your battery pack just for fun!
Who knew? Science can be a real pigeon-holed career! From missiles guided by feathery friends to trout that can't swim—these 2024 Ig Nobel winners make you giggle before you wonder why pigeons aren't running NASA. Quackscience at its finest!
Google Wallet just became James Bond’s favorite app! Now you can scan your passport to create a Digital ID for TSA checkpoints. But remember, it's just an ID backup. Your selfie video is for the app, not TikTok—no viral fame here!
Wikipedia’s future hangs on Gen Z edits? Good luck getting them to use anything that doesn’t swipe right! But hey, at least their edits will come with flawless TikTok dance tutorials and avocado toast recipes. Let's just hope the AI doesn't crash their party!
Microsoft's Xbox division lays off 650 employees to "align post-acquisition structure." Sounds like they’re taking a page out of the Thanos playbook: snapping fingers and eliminating employees instead of saving the universe. It's not quite 'game over,' but it's definitely 'try again?'
So Apple's AirPods Pro 2 can now double as hearing aids! Imagine going from cranking up your 80's mixtape to discreetly hearing your grandma’s gossip. At least now, when people say, “I can’t hear you,” they’ve really run out of excuses.
Looks like cows are milking their reputation for chaos! Turns out they're the real farm bullies, with more trampling escapades than a Black Friday sale. If a herd comes your way, just remember: cows may be stellar cuddlers, but also secret ninjas!
Imagine cruising at 40mph in a Lego McLaren P1! It's like a childhood dream, except now you need 768 Lego motors and 342,817 pieces—and possibly adult supervision. Just be ready for pit stops to reassemble any stray bricks!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
Inability to contact a data collection server triggered a latent memory leak bug in the reporting agent on the storage servers. And there is no graceful degradation handling, thus the reporting agent continuously contacted the collection server in a way that slowly consumed system memory. Also the monitoring system failed to alarm this EBS server's memory leak, also EBS servers generally make very dynamic use of all memory. By Monday morning, the rate of memory loss became quite high and confused enough memory on the affected storage servers which cannot keep with the request handling process. This error got further severed by the inability to do the failover, which resulted in the outage.
💡📚 Articles
So, software is about to become our personal butler, instinctively knowing we prefer socks folded, not rolled. No more 1,000 feature megadbloats—your AI will serve tools hot and fresh, just like mom’s pancakes. Adaptive software? More like attentive software—just without the judgmental looks!
Building a messaging pipeline with Pipes and Filters is like setting up a lemonade stand where each kid does one task: squeeze lemons, add sugar, stir, and sell. Monoliths? That’s just one kid doing everything and probably making a big mess!
In the world of web apps, the Fetch API is like Tinder for data – you swipe URLs and wait for the perfect match. Failed request? It's not ghosting; he probably just didn't add enough headers to the profile.
In the saga of Windows command prompt blues, ZSH and Oh My ZSH! emerge as your superhero duo. Trade mundane for power-packed! Follow this guide, and your terminal won't recognize itself—it's basically a command line spa day. Bash, ZSH, boom!
🚀 App of the Day
Personalized web AI copilot. Thunderbit is a Chrome Extension that automates your web tasks. Create personalized web AI copilot in 1-click using AI. Build AI app and automation just by filling out an easy form. We're challenging the No-Code status quo with AI.
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