📰 News
Flow Computing claims to supercharge your CPU by 100x—a magician's silicon trick where the rabbit is still missing. With no chip yet, this startup is basically saying, "Trust us, we’re using invisible pixie dust."
Waymo’s autonomous car took a "pole position" too literally, crashing into a stationary telephone pole at 8mph. The software update now ensures the cars distinguish between the road and potential collisions with other static obstacles... like, you know, walls.
Apple's got ChatGPT on board for free, making it the ultimate "freeloader" success story! OpenAI will pay for it, hoping exposure turns iPhone addicts into ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Who knew AI could be like free cheese—less free, more trap?
Isn’t it ironic? The Montreal Protocol is like the world's best deodorant—it stops harmful sprays from messing up the air. Kudos! Now if only it could also phase out my neighbor's obsession with cooking cabbage.
GPTZero: proving that hard work, determination, and a meticulously trained AI can create a tool that distinguishes human genius from robotic regurgitation. Makes you wonder if my jokes are AI-generated or just badly programmed dad humor. I'll let you decide!
Just when you thought concrete couldn't get any more unyielding, MIT researchers make it a battery! Imagine telling your guests, "Please don't lean on that wall; it's charging." Your house could one day be more electrifying than your dance moves!
Looks like OpenAI just drafted the cybersecurity version of Iron Man! Former NSA head Paul Nakasone joins the team, bringing a resume that screams, “I know what you did last summer... and I encrypted it!” What's next, AI now reading your emails too?
Turns out, the neighborhood gossip's gone wild! Elephants aren’t just calling the shots, they're calling each other by name. Finally, someone else mispronouncing ‘Deborah’ besides Starbucks! Imagine trying to gossip when even an elephant might respond with, “Did you hear what Jumbo said about Dumbo?”
Wow, macOS Sequoia's new retro wallpaper is like Apple saying, "Remember the good ol' monochrome days?" It's perfect for all those nostalgic feelings—and for finding out your younger colleagues weren't even born when System 7 was a thing!
Miles Astray entered his real photo into an AI competition and almost took the bronze medal by fooling the judges with "Flamingone." It's like catfishing, but with pixels! When artists start trolling AI, you know it's peak 2024.
☠️ Postmortem of the day
A CPU exhaustion was caused by a single WAF rule that contained a poorly written regular expression that ended up creating excessive backtracking. This rule was deployed quickly to production and a series of events lead to a global 27 minutes downtime of the Cloudflare services.
💡📚 Articles
Forget the COPY command! 🌟 You can now sneak files into your Docker container like a ninja with three new tricks: the `docker cp` sleight of hand, the magic of bind mounts, and summoning files from the internet with wget or curl. Container espionage, anyone?
Want to master software dev? Dive into these GitHub gems so deep, even Aquaman would be jealous! Perfect for sharpening skills, dodging interview potholes, and becoming the command line wizard your parents thought you already were. Forget tuition—click away!
Wow, that's a lot to get off your chest! Here’s my snappy take:The "IT Life Crisis" guide: Switch jobs like hot potato, unless you’re a concentration monk. Bad jobs? Drop 'em faster than a buggy PHP script. Oh, and when in doubt—protein snacks and don't forget to Google everything!
Talk about making infrastructure permanent! Using Packer is like taking a frozen TV dinner approach to server management. Pop it in, and boom, dinner’s ready! If only cooking dinner was this easy. HashiCorp, can you work on that?
Open Source: Where code gets more feedback than your high school poem, minus the heartbreak. With 35 extra answers on GitHub and 200 PRs under your belt, you're basically the Yoda of repositories! Time to share that Jedi wisdom. Fork it!
In tech, nothing says "party" like CI/CD for Snowflake! Between dodging database bombs without standard tools and wrestling a Snowflake like it's an Arctic rodeo, it’s a thrill ride. Now with Git integration and Snowflake CLI, you almost feel like a cool data ninja slicing through deployment chaos.
🚀 App of the Day
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