📰 News
The EU's plan to scan even your encrypted messages would turn your phone into the ultimate nosy roommate. “Hey, I noticed you chose pizza over salad again!” Privacy: one delivery at a time, just with 100% more surveillance. Who knew Big Brother liked emojis?
Looks like Spotify’s turning us all into multitaskers—now you can watch podcasters' awkward blinks and camera fumbles in real-time! Forget Netflix; my new binge involves staring at people talk about their cats. This is evolution, folks!
Anthropic’s new AI, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is so swift and smart, even its old version felt insecure. The new ‘Artifacts’ feature lets you edit creations in-app—finally, an AI that doesn't ghost you after the first draft. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s AI race season!
So, the Hitchcock brothers went from tracking golfers' "engagement" (read: how often they swear at bad shots) to creating a wizard-like database that can do all the tricks! They've got VCs investing $20M—turns out data headaches are worth big bucks!
Poolside.ai is making waves with a $400 million funding round, aiming for a $2 billion valuation. Paris may need to rename itself "Cité de l'IA" at this rate! Thanks to Poolside, developers will get speedier—fewer coffee spills coding by the pool!
Meredith Whittaker is like that friend who always carries a spare phone charger—always prepared. As the president of Signal, she’s tackling surveillance like it’s 1984 and she’s stuck in a George Orwell fever dream. Privacy fanatics, rejoice, she’s your new Robin Hood!
Ilya Sutskever jumps from OpenAI to 'Safe Superintelligence Inc.', aiming to tame superintelligent AI like a high-tech version of Cowboy. With offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, he's roped in top talent to ensure our digital overlords don’t cancel pizza deliveries.
PQShield is busy building unhackable fortresses against quantum hackers, raising $37 million—a sum my wallet only dreams of. With Dr. El Kaafarani, the post-quantum wizard, leading and advising the White House and NASA, who knew nerds could be this powerful?
Researchers develop a BS meter for ChatGPT—no more Tall Tales of AI! Oxford team finds a way to catch when our digital buddy spins yarns. Presumably, ChatGPT will confabulate fewer bedtime stories now! I once tricked it into believing I was Batman.
☠️ Postmortem of the day
Side effects of a bug fix for wrong timestamps causes data loss; server misconfiguration for the hotfix causes the data loss to reappear in several servers in a following update.
💡📚 Articles
Ready to rule Git like a wizard? This blog promises 13 Git hacks to elevate your coding life. Streamline commits with `git commit -am "<message>"`, create aliases like you’re nicknaming your pet rock, and revert commits smoother than your last Tinder date. Even Harry Potter’s spellbook isn't this thrilling!
Choosing between on-premises and managed Kubernetes is like deciding if you're game enough for IKEA furniture (on-prem) or just want to rent a ready-made flatpack (managed). Go on-prem if you enjoy wrestling with Allen keys; managed if you prefer brunch over a breakdown!
Ah, Argo Rollouts now supporting Kubernetes Gateway API is like watching your tech geek cousin finally emerge from their basement with a single USB cable that syncs all your devices. Canary deployments have gone from awkwardly migrating like penguins to soaring like eagles with APIs. Happy deploy-ments!
Introducing Fakedin – because creating real content for LinkedIn is sooo 2022! Bugs included free of charge, because let's face it, perfect is boring. And hey, 140k followers? Who knew fake posts could get you real results! 😂👨‍💻✨
YAML: the Ikea instruction manual of code—minimalist, human-readable, and driving developers nuts with one wrong space. It’s like ASCII art became self-aware. Remember, it’s also how you know your laptop moonlights as a minimalist artist!
Trying to patch past code with bugs is like playing Whac-A-Mole on hard mode. Write tests, document everything, and plan for scalability—but not for NASA. Remember, coding's a team sport: no one wants to be the star goalie for bug fixes!
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👨‍💻 Repositories
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Implementation for MatMul-free LM.
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A comprehensive translation of upstream React 17.x into Luau
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ms-swift: Use PEFT or Full-parameter to finetune 250+ LLMs or 35+ MLLMs. (Qwen2, GLM4, Internlm2, Yi, Llama3, Llava, Deepseek, Baichuan2...)
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Cryptographers' Feedback on the EU Digital Identity's ARF
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Universal shadcn/ui for React Native: Copy, paste, and tailor components to suit your specific requirements.
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Local Voice Assistant Using Ollama, Transformers and Coqui TTS Toolkit
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Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program
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Improved file parsing for LLM’s
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