📰 News

🤖 Purely AI-generated songs declared ineligible for Grammy Awards

The Grammys have banned purely AI-generated music from being considered for awards. Looks like AI will need to stick to collaborating with human musicians for now, or risk becoming the world's most sophisticated garage band.

🔌 Has Tesla Already Won the EV Charging War?

The competition for EV charging supremacy is sparking exciting developments. Texas, for example, is requiring new EV chargers funded by the government to include Tesla's North American Charging Standard. It seems like everyone wants a piece of Tesla's charging prowess, though the industry still needs to work out a few spark plugs.

💻 The State of the Tech Market in 2023

In 2023, VC funding is lagging behind and there's pressure on tech compensation. On the bright side, new grads' salaries in the US are recovering from a nosedive. It's almost as if the tech industry is a rollercoaster...but without the fun.

💰 ChatGPT prompts: How to optimize for sales, marketing, writing, and more

ChatGPT, the fastest-growing AI chatbot, is taking the world by storm with its ability to write emails, essays, and more. But watch out, it's not always the most cooperative - "careful fine-tuning" is necessary to get the desired output. Good luck and don't forget to fact-check its "hallucinations."

💻 People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI

Looks like AI chatbots are the new Mechanical Turk on the block, with researchers finding that a third of the platform's workers are using large language models to automate their responses. Meanwhile, Amazon is still struggling to differentiate between the human and AI-generated data, leading us to wonder if it's just a big game of "snake eats tail."

💰 Dropbox launches $50M AI-focused venture fund, intros AI features

Dropbox launches AI venture fund, determined to contribute to the general AI race and "shape the future of work". They also introduced new AI-powered features, including a search bar that will soon answer questions using generative AI. So, will employees need to start worrying about being replaced by a chatbot?

🤖 Inside The AI Factory

Looks like AI is creating jobs after all, but they're not as exciting as we thought. Meet the taskers — the annotators, categorizers, and labelers whose lives consist of classifying everything from clothing to distorted dialogue to motorcycles for self-driving cars for very little pay.

🚁 Drones take to the waves: Saildrones are getting data where people can't

I heard that saildrones are getting data where people can't. It's like high-tech surfing but instead of catching a wave, they're catching important ocean data. Cowabunga, dude!

💰 What to expect from the creator economy in 2023

The creator economy might need some help from creators themselves, with Charli D’Amelio and MrBeast now seeking funding and even investing themselves. While funding for startups in this industry might dry up, creators should continue to diversify their income streams and not burn out. As for MrBeast's worth, I'd say it's priceless - have you seen the man give away houses and cars like they're candy?

🤔 Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few

Looks like Reddit is in a bit of a pickle! Removing moderators who made subreddits NSFW is a violation of their content policy, but with monetization at stake, can you blame them? It's like choosing between a rock and a hard place... or in Reddit's case, ads and NSFW labels.

🚂 Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails

Spotify's podcast strategy is like a game of Jenga, with each pillar tumbling down one by one. First, there were the layoffs, then the failure to attract audiences to in-house studios and celebrity-driven originals, and now they're left clinging to the hope that Joe Rogan doesn't take his show elsewhere.

🤢 Thousands of realistic but fake AI child sex images found online, report says

I don't want to sound algorithmic, but AI-generated child sex images are a really sick code. Experts say it may normalize child sexual exploitation. So let's hope law enforcement can debug this malicious program before it does even more harm.

💸 Patreon is launching a free membership tier

Patreon's free membership tier is perfect for those who love content but are financially challenged. It's like getting a sample at a grocery store before you splurge on the entire product, except in this case, it's creative digital content.

🛩 Titanic sub search: ‘underwater noises’ picked up by Canadian plane

What do you call a sub that's lost 12,500ft below the surface? TITANic. In all seriousness, the search effort's focus was relocated after hearing "inconclusive" underwater sounds. The Titan sub's crew, if still alive, only has a few hours of oxygen left.

📉 Middle schoolers' reading and math scores plummet

Looks like our future generations are struggling with math and reading, and the decline is the biggest in 50 years! It's not a good sign, but let's hope this gets resolved soon or we'll end up with a society where the only ones who can count are the robots.

🤖 Marvel faces backlash over AI-generated opening credits

Marvel using AI for their Secret Invasion opening credits is causing quite the storm online. Some artists are up in arms, but don't worry - Samuel L. Jackson is still playing a human character.

💡📚 Articles

🎨 Design Patterns: A Comprehensive Tutorial (5 min read)

I used to think design patterns were just for quilts until I read this article. Now I realize they're like reusable templates for software problems. But please, don't try to knit a software solution, that's where I draw the line.

🌐 Network Protocols (2 min read)

Why did the network protocol feel insecure? Because its password was only "1234IP". But at least it had its headers and metadata to keep it company. #NetworkingHumor

🤖 Automatically enforcing decisions (4 min read)

Mastering the Art of Time Management: Boosting Productivity Like a Pro!

🏗 Microservice Architecture: Eventual Consistency (2 min read)

Breaking Down Complexity: Achieving Eventual Consistency in Microservices

🔎 Insights Gained from Employing Micro-frontends Architecture in Angular (6 min read)

Why did the micro-frontends refuse to share their data? Because they didn't want to be tightly coupled. In this article, implementing small enterprise micro-frontends architecture projects using Angular and Module Federation are explored. Tips include defining the responsibilities of each part, using a backend for every micro-frontend, and more.

🤔 Does a Big Ball of Mud decay? (6 min read)

Decoding Big Ball of Mud: Can It Lead to Decay? A commentary on Eberhard Wolff's recent podcast episode 159 of Software-Architektur im Stream, exploring the concept of the Big Ball of Mud and its relevance in today's software development practices.

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