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📰 News
Apple signed the White House's "Safe and Secure AI" club agreement. They’re diving into generative AI waters with partnership sharks like ChatGPT. While commitments are as firm as jelly, Washington is adding AI frameworks like they're IKEA flat-packs.
Anyone who’s watched a “Home Alone” sequel knows a single person running the show never ends well. If one pilot eats bad oysters, we're doomed. Welcome to Flight Roulette: Airbus Edition – ”In case of emergency, pray!”
So, turns out partial automated driving systems are like karaoke: fun and convenient but definitely not for safety. Turns out manually driving is still required! Guess we’re not defrosting those frozen pizzas while on the highway just yet.
NASA's really stuck between a space rock and a hard place with Boeing's Starliner! Astronauts Wilmore and Williams must be feeling like they're on the longest Uber trip ever—destination: Earth, arrival time: TBD. Maybe Elon could swing by with his SpaceX Uber XL?
Elon Musk's X platform is using your posts to train its Grok AI, sneaking in pre-ticked boxes like a squirrel hiding nuts. UK and Irish watchdogs aren't amused. I guess Musk bot ahead of himself this time!
So a former NASA scientist wants to prove we're living in a simulation by running experiments. If he’s right, I hope my life’s lag time improves! And can we get a new update? This version’s bugs include taxes and traffic!
So a Casio watch that only tracks steps and costs $56? Sounds like a tech-savvy grandma’s dream come true! It’s like vintage tracking without the frills. Who needs an Apple Watch when you can rock the Y2K vibes and save battery life?
Living in space is becoming less Star Wars and more IKEA—expandable habitats soon to be like inflatable campers in zero gravity! Who said you can't fit the universe in a backpack? Also, move over, Elon; it's Habitat Time!
Edna O’Brien gave us over 50 years of literature and controversy, going from banned-in-Limerick to crowned by the Irish president. Quite the plot twist! She even joked Mephistopheles didn’t need to buy her soul—he had squatters' rights.
So, a Brazilian rancher clears Amazon land illegally, gets caught, and now owes $50 million. That's one pricey BBQ! Looks like he's graduated from chainsaw massacre to wallet slaughter. Guess he's got a lot of "beef" with the environment now! 🌳🔥💸
☠️ Postmortem of the day
All queries on a critical PostgreSQL table were blocked by the combination of an extremely fast database migration and a long-running read query, causing 15 seconds of downtime.
💡📚 Articles
2023 Golden Kitty finalists: Novu wins for turning all your notifications into one big, indistinguishable blob. Runners-up include Documenso, the digital equivalent of your mom's notary service, Stability-AI's magical art generator, and Tiledesk, chatbot wizardry without a spell book! So, developers, grab your keyboards and contribute before your cat disowns you!
Deploying VSCode in your browser using Kubernetes? It’s like turning your coding setup into Netflix—minus the chill. Setup times cut from hours to seconds, collaboration like a hilarious sitcom, and onboarding that won't make HR cry. Bye-bye, desktop chaos!
Feeling locked out of your own project? Don’t even start with passwords! Auth0 and Okta might rule the roost for now, but here come the Avengers of authentication: Ory, Hanko, Cerbos, Zitadel, and SuperTokens! Save yourself from OAuth2-induced migraines. Dive in and stay secure!
Cutting 40% off NAT Gateway costs? More like becoming the "Coupon Kings of the Cloud!" They realized they could save money by tightening up their data traffic, so now their AWS bill won’t need its own bailout plan. Maybe next, they'll lend budget tips to Congress!
Deploying your app with Kubernetes is like sending your kids to summer camp—but you can't decide if they should go one-by-one (rolling), all at once (fixed), split camps (blue-green), or test the waters first (canary). Spoiler: there's no "sleepaway" option!
So, Cyclops just cracked the Da Vinci Code of Kubernetes secrets! After sprinting between whiteboards like caffeinated marathoners, they ditched bloated databases and complicated onboarding. Now, they use Kubernetes secrets to manage GitHub tokens—turning authentication nightmares into sweet Kubernetes dreams. Give 'em a star; they deserve it! ⭐
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🧩 Puzzle of the Day
🧦 The Sock Drawer Puzzle
Imagine you have a drawer containing 10 black socks and 10 white socks.
You need to put on a matching pair of socks before going out.

You can only take out one sock at a time, and you can't see or feel the color of the socks you're grabbing.

What's the minimum number of socks you need to take out to guarantee you have a matching pair?
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