🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm.
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A neuroscientist wants to preserve brains to give future medical science a shot at making us immortal. Great, so our grandkids get to deal with us at Thanksgiving for centuries! Uncle Bob’s stories just got a lot longer!
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AWS just dropped its Trainium2 chips, claiming they're 4x faster than their first-gen forebears. They've even launched UltraServers with enough firepower to embarrass a superhero lair. Faster LLM training? Sure. But hey, get ready: Trainium3 is already announced, practically speeding towards us like tech's next Fast and Furious sequel.
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James Howells wants his £500m in bitcoin back from a landfill, and his plan is “finely tuned.” It’s like digging for gold, except smellier and with more lawyers. Here's to hoping he doesn't hit literal paydirt!
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So Mark Zuckerberg and Trump are suddenly besties? Guess the Meta-versed CEO thought if you can't ban 'em, join 'em! Next thing you know, he'll be asking Trump for tips on building walls—just virtual ones to keep prying eyes out of the Metaverse!
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The CFPB wants to ban data brokers from selling your Social Security number, treating them like credit bureaus. Next thing you know, they'll ban selling your grandma's apple pie recipe—talk about national security!Guess I’ll have to pay full price for my own info.
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Apple: "Think Different… But We’re Watching Just in Case!" Employees suing for privacy? Next up, Siri gets a restraining order for eavesdropping. Seems Apple's not just using Face ID—they're really into face recognition, especially behind your back!
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AWS launches a tool to combat AI hallucinations. Now your cloud can nudge AI off delusions, like a stern librarian with facts instead of shushes! Meanwhile, I'm suspiciously eyeing my microwave—it still thinks it's a radio DJ.
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Oh, so ChatGPT has a “David Mayer” kryptonite? Must be its version of “He Who Must Not Be Named.” You'd think with AI, we’d dodge more bugs, but nope, looks like even robots can play the name-game wrong!
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⭐ 11108, 🖖 546
Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.
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⭐ 2303, 🖖 293
Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. It is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an Incubating Level Project.
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⭐ 3501, 🖖 489
Apache OpenDAL: One Layer, All Storage.
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⭐ 5177, 🖖 421
Supercharge Your Model Training
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⭐ 100, 🖖 7
My C compiler compiled itself
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