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🚕 Waymo doubles robotaxi service area in Phoenix

Waymo is expanding its commercial robotaxi service area in Phoenix, adding new suburbs and connecting isolated sections of the city in a bid to grow driverless trips tenfold and generate more revenue.

🦍 Gene therapy reverses vision loss in primates – by making their eyes young again

A new gene therapy has been developed by Harvard Medical School and Life Biosciences that reversed vision loss in primates caused by non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) by making their eye cells "young" again, potentially signaling a new era in the treatment of age-related diseases.

🚇 Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile Network

Las Vegas officials have approved The Boring Company's plans to expand their network of underground tunnels, resulting in 69 stations and 65 miles of tunnels, with executive director of infrastructure Mike Janssen commenting on the funding project, provided by Boring Company, and the system's reduction of traffic, alternative transportation, and revenue sharing agreement with the company.

💰 TikTok opens up its revamped creator fund to all eligible creators in the US

TikTok has launched its revamped creator fund, called the "Creativity Program Beta," to all eligible creators in the United States, with the aim of generating higher revenue and unlocking more real-world opportunities for creators, and to start earning with the program, creators will need to create high-quality, original videos that are longer than one minute.

💊 New Alzheimer’s drug slows cognitive decline by 35%, trial results show

Pharmaceutical company Lilly is applying for approval for its drug donanemab in the US next month, after the drug slowed cognitive decline by up to 36% in Alzheimer's patients with early-stage symptoms in late-stage trials, marking the second Alzheimer's drug in a year to succeed in trials and prompting scientists to suggest it could be "the beginning of the end" for the disease. However, the drug also had side-effects, including brain swelling and bleeding.

💻 Ransomware attack forces Dallas to shut down courts, disrupts some 911 services

A ransomware attack in Dallas has forced the shutdown of courts and disrupted some 911 services, with city officials confirming that a number of servers had been compromised and ransom notes being printed on some city printers.

💼 Shopify to reduce workforce by 20%, sells logistics biz to Flexport for equity

Shopify is reducing its workforce by 20% and selling its logistics business to Flexport for 13% equity, as the company focuses on its core e-commerce software and prepares for the AI revolution.

🖱 Microsoft’s mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued

Microsoft is discontinuing its line of Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards, and webcams in favor of focusing on its Surface-branded PC accessories.

🤖 AI ‘could be as transformative as Industrial Revolution’

Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's outgoing chief scientific adviser, has warned MPs that there will be a "big impact on jobs" from generative AI, urging the government to get ahead of its potentially "transformative" impact on society and the economy. Sir Patrick called for a national review of which sectors would be most affected, stating that AI could replace jobs, leading to either mass unemployment or the creation of work only humans could perform. IBM announced this week that it is suspending or reducing hiring in roles such as human resources, with a suggestion that 30% of back-office roles could be replaced by AI in five years.

💬 Salesforce Announces SlackGPT

Slack announces plans to incorporate AI into their platform, including their own flavor of generative AI called Slack GPT, to help users get information and build workflows more easily, with features including AI-powered conversation summaries and writing assistance for composition, integration with other AI tools, and partnerships with other companies to bring more AI options to users.

🚀 Rocket Carrying Astronaut's Cremated Remains Blows Up at Launch

A rocket from UP Aerospace carrying student experiment payloads for NASA and the cremated remains of a late NASA astronaut exploded shortly after liftoff over the New Mexico desert, but the Celestis payload was unharmed and will be able to be launched again in a future flight.

🤗 Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model

AI startup HuggingFace and ServiceNow Research have released StarCoder, a free code-generating AI system which integrates with Visual Studio Code and was trained on over 80 programming languages as well as text from GitHub repositories, and is licensed to allow for royalty-free use by anyone including corporations.

💬 Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI is now open to everyone, with plug-ins coming soon

Microsoft is making their Bing Chat AI, powered by GPT-4, open to everyone with plug-in support, including features such as persistent chat and history, image and video results, and more.

🎬 Where’s the Director’s Commentary on Streaming?

Audiocommentaries, once a staple of movie watching, are becoming increasingly difficult to access on streaming services, causing movie directors and fans to be frustrated and leading some to create podcasts with their own director's commentary for their films.

💡📚 Articles

🔑 All You Need to Know About FIDO2 & Passwordless Authentication (5 min read)

Learn how Passwordless Authentication - using RSA encryption, trusted computing, and FIDO2 - can improve online security in our latest blog post! 💻🔒👍

🛠 Resiliency in a nutshell. Part: 3 Traditional Engineering — Programming patterns (8 min read)

Boost your app's resilience with programming patterns that handle transient faults and increase stability. Retry and circuit breaker patterns prevent cascading failures, while fallback patterns provide options for failed calls. Timeout, bulkhead, and caching patterns proactively manage load and prevent resource exhaustion. Utilize these patterns to build more resilient systems in modern distributed environments. Check out Resiliency Libraries .Net, Java, and Javascript for ready-to-use implementations.

🔍 Make your security policy auditable (8 min read)

Moving your authentication and authorization logic from code to infrastructure with Open Policy Agent and Apache APISIX.

📈 Tips To Create A Perfect Sequence Diagram (2 min read)

Perfect your sequence diagrams with these simple tips and examples

💸 55. Moving to the Cloud will not Lower your Costs (3 min read)

The Cloud Illusion: Moving Won't Cut Your Costs, It Will Reveal Hidden Requirements

🚀 Shipping to Production - Product (2 min read)

"From Concept to Release: The Journey of a Feature in Woovi" - A behind-the-scenes look at how Woovi approaches developing new features, with a real-life example of their payment plugin. Dive into their process and see how they balance customer needs with product vision.

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