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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

YOUTUBE PUTS THIRD-PARTY CLIENTS ON NOTICE: SHOW ADS OR GET BLOCKED
(2 MINUTE READ) [4]

YouTube is strengthening its enforcement on third-party apps that
violate its Terms of Service, specifically ad-blocking apps. It
recently made a post on the official YouTube Community Help Forum
putting third-party ad-blocking apps on notice. People using these
apps may start experiencing buffering issues or errors when trying to
watch videos.

BAIDU SAYS ERNIE AI CHATBOT NOW HAS 200 MILLION USERS (2 MINUTE READ)
[5]

Baidu's ChatGPT-style chatbot Ernie Bot has doubled its number of
users since December. The chatbot now has over 200 million users and
more than 85,000 enterprise clients. Its API is being used 200 million
times each day. Ernie Bot was launched in March 2023 and released
publicly last August. It is competing with other Chinese generative AI
models including Alibaba Group's Tongyi Qianwen, Tencent's Hunyuan,
and Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI's Kimi.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

ALOHA UNLEASHED ¨ (3 MINUTE READ) [6]

ALOHA Unleashed by Google DeepMind is a new generation of AI-powered
robots with impressive dexterity. DeepMind recently released a series
of videos showing the robots hanging shirts, inserting precise gears,
and even tying shoelaces. The robots can generalize to untrained
objects. The videos are available in the link.

NEW CHARGING ALGORITHM COULD DOUBLE LIFE OF LI-ION BATTERIES (3
MINUTE READ) [7]

A team of researchers from Berlin has developed a charging solution
that makes lithium-ion batteries last much longer than they do now. It
uses a pulsed current (PC) protocol that results in reduced mechanical
stress and cracking in graphite particles within batteries and
suppressed structural degradation in cathodes. Using PC charging can
double the service life of commercial lithium-ion batteries with an
80% capacity retention. High-frequency pulsing with square-wave
current produced the best results.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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EFFECT 3.0 (9 MINUTE READ) [10]

Effect 3.0 is the first stable release of the core Effect Ecosystem.
Effect is a TypeScript library that works in every runtime and
project. It aims to solve some issues in TypeScript in areas such as
dependency injection, error management, data modeling, and logging.
Effect was designed from day one with production-grade software in
mind.

A QUICK POST ON CHEN'S ALGORITHM (4 MINUTE READ) [11]

A recent paper authored by Yilei Chen called 'Quantum Algorithms for
Lattice Problems' has roiled the cryptography research community. The
preprint, whose results are still being evaluated, claims a new
quantum algorithm that efficiently solves the 'shortest independent
vector problem' in lattices with specific parameters. If true, the
result could allow future quantum computers to break schemes that
depend on the hardness of specific instances of these problems. If the
result can be improved upon, it could render an entire generation of 'post-quantum' lattice-based schemes obsolete, forcing cryptographers
and the industry back to the drawing board.

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MISCELLANEOUS

HOW NEOPETS' NOSTALGIC REVIVAL TRIPLED USERS IN SIX MONTHS (9 MINUTE
READ) [12]

Neopets announced a rebrand in 2023 and has been consciously courting
former fans with promises of reuniting them with old digital
companions that have remained largely unchanged. The site's resurgence
is led in large part by millennials, for whom the site brings feelings
of nostalgia. This article looks at Neopets' strong start, long
decline, and recent revival. Neopets' new owners seem to be actively
engaging with the community, with several projects aimed at working
with fans to improve the site and user experience.

THE INVISIBLE SEAFARING INDUSTRY THAT KEEPS THE INTERNET AFLOAT (58
MINUTE READ) [13]

A small number of ships maintain the subsea cables that carry 99% of
the world's data. Positioned in strategic locations around the planet,
these ships stand ready to sail out and fix faults as soon as they are detected. This article tells the story of how these ships operate and
the problems they face. Cable industry professionals perform a
function vital to the world, which if done right, will continue to be
unaware of their service.

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QUICK LINKS

APPLE'S IOS 18 AI WILL BE ON-DEVICE, PRESERVING PRIVACY, AND NOT
SERVER-SIDE (3 MINUTE READ) [14]

The initial batch of AI features on iOS 18 will function without the
need for an internet connection.

OPEN SOURCERS SAY SUSPECTED XZ-STYLE ATTACKS CONTINUE TO TARGET
MAINTAINERS (7 MINUTE READ) [15]

The attempt to plant a backdoor into Linux's xz data compression
library is likely not an isolated incident.

TRYING OUT CLOUDFLARE'S `FOUNDATIONS` LIBRARY FOR RUST (13 MINUTE
READ) [16]

Cloudflare's `foundations` library is a modular set of tools and
utilities for building networked services/microservices.

FAILURES, MISTAKES, AND CONFUSION (3 MINUTE READ) [17]

Basically every error handling model in program languages conflates
two or more separate concepts into a single system.

MKBHDS FOR EVERYTHING (21 MINUTE READ) [18]

MKBHD's review of the Humane Ai Pin has some people up in arms due to
its title and thumbnail, sparking debate about influencers and their responsibilities to the companies they talk about.

PRISM IN 2024 (32 MINUTE READ) [19]

Prism is a parser for the Ruby language exposed as both a C library
and a Ruby library.

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