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APPLE INTELLIGENCE DELAYED TO IOS 18.1 IN OCTOBER (1 MINUTE READ) [5]
Apple Intelligence is being delayed to give Apple more time to fix
bugs. The company now plans to start rolling out the feature several
weeks after the launch of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. There
is concern about the stability of the feature and developers need more
testing time. Apple Intelligence will still be made available to
software developers as soon as next week with the first betas of iOS
18.1 and iPadOS 18.1.
THE $600 BILLION DIGITAL AD BUSINESS IS HANGING ON A FEW WORDS FROM
GOOGLE (6 MINUTE READ) [6]
Google plans to introduce a prompt asking users to opt in or out of
cookies in Chrome. The company's choice of wording for the prompt
could have widespread implications for the industry. It could result
in cookies being effectively deprecated because consumers opt out.
Google still plans to develop and test its Privacy Sandbox, a suite of alternative technologies to the cookie.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
SEVENTH PATIENT `CURED' OF HIV: WHY SCIENTISTS ARE EXCITED (6
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A 60-year-old man in Germany is the seventh person with HIV to be
announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant.
The patient received stem cells which only had one copy of a gene that
has been suggested as the best target for an HIV cure. The findings
widen the donor pool for stem-cell transplants - roughly 1% of people
of European descent carry mutations in both copies of the gene, while
10% of people carry one mutated copy. The procedure, which is risky
and offered to people with leukemia, is unlikely to be rolled out for
most individuals with HIV.
SOLID-STATE BATTERIES ARE FINALLY MAKING THEIR WAY OUT OF THE LAB (10
MINUTE READ) [8]
This article takes a look at the history of batteries, the latest breakthroughs, and the trends that suggest that solid-state batteries
could soon overtake lithium-ion ones. Battery design hasn't changed
much since the first battery in 1799 - solid-state batteries have been
the major exception. Their development has been held back by cost, manufacturing challenges, and a tendency for them to short-circuit.
Solid-state batteries seem to finally be ready to deliver on their
promise, with several companies getting ready to or already releasing
products containing the technology.
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MISCELLANEOUS
THE NEW INTERNET (16 MINUTE READ) [12]
This article discusses the big vision for Tailscale. The tech
industry has evolved into a mess, making things harder for developers.
While almost all devices are now supercomputers compared to the
standards of 20 years ago, they become useless once you turn off AWS.
This centralization is caused by a lack of connectivity. Tailscale
aims to increase connectivity by creating a new Internet that works
how you thought the Internet worked, before you learned how the
Internet works. Its network slices out layers of nonsense so that
every device can connect securely and safely and be a peer without
adding latency or overhead.
BLOCK TO FACE `DISRUPTIVE' INTERNAL OVERHAUL, FOUNDER JACK DORSEY
WARNS STAFF (3 MINUTE READ) [13]
Fintech company Block is about to reorganize its entire internal
reporting structure. The company has been conducting rounds of layoffs
since the end of last year. CEO Jack Dorsey says the move may feel
'big and disruptive or uncomfortable'. The company is due to report
its latest quarterly earnings next week.
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QUICK LINKS
A SKEPTIC'S FIRST CONTACT WITH KUBERNETES (12 MINUTE READ) [14]
This blog post presents an overview of Kubernetes, ending with
open-ended questions/rants about the system.
THERE IS NO FIX FOR INTEL'S CRASHING 13TH AND 14TH GEN CPUS Ä ANY
DAMAGE IS PERMANENT (8 MINUTE READ) [15]
Intel will issue a patch in mid-August, but it won't fix 13th or 14th
Gen Intel Core processors that are already crashing - any degradation
of these processors is irreversible.
35% FASTER THAN THE FILESYSTEM (16 MINUTE READ) [16]
SQLite reads and writes small blobs 35% faster than fread() or
fwrite().
STRIPE ACQUIRES PAYMENT PROCESSING STARTUP LEMON SQUEEZY (4 MINUTE
READ) [17]
Lemon Squeezy calculates and pays global sales tax for digital
products, handling legal processing and fees in every country.
FEAR OF OVER-ENGINEERING HAS KILLED ENGINEERING ALTOGETHER (10 MINUTE
READ) [18]
Organizations have taken the philosophies of the Agile Manifesto too
far, shipping products as fast as they can without always fixing
problems with them - some engineering practices are actually very
useful.
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