Epic launched its iOS store in the EU last week thanks to new
regulations. It's not clear whether Epic will be able to grow the
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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

APPLE IS STILL STANDING IN THE WAY OF EPIC'S APP STORE (6 MINUTE
READ) [4]

Epic launched its iOS store in the EU last week thanks to new
regulations opening up the platform. It's not clear whether Epic will
be able to grow the store far beyond its own games. While Epic's game
store may offer better terms for developers, every developer is still
subject to fees from Apple. Epic is in active discussions with almost
every one of the top 250 mobile developers about putting their apps on
the Epic Games Store for mobile, but almost all of them have said they
can't make it work on iOS.

GOOGLE IS SHOVING ITS APPS ONTO NEW WINDOWS LAPTOPS (2 MINUTE READ)
[5]

Google's new desktop app, Essentials, will be included with many new
Windows laptops. The app packages a few Google services, like Messages
and Photos, and includes links to download many others. A full list of
apps has not yet been announced. Users will be able to uninstall any
part of Essentials or the whole thing.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

SPACEX'S POLARIS DAWN IS SENDING ASTRONAUTS TO A LITERAL RADIATION
BELT TO TEST NEW SPACESUITS (8 MINUTE READ) [6]

Polaris Dawn, a collaboration between SpaceX and Shift4 CEO Jared
Isaacman, will launch on Monday. The mission will send four astronauts
in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on an orbit that will carry them
through the innermost of the Van Allen belts, the bands of high-energy radiation that surround our planet. Two of the crew members will
complete a spacewalk midway through the 5-day mission. The mission
will be the first flight test of SpaceX's new pressure suits for
extravehicular activities.

A NEWLY APPROVED `LIVING DRUG' COULD SAVE MORE CANCER PATIENTS'
LIVES (19 MINUTE READ) [7]

Iovance Biotherapeutics has developed a 'living drug' made up of
immune cells from patients' own tumors. The therapy involves taking
the immune cells from the patient's tumor, growing them in the lab,
and then infusing them back into the body. The massive influx of
immune cells zeros in on and attacks cancer cells, and in some cases,
appears to wipe out every last one. The drug doesn't work for
everyone, but it can still be a lifesaver for some patients. It has
been approved in the US for advanced melanoma.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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INSTANT (GITHUB REPO) [9]

Instant is a client-side database that makes it easy to build
real-time and collaborative apps. Users just have to write relational
queries in the shape of the data they want and it handles all of the
data fetching, permission checking, and offline caching. It also
handles optimistic updates and rollbacks. Instant supports ephemeral
updates and it has SDKs for JavaScript, React, and React Native.

CONTINUOUS REINVENTION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLOCK STORAGE AT AWS (27
MINUTE READ) [10]

This post provides a history of Elastic Block Store, one of AWS's
foundational services. It covers queuing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus
radical changes. EBS's development team's approach, which was to make
a series of incremental improvements over time, allowed them to
develop customer value sooner and course correct as they learned more
about changing customer workloads. They were able to make significant improvements to the service without taking it online.

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MISCELLANEOUS

THE TOP 100 GEN AI CONSUMER APPS (8 MINUTE READ) [11]

This post looks at which generative AI apps people are actually
using. Creative tools are still drawing in consumers. ChatGPT is still
the number one product on web and mobile by a large margin, but the
competition is starting to heat up. New use cases are emerging, with
some apps giving users beauty tips and others helping users uplevel
their dating messages. Discord traffic is a leading indicator for apps
that will climb the web and mobile ranks.

THE SILICON VALLEY CANON: ON THE PAIDE¡A OF THE AMERICAN TECH ELITE
(16 MINUTE READ) [12]

Most Silicon Valley types make time to read books, book reviews, or
listen to podcasts about books enough to fool others into thinking
they have read a book. Books have an inordinate impact on the Silicon
Valley mindspace. These books often have no obvious connection to
software. They form a sort of vague tech canon. This article presents
the list of books that form the Silicon Valley canon. These books
cover the major ideas that are influential in tech.

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THE TOP PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 2024 (3 MINUTE READ) [14]

Python ranks as the most popular language, and it's pretty popular
with employers too.

IOS 18 ADDING DEFAULT APP CONTROLS FOR MESSAGING, PHONE CALLS,
NAVIGATION, AND MORE IN THE EU (5 MINUTE READ) [15]

Apple is extending default app controls, making additional
first-party apps deletable, and updating the browser choice screen in
the EU.

CAN AI SCALING CONTINUE THROUGH 2030? (3 HOUR READ) [16]

By 2030, it will very likely be possible to train models that exceed
GPT-4 in scale to the same degree that GPT-4 exceeds GPT-2 in scale.

AHEAD OF OCTOBER LAUNCH, JEFF BEZOS' BLUE ORIGIN ROCKET EXPLODES
DURING TESTING (3 MINUTE READ) [17]

An upper portion of the rocket exploded during stress testing and a
separate portion imploded.

QUARKDOWN (GITHUB REPO) [18]

Quarkdown is a Markdown parser and renderer that provides support for functions and many other syntax extensions.

THE COMPOUNDING LOOPHOLE (12 MINUTE READ) [19]

Compounding pharmacies, pharmacies that make some drugs on site, may
be the answer to how the economy will handle the supply of expensive
drugs in high demand like GLP-1 agonist drugs.

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