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AMAZON IS OFFICIALLY IN THE ONLINE CAR SALES BUSINESS (1 MINUTE READ)
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Amazon Autos is an e-commerce business that lets customers find,
order, and buy new cars, trucks, and SUVs from dealerships. It
launched on Tuesday with Hyundai in 48 US cities. Amazon Autos will
allow customers to secure financing and e-sign paperwork. It will also
handle trade-ins. Customers can only buy new cars. Amazon will add
more cities, additional auto manufacturers, leasing, and expanded
financing options in 2025.

CRUISE EMPLOYEES `BLINDSIDED' BY GM'S PLAN TO END ROBOTAXI PROGRAM
(3 MINUTE READ) [6]

Cruise CEO Marc Whitten announced that GM would no longer fund the
company in a Slack message on Tuesday afternoon. Cruise will be
absorbed into GM and combined with the automaker's own efforts to
develop driver assistance features and eventually fully autonomous
personal vehicles. It is unclear whether employees' jobs are safe.
Several employees reported feeling blindsided by the decision - they
had been following a roadmap to launch a driverless service in Houston
in 2025.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

THE GOOGLE WILLOW THING (7 MINUTE READ) [7]

Google Willow is a new 105-qubit superconducting chip. It has been
used to demonstrate an error-corrected surface code qubit as well as a
new, bigger quantum supremacy experiment based on Random Circuit
Sampling. The development is a real milestone for the field. This
article discusses Google Willow and its implications for the field of
quantum computing.

NASA'S JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE REVEALS UNIVERSE EXPANDING FASTER THAN
THOUGHT (4 MINUTE READ) [8]

The universe is expanding about 8% faster than initially assumed
possible. New measurements from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest
that the long-established discrepancy between the observed expansion
rate of the universe and the rate we thought possible based on our
knowledge of the cosmos is potentially due to the influence of dark
matter and dark energy. The discrepancy suggests that something is
missing in our understanding of the early universe. The new data
confirms that the universe is expanding faster today than it did
during its first few billion years.

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Fragmented processes and point automation solutions often hide
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NOBODY GETS FIRED FOR PICKING JSON, BUT MAYBE THEY SHOULD? (14 MINUTE
READ) [10]

JSON is famously simple, but its formal definition is quite
complicated. The biggest problem with JSON is the incredible diversity
of parser behavior and non-conformity across and within language
ecosystems. Everything is implementation-defined, which can result in
data loss and other issues. This article looks at how JSON is
designed, how it is used and misused, and how its 'human readability'
features can cause headaches for users.

LIMBO (GITHUB REPO) [11]

Limbo is an in-process OLTP database management system. It features
an in-process OLTP database engine library, asynchronous I/O support
with io_uring, SQLite compatibility, and JavaScript/WebAssembly
bindings. Limbo is still a work in progress.

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MISCELLANEOUS

HOW WHATSAPP ATE THE WORLD (28 MINUTE READ) [12]

WhatsApp contains an ecosystem of services, features, and connections
that make many businesses possible. It is the world's most widely-used messaging app, with 2 billion daily users sending more than 100
billion messages a day in 60 languages across 180 countries. WhatsApp
achieved its global dominance in large part by enabling cheap,
private, and reliable messaging on almost any phone almost anywhere in
the world. The app has transformed into a sort of 'everything app' in
the decade since Meta acquired it. This article takes a look at how
the app is used in different places and the possibilities it has
enabled.

FROM WHERE I LEFT (17 MINUTE READ) [13]

The creator of Redis is returning to the project after a
four-and-a-half-year break. He will be working with Redis' new CEO to
tune the future of the company's relationships with the community and
the code base direction. He will help be a bridge between the company
and the community and also help produce programming demos, invent and
describe new patterns, and create documentation, videos, and blog
posts about new and old stuff.

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QUICK LINKS

COURT ORDERS MULLENWEG AND AUTOMATTIC TO RESTORE WP ENGINE'S ACCESS
TO WORDPRESS.ORG (2 MINUTE READ) [14]

The court has also ordered Automattic to restore WP Engine's access
and control of the popular Advanced Custom Field plug-in.

INSTAGRAM ROLLS OUT `TRIAL REELS' THAT AREN'T SHOWN TO A CREATOR'S
FOLLOWERS (4 MINUTE READ) [15]

Instagram's trial reels will give creators a chance to test out new
content by publishing videos that don't appear to their followers,
allowing creators to experiment with new ideas and see what performs
best without having to worry about how their followers may react.

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT COMPILERS (37 MINUTE READ) [16]

Misconceptions about compilers have led many engineers to believe
that they do things that they don't, or that they don't do things that
they do.

THE DEPTHS OF WIKIPEDIANS (23 MINUTE READ) [17]

This article features an interview with Annie Rauwerda, the owner of
the famous Depths of Wikipedia account, which shares factors from some
of the most arcane, interesting, and surprising pages on Wikipedia.

THE AGE OF CHIPLETS IS UPON US (8 MINUTE READ) [18]

This article looks at two recently unveiled chiplet-enabling
technologies and examines the benefits of chiplet-based designs and
some reasons why they may not make sense.

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READ) [19]

The fast consumption of digital content is harmful to the brain,
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