India’s developer community grows to 13.2 million on GitHub, set to overtake US by 2027: Report (indianexpress.com)
India’s developer community grows to 13.2 million on GitHub, set to overtake US by 2027: Report
Xbox plans for using AI to create scripts, dialogue trees, quest lines (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 (www.notebookcheck.net)
The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices (www.infoq.com)
We should stop talking about monolith vs. microservice and instead have a more nuanced debate about right-sized services.
Officially Qualified - Ferrocene - Ferrous Systems (ferrous-systems.com)
WhatsApp can now hide your IP address during calls (www.theverge.com)
Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospitals (www.cbc.ca)
A 3rd set of data has been published on the dark web, site says, as OPP continue investigation
Samsung details Galaxy AI - will be able to translate phone calls and text live + more. Mix of local and cloud AI. Launching early 2024. (www.gsmarena.com)
Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise (www.xda-developers.com)
never liked it anyway
Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle (www.theregister.com)
Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month (www.wired.com)
Telecom Italia approves KKR's $20 billion grid bid in blow for Vivendi | Reuters News Agency (www.reutersagency.com)
Reuters exclusively reported that Telecom Italia (TIM) (TLIT.MI) on Sunday approved the 19-billion-euro ($20 billion) sale of its fixed-line network to U.S. private equity firm KKR (KKR.N), becoming the first telecoms group in a major European country to part ways with its landline grid.
Bulletpapers - AI-powered ArXiv summarizer (www.bulletpapers.ai)
Originally posted on Hackernews. You can see the discussion here.
Apple Shrunk the iPhone’s Carbon Footprint. There’s a Way to Shrink It Even Further | Ensuring users can hang onto their phones as long as possible would help reduce the biggest source of emissions... (www.bloomberg.com)
Apple Shrunk the iPhone’s Carbon Footprint. There’s a Way to Shrink It Even Further | Ensuring users can hang onto their phones as long as possible would help reduce the biggest source of emissions…::Ensuring users can hang onto their phones as long as possible would help reduce the biggest source of emissions: producing...
Epic v. Google: everything we’re learning live in Fortnite court (www.theverge.com)
Possible reversion of an 80-year-old to the age of 26 using pig's blood (news.yahoo.com)
Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening (arstechnica.com)
Apple Hits Pause on iOS 18, macOS 15 Development as Bugs Spread | Apple software Chief Craig Federighi instituted the pause to meet performance and stability targets (www.tomshardware.com)
Apple Hits Pause on iOS 18, macOS 15 Development as Bugs Spread | Apple software Chief Craig Federighi instituted the pause to meet performance and stability targets::Apple is hitting pause on iOS 18 and macOS 15 as it wants to get a handle on an explosion of bugs that are hampering the development of future operating systems.
US consumer finance regulator wants to extend oversight to Big Tech (www.ft.com)
Proposal would subject digital wallets and payment applications to more scrutiny
Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? (garymarcus.substack.com)
US ad revenue at Musk's X declined each month since takeover -data (www.reuters.com)
US ad revenue at Musk’s X declined each month since takeover -data::Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55% year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought the company formerly known as Twitter in October 2022, according to third-party data provided to Reuters.
Even Google Calendar isn't safe from hackers any more (www.techradar.com)
Hackers have reportedly found a way to use the Google Calendar as command & control (C2) infrastructure which could create quite a few headaches in the cybersecurity community.
Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations (www.livemint.com)
Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts 'intense competition' (www.cnbc.com)
Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts ‘intense competition’::China’s Nio has been hit by weak consumer sentiment in the world’s second-largest economy, stiff competition and a price war started by Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand (www.vice.com)
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand::The startup behind Halo is aiming for a future where a wearable headband can give people the experience of awakening in a lucid dream.
