Elon Musk's xAI releases it=
s latest flagship model, Grok 3 (5 minute read)
xAI has released Grok 3 and unveiled ne=
w capabilities for the Grok iOS and web apps. The company used an enormous =
data center in Memphis that contained around 200,000 GPUs to train Grok 3. =
Grok 3 is a family of models: Grok 3 mini responds to questions more quickl=
y but at the cost of some accuracy; Grok 3, which beats GPT-4o on some benc=
hmarks; Grok 3 Reasoning, which surpasses the best investigation of o3-mini=
on several popular benchmarks; and Grok 3 mini Reasoning. Subscribers to X=
's Premium+ tier will be first to get access to Grok 3.
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iPhone 17 design will be dr=
amatically different, says leaker (2 minute read)
A new leak claims that the iPhone 17 Ai=
r will have its cameras arranged in a horizontal bar. The iPhone 17 Pro mod=
els will use a larger but still horizontal bar. Along with the new camera l=
ayout, it's been reported that the iPhone 17 Pro will return to having curv=
ed sides. It is unclear how reliable or accurate the rumors are, but the le=
aker has been accurate about camera details before.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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First 1.5-mile stretch of S=
audi's audacious Line megacity begins to rise (2 minute read)
Construction has begun on the first pha=
se of the Line, Saudi Arabia's planned 170-kilometer-long megacity in the d=
esert. The first phase, which will stretch 2.5 kilometers, will be named Hi=
dden Marina. It will be made up of three individual modular segments measur=
ing 21 million square meters. Hidden Marina will host an initial population=
of around 200,000 residents. It will have 80,000 residential units, 9,000 =
hotel rooms, commercial and retail spaces, fire stations, schools, police a=
nd security services, and other amenities. Residents will have access to al=
l daily essentials within a five-minute walk and high-speed rail will provi=
de transit around the metropolis.
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Researchers are training AI=
to interpret animal emotions (1 minute read)
Several teams around the world are work=
ing on AI systems to help humans understand animals. A group at the Univers=
ity of the West of England Bristol and Scotland's Rural College have develo=
ped a system called Intellipig that examines photos of pigs' faces and noti=
fies farmers if there are signs of pain, sickness, or emotional distress, a=
nd a team at the University of Haifa is training AI to identify signs of di=
scomfort in dogs' faces. These systems still rely on humans to do the initi=
al work of identifying the meanings of different behaviors.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Ruby on Rails on WebAssembl=
y, the full-stack in-browser journey (19 minute read)
WebAssembly allows server-side framewor=
ks to run locally, blurring the boundaries of classic web development and o=
pening up exciting new possibilities. This post walks readers through how t=
o create a Rails application that runs fully in your browser. It covers how=
to bring Rails into the browser in 15 minutes, the behind-the-scenes of Ra=
ils wasmification, and the future of Rails and Wasm.
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Debugging An Undebuggable A=
pp (31 minute read)
This article discusses how to debug an =
app with anti-debugging protections that blocked debuggers from being attac=
hed, caused an exit when any code was injected, and crashed the whole phone=
when run with jailbreak on. It walks through the steps of how to attach a =
debugger, bypass jailbreak detection, and inject code. The article is detai=
led and contains a lot of screenshots, logs, and code.
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My Time at MIT (2 minute re=
ad)
Murat Demirbas, a principal research sc=
ientist at MongoDB Research, spent a year at MIT's Computer Science departm=
ent as a postdoc twenty years ago. This post details his experience working=
with Professor Nancy Lynch. Demirbas was young and he felt like he didn't =
make as much of the experience as he could have. The post includes lessons =
learned from the experience.
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Jailbreaking Your Kindle (W=
ebsite)
Jailbreaking your Kindle will give you =
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isks, such as potentially voiding the Kindle's warranty and permanently bre=
aking the device.
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fixi.js (GitHub Repo)
fixi.js is an experimental minimalist i=
mplementation of generalized hypermedia controls.
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