Subj : TikTok's Supreme Court case ¨, GitHub Copilot free tier ¨¨, Amazon RTO delays ¨ To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Thu Dec 19 2024 11:35:08 --0sgXUZ7S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on a law that would eff= ectively ban TikTok if ByteDance doesn't sell it.=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C= =C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80= =8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C= =C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80= =8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0 Sign = Up [1] |Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 TLDR 2024-12-1= 9 =F0=9F=93=B1=20 BIG TECH & STARTUPS U.S. SUPREME COURT AGRE= ES TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO TIKTOK BAN (3 MINUTE READ) [4]=20 The US Supr= eme Court has agreed to hear arguments on a law that would effectively ba= n TikTok if ByteDance doesn't sell it. TikTok is arguing that the law vio= lates the US Constitution's free speech protections. Oral arguments are s= cheduled for January 10, nine days before the law is set to take effect. = Congress passed the law due to concerns that TikTok's Chinese ownership p= resented a national security risk.=20 APPLE HALTS EFFORT TO BUILD IPHON= E HARDWARE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE (6 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Apple has halt= ed work on a project to build an iPhone hardware subscription service. Th= e service would have allowed customers to pay a monthly fee and receive a= new phone each year. It would have competed with Apple's wireless carrie= r partners, who rely on installment programs to sell devices and retain c= ustomers. Apple may have canceled the program due to stricter rules by th= e Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE = & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY FIRST BABY CONCEIVED VIA BREAKTHROUGH FERTILI= TY TECH BORN (5 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 Gameto's Fertilo procedure differ= s from traditional IVF because it takes ovarian support cells derived fro= m human induced pluripotent stem cells and co-cultures them with an immat= ure egg to mimic the natural egg maturation process in the lab. It signif= icantly improves egg maturation and embryo formation. The procedure avoid= s 80% of the hormone injections that traditional IVF requires and reduces= the duration of a treatment cycle to three days. The first live human ba= by conceived using the technique was recently born. Gameto has partnered= with Australian IVF clinic chain IVFAustralia to make the procedure av= ailable to patients at select clinics throughout the country.=20 AFTER = DECADES OF TALK, SEAGATE SEEMS READY TO ACTUALLY DROP THE HAMR HARD DRIVE= S (3 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assis= ted magnetic recording (HAMR) since at least 2002. The company is set to = release HAMR hard drives based on its Mozaic 3+ platform in standard driv= e sizes. Getting from the theoretical concept of HAMR to an actual drive= required countless engineering hours. Seagate has not released prices = yet, but the product page for the Exos M shows 30 and 32TB capacities. = =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE GITHUB LA= UNCHES A FREE VERSION OF ITS COPILOT (4 MINUTE READ) [8]=20 Microsoft h= as launched a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair= programming tool that will ship by default with VS Code. The free versio= n is geared towards occasional users and not major work on big projects. = It gives developers access to 2,000 code completions per month. Users on = the free plan are restricted to Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI'= s GPT-4o. The free version of Copilot Chat is limited to 50 chat messages= ..=20 GENESIS (GITHUB REPO) [9]=20 Genesis is a physics platform des= igned for general purpose Robotics/Embodied AI/Physical AI applications. = It comprises a universal physics engine, a lightweight and user-friendly = robotics simulation platform, a powerful and fast photo-realistic renderi= ng system, and a generative data engine that transforms user prompts into= various modalities of data. The project is aimed at lowering the barri= er to using physics simulations, unifying a wide spectrum of state-of-the= -art physics solvers into a single framework, and minimizing human effort= in collecting and generating data for robotics and other domains.=20 = =F0=9F=8E=81=20 MISCELLANEOUS AMAZON'S RTO DELAYS EXEMPLIFY WHY WO= RKERS GET SO MAD ABOUT MANDATES (4 MINUTE READ) [10]=20 Despite manda= ting that office workers start working in the office five days a week sta= rting in January, Amazon still doesn't have enough office space to accomm= odate its employees. The company has delayed return-to-office dates for p= ersonnel in at least seven cities. Some offices won't have sufficient spa= ce until April or May. 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Big Tech & Startups

U.S. Supreme Court agrees t= o hear challenge to TikTok ban (3 minute read)

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear= arguments on a law that would effectively ban TikTok if ByteDance doesn't = sell it. TikTok is arguing that the law violates the US Constitution's free= speech protections. Oral arguments are scheduled for January 10, nine days= before the law is set to take effect. Congress passed the law due to conce= rns that TikTok's Chinese ownership presented a national security risk.
Apple Halts Effort to Build= iPhone Hardware Subscription Service (6 minute read)

Apple has halted work on a project to b= uild an iPhone hardware subscription service. The service would have allowe= d customers to pay a monthly fee and receive a new phone each year. It woul= d have competed with Apple's wireless carrier partners, who rely on install= ment programs to sell devices and retain customers. Apple may have canceled= the program due to stricter rules by the Consumer Financial Protection Bur= eau.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

First baby conceived via br= eakthrough fertility tech born (5 minute read)

Gameto's Fertilo procedure differs from= traditional IVF because it takes ovarian support cells derived from human = induced pluripotent stem cells and co-cultures them with an immature egg to= mimic the natural egg maturation process in the lab. It significantly impr= oves egg maturation and embryo formation. The procedure avoids 80% of the h= ormone injections that traditional IVF requires and reduces the duration of= a treatment cycle to three days. The first live human baby conceived using= the technique was recently born. Gameto has partnered with Australian IVF = clinic chain IVFAustralia to make the procedure available to patients at se= lect clinics throughout the country.
After decades of talk, Seag= ate seems ready to actually drop the HAMR hard drives (3 minute read)

Seagate has been experimenting with hea= t-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) since at least 2002. The company is se= t to release HAMR hard drives based on its Mozaic 3+ platform in standard d= rive sizes. Getting from the theoretical concept of HAMR to an actual drive= required countless engineering hours. Seagate has not released prices yet,= but the product page for the Exos M shows 30 and 32TB capacities.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

GitHub launches a free vers= ion of its Copilot (4 minute read)

Microsoft has launched a free version o= f its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool that will sh= ip by default with VS Code. The free version is geared towards occasional u= sers and not major work on big projects. It gives developers access to 2,00= 0 code completions per month. Users on the free plan are restricted to Anth= ropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI's GPT-4o. The free version of Copilot = Chat is limited to 50 chat messages.
Genesis (GitHub Repo)

Genesis is a physics platform designed = for general purpose Robotics/Embodied AI/Physical AI applications. It compr= ises a universal physics engine, a lightweight and user-friendly robotics s= imulation platform, a powerful and fast photo-realistic rendering system, a= nd a generative data engine that transforms user prompts into various modal= ities of data. The project is aimed at lowering the barrier to using physic= s simulations, unifying a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers= into a single framework, and minimizing human effort in collecting and gen= erating data for robotics and other domains.
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Miscellaneous

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Amazon's RTO delays exempli= fy why workers get so mad about mandates (4 minute read)

Despite mandating that office workers s= tart working in the office five days a week starting in January, Amazon sti= ll doesn't have enough office space to accommodate its employees. The compa= ny has delayed return-to-office dates for personnel in at least seven citie= s. Some offices won't have sufficient space until April or May. Amazon clai= ms that most employees will have office space by January 2 and that most of= the pushed-back return-to-office days are related to buildings being laid = out differently for part-time workers rather than insufficient physical spa= ce.
Flipboard's Surf app is a b= ig new idea about the future of social (6 minute read)

Flipboard's team has been overhauling t= he Flipboard platform over the last year or so to make it part of the socia= l web, or the fediverse. It plans to transition into a fully decentralized = way to discover and read stuff from across the internet. Flipboard's Surf a= pp is a browser for the social web. It helps users discover and explore fee= ds across the fediverse. Surf is now rolling out in beta to some curators a= nd creators.
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Quick Links

The RAM myth (6 minute read= )

Modern computer memory does not resembl= e perfect random-access memory.
Helldivers 2's best new str= atagem is the dumbest thing I've ever seen, but holy Liberty, it can wipe o= ut armies in seconds (3 minute read)

Helldivers 2's new Anti-Tank Emplacemen= t weapon contains 30 highly accurate and extremely powerful explosive shell= s, but it has some major weaknesses.
Call ChatGPT from any phone= with OpenAI's new 1-800 voice service (2 minute read)

1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) allows a= nyone in the US to call to talk to ChatGPT via voice chat for up to 15 minu= tes for free - people outside the US can send text messages to the same num= ber for free using WhatsApp.
SpaceX gets green light for= 7th Starship mission (2 minute read)

SpaceX has not announced when the missi= on might take place.
AI will be dead in five yea= rs (2 minute read)

We won't be talking about AI in five ye= ars because of its success.
Yet Another Dotfiles Manage= r (GitHub Repo)

yadm is a tool for managing dotfiles ba= sed on Git, with a full range of Git's features, that supports system-speci= fic alternative files or templated files, encryption, customizable initiali= zation, and customizable hooks.

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