SpaceX: Cellular Starlink S=
ervice Is Ready to Go (2 minute read)
SpaceX now has enough satellites in Ear=
th's orbit to offer commercial services for its cellular Starlink system. T=
he company now has over 320 'direct to cell' Starlink satellites in space. =
The service will work with normal mobile phones without any extra equipment=
or special apps. SpaceX is partnering with T-Mobile to offer cellular sate=
llite technology to consumers. The company still needs approval from the FC=
C before it can operate a commercial cellular service.
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'iPhone 17 Air' Rumored to =
Surpass iPhone 6 as Thinnest iPhone Ever (3 minute read)
The iPhone 17 Air will be around 6mm th=
ick, according to rumors. This will make it the thinnest iPhone ever. Most =
sources agree that it will have around a 6.6-inch display. The device is ex=
pected to have a standard A19 chip, a Dynamic Island, a single rear camera,=
and an Apple-designed 5G modem. The iPhone 17 Air will likely be unveiled =
in September 2025.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Musk's Neuralink Launches S=
tudy of Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm (1 minute read)
Neuralink is starting to test a technol=
ogy that could allow paralyzed people to control a robotic arm. It is condu=
cting an early-stage study aimed at letting patients with Neuralink devices=
implanted in their brains manipulate robotic arms. Neuralink's device allo=
ws patients to control computer cursors, iPads, and similar digital tools. =
It is currently implanted in at least two humans.
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US supersonic jet soars to =
record 25,040 feet, fuels speedy travel dreams (3 minute read)
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator air=
craft recently completed its eighth flight and set a new altitude record. I=
t reached an altitude of 25,040 feet during the 54 minute flight and a top =
speed of Mach 0.82, tying its previous speed record. Boom Supersonic has pl=
anned a few more subsonic flights before it will attempt to break the sound=
barrier. While the XB-1 will be capable of exceeding Mach 1, the company p=
lans to fly its aircraft at Mach 0.94 over land to avoid the disruptive noi=
se caused by sonic booms.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Introducing the Model Conte=
xt Protocol (3 minute read)
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP=
) is a new standard for connecting AI assistants to data systems. It is aim=
ed at helping frontier models produce better, more relevant responses. MCP =
provides a universal open standard for connecting AI systems with data sour=
ces, resulting in a simpler, more reliable way to give AI systems access to=
the data they need. It uses a straightforward architecture that allows dev=
elopers to either expose their data through MCP servers or build AI applica=
tions that connect to these servers.
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Amazon S3 adds new function=
ality for conditional writes (1 minute read)
Amazon S3 can now perform conditional w=
rites that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This wil=
l help developers coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and pre=
vent multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the objec=
t without knowing the state of its content. Conditional writes simplify how=
distributed applications with multiple clients concurrently update data ac=
ross shared datasets. The new conditional header can help improve the effic=
iency of large-scale analytics, distributed machine learning, and other hig=
hly parallelized workloads by offloading compare and swap operations to S3.=
The new conditional-write functionality is available at no additional char=
ge in all AWS regions.
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The Problem with Reasoners =
(20 minute read)
o1 reasoners are the most exciting mode=
ls to come out since the original GPT-4, but they suck on important problem=
s. o1 uses a reinforcement learning (RL) environment where reasoning steps =
are actions, previous tokens are observations, and reward is the solution's=
correctness. RL is great for games, high-frequency trading, protein foldin=
g, and other problems, but not for open-ended thought without clear feedbac=
k. RL-based reasoners struggle to perform in domains outside of their train=
ing, which is most fields. Transformative AI will likely come from scaling =
rather than through reasoning models.
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Valve, Steam, and the Entir=
e PC Gaming Industry Were Saved by a Single Intern (5 minute read)
Valve recently released a documentary t=
o celebrate the Half-Life 2's 20th birthday. One of the facts shared in the=
documentary was that the entire PC gaming industry as we know it today wou=
ldn't have been possible if it wasn't for a single Korean-speaking intern n=
amed Andrew. Andrew found a document that proved that a company Valve was f=
ighting against in a lawsuit was destroying evidence related to the case. T=
he company had buried Valve in documents to slow down the process, with man=
y of the documents written in Korean. Andrew's discovery helped Valve win t=
he lawsuit, securing Valve the rights to the Half-Life and Counter-Strike f=
ranchises, ultimately leading Steam to evolve from a small software client =
into the largest digital distribution platform and storefront.
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The two factions of C++ (14=
minute read)
There's a growing rift between the two =
factions in C++ - those with good tooling that can effortlessly build from =
source vs those with poor tooling who can't build from source - that likely=
won't be closing anytime soon.
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WeSQL (GitHub Repo)
WeSQL is a MySQL distribution with a st=
orage backed by S3 that can run on any cloud.
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