iOS 18.3 hints at new =E2=
=80=98Invites' app from Apple to create and manage events (2 minute read)
References to an 'Apple Invites' app we=
re first found in one of the iOS 18.2 betas. They were removed from the fin=
al version, but they are now back in iOS 18.3 beta 2. The app is likely des=
igned to help users organize meetings and in-person events. It will essenti=
ally show a list of people invited to an event and who has already confirme=
d attendance. It is unclear whether Invites will be a standalone app or if =
Apple will integrate it with other parts of its system.
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Nvidia may enter the Arm CP=
U market after all (3 minute read)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has hinted at b=
roader ambitions for the Arm-based CPU within the GB10 Grace Blackwell chip=
.. MediaTek, the chip's co-developer, also has its own aspirations. Huang re=
cently introduced Nvidia's Project Digits at CES 2025. The cutting-edge $3,=
000 desktop AI supercomputer delivers an impressive 1 petaFLOPS of FP4 floa=
ting-point performance, making it a powerful tool for running AI models and=
workloads for home enthusiasts and researchers.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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NASA has just two Mars Samp=
le Return mission lander options left (2 minute read)
NASA will need until 2026 before making=
a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return mission will work. The spac=
e agency has whittled the options to two: use the Jet Propulsion Laboratory=
(JPL), which would employ the sky crane technology to deposit a lander on =
the surface of the red planet, or use a commercial vendor to get a lander t=
o Mars. The plan relies on the Perseverance trundlebot being able to make i=
t to the lander. The JPL option would cost between $6.6 billion and $7.7 bi=
llion, while the commercial providers may cost between $5.8 billion and $7.=
1 billion. NASA has not provided details on what the commercial vendors sug=
gested due to proprietary information concerns.
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Chinese RISC-V project teas=
es 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design (3 minute read)
The Institute of Computing Technology a=
t the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xiangshan project aims to use the permis=
sively licensed RISC-V ISA to create a high-performance chip. It has publis=
hed the designs of its third-generation chip called Kunminghu, a 64-bit RIS=
C-V architecture that supports multiple parallel processing units capable o=
f integer, floating-point, and vector operations. The designs will be avail=
able under a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable copyright license to =
reproduce, use, modify, or distribute.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Stagehand (GitHub Repo)
Stagehand is a tool for building browse=
r automations. It offers three simple AI APIs to provide the building block=
s for web automation via natural language. Stagehand is fully compatible wi=
th Playwright - it makes Playwright more accessible to non-technical users =
and less vulnerable to minor changes in the UI/DOM. Anything that can be do=
ne in a browser can be done with Stagehand.
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Double-keyed Caching: How B=
rowser Cache Partitioning Changed the Web (12 minute read)
The web's caching model recently underw=
ent a fundamental shift that challenges many performance optimization assum=
ptions. Browsers traditionally maintained a simple key-value store for cach=
ed resources. While efficient, this model leaked information. With the new =
model, double-keyed caching, browsers use two pieces of information: the to=
p-level site making the request and the resource's URL. It caches identical=
resources separately for each site that requests them, effectively partiti=
oning the cache and preventing cross-site tracking and other privacy issues=
- a trade-off between security and efficiency.
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StackOverflow Dec 2024 stat=
s (1 minute read)
StackOverflow received 87,105 new quest=
ions in March 2023. This number was reduced to 58,792 by March 2024, and by=
December it was 25,566. The site is becoming more outdated and questions a=
re being closed more than ever before. StackOverflow was already in decline=
before ChatGPT's launch. It was just so big that it took years to topple t=
o the ground.
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CES 2025: all the news, gad=
gets, and surprises (Website)
CES has so far been a big show for lapt=
ops, gaming, TVs, and smart home tech. This year has had a focus on some tr=
endier emerging categories like AI and AR. This page contains a collection =
of articles that cover all the news from the event. Some of the highlights =
from the event include the Razer gaming chair, which heats and cools; a rob=
otic vacuum with arms and legs; Nvidia's Digits supercomputer; and Mirumi, =
a shy sloth-like robot.
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Broccoli (GitHub Repo)
Broccoli is a robust message queue syst=
em for Rust applications that features asynchronous message processing, con=
figurable retry strategies, connection pooling, type-safe message handling,=
flexible message processing patterns, and more.
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