Subj : TikTok plans shutdown ¨, ChatGPT tasks ¨, Meta's 5% layoff ¨ To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Wed Jan 15 2025 11:37:16 --5fJIHVm2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable TikTok is planning to shut off its app for US users on Sunday. 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Do you have a telesales department? Tir= ed of high turnover and low employee motivation? This AI makes these proble= ms go away.

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Big Tech & Startups

TikTok preparing for U.S. s= hut-off on Sunday (3 minute read)

TikTok is planning to shut off its app = for US users on Sunday. The federal law banning the app only mandates a ban= on new downloads - existing users will still be able to use the app for so= me time. Users will see a pop-up message directing them to a website with i= nformation about the ban. TikTok plans to give users the option to download= all of their data so they can take a record of their personal information = with them.
ChatGPT becomes more Siri-l= ike with new scheduled tasks feature (3 minute read)

OpenAI's new Tasks feature for ChatGPT = allows users to direct the chatbot to send reminders or to generate respons= es to specific prompts at certain times. It is now available to Plus, Team,= and Pro subscribers. ChatGPT will sometimes suggest tasks, but they won't = go into effect unless the user approves them. Users can make changes to ass= igned tasks through the chat conversation or through a new Tasks section of= the app. There is currently a 10-task limit.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

Boom XB-1 pushes the sound = barrier before supersonic flight (3 minute read)

The Boom Supersonic XB-1 prototype reac= hed a transonic speed of Mach 0.95 during Test Flight 11 on January 10. Tra= nsonic speed is when some areas of the airflow over the airframe exceed the= speed of sound. During the flight, the XB-1 was subjected to dynamic press= ures of up to 383 Knots Equivalent Air Speed, which is a pressure greater t= han what it would experience when flying supersonic at Mach 1.1. The compan= y has now completed 11 test flights, each incrementing to reach supersonic = speed.
2025 Will See Us Closer to = a Woolly Mammoth Comeback (4 minute read)

Colossal Biosciences, a company that ai= ms to bring back extinct species, says that it expects the first woolly mam= moth calves to be born within the next three years. The company plans to st= art with the birthing of small mammals outside of the womb and then work up= to the birthing of elephants, which will pave the way for mammoth births. = While Colossal doesn't work on human applications for its technology, it ha= s acknowledged the potential of its technology for use in IVF clinics. Colo= ssal also plans to bring back the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo - its long-t= erm goal is to work with countries all over the world to bring back extinct= species and protect endangered animals.
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With 2,000 code completions and 50 chat= messages a month, plus access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o, there are l= oads of ways GitHub Copilot can help you code. Looking to save time? Edit m= ultiple files at once, write tests or debug with slash commands, and more. = St= art from VS Code or your GitHub dashboard.
GPU Glossary (Website)

GPU documentation is fragmented, making= it difficult to connect concepts at different levels of the stack. This si= te contains a glossary that spans the whole GPU stack in one place. The ent= ries are interlinked, so readers can click on links to read further on conc= epts that they want to better understand.
What's involved in getting = a "modern" terminal setup? (11 minute read)

A modern terminal needs to have multili= ne support for copy and paste, infinite shell history, a useful prompt, 24-= bit color, clipboard integration, good autocomplete, colors in ls, themes, = automatic terminal fixing, key bindings, and the ability to use the scroll = wheel. This article discusses how to implement all these features into a te= rminal. It explains why it makes certain recommendations and how the setup = benefits developers. There is no perfect way to configure things in the ter= minal to make it compatible with every single other thing, so developers ne= ed to try things out, figure out a locally stable state that works for them= , and accept that new tools might disrupt their workflow.
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Miscellaneous

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Meta announces 5% cuts in p= reparation for =E2=80=98intense year' =E2=80=94 read the internal memo (4 m= inute read)

Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has informed= employees that the company will cut about 5% of its workforce, starting wi= th the company's lowest performers. Employees affected by the layoffs will = be notified by February 10. They will receive severance in line with what M= eta has provided previously. A copy of the memo Zuckerberg sent to staff is= available in the article.
Inside Meta's race to beat = OpenAI: =E2=80=9CWe need to learn how to build frontier and win this race (= 7 minute read)

Data scarcity has led AI developers to = look for new ways to get unique data. Documents from a major copyright laws= uit against Meta show internal discussions about avoiding media coverage su= ggesting that the company used a dataset it knew to be pirated. It reported= ly used the book piracy site LibGen to train its AI systems. The documents = hint that OpenAI and Mistral may also be using the library for their models= .. Meta and other AI companies have previously argued that using copyrighted= material in training data should constitute legal fair use.
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Quick Links

The State of Video Gaming i= n 2025 (50 minute read)

This presentation covers the recent his= tory of gaming and makes predictions of what will happen in the gaming indu= stry this year.
1 in 5 Online Job Postings = Are Either Fake or Never Filled, Study Finds (2 minute read)

Some companies are now offering job ver= ification services to help users find out whether an advertised position is= real or not.
Pyper (GitHub Repo)

Pyper is a Python framework for concurr= ent and parallel data processing.
Proof of location for onlin= e polls (8 minute read)

This article details a geolocation syst= em based on network latency triangulation.
Mastodon's CEO and creator = is handing control to a new nonprofit organization (3 minute read)

The decentralized social network will m= ove from the control of Mastodon's CEO Eugen Rochko to a new not-for-profit= entity based somewhere in Europe.
Nix - Death by a thousand c= uts (39 minute read)

Desktop use of Nix(OS) still isn't reco= mmended for even seasoned Linux users in its current state.

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