Subj : AirPods 4 🎧, GitHub Copilot Autofix 👨‍💻, math for AI ➕ To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Mon Aug 19 2024 10:36:16 --8CEgAltI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apple plans to update its non-Pro AirPods lineup as early as next month. = There will be two versions of the fourth-gen AirPods=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [= 1] |Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 =09=09TOGETHER WIT= H [TLDR] [4] TLDR 2024-08-19 CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF OVER 4 MIL= LION TECH PROFESSIONALS WITH AN AD IN TLDR (SPONSOR) [4]=20 Love waki= ng up to TLDR? Consider advertising with us. Get in front of engaged soft= ware developers, product managers, executives and other tech professional= s reading TLDR newsletters every morning. 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Sam Altman's Worldcoin project has come= under assault by authorities all over the world. More than a dozen jurisdi= ctions have either suspended the project's operations or looked into its da= ta processing. Worldcoin verifies people by using their irises, which it cl= aims are better at distinguishing humans than fingerprints or faces. While = the company says its technology is completely private, authorities are conc= erned that it could be used to build a global biometric database with littl= e oversight.
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