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Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI b=
oard of directors as investigation into his ouster comes to a close (10 min=
ute read)
OpenAI has announced its new board with=
the wrap-up of an internal investigation into the events leading to Sam Al=
tman's ouster. Sam Altman will rejoin OpenAI's board along with Dr. Sue Des=
mond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole =
Seligman, former EVP and Global General Counsel of Sony and President of So=
ny Entertainment; Fidji Simo, CEO and Chair of Instacart; and current board=
members Adam D=E2=80=99Angelo, Larry Summers, and Bret Taylor. OpenAI will=
continue to expand the board moving forward.
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Former Activision CEO Bobby=
Kotick Considering Buying TikTok (3 minute read)
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is c=
onsidering buying TikTok - he recently floated the idea at a dinner with a =
group of potential partners. A proposed legislation may force ByteDance to =
sell TikTok or have it banned from the US. There are concerns that ByteDanc=
e may share data about its users with the Chinese government or use the pla=
tform to influence US citizens' political opinions. The bill will be voted =
on by the full House on Wednesday, after which it will move on to the Senat=
e.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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mRNA vaccines: let's be sic=
k a whole lot less and maybe cure cancer (19 minute read)
mRNA vaccines are our best bet at addre=
ssing viral persistence. They can prevent infection as well as improve resp=
onses against infection. They are also faster, cheaper, and more flexible t=
o make than their traditional counterparts. mRNA vaccines are like injectab=
le instructions that turn a body's cells into factories that can create any=
protein for which mRNA instructions can be built. This means they can be u=
sed to teach the body to mount an immune response to any target foreign pro=
tein - including proteins on cancer cells.
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New Breakthrough Brings Mat=
rix Multiplication Closer to Ideal (11 minute read)
Three researchers from the University o=
f California have presented a new technique that boosts matrix multiplicati=
on. Matrix multiplication is a fundamental computational operation that is =
incorporated into a large population of the algorithms people use every day=
for a variety of tasks. Even slight improvements can eventually lead to si=
gnificant savings in time, computational power, and money. While the new te=
chnique has set new records, the most exciting thing about the development =
is that the technique reveals a new avenue for improvement that was previou=
sly unknown.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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S3 is files, but not a file=
system (13 minute read)
The idea that Amazon S3 is really an 'A=
mazon Cloud Filesystem' is a bit of a fiction - it isn't a file system and =
it can't stand in for one. S3 implements a completely different arrangement=
and its primitives are only partly compatible with the Unix file API. It h=
as fewer functions and can't do some tasks, such as overwriting files parti=
ally. This means that filesystem software, especially databases, can't be p=
orted to Amazon S3.
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How We Bypassed Safari 17's=
Advanced Audio Fingerprinting Protection (22 minute read)
Browsers can produce audio files that u=
sers can't hear. These audio files can be used to identify web visitors. Ap=
ple has decided to fight this type of identification in Safari 17, but so f=
ar its measures don't fully work. The new measures can be bypassed using a =
technique detailed in this article. A link to a post that explains how audi=
o fingerprinting works is available.
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Here is Claude 3's system p=
rompt (2 minute read)
This X post contains a screenshot of Cl=
aude 3's system prompt. According to the prompt, Claude's knowledge base wa=
s last updated in August 2023. It is instructed to give concise responses t=
o simple questions but provide thorough responses to more complex and open-=
ended questions. The bot is told to answer questions without engaging in st=
ereotyping. Claude will not mention information about itself unless the inf=
ormation is directly pertinent to the query.
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High Agency (7 minute read)=
People are able to render anything in t=
he world. They just have to be audacious enough and ambitious enough to env=
ision a different reality. Couple this with the ability to inspire others, =
and you can become a force of nature. AGI makes raw skill less important, b=
ut it will still take hard work and unwavering commitment to make a profoun=
d impact in people's lives.
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Hatchet (GitHub Repo)
By replacing difficult-to-manage legacy=
queues and pub/subsystems, Hatchet allows developers to design durable wor=
kloads that recover from failure and solve for problems like concurrency, f=
airness, and rate limiting.
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Rolldown (GitHub Repo)
Rolldown is a fast bundler for JavaScri=
pt with a Rollup-compatible API and plugin interface.
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