'iPhone 17 Slim' With Small=
er Display Rumored to Launch Next Year (1 minute read)
Apple is reportedly planning an 'iPhone=
17 Slim' model to replace the Plus model in its lineup. The Slim model wil=
l have around a 6.6-inch display, a slimmer design, an A18 or A19 chip, 8GB=
of RAM, a 24-megapixel front camera, and a 48-megapixel telephoto camera. =
It is expected to have an aluminum chassis and some other external design c=
hanges. Apple will likely announce the iPhone 17 lineup in September 2025.
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Apple Reportedly Building M=
2 Ultra and M4-Powered AI Servers (2 minute read)
Foxconn is reportedly assembling Apple =
AI servers that contain the M2 Ultra. It is planning to assemble AI servers=
powered by the M4 chip in late 2025. While Apple is prioritizing on-device=
processing for many of its upcoming AI tools, some operations will inevita=
bly have to occur in the cloud. The company is expected to announce on-devi=
ce AI features at WWDC in June. 2025's iPhone 17 models will apparently be =
more focused AI devices.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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How Boeing lost the space r=
ace to Elon Musk's SpaceX (4 minute read)
The US provided Boeing and SpaceX with =
funding to build a crewed space vehicle in 2014. Boeing received far more f=
unding than SpaceX and it had far more experience, but the company still al=
located fewer resources to the project than it needed to thrive. The compan=
y kept carrying technical debt forward so that additional work was lumped o=
nto the final milestones. Other issues, such as the way the company was str=
uctured, cost fixation, siloed development, and a lack of proper testing, a=
ll worked together to kneecap the project.
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In a high-stakes test, Boei=
ng will launch NASA astronauts to space for the first time (5 minute read)<=
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Boeing is set to launch two NASA astron=
auts to the International Space Station (ISS) on its Starliner spacecraft. =
The inaugural crewed flight is a crucial final test before NASA can authori=
ze Boeing to conduct routine flights to and from the space station for the =
agency. This will be Boeing's first launch with humans aboard its spaceship=
.. The astronauts will spend about a week at the space station before return=
ing to Earth. While SpaceX has been ferrying astronauts to the ISS since 20=
20, NASA does not want to rely on a single company.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Introducing Artifact Attest=
ations =E2=80=93 now in public beta (12 minute read)
GitHub's Artifact Attestations allows p=
roject maintainers to create a tamper-proof, unforgeable paper trail linkin=
g their software to the process that created it. It creates metadata that c=
an be used as a foundation for new security and validity checks through pol=
icy evaluation. Verification support will be expanded to the Kubernetes eco=
system later this year.
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A Useful Productivity Measu=
re? (12 minute read)
Software productivity is famously unmea=
surable. This article suggests using value-add capacity as a measure for so=
ftware productivity. In the absence of measures for return on investment, t=
he percent of engineering time spent on value-add activities is a pretty go=
od proxy for productivity. Using this metric can help organizations identif=
y what to focus on to achieve the goals they want.
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Tensions Rise in Silicon Va=
lley Over Sales of Start-Up Stocks (11 minute read)
Private stock sales have always felt a =
bit like the Wild West. Investors continue to find ways around companies' a=
ttempts to restrict stock sales using techniques such as forward contracts,=
which allow employees to cash out their future shares through a pledge to =
sell the shares to an investor in the future. Some companies forbid these p=
ractices and say such deals are void. Companies creating funds with these s=
hares say they are making the market more accessible and that shares obtain=
ed through forward contracts are legal.
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Tesla announces fourth roun=
d of layoffs in four weeks (2 minute read)
Multiple recently-former Tesla employee=
s posted on social media on Sunday to share that they were no longer with t=
he company. The company started laying off employees last month ahead of th=
e release of its Q1 financial results. While Elon Musk has said that he pla=
ns to reduce headcount by more than 10% globally, the total may be closer t=
o 20% by the time everything has settled. The latest round of layoffs affec=
ted service advisers, engineers, and HR.
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LeRobot (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains models, datase=
ts, and tools for real-world robotics in PyTorch.
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