Subj : iPhone hits all-time high 📱, OpenAI's pentagon project 🤖, ChatGPT dev tips 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Wed Jan 17 2024 11:35 am --Y6s8xciJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apple was the number one smartphone OEM in 2023.=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1]|Hi= re [2]|Advertise [3]|View Online [4]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 TLDR 2024-01-17= =F0=9F=93=B1=20 BIG TECH & STARTUPS APPLE HITS =E2=80=9CALL-= TIME HIGH=E2=80=9D SMARTPHONE MARKET SHARE, TAKES #1 SPOT FOR 2023 (2 MIN= UTE READ) [5]=20 Apple was the number one smartphone OEM in 2023. It ha= d a 20.1% market share for the year, a 3.7% growth over 2022. Apple's b= est-selling phone, and the best-selling model in the world, was the iPhon= e 14 Pro Max. The company's cheapest phone, the iPhone SE at $429, didn't= sell well. Apple's market share is fueled by aggressive trade-in offers = and interest-free financing plans.=20 OPENAI CHANGES ITS STANCE, ANNOUN= CES THAT IT IS WORKING WITH THE PENTAGON (2 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 OpenA= I has announced a partnership with the Pentagon. The company's usage poli= cy previously banned activities like weapons development and military use= and warfare, but it recently updated its policies to remove the part abo= ut military use and warfare. OpenAI and the Pentagon are working on cyber= security software and are in discussions about how OpenAI's technology co= uld assist with preventing veteran suicide.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIE= NCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL ULTRASOUND TREATMENT TARGETI= NG BRAINS IN TRIALS TO HELP THOSE WITH ALZHEIMER'S, DRUG ADDICTION (5 MIN= UTE READ) [7]=20 A new experimental treatment uses ultrasound to open t= he blood-brain barrier using a specialized helmet to temporarily allow th= erapeutic drugs to quickly get inside the brain. Patients are awake durin= g the procedure but they say the procedure is painless. In human trials, = the treatment resulted in a clear reduction in the beta-amyloid proteins= targeted. The treatment has also shown efficacy in treating patients w= ith severe drug addictions.=20 A CLONED RHESUS MONKEY IS STILL ALIVE AF= TER 2 YEARS (3 MINUTE READ) [8]=20 A team of researchers at the Chine= se Academy of Sciences claims one of its cloned monkeys has lived more th= an two years, the longest any cloned rhesus macaque has survived yet. It = was developed using a new method called the trophoblast replacement metho= d. The new technique could have implications for conventional IVF. There = is still a lot of trial and error involved - the researchers achieved jus= t one live fetus for every 113 activated embryos, and of all 11 embryos= transferred to a womb, only one produced a live fetus.=20 = =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE HOW TO USE CHAT= GPT TO BUILD SOFTWARE PRODUCTS (1 MINUTE READ) [9]=20 This X post provi= des a small guide on how to use ChatGPT to build software products. The p= rocess involves asking the model to go through planning stages first to l= ay down a structure before getting it to write code. It will take a few a= ttempts with different ideas before users get the hang of how to feed the= model information to get good results.=20 WHY LOWERCASE LETTERS SAVE= DATA (8 MINUTE READ) [10]=20 Both lowercase and uppercase letters use = 1 byte each, but swapping uppercase letters for lowercase letters saves d= ata. This is due to how text compression works. This article explains how= text compression works using interactive examples. It also provides exam= ples where this knowledge can be used to systematically save data.=20 = =F0=9F=8E=81=20 MISCELLANEOUS CEOS SAY GENERATIVE AI WILL RESULT I= N JOB CUTS IN 2024 (2 MINUTE READ) [11]=20 A quarter of global CEOs e= xpect that generative AI will lead to a headcount reduction of at least 5= % this year. Media and entertainment, banking, insurance, and logistics a= re the industries most likely to be affected by job losses due to cutting= -edge AI tools. Engineering, construction, and technology firms are least= likely to anticipate cuts because of automation. With AI, executives are= most worried about the cybersecurity risks and the spread of disinformat= ion.=20 U.S. DEVELOPERS CAN NOW OFFER NON-APP STORE PURCHASING OPTION, = BUT APPLE WILL STILL COLLECT COMMISSIONS (4 MINUTE READ) [12]=20 Deve= lopers in the US iOS App Store are now able to direct customers to a non-= App Store purchasing option for digital goods. Apple plans to continue co= llecting a 12% to 27% commission on content bought this way. Developers w= ho want to offer alternative payment options need to apply for a StoreKit= External Purchase Link Entitlement. 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Apple hits =E2=80=9Call-tim= e high=E2=80=9D smartphone market share, takes #1 spot for 2023 (2 minute r= ead)

Apple was the number one smartphone OEM= in 2023. It had a 20.1% market share for the year, a 3.7% growth over 2022= .. Apple's best-selling phone, and the best-selling model in the world, was = the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The company's cheapest phone, the iPhone SE at $429,= didn't sell well. Apple's market share is fueled by aggressive trade-in of= fers and interest-free financing plans.
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OpenAI Changes Its Stance, = Announces That It Is Working With the Pentagon (2 minute read)

OpenAI has announced a partnership with= the Pentagon. The company's usage policy previously banned activities like= weapons development and military use and warfare, but it recently updated = its policies to remove the part about military use and warfare. OpenAI and = the Pentagon are working on cybersecurity software and are in discussions a= bout how OpenAI's technology could assist with preventing veteran suicide.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

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Experimental ultrasound tre= atment targeting brains in trials to help those with Alzheimer's, drug addi= ction (5 minute read)

A new experimental treatment uses ultra= sound to open the blood-brain barrier using a specialized helmet to tempora= rily allow therapeutic drugs to quickly get inside the brain. Patients are = awake during the procedure but they say the procedure is painless. In human= trials, the treatment resulted in a clear reduction in the beta-amyloid pr= oteins targeted. The treatment has also shown efficacy in treating patients= with severe drug addictions.
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A Cloned Rhesus Monkey Is S= till Alive After 2 Years (3 minute read)

A team of researchers at the Chinese Ac= ademy of Sciences claims one of its cloned monkeys has lived more than two = years, the longest any cloned rhesus macaque has survived yet. It was devel= oped using a new method called the trophoblast replacement method. The new = technique could have implications for conventional IVF. There is still a lo= t of trial and error involved - the researchers achieved just one live fetu= s for every 113 activated embryos, and of all 11 embryos transferred to a w= omb, only one produced a live fetus.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

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How to use ChatGPT to build= software products (1 minute read)

This X post provides a small guide on h= ow to use ChatGPT to build software products. The process involves asking t= he model to go through planning stages first to lay down a structure before= getting it to write code. It will take a few attempts with different ideas= before users get the hang of how to feed the model information to get good= results.
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why lowercase letters save = data (8 minute read)

Both lowercase and uppercase letters us= e 1 byte each, but swapping uppercase letters for lowercase letters saves d= ata. This is due to how text compression works. This article explains how t= ext compression works using interactive examples. It also provides examples= where this knowledge can be used to systematically save data.
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CEOs say generative AI will= result in job cuts in 2024 (2 minute read)

A quarter of global CEOs expect that ge= nerative AI will lead to a headcount reduction of at least 5% this year. Me= dia and entertainment, banking, insurance, and logistics are the industries= most likely to be affected by job losses due to cutting-edge AI tools. Eng= ineering, construction, and technology firms are least likely to anticipate= cuts because of automation. With AI, executives are most worried about the= cybersecurity risks and the spread of disinformation.
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U.S. Developers Can Now Off= er Non-App Store Purchasing Option, But Apple Will Still Collect Commission= s (4 minute read)

Developers in the US iOS App Store are = now able to direct customers to a non-App Store purchasing option for digit= al goods. Apple plans to continue collecting a 12% to 27% commission on con= tent bought this way. Developers who want to offer alternative payment opti= ons need to apply for a StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement. Detail= s about the specific rules for Entitlement Links are available in the artic= le.
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Sched_ext Schedulers and To= ols (GitHub Repo)

This repository contains various schedu= ler implementations and support utilities for sched_ext, a Linux kernel fea= ture that enables implementing kernel thread schedulers in BPF and dynamica= lly loading them.
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OpenAI announces team to bu= ild =E2=80=98crowdsourced=E2=80=99 governance ideas into its models (2 minu= te read)

OpenAI's new Collective Alignment team'= s goal is to create a system for collecting and encoding public input on it= s models' behaviors into OpenAI products and services.
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Passwordless: a different k= ind of hell? (6 minute read)

A look at the history of passwords and = how they have evolved.
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Datadrift (GitHub Repo)

Datadrift is a monitoring and incident = management platform that helps teams deliver trusted and reliable metrics.
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Google said to use special = pool of stock comp to keep top AI researchers (1 minute read)

Certain researchers at Google's DeepMin= d have received grants of restricted stock worth up to millions of dollars.
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React Postgres Components (= 2 minute read)

This post presents an experimental proj= ect on deploying remote functions that run inside Postgres to illustrate th= e possibilities of Framework-defined Infrastructure.
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