SpaceX moon launch 🚀, organ harvesting startup 🫁, North Korean Gmail hackers 📧

SpaceX and South Korea are working together to launch a payload directly to the Moon. 
TLDR

Daily Update 2022-08-05

Universal code search across your entire codebase (Sponsor)

Sourcegraph’s code intelligence platform allows you to understand, fix, and automate across your codebase. Over 1.2M engineers use Sourcegraph to build software you rely on every day - including at Uber, Reddit, and Qualtrics.
  • Find what you need in any code host, language, or repository.

  • Use batch updates to automate large-scale code changes.

Search code now ($0/mo for up to 10 users)

📱

Big Tech & Startups

Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts Its First Direct Launch to the Moon (6 minute read)

SpaceX and South Korea are working together to launch a payload directly to the Moon. It is South Korea's first mission to the Moon and SpaceX's first direct launch to the Moon. The payload is the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter. It will operate 60 miles above the surface of the Moon for at least one year. Many more details about the mission are available in the article.
This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting (7 minute read)

Israeli startup Renewal Bio is pursuing recent advances in stem-cell technology and artificial wombs to harvest tissues for use in transplants. A team of scientists recently grew mice embryos from stem cells that developed beating hearts, flowing blood, and cranial folds. The technology could be used to make cells for transplantation. Renewal has licensed the technology and it will help fund future research.
🚀

Science & Futuristic Technology

Ambitious Researchers Want to Use AI to Talk to All Animals (2 minute read)

California-based nonprofit Earth Species Project (ESP) wants to use machine learning to translate animal communication into something humans can understand. The project aims to help humans understand as many species as possible. It will include non-verbal communication. ESP has made some progress, with an algorithm that can tell which individual in a group of animals is speaking and an algorithm that can generate mimicked animal calls.
Scientists discover light as 'glue' in a loosely linked molecule (4 minute read)

Scientists have recently observed light working as the glue between weakly bound molecules. They successfully polarized several atoms in a controlled way to create a measurable attractive force between them. The force is very weak when compared to others. The discovery could help scientists explain how molecules form in space.
💻

Programming, Design & Data Science

Tabby (GitHub Repo)

Tabby is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH, and serial client for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It features theming and color schemes, fully configurable shortcuts, split panes, full Unicode support, and more. Screenshots are available.
sqlite-html (GitHub Repo)

sqlite-html is an SQLite extension for querying, manipulating, and creating HTML elements. It can extract HTML or text from HTML with CSS selectors, generate tables of matching elements from CSS selectors, and create HTML elements in a query. sqlite-html's API is modeled after the official JSON1 SQLite extension.
Write UI tests faster with Testim—seriously, it’s not even close (Sponsor)

If you’re spending too much time on UI tests, raging at false test failures breaking your build, or struggling with cross-browser testing, you need to check out Testim’s new AI. It’s fast, works on any browser (or outside the browser), and scalable. Developers from Microsoft, NetApp, and JFrog use Testim and now you can too: Start with the free community edition.
🎁

Miscellaneous

North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail (4 minute read)

SHARPEXT is a malware that installs a browser extension for Chrome and Edge browsers on Windows that lets hackers from North Korea read email from infected users' Gmail and AOL accounts. The extension can't be detected by the email services. SHARPEXT has been in use for well over a year. It gets installed on systems through a combination of spear phishing and social engineering techniques. Many more details about the malware are available in the article.
Visa suspends card payments for ad purchases on PornHub and MindGeek amid controversy (2 minute read)

Visa has suspended card payments for MindGeek and its companies, including Pornhub, after a lawsuit accused the payments giant of facilitating child pornography. A federal judge in California has denied Visa its motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Visa cards can no longer be used to purchase advertising on any sites affiliated with MindGeek. The company previously suspended sites that contained user-generated content and acceptance on those sites has not been reinstated.

Quick Links

mCaptcha (GitHub Repo)

mCaptcha is a free CAPTCHA system that uses SHA256-based Proof-of-Work to rate limit users.
Penumbra (GitHub Repo)

Penumbra is a mathematically balanced color scheme.
Productivity Porn (5 minute read)

Productivity porn is anything that after being consumed makes you feel you were productive when in reality you didn't actually do anything.
GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts (3 minute read)

GitLab plans to automatically delete projects that have been inactive for over a year, but only for projects owned by users on its free tier.
Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV (7 minute read)

Password Purgatory was developed with the singular goal of wasting spammers' time.

What did you think of today's newsletter?

I also write a daily newsletter on crypto, if you'd be interested in receiving TLDR Crypto, sign up here!

If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email!

Thanks for reading,
Dan

If you don't want to receive future editions of TLDR, please click here to unsubscribe.

 

Key phrases

Older messages

Tesla's new solar roof ☀️, self hostable coding AI 👨‍💻, flying car FAA approved 🚗

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Tesla is now testing version 3.5 of its Solar Roof in employees' homes. Sign Up | View Online | Sponsor Daily Update 2022-08-04 SOC 2 is a resource drain. Can Drata's auto-compliance tool make

Meta livestreaming 📹, inside Google/Meta hiring freezes 👨‍💻, YCombinator reduces cohorts by 40% 📉

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Facebook has been testing a new streaming platform called Super. Sign Up | View Online | Sponsor Daily Update 2022-08-03 Engineers at AWS, Netflix and Uber use this merge queue tool. Why aren't you

Amazon mall delivery 🚚, Google says worker productivity must improve 👨‍💻, Intro to Apple Silicon 💻

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Amazon now offers same-day delivery for PacSun, Diesel, Superdry, and GNC in 10 cities across the US. Sign Up | View Online | Sponsor Daily Update 2022-08-02 Cutting down cycle time with dev workflow

Cross-browser Apple Pay 💳, China's virtual influencers 💁‍♀️, understanding quantum algorithms ⚛️

Monday, August 1, 2022

Apple Pay works with Edge, Chrome, and Firefox in the iOS 16 beta 4. Sign Up | View Online | Sponsor Daily Update 2022-08-01 Knock is a Readymade Notifications Engine That Developers Love (Sponsor)

TikTok's Spotify competitor 🎵, Google's in-house Linux 👨‍💻, DeepMind finds structure of all proteins 🧬

Friday, July 29, 2022

ByteDance has filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for TikTok Music. Sign Up | View Online | Sponsor Daily Update 2022-07-29 Free eBook: Container Monitoring and

You Might Also Like

Data Science Weekly - Issue 540

Friday, March 29, 2024

Curated news, articles and jobs related to Data Science, AI, & Machine Learning ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

This Week in Rust #540

Friday, March 29, 2024

Email isn't displaying correctly? Read this e-mail on the Web This Week in Rust issue 540 — 27 MAR 2024 Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language

The Value Of A Promise 🤞

Friday, March 29, 2024

How much is a promise from a tech company really worth, anyway? Here's a version for your browser. Hunting for the end of the long tail • March 28, 2024 The Value Of A Promise When you hear a

New Elastic Security for SIEM Training Course

Friday, March 29, 2024

Detect and respond to evolving threats ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ elastic | Search. Observe. Protect Detect anomalies and malicious behavior March

SBF gets 25 years 

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced View this email online in your browser By Christine Hall Thursday, March 28, 2024 Welcome back to TechCrunch PM! The editorial team spent a chunk of the day discussing

💎 Issue 410 - Being laid off in 2023-2024 as an early-career developer

Thursday, March 28, 2024

This week's Awesome Ruby Newsletter Read this email on the Web The Awesome Ruby Newsletter Issue » 410 Release Date Mar 28, 2024 Your weekly report of the most popular Ruby news, articles and

💻 Issue 403 - Microsoft defends .NET 9 features competing with open source ecosystem

Thursday, March 28, 2024

This week's Awesome .NET Weekly Read this email on the Web The Awesome .NET Weekly Issue » 403 Release Date Mar 28, 2024 Your weekly report of the most popular .NET news, articles and projects

💻 Issue 410 - Node.js TSC Confirms: No Intention to Remove npm from Distribution

Thursday, March 28, 2024

This week's Awesome Node.js Weekly Read this email on the Web The Awesome Node.js Weekly Issue » 410 Release Date Mar 28, 2024 Your weekly report of the most popular Node.js news, articles and

💻 Issue 410 - JSDoc as an alternative TypeScript syntax

Thursday, March 28, 2024

This week's Awesome JavaScript Weekly Read this email on the Web The Awesome JavaScript Weekly Issue » 410 Release Date Mar 28, 2024 Your weekly report of the most popular JavaScript news, articles

📱 Issue 404 - Dependency Injection for Modern Swift Applications Part II

Thursday, March 28, 2024

This week's Awesome iOS Weekly Read this email on the Web The Awesome iOS Weekly Issue » 404 Release Date Mar 28, 2024 Your weekly report of the most popular iOS news, articles and projects Popular