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Big Tech & Startups

RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable (4 minute read)

Google has released passkeys for the stable version of Chrome M108 on Windows 11, macOS, and Android. Users who meet all the hardware requirements can now sign into supported services with a passkey. Google Password Manager on Android can sync all passkeys to the cloud. Passkeys offer big advantages over passwords, for example, they are not phishable and hackers can't access accounts without physical access to users' devices.

Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says (1 minute read)

Twitter is planning to increase its character limit from 280 to 4,000. The platform originally had a character limit of 140 before it increased to 280 in 2017. Twitter plans to relaunch its Twitter Blue subscription service with perks such as the ability to edit tweets and upload higher-resolution videos. It will cost $11 per month for iPhone users.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

US scientists boost clean power hopes with fusion energy breakthrough (5 minute read)

US scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved a net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the first time. The laboratory uses a process called inertial confinement fusion, which involves bombarding a tiny pellet of hydrogen plasma with the world's biggest laser. It created a reaction that produced around 2.5 megajoules of energy, about 120% of the 2.1 megajoules used by the laser. The data is still being analyzed.

These exclusive satellite images show that Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity is well underway (7 minute read)

Satellite images reveal that Saudi Arabia's The Line megacity project is well underway. The site is teeming with hundreds of construction vehicles, with sprawling bases nearby housing likely thousands of workers. Estimates suggest that the workers have already excavated around 26 million cubic meters of earth and rock. Critics have questioned the environmental and practical wisdom of building such a huge structure in the desert. Many of the technologies the project is supposed to incorporate remain unproven.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Awesome ChatGPT (GitHub Repo)

This repository contains a curated list of resources for ChatGPT and GPT-3. It includes general resources, API tools, Chrome extensions, CLI tools, and more. A link to OpenAI's Discord channel is available.

sqlean (GitHub Repo)

sqlean is a set of SQLite extensions that are well documented, tested, and built for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The main set includes domain modules for secure hashes, user-defined functions, file reading and writing, fuzzy string matching, IP address manipulation, and much more. The incubator set includes extensions for one-dimensional arrays, binary classification, reading environment variables, and more. These extensions have issues that prevent them from being in the main set, but they are candidates for inclusion in the future.

Dependency injection in JavaScript (Sponsor)

Dependency Injection is a pattern that aims to separate concerns of constructing objects and using them. Read more on when to use it and what popular JavaScript frameworks it’s implemented in from Snyk’s guide on dependency injection.

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Miscellaneous

TSMC: Semiconductors and Borders of Light (25 minute read)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is one of the world's most important companies. It makes chips for everything from phones to weapon systems. TSMC recently announced that it will increase its financing for facilities in Arizona to $40 billion. The semiconductor supply chain has many nearly irreplaceable players. Chip sanctions could be a potent weapon in the US and China's economic war.

Chrome, 10 years later (17 minute read)

Chrome, the web browser developed by Google, has more than 2.5 billion users. This article discusses the reason for Chrome's creation, what it was like working on the project, the challenges of building a browser on Linux, and the impact of Chrome on the web. Chrome was created because Google wanted the web to succeed while having more influence over the product.

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Raxis uses human pentesters plus automated anomaly detection for continuous and relentless PTaaS, without compromises. Learn how it works and get started

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer (5 minute read)

Doctors in the UK used base editing to build a living drug that cleared a teenage girl's incurable leukemia.

Announcing SWR 2.0 (14 minute read)

SWR 2.0 comes with new mutation APIs, improved optimistic UI capabilities, new DevTools, and better support for concurrent rendering.

Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects, how did you come up with the idea? (Hacker News Thread)

This Hacker News thread contains anecdotes from developers who have created money-making side projects.

The GPT-3 Architecture, on a Napkin (8 minute read)

This article presents a detailed look at GPT-3's architecture using diagrams.

DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts (2 minute read)

DeepMind's Dramatron is an AI co-writing tool that can generate character descriptions, plot points, location descriptions, and dialogue.

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What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer (42 minute read)

After decades of research, scientists are suggesting that the amyloid cascade hypothesis is incorrect and that alternative explanations should be considered.

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