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Daily Update 2022-12-30

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Big Tech & Startups

Tesla Model Y is now the best-selling car in all of Europe (2 minute read)

The Tesla Model Y became the best-selling car in Europe in November. Tesla delivered 19,144 Model Y vehicles in Europe last month. The company is expected to deliver even more vehicles in December. Gigafactory Berlin is now producing 3,000 Model Y vehicles per week. Tesla will soon be able to produce over 100,000 Model Y vehicles per month.

Twitter suffers another outage (2 minute read)

Twitter experienced a widespread outage on Wednesday. The site acted weirdly for over five hours for many users. Some users were greeted with a blank page while others were being signed out for no reason. Many users were unable to see replies, respond to tweets, or follow trending topics. The outage affected Twitter users all over the world, but a vast majority of complaints were from desktop users.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

CRISPR’s quest to slay Donegal Amy (14 minute read)

Donegal Amy is a hereditary condition that typically appears after the age of 60. The disease is progressive and always fatal, with patients usually dying between three to 15 years after diagnosis. Trials are now underway for a CRISPR therapy that treats Donegal Amy. The treatment knocks out a gene, which results in the halting and even reversing of the disease. The trial's success so far indicates that it is safe to edit the genomes of cells in the body.

This is your brain. This is your brain on code (6 minute read)

Researchers at MIT used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the brain activity of programmers as they process and comprehend different parts of a computer program. The study looked at brain activity as programmers processed specific elements of a program. The researchers found patterns of brain activity that corresponded to specific elements of code, such as loops, branches, and written descriptions of code. Code comprehension activates the multiple demand network, a system linked to general reasoning.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Shumai (GitHub Repo)

Shumai is a fast, network-connected differentiable Tensor library in JavaScript and Typescript. It aims to make creating data sets easier and training small models faster. Shumai allows software engineers and researchers to write complex training logic without needing a native C++ implementation.

microfeed (GitHub Repo)

microfeed is a lightweight content management system self-hosted on Cloudflare. It allows anyone to publish a variety of content to a feed. microfeed is designed for tech-savvy individuals who want to self-host their own content without having to run their own servers.

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Miscellaneous

Silicon Valley staff rush to offload start-up shares as valuations plummet (6 minute read)

Recently laid off Silicon Valley workers are rushing to sell their shares in tech startups, pushing company valuations down. Many workers' shares vest within 60 days of them leaving their companies, forcing them to sell during a downturn. Some companies are offering an extension on the vesting. Most startups have seen a 30% to 80% decline in price from a year ago.

Privacy Is OK (4 minute read)

Privacy is good in that it can protect people from snoopers, but this protection also extends to bad actors. It is impossible to implement a way to break encryption for certain situations without completely breaking privacy for regular users. This is also not necessary, as law enforcement is able to obtain incriminating data in other ways. While privacy may sometimes slow law enforcement down, it won't completely stop them from doing their jobs.

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Quick Links

The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart by security experts (8 minute read)

LastPass insists that its user login information is secure, but cybersecurity experts have pointed out several ways users may still be vulnerable.

DevOps Trends for Developers in 2023 (8 minute read)

2022 saw huge momentum in areas like AI/ML, automation, and security.

AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (11 minute read)

The coming flood of AI chatbots will make it harder for people to tell if they're talking to a real person and this will result in people choosing to participate in smaller, private social networks as well as an increase in offline culture.

Toronto-Waterloo tech workforce expected to surpass Silicon Valley in 2023 (2 minute read)

Canada's immigration policy is one of the biggest reasons that the Toronto Waterloo Corridor will soon have more tech workers than in the San Francisco Bay area.

Linux Command Line Books by William Shotts (Book)

This 555-page downloadable book covers the same material as LinuxCommand.org but in much greater detail.

TSMC starts volume production of most advanced chips in Taiwan (2 minute read)

Mass production of TSMC's 3-nanometer chips began on Thursday.

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Tesla dominates Europe 🚗, startup workers sell shares 💰, DevOps trends for 2023 👨‍💻

Daily Update 2022-12-30

Big Tech & Startups

Science & Futuristic Technology

Programming, Design & Data Science

Miscellaneous

Quick Links

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