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Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2023-06-07 SOC 2 compliance is… easy? (Sponsor) “Given the A-to-B, easy process we had with Secureframe for SOC 2, it was a no-brainer to use it to organize our HIPAA compliance.” —- Khoi Pham, IT Lead, Coda. Thousands of companies are using Secureframe’s automated compliance platform. Ramp, AngelList, Haystack and Stream are already on board. Now’s the time to simplify YOUR compliance journey. Get everything in one place — from continuous monitoring to readiness reports. Start with a special offer for TLDR readers 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple Vision (20 minute read) Vision is one of the best product names in Apple's history. It describes the product and its aspiration as a use case and makes a critique on the sort of society that Apple wants to build. Apple's mixed reality headset will ship in early 2024 with a price tag of $3,499. This article describes what it is like using the headset. It covers the setup experience, user interface, use cases, issues with the device, and more. iOS 17 will stop your Android friends from ruining your group texts with their green bubbles (3 minute read) iOS 17 will allow iMessage users to edit text and send iMessage-quality videos in group chats even if there are Android users in the group chat. Group messages will display properly in threads for Android users. Android users will not be able to see edited messages. iOS 17 is scheduled to launch in September. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion (3 minute read) A Reddit user recently posted a series of artistic QR codes created using Stable Diffusion. The art is in the style of anime and Asian art and the QR codes can be read by smartphone camera apps. The Reddit user apparently trained several custom Stable Diffusion ControlNet models and then fed QR codes into the image generator while using a technique to maintain the QR code's data positioning. Examples of QR codes generated with this technique are available in the article. Scientists find way to make aging hair regrow by manipulating stem cells (2 minute read) Researchers have discovered a new method for helping aging hair regrow in mice. Hair follicle stem cells get stiff as they age, making it harder for them to grow hair. They are more likely to produce hair if the stem cells are softened. The researchers were able to soften the stem cells by boosting the production of a tiny RNA. This enhanced hair growth in both young and old mice. The mice started to grow hair within 10 days. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Spruce CSS (GitHub Repo) Spruce CSS is a lightweight CSS design system and framework. It is Sass-based and it takes advantage of Sass members and modules. Spruce uses just a few classic utility classes and it is themable. Developers can choose to use only tools from Spruce without the generated styles. ggml (GitHub Repo) ggml is a Tensor library for machine learning. It features 16-bit float support, integer quantization, automatic differentiation, Apple Silicon optimization, and more. ggml doesn't require any third-party dependencies. It can be used to efficiently run Whisper, GPT-2, and GPT-J inference on the CPU. Ebook: Containerized Applications in Azure (Sponsor) Learn how to deploy and monitor containerized applications in Azure with Datadog. Understand how Azure Kubernetes Service works + how to monitor Azure Kubernetes Service and other container environments. Get the ebook for free from Datadog 🎁 Miscellaneous Vision Pro (15 minute read) This article looks at Apple Vision Pro's user interface and computing paradigm. visionOS is organized around apps, similar to iOS. The interface allows wearers to use 2D iPad app UIs on a large spatial display. Users control the device by looking at items and then 'clicking' on them with their fingers. Apple has positioned the device as a spatial computing device. This new paradigm gives users more space to use the apps they currently use. It is yet to be seen whether developers will embrace the paradigm to create new use cases. Why AI Will Save the World (6 minute read) AI will not destroy the world, but in fact, may save it. AI is the application of mathematics and software code to teach computers how to understand, synthesize, and generate knowledge in ways similar to how people do it. It can make everything we care about better by profoundly augmenting human intelligence. AI augmentation of human intelligence has already started. Restrictions, regulations, and laws target dramatic public statements about the dangers of AI, but these concerns may be inflated and could result in the slowing down of technology that could be enormously beneficial to our welfare. ⚡ Quick Links The Path to Platform Engineering: A Guide by CircleCI (Sponsor) Platform engineering improves consistency and efficiency across the SDLC. Learn why and how to build a platform team in your organization. Download instantly (no signup) Sequoia Is Splitting Into Three VC Firms (8 minute read) Sequoia will split into Sequoia Capital representing the US and Europe, HongShan in China, and Peak XV Partners in India and Southeast Asia by no later than March 2024. ChatGPT Maker OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman Is Keeping Firm Private (2 minute read) Sam Altman is not interested in making OpenAI public as he wants to maintain full control over the technology as it becomes more powerful. codespelunker (GitHub Repo) codespelunker is a command line search tool that can search over code or text files using boolean queries or regular expressions. SEC sues Coinbase, continues major crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges (8 minute read) The US SEC has sued Coinbase, alleging that the exchange has violated laws since at least 2019 by failing to register both its cryptocurrency trading platform and its crypto asset-staking program. News from WWDC23: WebKit Features in Safari 17 beta (25 minute read) An overview of the 88 features coming this fall in Safari 17. Mirador (GitHub Repo) Mirador makes it easy to build point-of-interest AR experiences on top of Apple's new RealityKit AR platform. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters covering AI, crypto, and web dev! 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