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Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2023-07-18 With 14 pre-built frameworks, Drata is the leader in security and compliance automation. Find out why (Sponsor) Drata is making the rounds. The company has pioneered a new approach to collecting evidence and achieving continuous compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and other frameworks — potentially saving hundreds of audit-prepping hours. Thousands of customers trust Drata, including companies such as BambooHR, Notion, and Postman. 472 reviewers on G2 have rated its solution 4.9 on average. And the company has already raised $328M at a $2BN valuation. Want to find out what all the fuss is about? Now’s your chance. TLDR readers and community members get 10% off and waived implementation fees. Claim your exclusive offer now 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple Watch Ultra 2 to have 3D printed parts (1 minute read) The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is expected to launch this year along with the Apple Watch 9. A microLED version of the watch will launch in 2025. This year's Apple Watch Ultra will come with 3D printed parts. Some of the titanium parts will be 3D printed, even though they will still go through a CNC process. The new process will improve production time and reduce costs. The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity (28 minute read) Anthropic's founders left OpenAI to create a new firm because they wanted to build a safety-first company from the ground up. The company is currently building a system that is purposely deceptive to see what kind of techniques can prevent malicious behaviors. The goal is to create an AI that continues to lie even when standard reinforcement learning with human feedback is used. Anthropic plans to cede control of its corporate board to a team of experts whose financial benefit from the company will be limited to help keep the company ethical. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year (10 minute read) A company based in Massachusetts has developed a technique to edit pigs' genomes so that their organs can be transplanted into other species. The gene-edited pig hearts have so far been transplanted into two infant baboons. Neither of the animals survived beyond a few days. The company is still optimistic and hopes to start human trials next year. Its goal is to be able to transplant pig hearts into babies born with heart conditions in order to buy the infants more time to wait for a human heart. Eli Lilly drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s progression (2 minute read) Trial results for Eli Lilly's latest Alzheimer's treatment shows that the drug significantly slows down memory loss and cognitive decline. Donanemab slowed progression by about 35 percent in the early stages of the disease. Eli Lilly has submitted the drug for FDA approval. A decision on its approval is expected before the end of the year. The company has not yet set a price for the drug, but similar drugs cost around $26,500 a year. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science 📊 [Tech Talk] Faster BI workloads on BigQuery (Sponsor) Google BigQuery can be insanely powerful - if it’s used correctly. In this upcoming Tech Talk session you’ll learn how to use BigQuery + AtScale to deliver speed-of-thought analytics without extracting data or maintaining complex OLAP cube architectures. Speakers: Maruti C, Technical Architect at Google; Dave Mariani, CTO & Founder of AtScale >> Wednesday, July 26th. Join here A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs (20 minute read) This article tells the story of GitHub's work with large language models (LLMs) to help other developers learn how to best make use of the technology. It describes at a high level how LLMs function and how to build LLM applications. The article uses GitHub Copilot code completions as a case example of an LLM-based application. WebGPU — All of the cores, none of the canvas (34 minute read) WebGPU is an API that gives developers low-level, general-purpose access to GPUs. This blog post aims to make WebGPU accessible for web developers. It doesn't focus on using WebGPU to generate graphics, but instead uses the API to access the raw computing power a GPU provides. The post was written by someone learning WebGPU, so while it can teach readers how to use the API effectively, the techniques described within may not be the most efficient. 🎁 Miscellaneous WormGPT Is a ChatGPT Alternative With 'No Ethical Boundaries or Limitations' (2 minute read) WormGPT is a chatbot designed to assist cybercriminals. Its developer is selling access to the AI on a popular hacking forum. WormGPT doesn't have any guardrails preventing it from responding to malicious requests. It allows its users to do anything blackhat related, for example, it can produce malware and provide tips on crafting malicious attacks. Access to WormGPT currently costs 60 Euros per month, or 550 Euros per year. Infrared may no longer be a punchline, as IEEE approves 9.6Gbps wireless light (2 minute read) The IEEE 802.11 wireless standard now officially recognizes wireless light communications as a physical layer for wireless local area networks. Li-Fi provides speeds of up to 9.6 gigabits per second using infrared light. It requires a direct line-of-sight to make a connection. The technology can be used together with Wi-Fi for more complete coverage. Want to join the TLDR team full time? 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Join now to claim a 20% discount for TLDR readers. 6 months ago it looked like AI/LLMs were going to bring a much needed revival to the venture startup ecosystem after a few tough years (7 minute read) VC-backed companies are having a tough time, but indie devs are building small, cash-flowing businesses and a small number of promising moonshot companies hold potential for VC-sized returns. dt (GitHub Repo) dt is a readable programming language for doing small stuff in Unix pipes quickly and easily. For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon (11 minute read) The astronauts are currently scheduled to fly to the Moon in late 2024 or 2025. SpaceX revenue expected to double, soaring to $8 billion (1 minute read) SpaceX's forecast was shared with select investors. Contra The xAI Alignment Plan (14 minute read) A maximally curious AI with morality programmed into it will likely not be safe for humanity. Wix will let you build an entire website using only AI prompts (3 minute read) Wix's new AI-based website builder will allow people to create entire websites, from the design to text and images, by typing a description into a box and answering a few follow-up questions. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters covering AI, crypto, and web dev! TLDR Talent is our exclusive community where we help world-class tech talent and get intros to companies of their choice, along with a number of exciting startups and tech companies curated by TLDR. We give you full control of the process, you can specify if you’re actively searching or passively interested only if something amazing comes along. Set your preferred compensation, seniority/title/role, specific companies (or types of companies) you’d like to work for and more. Click here to apply. If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. 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