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To apply, please send your resume or LinkedIn profile to jobs@tldr.tech along with a few sentences on why you would be a good fit. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Sergey Brin is back at Google to help advance its AI efforts (2 minute read) Google co-founder Sergey Brin has reportedly been showing up at Google offices much more often recently to help the company advance its AI endeavors. Brin has been working with the AI team to build Google’s next-generation AI model Gemini, mostly using his role to support the hiring process. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai seems to welcome Brin's involvement. Brin had brushed aside AI for years and ignored many of the early developments from Google Brain that are now the basis of many cutting-edge AI technologies. Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits (2 minute read) Reddit has removed the moderators of r/malefashionadvice, a subreddit with more than 5 million subscribers. The subreddit was the largest subreddit still closed in protest of Reddit's API pricing changes. It had gone private while directing its users towards the r/malefashionadvice Discord and Substack. The subreddit is still in restricted status, meaning only certain users can make new posts. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites (10 minute read) Amazon hopes to be building and launching up to 80 satellites per month within a few years to populate its Kuiper constellation. The Kuiper network aims to provide Internet connectivity around the world. Amazon will begin production of the satellites in the next six months. It has invested around $120 million into a production facility that can accommodate up to three simultaneous launch campaigns. Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding (2 minute read) DishBrain is a semi-biological computer chip with human and mouse brains lab-grown into its electrodes created by Monash University scientists. The project attracted a $407,000 grant from Australia's National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants program after the chips demonstrated the ability to learn to play the game Pong within five minutes. These types of chips may eventually become a new form of machine intelligence. The funds from the grant will be used to scale up the hardware and methods used to create the chips to the point where they become a viable replacement for silicon computing. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Fern - Instantly Create a Stripe-Like API Experience (GitHub Repo Sponsor) Fern is an open source tool to automatically generate idiomatic client libraries and Stripe-like API documentation. Find out why companies like Scale AI and Flatfile already use Fern to develop their APIs and generate their SDKs, learn more and star us on GitHub! NativePHP (Website) NativePHP is a framework for building desktop applications using PHP. It allows PHP developers to create cross-platform, native apps using familiar tools and technologies. NativePHP features a collection of easy-to-use classes, a set of tools for building and bundling applications, and a static cross-platform PHP runtime. Putting the “You” in CPU (Article series) This series of articles explains what happens when you run a program on your computer. It covers how multiprocessing works, what system calls are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables. Computers are surprisingly simple and there is much less complexity or abstraction than one might expect. 🎁 Miscellaneous FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says (2 minute read) Sam Bankman-Fried's younger brother considered purchasing Nauru to create a fortified apocalypse bunker-state, according to a lawsuit filed in a Delaware bankruptcy court. Gabe Bankman-Fried had planned to buy the island nation to protect his allies and create a genetically enhanced human species in the event of a mass human extinction event. A representative from Nauru says that the island was not - and has never been - for sale. No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators (8 minute read) Reddit has announced new outreach efforts to help repair ties with its users and volunteer moderators that it relies on. The efforts include weekly feedback sessions for pre-vetted users. Moderators have low expectations of Reddit's efforts as the company has refused to give way to virtually any of the mod's demands. Reddit's removal of protesting mods has further destroyed trust in the company. ⚡ Quick Links n8n: Workflow automation platform for technical people (Sponsor) Build complex automations 10x faster, without fighting APIs. Use JavaScript when you need flexibility and UI for everything else. Starting from $20 per month. Build your first workflows for free. ChatGPT comes to Android next week, but you can sign up today (1 minute read) The ChatGPT app on Android will probably have the same functionality as the iOS version and it should be able to sync conversations and preferences across devices. Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo (7 minute read) FedNow, a new system for processing instant payments between financial institutions, has been rolled out to 35 early-adopting banks and credit unions. Apple is already using its chatbot for internal work (2 minute read) Apple isn't sure what to do with its GPT chatbot project on the customer-facing side yet, but it has been experimenting with ways to expand its use within the organization. TypeScript Execute (GitHub Repo) TypeScript Execute is Node.js enhanced with esbuild to run TypeScript and ESM. Twitter is being rebranded as X (2 minute read) The rebranding is the clearest declaration that the social network is no longer the same as it was before. Amazon is reportedly making employees relocate for return-to-office (1 minute read) Some workers hired for remote positions at Amazon will be among those forced to relocate to fulfill a new company policy requiring three days per week of in-office work. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters covering AI, crypto, and web dev! 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