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Mobile carriers have been asking employees not to take the 15th of September off due to a major smartphone announcement. If Apple announces the new lineup on September 13, pre-orders will likely begin on September 15, and the official launch will take place on September 22. iPhone sales have been delayed in the past due to supply issues which may happen again this year. Elon Musk’s plan to own the meme (stocks) (4 minute read) X is looking to build a trading hub inside its app. The company sent a request for plans to large data providers in recent weeks seeking proposals for financial content, real-time stock data, and other features. X is offering data companies the ability to reach hundreds of millions of highly-qualified users. The offer did not mention compensation. X's request asked companies to send in bids, but is unclear if any firms replied. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Scientists in Japan Develop Experimental Alzheimer's Vaccine That Shows Promise in Mice (3 minute read) Scientists in Japan have developed a vaccine that can delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease. It appears to reduce inflammation and improve other important biomarkers in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's-like illness. The vaccine is supposed to work by training the immune system to go after senescent cells that produce high levels of a particular protein. Its effectiveness has yet to be formally peer-reviewed and there are still many steps to take before the team even begins thinking about large-scale human trials. LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer (5 minute read) LK-99 is a new material that is said to be a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. A recent post on X from a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California shows a small piece of the material levitating over a magnet. Some have said this is proof of the superconductivity claims. Others are still skeptical and are waiting for LK-99's properties to be evaluated by more researchers. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Hydra (GitHub Repo) Hydra is a column-oriented Postgres that can query billions of rows instantly on Postgres without code changes. It uses columnar storage, query parallelization, vectorized execution, column-level caching, and a tuned Postgres to achieve parallelized analytics in minutes. Hydra is meant for aggregates, WHERE clauses, and bulk inserts and not frequent large updates or small transactions. It doesn’t support logical replication. Introducing code referencing for GitHub Copilot (6 minute read) GitHub has announced a private beta of GitHub Copilot with a new code referencing feature that shows a list of repositories for source code whenever it makes a suggestion based on public code. The feature will allow developers to learn from others' work or use a dependency rather than introduce new app logic. It will also allow developers to more easily give and receive credit for their work. An overview of how GitHub Copilot code referencing works is available in the article. 🎁 Miscellaneous Raspberry Pi availability is visibly improving after years of shortages (2 minute read) The Raspberry Pi supply has been hit with shortages for years. Manufacturing numbers have now climbed from 400,000 monthly units to 1 million. Raspberry Pi’s CEO Eben Upton says that this level of production can be sustained as long as necessary to clear the company’s customer backlogs and return to free availability. Some suppliers have already removed purchasing restrictions. Upton has previously implied that the company is putting off Raspberry Pi 5 development to allow stock of current models to return to normal. Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (15 minute read) Rather than creating new and useful things, older companies tend to become less innovative and start litigating. This tactic allows them to extract more value while simultaneously suppressing new competitors. Google has clearly reached that stage in some aspects of its business. It is meddling with the Web Environment Integrity system by allowing websites to determine which browsers to serve. This move will ultimately enable Google to effectively block ad-blocking while also eroding the principles of the open web, which Google used to be at the forefront of fighting for. Want to join the TLDR team full time? 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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. ⚡ Quick Links Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades (2 minute read) The hack, which involves a technique called voltage glitching, allowed the researchers to enable the self-driving and navigation system in regions where it’s normally not available. IBM and NASA teamed up to build the GPT of Earth sciences (1 minute read) The project will help scientists implement faster and more impactful solutions to improve the planet by combining IBM’s foundational model efforts and NASA’s repository of Earth-satellite data. Zep (GitHub Repo) Zep makes it easy to add documents, chat history, and rich user data to large language model prompts. AI.com flips from ChatGPT to Elon Musk’s x.AI (3 minute read) AI.com was relatively recently purchased by OpenAI, who likely purchased the domain for at least $3.8 million. Tesla appears to be about to launch next-gen Model 3 (3 minute read) Tesla has pushed all of its Model 3 orders in Europe past October, likely due to temporary production shutdowns as factories prepare for the next generation of the vehicle. Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life (4 minute read) There is a better way of working that can bring meaning to the daily tasks that consume our time. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters for founders, 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. 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