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The launch of the bot has opened up complex debates about ownership, fair use, and the incentives of web creators. Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs (4 minute read) Apple was by far TSMC's largest customer in 2022. The company has reportedly bought up all of TSMC's 3 nm manufacturing capacity for roughly a year. The deal has apparently been in place since 2014 when Apple started using TSMC's factories. Part of the deal involves TSMC eating the cost of defective processor dies, chips that don't work or don't perform to the required specifications, which can result in substantial savings for Apple. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Physicists achieve fusion with net energy gain for second time (4 minute read) Researchers at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time. The team first achieved ignition for the first time last year. They repeated the breakthrough on July 30 and produced a higher energy output than the previous ignition. Initial data shows that the experiment outputted more than 3.5 megajoules, roughly enough to power a household iron for an hour. PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin backed by the US dollar (2 minute read) PayPal is launching its own stablecoin over the coming weeks to customers in the US. PayPalUSD (PYUSD) is a cryptocurrency token built on Ethereum and issued by the Paxos Trust Company that is fully backed by US dollar deposits. It can be purchased or sold on PayPal's app or website for $1.00 per PYUSD. PYUSD can be used for person-to-person payments, payment at checkouts, and transfers between PayPal accounts and outside wallets. Users can convert currencies supported by PayPal to and from PYUSD. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Introducing Next.js Commerce 2.0 (14 minute read) Next.js Commerce 2.0 is a new ecommerce accelerator template that showcases the best patterns for building composable commerce applications. It is App Router ready and features a dynamic storefront and simplified architecture. Next.js Commerce 2.0 supports BigCommerce, Medusa, Saleor, Shopify, and Swell. A live demo is available. Doculite (GitHub Repo) Doculite enables users to use SQLite as a document database. It makes using SQLite like using Firebase Firestore. Doculite supports listeners on documents, collections, and basic queries. 🎁 Miscellaneous Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made? (Hacker News Thread) A Hacker News thread about the most interesting things readers have done that aren't software related. The top answers include making string art, designing a baseball bat that uses explosive blanks to hit baseballs really far, and building a scanning tunneling microscope. Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek (4 minute read) Edsger Dijkstra introduced some of the biggest ideas in distributed and concurrent computing during his career. Throughout the years, Dijkstra ramped down his involvement with his university so that he only visited campus one day per week. He seemed to be the opposite of busy, yet he was outputting a large amount of work. This observation hints that busyness might actually be an obstacle to accomplishing your best work. ⚡ Quick Links Some tactics for writing in public (8 minute read) This article explains tactics for minimizing annoying comments on public posts and making them more informative and useful instead. Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn steps down (1 minute read) Tesla’s chief accounting officer, Vaibhav Taneja, was appointed as the new chief financial officer and will hold both roles concurrently. Google Search can now critique your grammar (2 minute read) Google has implemented a new grammar-checking feature that verifies grammar and indicates how to correct the phrase or sentence if it is incorrect. “Winners Take None:” Coworking, Self Storage, Scooters Have Burned Billions of Investor Dollars and Maybe Were Never ‘Tech Companies’ (1 minute read) A ‘winners take none’ outcome is when an incredible amount of investor capital is used up by even the best/surviving companies. What even is Big Tech? (7 minute read) Big Tech changes society as society tries to find ways to use things that it made. Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on? (Hacker News Thread) A discussion on problems that are more important than maximizing user engagement. Want more TLDR? 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