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Sign Up|Hire|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2023-08-24 Compliance and dev teams: It’s complicated (Sponsor) There’s no question that compliance is critical. But for dev teams, it can be a drag. If you’re a developer, you were hired to build products — not tinker with screenshots and spreadsheets for compliance audits. 👉 This is where Drata’s compliance automation comes in. With Drata, you have an autopilot system that acts as a layer of communication between siloed tech stacks and confusing compliance controls. You don’t need to figure out how to get compliant or manually check dozens of systems to provide evidence to auditors — because Drata does it all for you. Time to put compliance on autopilot and get back to building. Start with 10% off and waived implementation fees 📱 Big Tech & Startups “Project Moohan” is Google and Samsung’s inevitable Apple Vision Pro clone (5 minute read) Google has fallen behind in the AR/VR space despite dabbling in it for over a decade. The company is working with Samsung and Qualcomm to create a competitor to Apple's Vision Pro headset. It is planning to launch the headset around summer 2024. Inside reports from Google employees say that the company's AR/VR plans are a bureaucratic mess. TikTok plans to ban links to outside e-commerce sites like Amazon (3 minute read) A new report claims that TikTok is planning to ban links to outside e-commerce sites. The move will force people to use TikTok Shop if they want to purchase an item they see on the app. TikTok Shop is on track to lose more than $500 million in the US this year. It is unknown when TikTok plans to introduce the ban. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Scientists finally uncover complete Y-chromosome sequence (4 minute read) Scientists have created a full genetic map of the male sex chromosome. The breakthrough could help researchers decode conditions ranging from infertility to cancer. The Y chromosome comprises nearly 60 million base pairs. The researchers aim to make the data widely accessible to expand genetic studies of human disease and provide new insights into basic biology. A link to the original research paper is available. This is Apptronik’s humanoid robot, Apollo (8 minute read) Decades of research are starting to pay off for the field of humanoid robotics. Many startups have come out of the woodwork since Tesla announced plans to build a robot in April 2022. This article looks at Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robot, which can perform a variety of tasks including walking, unloading trailers, palletizing, and case picking. Apptronik has already managed to sign a handful of pilot tests for Apollo. Pictures and GIFs of the robot are available in the article. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science React Stately (Website) React Stately is a library of React Hooks that provides cross-platform state management for design systems. It is design-agnostic and provides state management intrinsic to the functionality of the component. React Stately handles state management for common components through an easy-to-use interface. It is designed to help developers build adaptive, accessible, and robust user experiences. Roboflow Inference (GitHub Repo) Roboflow Inference is a tool for running inference on state-of-the-art computer vision models. It can be deployed on a range of devices and environments with no prior knowledge of machine learning. Roboflow Inference supports object detection, classification, instance segmentation models, and foundation models. A video of Roboflow Inference running on a video of a football game is available. 🎁 Miscellaneous How to sabotage your salary negotiation efforts before you even start (26 minute read) Two things to avoid during salary negotiations are revealing information too early and negotiating before being ready for it. This post explains why these two mistakes sabotage salary negotiation efforts and what to say to recruiters instead. Being in a 'passive information gathering' mode will help most interviewees with their recruiter interactions. Negotiation is about laying a foundation and then swooping in on offers once they come in. India becomes the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon (4 minute read) India is the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. The Chandrayaan 3 is the country's second attempt at a lunar landing. Its first attempt in 2019 failed when higher-than-expected thrust from its braking rockets drove the lander off course. Chandrayaan 3 cost the Indian government roughly $90 million. ⚡ Quick Links Upskill during your coffee break. Try Brilliant’s bite-sized interactive lessons for free (Sponsor) You’ll be shocked at what you can achieve in 5 minutes a day—and 10M+ already agree. Flex your analytical thinking — master news skills — level up your career. Try Brilliant free for 30 days. Nvidia’s blowout earnings report shows chipmaker is gobbling up all the profit in AI (3 minute read) Nvidia's overall sales grew 171% year-over-year in the quarter that ended July 30. An Excruciatingly Detailed Guide To SSH (But Only The Things I Actually Find Useful) (15 minute read) SSH is a powerful tool, but sometimes the syntax and other concepts can get in the way. Epic’s First Run offers 100% revenue share to game devs in exchange for exclusivity (3 minute read) Developers now have the option to get 100% of their game's sales revenue with Epic in exchange for being exclusive in its game store for six months. Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1 billion (3 minute read) Roman Semenov and Roman Storm have been charged with three conspiracy counts in relation to the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixing service. SpaceX working with Cloudflare to speed up Starlink service (1 minute read) SpaceX and Cloudflare are working on a way to increase Starlink's network of mini data centers to deliver faster network speeds to customers. Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking (7 minute read) Bing's market share hasn't grown at all despite Microsoft's $10 billion bet that AI would enable its search engine to surpass Google. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters for founders, AI, cybersecurity, crypto, and web dev! We help cutting edge companies hire world class technical talent through our job listings. If you're hiring software engineers, AI/ML engineers, product managers, designers or other tech talent, click here to learn more. If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! 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