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Big Tech & Startups

Xbox leak: new Xbox Series X design, next-gen in 2028, and more (1 minute read)

Unredacted documents from the FTC v.Microsoft case have revealed plans for a new disc-less Xbox Series, a gyro controller, and a next-gen hybrid Xbox in 2028. This is the biggest leak in Xbox history. Xbox chief Phil Spencer has hinted that Microsoft's plans may have changed. This page contains a collection of articles with more details about the leak.

Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers (5 minute read)

Google Bard is now integrated with Google apps and can double-check answers against web content. It can now also work in over 40 languages. Bard Extensions are opt-in features that let Bard pull data from Google's other services for integration into a Bard conversation. They allow Bard to pull real-time flight and hotel information, suggest YouTube videos about a topic, and more. Data from Google apps used in AI conversations will not be viewed by human reviewers or be used to train future versions of the model.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Neuralink is recruiting subjects for the first human trial of its brain-computer interface (3 minute read)

Neuralink is looking for its first human test subjects for an initial six-year trial. The trial will test Neuralink tech designed to help those with paralysis control devices. The company is looking for people with quadriplegia due to vertical spinal cord injury or ALS who are over the age of 22 and have a consistent and reliable caregiver. The study is not related to the all-encompassing brain computer that Elon Musk has been talking about for years.

Toyota reveals its plan to catch up on EV battery technology (5 minute read)

Toyota has released a new roadmap showing how it will regain competitiveness and sell 3.5 million EVs by 2030. It is working on four battery technology solutions. Three of the solutions use liquid electrolytes and the fourth is a solid-state battery. The company is also putting a lot of effort into shrinking the height of its battery packs. This article goes into detail about Toyota's plans.

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A (more) Modern CSS Reset (7 minute read)

A CSS reset can help make browsers behave better and reduce compatibility issues. This article discusses a modern CSS reset that prevents font size inflation, sets core body defaults, balances text wrapping on headings, and more. The article breaks down each part of the CSS reset and explains the reasons for the code and how it works. Browsers are getting better and better, so resets like this are becoming less necessary.

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Miscellaneous

The best stuff Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents bought using FTX money (3 minute read)

Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are being accused of exploiting their access and influence within FTX to enrich themselves. FTX lawyers are suing them to try to get some of the money back. This article lists some of the things they allegedly received from FTX. These include a $16.4 million property in the Bahamas, funds for donations, expensive hotel rooms, tickets to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in France, and a $200,000 annual salary.

Intel will launch Meteor Lake on December 14th — this is Intel’s Core Ultra (8 minute read)

Intel has been hyping up its Meteor Lake chips for months - the company has now set a launch date for December 14. The chips will be the most power-efficient client processor Intel has ever made, with up to twice the graphics performance, a low power island, and hooks for Microsoft Windows to intelligently control them. This article details the many features of the new Intel Core Ultra chips.

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Tracing: structured logging, but better in every way (14 minute read)

Tracing can result in larger files, but it provides much more information than logging.

Trepidation, hurt morale precede last-of-its-kind Amazon hardware event (5 minute read)

It's likely that Amazon's hardware team could see its resources cut further - it's also possible the team could be folded into the Amazon Web Services Division.

An Excruciatingly Detailed Guide To SSH (15 minute read)

SSH can give users immense power, but sometimes the syntax and other concepts can get in the way of accomplishing things.

How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (16 minute read)

Microsoft was the first major company to come up with a specialized testing role - the company has played an outsized role in the development and importance of quality assurance across the industry.

Google’s AI protein folder IDs structure where none seemingly existed (3 minute read)

The structure was found two proteins whose interactions are essential for cell division.

The Unified Acceleration Foundation wants to create an open standard for accelerator programming (2 minute read)

The Unified Acceleration Foundation's founding members include Arm, Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung - but not Nvidia.

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Neuralink human trials 🧠, Google Bard Extensions 🤖, a modern CSS reset 👨‍💻

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