ChatGPT message meltdown, Neuralink patient moves cursor, and user-tracking in Chrome

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Weekly issue #11

MY PICKS 👇️

1. ChatGPT's alarming meltdown 😱 — “We’re continuing to monitor the situation” was sent by OpenAI as incoherent messages were plaguing the platform with phrases like “Let’s keep the line as if AI in the room”.

2. $60m per year for Reddit content 🤖 — Google wants to train their AI using Reddit content for a hefty sum.

3. Great news for the first Neuralink patient 🧠 — Musk confirmed that the first Neuralink patient can successfully move a cursor on a screen by thinking.

4. User-tracking ads forced in Google Chrome 🖱️ — Chrome’s redesign update directly tracks user activity through their new ad platform software

5. Chinese hacking exposure 🕵️ — A major leak from I-Soon, a Chinese security contractor linked to the government, has exposed a trove of documents revealing espionage tactics and hacking tools aimed at monitoring dissidents and penetrating networks globally, sparking a high-stakes investigation

HIGHLIGHTS 🔍️

1. 📵 Major cellular outage affects AT&T, T Mobile, Verizon in the U.S.

2. 💻 Federal forces succeed against a notorious ransomware group

3. 📶 Introducing rSIM, the world's auto-switching resilient SIM card

4. 🕵️ Student vending machine glitch uncovers college's secret facial recognition database

5. 📺 Walmart acquires Vizio to enhance advertising

6. 🚗 Oklahoma hacker purchases government auction cars for $1

7. 🧠 Observing the brain's chemistry with nanoscale precision

8. ✉️ Google assures Gmail's continued service

9. 🚶‍♂️ Italian innovation enables disabled individuals to walk

10. 🛑 Google suspends Gemini AI for biased imagery

OTHER NEWS 📰

• 📈 Reddit prepares for IPO, pays CEO $193M

• ☀️ Amazon fines for overworking staff in extreme heat

• 🛡️ Twitter staff defied Musk to comply with FTC

• 🚀 Spacecraft designed to combat space debris reaches orbit

• 🛬 United flight's mid-air wing damage leads to emergency landing

• 🌞 Record energy conversion in semi-transparent solar tech

• 📰 Vice to stop web publishing, lays off hundreds

• 🔒 ID required for porn, future of Pornhub awaits Senate

• 🧑‍🏭 Zuckerberg blames over hiring for tech layoffs

• 🇰🇷 Twitch fined over $300K by Korea for halting services

• 🚫 Use of Grammarly leads to student's academic probation for AI misuse

• 🔫 Experts suggest AI apocalypse requires emergency kill switches

• 🔧 Intel announces corporate split, aims for top chip spot

• 💸 Avast faces $16.5 million FTC fine for selling user data

• 👁️ Repeat privacy breach: Wyze cameras expose private videos

• ⚖️ Supreme Court decision looms over online free speech

• ✖️ ISP avoids $1 billion fine for user piracy

• 📉 Sony faces $10 billion loss, questions gaming profit margins

• 👀 New tech for facial recognition tested on iconic sculpture

• 🔓 The risks of data trading post-broker bankruptcy

• 💲 What to know as Google Pay service ends in the US

• 🌕 Odysseus lander survives rough lunar landing

• ☀️ Innovative bumpy solar cells can boost energy yield

• 💾 New optical disc stores 1.6 petabits on multiple layers

• ✈️ 'Nanosphere' paint could lower airplane CO2 emissions

• 🧤 Haptic smart gloves may revolutionize skill learning

• 🖨️ 3D printed solenoids to transform electronics manufacturing

• 🌀 Spin waves herald a new era in analog computing

• 🧲 MIT exploits 2D magnetism for cutting-edge energy savings

• 💗 Revolutionary ultra-thin light-powered pacemakers unveiled

• ⚡ New multi-threading method aims to double computing speed

• ⌚ Experimental smartwatch conducting basic diagnostic tests

• 🔮 Low availability expected for Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell GPUs

• 🌬️ Thermalright's latest cooler overwhelmingly outperforms competitors

• 🔄 Persistent memory tech set to replace DRAM within the decade

TOP REPOSITORIES 🧑‍💻

1. codecrafters-io / build-your-own-x - Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

2. ajeetdsouza / zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

3. GopeedLab / gopeed - A modern download manager that supports all platforms. Built with Golang and Flutter.

4. ripienaar / free-for-dev - A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

5. AUTOMATIC1111 / stable-diffusion-webui - Stable Diffusion web UI

6. huggingface / transformers - 🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.

7. vinta / awesome-python - An opinionated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

8. openai / openai-cookbook - Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API

9. CodeEditApp / CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.

10. langchain-ai / langchain - 🦜🔗 Build context-aware reasoning applications

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