Musk vs OpenAI, Odysseus moon landing, and AI Worms

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Weekly issue #12

MY PICKS 👇️

1. Musk vs. OpenAI lawsuit 🤖 — Musk believes that OpenAI cofounders “betrayed” original nonprofit AI mission

2. Wendy’s digital menus 🍔 — The price of a Frosty could change throughout the day with “dynamic pricing” beginning in 2025

3. Odysseus moon landing 🚀 — The privately-owned Odysseus is the first spacecraft in over 50 years to land on the moon

4. Combating Alzheimer’s disease 🧠 — A flicker of light and a buzz of sound may hold the key to combating Alzheimer’s disease

5. AI Worms 🪱 — Researchers create AI worms that spread from one system to another, with potential to steal data or deploy malware in the process

HIGHLIGHTS 🔍️

1. 💿 Revolutionary disc stores a petabyte, fitting a lifetime of movies

2. 🚘 Apple's canceled car project cost over $10 billion

3. 👁️ 3D-printed prosthetic eyes mimic real ones

4. 💊 Bacteria becomes high-efficiency drugs with 91% success using radio waves

5. 🤰 Study: Microplastics pervasive in human placentas

6. ⚖️ Lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB free storage cap

7. 🚨 Mass attack on GitHub with cloned repos containing malware

8. 🔭 NASA's planned telescope might pinpoint Earth-like planets

9. 💧 New water batteries remain stable under pressure

10. ⏳ A time crystal endures for an astounding 40 minutes

OTHER NEWS 📰

• 🤩 Vending machines with facial recognition removed at college

• 🏢 White House's coding advice: move on from C/C++

• 🎮 PlayStation cuts 900 jobs and shuts London studio

• ✈️ Myth debunked: Airplane mode not needed on flights

• 📉 EA cuts 670 jobs, phases out licensed IPs

• 📱 Chinese phones dominate African market over Samsung, Apple

• 🔌 Toyota prefers buying credits over investing in EVs

• 🚔 FBI uses push notifications to track sexual predators

• 🕶️ Meta to delete all Oculus accounts end of month

• 🔚 Facebook to discontinue news tab in US, Australia

• 🔒 FBI alerts of Russian & Chinese hackers targeting small office routers

• 💻 Lenovo unveils laptop with transparent screen

• 🦾 Titanium structure 3D printed in Australia boasts unprecedented strength

• ☀️ MIT shares blueprint for perovskite solar cell commercialization

• 💡 Photonic device could mark quantum computing's new age

• 🔍 Using jellyfish protein to enhance fingerprint detection

• 🌊 Stingray-inspired soft robots could aid underwater exploration

• 👅 Artificial tongue designed to combat bacteria

• 📡 Innovative 3D-printed antennas could transform satellite communication

• 🚫 Open-source HDMI 2.1 driver support by AMD declined

TOP REPOSITORIES 🧑‍💻

1. AUTOMATIC1111 / stable-diffusion-webui — Stable Diffusion web UI

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

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

4. taikoxyz / taiko-mono — A based rollup.

5. langchain-ai / langchain — Build context-aware reasoning applications

6. laurent22 / joplin — the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronization capabilities

7. apache / superset — Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

8. Ryujinx / Ryujinx — Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator

9. omnivore-app / omnivore — Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading

10. Stability-AI / stablediffusion — High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

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