TikTok ban, 100Mbps minimum, and EU AI Act

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Weekly issue #14

MY PICKS 👇️

1. TikTok ban 📵 — The United States house passed the bill to ban TikTok or force sell from ByteDance. The Senate will decide next.

2. 100Mbps minimum 📶 — The FCC officially raises minimum broadband metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps

3. Artificial Intelligence Act ⚖️ — The EU Parliament approved the AI Act: “world's first binding law on artificial intelligence”.

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HIGHLIGHTS 🔍️

1. 💼 Tech layoffs peak since dot-com crash, leaving many in despair

2. 🏠 Airbnb prohibits indoor security cameras in properties

3. ⚠️ Tesla knew of gear-shifting issue prior to fatal accident

4. 🏎️ PS5 Pro: Rumored 2024 release at triple the speed

5. 😢 Boeing whistleblower dies by suicide in the US

6. 🚁 US Army officer warns of drone surveillance in future warfare

7. 🤏 Wearable sticker tracks subtle finger movements

8. 🏥 First 3D-printed windpipe successfully implanted in patient

9. 💔 US Billionaire drowns in Tesla due to tough safety glass

10. 🐾 New injectable microchip to monitor animal health

OTHER NEWS 📰

• 🛰️ Voyager 1 transmissions make sense after confusion

• 💬 Reddit ads mimic user posts perfectly

• ⛵ 'WindWing' sails reduce ship's fuel use by 12 tons daily

• 🚗 Electric vehicle prices drop faster than gasoline vehicles, study shows

• 🥩 US States consider bans on synthetic meat products

• 🦠 AI helps mathematicians spot new COVID-19 variants

• 💧 'Drinking bird' figurines revamped for water-based clean energy

• 🔮 Wi-Fi disappears in Google's new office design

• 💡 Korean AI chip beats Nvidia in energy efficiency

• 🤖 Humanoid robot armies available for purchase

• 🐛 Google paid out $10M in bug bounties in record-setting year

• 🛸 Active shielding for spacecraft closer to reality

• 🕵️ Insurers secretly track driving data via connected vehicles

• 🔋 Giant sand battery provides a week's heat for town

• 👂 'Hearing Aid Mode' coming to AirPods Pro with iOS 18

• ♻️ Metal waste recycled using beer byproduct

• ⚡ Fast EV charging achieved wirelessly at 100 kW in 20 minutes

• 🧲 New method sticks materials with electricity

• 🖥️ 4 trillion transistor AI chip to revolutionize supercomputing

• 💎 Diamonds engineered to conduct electricity using graphene

• 🧠 Intel outlines 'AI PC' as devices with their latest processors

• 🏭 Intel CFO acknowledges need to reduce reliance on outsourced chip production

• 🔌 Seasonic introduces 600W power cable upgrade for next-gen GPUs

TOP REPOSITORIES 🧑‍💻

1. openai / whisper — Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

2. KRTirtho / spotube — 🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron!

3. electron / electron — Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

4. yt-dlp / yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

5. hyprwm / Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

6. slint-ui / slint — Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

7. microsoft / qlib — Qlib is an AI-oriented quantitative investment platform that aims to realize the potential, empower research, and create value using AI technologies in quantitative investment.

8. PaperMC / Paper — The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server

9. microsoft / Web-Dev-For-Beginners — 24 Lessons, 12 Weeks, Get Started as a Web Developer

10. coqui-ai / TTS — a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production

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