"If you look at how teens spend their time on Instagram, they spend more time in DMs than they do in stories, and they spend more time in stories than they do in feed" […] Given this changing behavior, […] the platform has shifted its resources to messaging tools.
Tech: Better hand prosthetics? TSMC going for 2nm chips. 1972 dynabook - tablets, 50 years ago. 20MP camera roll - digital. Hyperpersonalization of everything. 40 companies beating the west. Nadella on Copilot - gamechanger.
Society: Pots of gold - rare plants. 1980 welsh punk scene. Libraries with individual bookshelves. US take on EU AI regulation. Is a cruising ship cheaper than a retirement home? AI and scientific publishing. “Letter to my 15-yo daughter” - about attention manipulation. Nobel take - gender differences in the labour market [PDF]. GenZ and aesthetic of inconvenience. Scorsese: I don’t know who I am yet.
Security: X/Twitter and disinformation. AcrobatReader CVE / vulnerability. Copilot exposing sensitive data? FBI warns about USB “charging points”. Ukraine creative soldiers. Finland undersea cable just damaged, a Geneva Code of cyber-war, how do cyber-attackers come in.
AI: Microsoft going for a AI bounty hunting programme. Copilot gets over 100m ARR. Artists poisoning their art to fight scrapers. Mistral-7B-OpenOrca — first 7B model to beat all other <30B models. US/CN diplomacy on AI.
DIY: PoC||GTFO - looking for new releases ;).
“The poor energy efficiency of much of the world’s housing stock presents a significant challenge for the net zero ambitions of many countries. [Worth exploring] the barriers to climate action in England implied by conservation areas, where simple retrofitting measures such as double glazing or the installation of solar photovoltaic panels require approval, a potentially lengthy and often expensive process. The desire to maintain an “appealing character” in these areas could come at a cost of 3 to 4 million tonnes of avoidable CO2 emissions per year.” - The environmental burden of aesthetic norms.
