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Facebook and Instagram notices in iOS apps tell users tracking helps keep them ‘free of charge’

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook is continuing its campaign against Apple’s iOS 14 privacy updates, adding a notice within its iOS app telling users the information it collects from other apps and websites can “help keep Facebook free of charge.” A similar message was seen on Instagram’s iOS app (Facebook is Instagram’s parent company).

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A new Spectre vulnerability is costly to patch but nearly impossible to exploit

TechSpot

The three newly discovered vulnerabilities are in the design of the micro-op cache, a feature of modern CPUs present in AMD processors from 2017 onwards and Intel CPUs from 2011 onwards. The micro-op cache improves a processor’s performance by storing low-level instructions that are spawned as the processor breaks complex.

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SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience safely returns four astronauts to Earth

The Verge

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. | Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images. Four astronauts returned from the International Space Station early Sunday morning aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico nearly six months after arriving at the orbital laboratory in November last year as the first operational, long-duration crew under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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In a year of major shifts, the self-driving car market is consolidating

Venture Beast

Toyota and Lyft's $550 million deal shows wealthy companies that can bear delayed return on investment dominate the autonomous vehicle market. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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President of Elon Musk’s Neuralink venture tweets that he’s left the company

The Verge

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Neuralink President Max Hodak tweeted Saturday that he has left the company he co-founded with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk xxx. Hodak didn’t elaborate on why he left the company or elaborate on the circumstance for his departure. “I am no longer at Neuralink (as of a few weeks ago),” he tweeted.

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Taika Waititi Is Blackbeard in HBO Max's Pirate Comedy Our Flag Means Death

Gizmodo

Taika Waititi is jumping in front of the camera for a new role in the HBO Max Pirate comedy, Our Flag Means Death. Written by David Jenkins ( People of Earth ), Garrett Basch ( What We Do in the Shadows ), and Dan Halstead, Waititi will start alongside Rhys Darby and act as executive producer. Read more.

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What is robotic process automation?

Venture Beast

Robotic process automation (RPA) is an exploding software category in the enterprise. Here's what it means and why it matters. Read More.

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Black Panther's Lupita Nyong'o Talks Sequel and Missing Chadwick Boseman

Gizmodo

Ryan Coolger is forging ahead with Black Panther 2. Obviously, he restructured the script because lead actor Chadwick Boseman died last year of colon cancer at the age of 43. Read more.

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Satoshi’s Games launches Elixir Marketplace for NFTs based on Bitcoin rewards

Venture Beast

Satoshi's Games has launching its Elixir Marketplace for NFT item sales based on Bitcoin rewads in its Light Nite game. Read More.

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Acer Chromebook Spin 513 review: a chip off a new block

The Verge

A sleek, but slow, Chromebook The $399.99 Acer Chromebook Spin 513 (currently listed at $349) is one of the very first Snapdragon-powered Chromebooks to hit the market. Specifically, it’s powered by the Snapdragon 7c Compute SC7180, the type of chip you’d generally expect to see in a tablet or phone. Just from seeing that name, some readers can probably predict exactly what this device is going to be: a lightweight, mediocre performer with excellent battery life.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Divided we fall: Why fragmented global privacy regulation won’t work

Venture Beast

The growing patchwork of US state-level privacy laws will inflict significant costs on businesses and the American public. Read More.

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Neuralink President Announces That He’s Left Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Company

Gizmodo

Max Hodak, the president of Neuralink , a company that aims to connect human brains with computers which was cofounded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, has said he left the company a few weeks ago. Hodak did not provide any reason for his departure. Read more.

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Intel will invest $3.5 billion in New Mexico chip factory

Venture Beast

Intel said on Sunday that it will spend $3.5 billion on an upgrade for its factory in New Mexico as part of a plan to expand manufacturing. Read More.

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iFixit drilled a key ring hole into one of Apple’s AirTags in its latest teardown

The Verge

iFixit did a teardown of Apple’s AirTags | iFixit. The team over at iFixit has done its teardown thing again, this time examining Apple’s AirTag trackers. Part one of its two-part review digs into the guts of the little trackers, and for those lamenting the lack of a key ring loop on the AirTag , iFixit (carefully) drilled a hole into one without damaging any of its parts.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Netflix Is Serving Up Girlpower, and Gunpowder Milkshake This Summer

Gizmodo

Netflix has scooped the US distribution rights to Navot Papushado action flix Gunpowder Milkshake. The film will debut on on the streaming service this summer. Read more.

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TechSpot video is coming

TechSpot

After months of hard work we're almost ready to relaunch the TechSpot YouTube channel. We are super excited about this new project. Expect the same kind of unique tech features you find here, brought to video format, aiming to reach a new crowd of tech enthusiasts, power users and PC.

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It's Apparently Possible to Drill a Key Ring Hole Into Apple's AirTags Without Messing Them Up

Gizmodo

One of the first things that jumped out to me when I saw Apple’s long-awaited AirTags was their surface, which reminds me of a giant, polished M&M. Like real M&Ms, AirTags don’t have any holes, which means that you have to buy AirTag accessories to hook the device to your keys or hang it on your purse. However,… Read more.

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Rethinking The Resume: How Marketers Should Market Themselves

Fountainhead

If your resume doesn’t market you well, then expectations of how you’ll do marketing for an employer will be just as low. I’ve interviewed countless marketing (and sales) candidates. And probably reviewed 50x as many resumes. What has struck me is how totally bland and generic 95% of them are. For all the work people put into writing their CVs, it’s confounding how many are downright undifferentiated.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Sin City 30th Anniversay Edition Headed to Bookstores This Fall

Gizmodo

Frank Miller’s black and white crime-noir graphic novel Sin City is turning 30. To honor this milestone, a new edition of the comics is releasing in the fall of 2021. Read more.

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Seattle startup Modica turns shipping containers into software-driven microfactories

GeekWire

Seattle-based Modica builds interconnected systems for micromanufacturing and houses it all in shipping containers. (Modica Image). Watching stacks of shipping containers come and go from Seattle’s waterfront, you might wonder what’s in them, where they came from and where they’re headed. One Seattle startup isn’t filling the brightly colored boxes with merchandise and is instead using containers to house microfactories that can churn out products anywhere in the world.

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Are we seeing the return of the closed-door office? I hope not.

The Verge

An open office, 1960s-style. | Photo: United Artists. So it seems that Google, the exemplar of the open-office concept, is trying now to figure out how to keep its design ideals intact while offering its employees at least some feeling of safety in these 6-foot-apart times. Apparently, these measures may include a number of interesting concepts, such as inflatable walls.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 25, 2021

GeekWire

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 25, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. ‘We are airborne!’ Stratolaunch sends the world’s biggest plane on second test flight.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.