iPhone 17 📱, Microsoft return to office 🏢, UUIDv7 👨‍💻

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Listing on the Nasdaq is subject to approvals. 📱 Big Tech & Startups iPhone 17, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and everything else announced at Apple's hardware event (5 minute read) Apple released its iPhone 17 lineup along with updates for the Apple Watch and AirPods at its new hardware event yesterday. The iPhone 17 models have larger screens and an improved camera system compared to the previous generation. The new ultra-thin iPhone Air will replace the Plus model. The iPhone 17 will come in new colors: lavender, mist blue, black, white, and sage. More details about Apple's recent announcements are available in the article. Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference (1 minute read) Nvidia's new Rubin CPX GPU is designed for context windows larger than 1 million tokens. It is optimized to process large sequences of context. Users will get better performance on long-context tasks such as video generation and software development. The Rubin CPX will be available at the end of 2026. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology The FDA approves human trials for pig kidney transplants (2 minute read) Biotech company eGenesis has received FDA approval to begin human trials of pig-to-human kidney transplants. eGenesis provides pigs with CRISPR-modified genes that reduce the chances of organ rejection in human recipients. Only those 50 or older with end-stage kidney disease will be eligible for trials. They'll also need to be dialysis-dependent and on the kidney transplant waitlist. America's First Private Nuclear Fuel Recycling Facility to Open in Tennessee (4 minute read) Oklo Inc. has announced plans to build the first private nuclear fuel recycling facility in the US. Located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the facility will start recycling and producing fuel by the early 2030s if everything proceeds as planned. The company claims it will help unlock the potential of more than 94,000 metric tons of stored used nuclear fuel around the country. The Tennessee Valley Authority is exploring options to deploy small modular reactors near where Oklo's fuel center will be located. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science AI is now a top-down mandate. What does this mean for the future of work? (Sponsor) AI isn't just a future investment or nice-to-have feature anymore. At many companies, it's now part of a top-down directive to increase productivity. Notion asked 1,000 product and engineering leaders how they're integrating AI into their work. The findings reveal three major pain points: incompatible workflows, resource constraints, and data quality issues. Learn what the best teams are doing right, including examples of how OpenAI, dbt Labs, and Pinecone have achieved measurable productivity gains with integrated AI. Read the full report here ↗️ I love UUID, I hate UUID (6 minute read) UUIDv4 is simply a random number in a 122bit spectrum. UUIDv7 uses its first 48 bits for the current time stamp, a few more bits for version and variant, and 74 bits to store a random number. This means that consecutive generations of UUIDv7s will sort one after the other. This solves the index issue and makes it possible to know the insert time of a row from within the primary key, which helps with debugging. How I Made Ruby Faster than Ruby (14 minute read) P2 is a new HTML templating library for Ruby where HTML is expressed using plain Ruby. The templating source code is always compiled into an efficient Ruby code that generates the HTML. The code written inside a P2 template is never actually run, it just serves as a description of what you actually want to do. This post looks at how P2's template generation works. 🎁 Miscellaneous Meta's Elite AI Unit Sparks Tension With Old Guard (7 minute read) Meta is having trouble recruiting and retaining top-tier talent while keeping existing employees satisfied and maintaining harmony across the organization. Some of the company's expensive new recruits have already defected to other labs, and existing employees are fighting for new spots within Meta's restructured AI organization or lobbying for raises. At least one employee with a grant worth millions of dollars left, saying they believed newcomers were still making multiples more. Microsoft sets new RTO policy, requiring employees in the office 3 days per week (2 minute read) Microsoft has revised its return-to-office policy to require employees to work on-site three days per week. The new requirement will begin in February for employees living within 50 miles of the company's Redmond HQ. It will roll out to other US and global locations later. Employees can ask for exceptions through mid-September. Microsoft's Executive Vice President, Amy Coleman, says that the shift is not a headcount-reduction measure. ⚡ Quick Links Craving more AI in your inbox? (Sponsor) TLDR AI is your daily fix of LLMs, GenAI, and deep learning goodness. Same TLDR format. Still free. Subscribe now. Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG (17 minute read) This article explores how to recreate Apple's Liquid Glass effect on the web using CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculators. SpaceX's lesson from last Starship flight? "We need to seal the tiles." (15 minute read) SpaceX's ground team has installed a new experimental material around and under the tiles called 'crunch wrap'. New iPhones use Apple N1 wireless chip—and we'll probably start seeing it everywhere (2 minute read) The Apple N1 chip provides Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support for all of the new iPhones. Robinhood, a Broker Built for Social-Media Age, Will Launch Its Own Social Network (2 minute read) Robinhood is adding a social platform to its mobile app that will allow users to post trades, follow other investors, and track the market moves of public figures. Memes, Media, & The Mind: Why You Want What You Want (3 minute read) Most goals are picked from elsewhere and mistaken for personal destiny. Tesla unveils Megablock and Megapack 3: more power and energy deployed faster (3 minute read) Megapack 3 is the latest generation of Tesla's utility-scale energy storage system, and Megablock integrates Megapack 3 with transformers and switchgear. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/7c97ce4b/ Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. 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