75+ Handpicked Programming Articles Across Medium (April-June 2023)
Better Programming Issue #93Welcome to the latest issue of Coffee Bytes, a newsletter featuring a diverse set of programming stories across Medium to help you get inspired and code throughout this week.This edition spans from Mojo, the buzzing new programming language that seemingly everyone is talking about, to the latest goodies announced
Read moreOpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control
OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to develop ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems. In a blog post published today, Sutskever and Jan Leike, a lead on the alignment team at OpenAI, predict that AI
Read moreAstra establishes subsidiary for spacecraft engine business
Astra is carving out its spacecraft engine business as a wholly owned subsidiary, a corporate restructuring that will provide greater flexibility in hiring and financing, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch and a person familiar with the matter. The new subsidiary, Astra Spacecraft Engines, Inc., was incorporated in Delaware on
Read moreJudge silences White House social media talks in lawsuit that departs from reality
Over the July 4 holiday, it emerged that a judge in Louisiana had issued an injunction preventing the White House from speaking to social media companies in certain ways. The lawsuit this decision is part of, it must be said, is quite mad. Robert F. Kennedy Jr swallowed the Twitter
Read moreGfycat, the Snap-owned GIF hub, shuts down on September 1
Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, announced that it’s shutting down on September 1, pulling its full archive of GIFs offline. Users have two months to save content before it leaves the platform forever. “The Gfycat service is being discontinued,” a message on the website writes. “Please save or delete your
Read moreBill C-18: Government of Canada to suspend advertising on Facebook and Instagram
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced in a press conference today that the federal government will be suspending advertising on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram as a response to Meta’s decision to block news content following the passing of Bill C-18. Rodriguez referred to Facebook’s decision to end news content in Canada
Read moreAnnouncing the SaaS Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become something akin to the default model for software distribution. But it’s more than a business model. It’s also a way of developing and managing software throughout its life cycle — and that means its underpinnings are forever changing. We decided to host a special SaaS Stage
Read moreCollision roundup: AI, passwords, panels and more
The annual Collision conference, says its website, “brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry.” This year’s event attracted more than 36,000 attendees from 118 countries, with 1,727 startups and partners from 76 countries exhibiting. Industry giants like AWS, Stripe, Google DeepMind, GitHub and Shopify turned up
Read moreBillionaire brawl: all the latest on the cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge; Photos by Nathan Laine and Kevin Dietsch via Getty The two social media CEOs have agreed to duke it out in a cage match. Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are going to have a cage match, or at
Read moreHow Observability Changed My (developer) Life
Photo by Ben Blennerhassett on UnsplashRecently I was thinking what was the single most important thing that changed my point of view on programming other than switching from PHP to Kotlin, and that thing is observability. I’ll try to share my journey with the concept and provide some experiences and recommendations
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