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Fun Fact 🤯
Did you know that The Firefox logo isn’t a fox?
There is a common misbelief that because the browser is named Firefox, the logo must be a fox.
Surprisingly, the cute furry creature in the logo is actually a red panda!
Tech News 📰
Apple bans employees from using ChatGPT
Apple has joined other companies in banning the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT and similar AI services to protect data confidentiality, amid concerns about potential data exposure and breaches of heavily regulated information.
Air Chat: Naval Ravikant’s new company
Social media isn’t social - it’s performative. Where’s the chitchat, the banter, the easy laughter? We made something new. Push-to-talk, whenever you want. With perfect transcripts and AI art. A dinner party in your pocket. Never feel alone again. Checkout their Twitter for more.
Meta fined €1.2bn for mishandling data
Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined €1.2bn by Ireland's Data Protection Commission for mishandling EU user data transferred to the US, the largest fine under GDPR. Meta plans to appeal the ruling.
Cash App founder Bob Lee murder suspect pleads not guilty
Tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco. Prosecutors claim the murder was premeditated, but Momeni's defense suggests self-defense.
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to help Nasa return to Moon
NASA has awarded a contract to Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, alongside Elon Musk's SpaceX, to build a lunar landing craft for the Artemis mission to return astronauts to the Moon by 2025.
Reads and Resources 📚
Programming Languages NOT To Learn In 2023!
Imaad advises new programmers to prioritize learning languages like Python and JavaScript over C#, Java, C++, PHP, Swift, and Kotlin, considering their ease of use, setup time, and current demand.
10 GitHub Repos To Make You a Better Developer
These are top 10 GitHub repositories offering resources like inspiring lists, interview prep, self-taught CS education, command line skills, JavaScript snippets, free coding curriculum, JavaScript books, algorithms, free programming books, and system design.
Full-Stack Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Course – Code a Quote Generator
Learn how to use Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Amplify to build a full stack inspirational quote generator app. You'll learn to use the ZenQuotes' API for fetching quotes and then you'll deep into state management, hooks, debugging, NoSQL database modeling, and much more.
Inventor Herr Whitman created a robot that could make human movements, speak, sing and even whistle.
Whitman himself said “I hold the world in my palm: I could be the Emperor of the universe! I invented an artificial man who can make all other people become my slaves ! Robot is not afraid of bullets and shells ! They can replace slaves in factories and ships and I will buy the whole planet !" At that time, its creator was considered a genius and crazy. What happened to the robot Barbarossa in the future, the story is silent.
GitHub repositories to check out 📈
Awesome ChatGPT Prompts: This is a collection of prompt examples to be used with the ChatGPT model.
The Algorithms-Rust: All algorithms implemented in Rust - for education
Sniffnet: Application to comfortably monitor your Internet traffic
Multithreaded, cross-platform, reliable.
Get Hooked: Podcast of the Week!
Welcome to "Get Hooked," where we share our top podcast of the week for you to listen to. Enjoy (:
About the podcast:
Chamath, Jason, Sacks, and Friedberg cover all things economic, tech, political, social and poker. In this episode they talk about Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more.
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