US vs. Chinese Tech
The US is planning more limitations on Chinese technology advancement via executive order. The Biden Administration will limit how Chinese services collect US data and what kinds of technologies can be sold to China. This comes after last month’s CHIPS act, which incentivizes US companies to build chip plants back home. Read more: Semafor Exclusive: Biden will crack down on Chinese tech with a new executive order
Joint Supply Chain Guidance
NSA, CISA, and ODNI have released new software supply chain guidance for developers, including how to develop secure code, how to verify third-party components, harden build environments, and do secure code delivery. Read more: NSA, CISA, ODNI Release Software Supply Chain Guidance for Developers
| Guidance PDF
Tweet Editing
Twitter now has an Edit button, but it’s quite limited. First: you only have 30 minutes to make edits. Second: people will be able to see that it was modified. And third: the history will be visible. People are both arguing it’s not powerful enough, and that it’s too powerful, so it sounds like a decent first attempt. Read more: Farewell, Typos! Twitter Unveils an Edit Button.
Snap Cuts
Snap stock is down 80% for the year and it’s reducing its workforce by 20% and going through another restructuring. It was hard enough fighting Instagram and Facebook, and now TikTok is on the field as well. Read more: Snap Cuts 20% of Employees and Restructures
It’s getting hard to follow all the AI Art stuff, and people are understandably getting burned out on it. We had DALL-E, then Midjourney, and now we have Stable Diffusion. It’s a lot. To me the biggest developments in the last week have been 1) DALL-E’s Outpaining Tool that lets you fill in the stuff around an image. And when I say fill-in, I mean completely make up. Then 2) this Stable Diffusion demo showing integration with Photoshop. Truly scary in the exciting way.
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Midjourney Wins Art Competition
Someone entered a piece of AI-generated art into a state fair competition and won first prize. People aren’t happy, but I think the problem is one of definitions and rules. Competitions will soon have to be explicit about help from others, and help from AI. Read more: An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
TL;DR — Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated piece and won the first prize.
Yeah that’s pretty fucking shitty. pic.twitter.com/vjn1IdJcsL
— Genel Jumalon ✈️ ARTapalooza Cedar Falls (@GenelJumalon) August 30, 2022
USB 4 Version 2
The new version of the USB protocol now allows up to 80GB/sec in transfer speed, which is twice that of Thunderbolt 4. And you can get to 40GB/sec using the USB cables you already have. Read more: USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth
The JWST has confirmed carbon dioxide on an exoplanet called WASP-39b.
The planet is around 700 light-years away, and is something of a “hot Jupiter”, being larger than Jupiter but closer to its star than Mercury. Read more: Webb Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on a Distant Exoplanet
The new telescope also captured the first direct image of a planet outside the solar system.
The planet is called HIP 65426 b, and it has between 6 and 12 times the mass of Jupiter, and it sits around 100 times further from its sun than we are from ours, which is how we’re able to see it. Read more: James Webb Telescope Captures its First Photo of a Distant Planet
New research shows that around half of cancer deaths, across 200 countries, are preventable, with the primary causes being smoking, alcohol, and obesity.
This is a stunning statistic, and reminds me of the fact that over half of American gun deaths are suicides. Read more: Almost half of cancer deaths are preventable
US life expectancy dropped again, with Covid being the primary cause.
Somewhat related, I was alarmed to see that the average life expectancy for Asian Americans was 83 years while it’s 70 years for Black Americans—a stunning 13-year difference. Read more: Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19
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