TLDR 2023-11-16

If compliance matters to your organization, it can’t be an afterthought. Developers shouldn’t be scrambling to collect evidence and generate reports before an audit. What’s the alternative?

The best organizations partner with Drata to automate their compliance journey from start to finish. “The promise of automation has long been discussed in the compliance world, but never truly realized. Drata has turned it into reality.” — Jonathan Jaffe, CISO, Lemonade.

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Microsoft built its own custom AI chip for training large language models. It has also developed Arm-based CPU for cloud workloads. Both chips will arrive in 2024. They could potentially lessen the industry’s reliance on Nvidia. Microsoft is already designing the second-generation versions of these chips. More details about the new chips are available in the article.

Google is experimenting with a way for users to create and read Notes that contain tips from other people when searching for an article or topic. The feature is a response to the popularity of people adding ‘Reddit’ to their search queries for more human results. Users can like, share, save, or report Notes. More details about Notes and other new features Google recently added to Search are available in the article.

Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000-kilometer-long internet network linking Beijing to the south. The firms claim it is the world's first network to achieve a stable and reliable bandwidth of 1.2 terabits per second. The network uses domestically-owned key technologies.

A single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment has been shown to reduce cholesterol in people with an inherited condition that causes extremely high LDL cholesterol levels. The treatment uses CRISPR to edit a gene in the liver. Gene editing could provide a longer-lasting option for treating hereditary high cholesterol compared to long-term medication. A lot of work still needs to be done to ensure that the treatment is safe.

Walk through some crucial tips and tricks to help you securely embrace AI technology and get some tips for protecting against AI-generated code risks such as prompt injection and data access.

MonkeyPatch is a method for easily calling an LLM in place of the function body in Python. It produces the same parameters and output you would expect from a function implemented by hand. MonkeyPatch produces functions that are well-typed, reliable, stateless, and production-ready.

The future of cloud data services is large-scale and multi-tenant. This article looks at real-world serverless multi-tenant (MT) data architectures to understand how different types of systems implement serverless MT. While some patterns immediately jump out, there is a surprising amount of diversity among the systems surveyed. The article covers what serverless MT is and the generic challenges in building these systems.

Amazon employees risk undermining their own promotion prospects if they don’t return to the office for three days a week. Corporate workers must get VP-level approval if they aren’t able to come into the office. Amazon had issued a return-to-office mandate in May. Around 10% of its employees protested the mandate, including those that joined the company during the pandemic as remote workers.

GPTs allows ChatGPT Plus users to create their own custom GPT chat bots that other Plus subscribers can then talk to. While it might not seem like much more than a fancy wrapper for standard GPT-4 with some pre-baked prompts, GPTs combines many features to provide much more than that. This article discusses these features and shows users how to get the most out of OpenAI’s latest feature.

The highest tier of search revenue share for cooperative Android OEMs is 12%.

SpaceX is considering launching an initial public offering as soon as late 2024.

Most people who use VBA do so because they have no other choice - many organizations run their entire business processes with Excel, which requires VBA to automate.

Consider moving if conditions inside functions to the caller instead, and if you have a whole batch of things to work with, you can amortize the startup cost and be flexible about the order things are processed.

Users wanting to sign up for a new ChatGPT subscription will now have to sign up for a waitlist to be notified when subscriptions reopen.

Loop provides flexible and collaborative workspaces and pages that make it easier for users to cooperate on work.