TLDR 2025-01-07

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Nvidia announced a personal AI supercomputer called Digits at CES. It can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. Similar in form to a Mac Mini, Digits has a starting price of $3,000. Each system comes equipped with 128GB of unified, coherent memory. Two systems can be linked together to handle models with up to 405 billion parameters.

CES 2025 is currently being held in Las Vegas. This page contains live updates from the annual consumer tech conference. AI will likely be the focal point of most companies' presentations - AI-powered devices are expected to be covered extensively through the event. Robotics and transportation are also core topics at CES.

The LG UltraGear GX9 45GX990A is a bendable gaming monitor with an ultra-high 5K2K resolution that can accurately depict rich blacks, vibrant colors, and dynamic brightness levels with pinpoint accuracy. It can curve its 45-inch body to 900R curvature, providing a level of immersion that is rarely offered by more conventional monitors. The screen has the performance specs to back up its stylish looks. LG has not released the price or commercial release date for the screen.

Ocean exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the sea floor at depths of up to 200 meters. It is currently developing and testing a small modular habitat called Vanguard that is capable of housing up to three divers for up to a week or so. Vanguard is a steppingstone to a more permanent modular habitat system called Sentinel set to launch in 2027. Deep is aiming for a permanent human presence in the ocean by 2030. Its plans are possible thanks to an advanced 3D printing-welding approach that can print these large habitation structures.

This post contains a summary of a developer's personal experiences using generative models while programming over the last year. The developer currently uses large language models regularly while programming and considers their benefits a net-positive on their productivity. They discovered some often-repeated steps that can be automated and are currently working with a team to build them into a tool specifically for Go programming.

Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. It contains many modern opt-in features that can improve the terminal experience. This article provides a review of Ghostty from a user's point of view. Overall, Ghostty improved the reviewer's setup - while setup took some time, it wasn't a big deal.

Searching for Google on Bing (without signing in) takes users to a page that looks a lot like Google. It's a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query. Other search results return without the special interface. Bing still surfaces search results for Google underneath the spoofed Google UI. Microsoft has used similar tactics over the years to convince people to switch to its products.

Dell is rebranding its laptop and desktop lines for 2025. It has just dropped its longtime model names for more simplified nomenclature. Dell's laptop and PC series will now be simply labeled as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, with base, Plus, and Premium versions of each. The Dell, Dell Plus, and Dell Premium series will be the models previously labeled as either Inspiron or XPS, the Dell Pro series replaces the Latitude line, and the Dell Pro Max will replace the Precision workstation line.

RAG is more than simple text retrieval. Learn about the 5 layers of RAG architecture, model evaluation, data management, and more. Read the guide by Elastic

We produce far more materials than we did in the past, yet prices have barely changed, which suggests that we're not close to running out of these materials any time soon.

Uber and Lyft are preparing to bring driverless taxis to several cities in the US this year.

Meta has added UFC CEO Dana White, investor and former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and CEO of Exor NV John Elkann to its board.

Apple made the holy grail of remotely attested trusted compute, but its AI is much worse than integrations made with Ollama on the same device, which would be just as private.

People who like to learn and grow will change their roles many times throughout their lifetimes.

The person was over 65 and reportedly had underlying medical conditions - they were hospitalized with the flu after exposure to a backyard flock of birds and wild birds.