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DeepSeek has everyone freaking out; we'll look at what's legitimately fascinating, what bits have been an overreaction, and the big mistake that made this all possible. Plus, there's some bad news for Java fans. Sponsored By: Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin sent directly to your wallet is the safest way to buy Bitcoin. Immediate settlement, direct to self-custody. Supports the Lightning Network. Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — The fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. With self-custody built in. 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 Report: 88% of companies are contemplating leaving Oracle Java — 72% of respondents were already thinking about it when surveyed in 2023. State of Java 2025 - Azul Report — Insights from over 2,000 Java users across six continents to reveal 2025 Java trends that are shaping key areas of enterprise technology. Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest drop ever — The sell-off, which hit much of the U.S. tech sector, was sparked by concerns about increased competition from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek. DeepSeek’s AI Model Tests Limits of US Curbs on Nvidia Chips DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report — We present DeepSeek-V3, a strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters with 37B activated for each token. To achieve efficient inference and cost-effective training, DeepSeek-V3 adopts Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and DeepSeekMoE architectures, which were thoroughly validated in DeepSeek-V2. Furthermore, DeepSeek-V3 pioneers an auxiliary-loss-free strategy for load balancing and sets a multi-token prediction training objective for stronger performance. We pre-train DeepSeek-V3 on 14.8 trillion diverse and high-quality tokens, followed by Supervised Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning stages to fully harness its capabilities. Comprehensive evaluations reveal that DeepSeek-V3 outperforms other open-source models and achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models. Despite its excellent performance, DeepSeek-V3 requires only 2.788M H800 GPU hours for its full training. In addition, its training process is remarkably stable. Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China — Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny. DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrations — DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services. Satya Nadella on X — Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of. Jevons paradox - Wikipedia Sam Altman on X — deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases. Biden Got Freaked Out About AI and National Security After Watching the Newest 'Mission: Impossible' Movie — Speaking to The Associated Press, deputy White House chief of staff Bruce Reed recalled that while Biden has grown concerned over the use of AI to generate fake images of himself or clone a user's voice, it was a screening of "Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One" at Camp David that particularly alarmed the president.

We dig into the Rails 8 Solid Trifecta, our thoughts on why fewer developers are taking jobs at startups, and a new buzzphrase: Framework Fatigue. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin sent directly to your wallet is the safest way to buy Bitcoin. Immediate settlement, direct to self-custody. Supports the Lightning Network. Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — The fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. With self-custody built in. 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost its Faith — I believe we're entering what might be called a "Startup Winter" - not because startups have stopped being created, but because the mythology around them has frozen over. Introducing the Solid Trifecta | Rails 8 Unpacked - YouTube — The Solid Trifecta is a set of database adapters in Rails 8 that simplifies app development by replacing traditional RAM-based solutions like Redis with efficient, cost-effective database-backed tools. Solid Cable handles WebSocket messages, Solid Cache powers caching, and Solid Queue manages job queues, all using databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. Framework Fatigue: The Real Reason Developers Get Angry About New Tech — As a developer trying to keep up with the latest tech, you find yourself in a familiar loop: check the landing page, watch the demo, star the GitHub repo “just in case,” and move on with your life. There’s only so much mental bandwidth to go around.

The CEO who bet on SwiftUI—and lost their job. Then poke some fun at Rust stans, SalesForce claims they're not hiring any developers in 2025, and more! Sponsored By: Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin sent directly to your wallet is the safest way to buy Bitcoin. Immediate settlement, direct to self-custody. Supports the Lightning Network. Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — The fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. With self-custody built in. 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 Sonos CEO steps down after app upgrade debacle — On its fiscal 2024 earnings call, Spence shared news that annual revenue had gone backwards by four percent, and admitted one reason for that result was “we mishandled the rollout of our new app.” Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025 — “30% Productivity Boost” from AI Massive Memory Leaks in System76's Cosmic Desktop (Written in "Memory Safe" Rust) - YouTube — Plus: Hyprland developer weighs in, "No, I don't think it's beta ready :P" Reference Cycles Can Leak Memory - The Rust Programming Language — Rust’s memory safety guarantees make it difficult, but not impossible, to accidentally create memory that is never cleaned up (known as a memory leak). Preventing memory leaks entirely is not one of Rust’s guarantees, meaning memory leaks are memory safe in Rust. Handling memory leaks in Rust - LogRocket Blog — Once in a while, you may experience memory leaks in your Rust projects due to many factors, from unsafe code to shared references, etc. Ideally, you’ll want to fix these memory leaks and ensure your programs are efficient, which may lead to performance gains and resource safety. Memory leaks are memory safe, and there isn't much to do about it | /home/Samsai — Despite their potential for destruction, Rust considers memory leaks "memory safe" and thus doesn't aim to prevent them. Rust's design, however, makes it less easy to create memory leaks, since it uses a Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) pattern to abstract resource allocation and deallocation. Google Donates $1 Million to Donald Trump's Inaugural Fund — The total inauguration fund for the returning US president has already reached a record $170 billion, according to an ABC report.

CES 2025 Secrets Revealed: A developer’s dream or just more hype? Plus, NVIDIA flexes its AI muscles, and we're admittedly impressed. Then, our thoughts on Dell's historic rebrand. Sponsored By: Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin sent directly to your wallet is the safest way to buy Bitcoin. Immediate settlement, direct to self-custody. Supports the Lightning Network. Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — The fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, with self-custody built in. 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 ChatGPT Pro plan is making OpenAI lose money, CEO says — “I personally chose the price…and thought we would make some money,” OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says — OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI agents are ‘a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity’ and ‘the age of AI Agentics is here’ — “The age of AI Agentics is here,” Huang told the crowd, describing a shift from generative AI to agentic AI—a future driven by intelligent AI agents capable of assisting with tasks across industries. Huang called this emerging sector "a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity," positioning Nvidia at the forefront of the movement. Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs — Four new RTX 50-series GPUs are on the way, including the $1,999 RTX 5090 and $999 RTX 5080. Nvidia’s AI NPCs are no longer chatbots — they’re your new PUBG teammate — Nvidia says that ACE characters can use AI to “perceive, plan, and act like human players,” per a blog post. “Powered by generative AI, ACE will enable living, dynamic game worlds with companions that comprehend and support player goals, and enemies that adapt dynamically to player tactics.” The characters are powered by “small language models (SLMs)” that are “capable of planning at human-like frequencies required for realistic decision making” as well as “multi-modal SLMs for vision and audio that allow AI characters to hear audio cues and perceive their environment.” Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits — This desktop-sized system can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. The World’s Smallest AI Supercomputer — A Grace Blackwell AI Supercomputer on your desk. NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips — Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS Dell mocked at its own press launch for copying Apple's names — Now, most of the company’s new PCs will be divided into three tiers: Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max Apple Intelligence summaries might get warning labels. That’s not enough. — The BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple Nvidia’s stock heads for worst drop in months as CES speech lacked one big thing — We believe many investors were hoping for more concrete progress updates on the ramp of Blackwell and some input as to the company’s progress with its next-generation GPU platform, Rubin,” Benchmark Research analyst Cody Acree wrote in a note to clients.

Some debates never die, and this week, we’re reigniting one of our spiciest from the archives. Plus, our boldest 2025 predictions yet. Sponsored By: Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin sent directly to your wallet is the safest way to buy Bitcoin. Immediate settlement, direct to self-custody. Supports the Lightning Network. Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — The fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, with self-custody built in. 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 Nvidia's next move: Powering humanoid robots — The chipmaking giant Nvidia is leaning more heavily into robotics in 2025. More specifically, in the first half of the new year, confirms the Financial Times, Nvidia is launching a new generation of compact computers for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor. H1B Visa Salary Database 2024 — Search By Employer, Job, or City. Performance Data — As part of the U.S. Department of Labor's commitment to supporting the goals of an open and transparent government, this page provides easy access to employment-based immigration data organized in three main categories The H-1B Visa, Explained Musk vs. MAGA on H1-B visas - YouTube — CNBC’s Megan Cassella joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss Musk going against MAGA on H1-B visas. Ethan Evans on X — There are three simple economic arguments for increasing legal immigration by highly educated workers Mitchell Hashimoto on X — "r/linux": arguments about what "native" means, angry they have to click one link to learn what it is, disappointed that another terminal exists, 50-comment discussion about GTK vs QT Broken Money — Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better.

We’re taking a victory lap down memory lane. From spooky-accurate predictions to "did we really say that?" moments, this one’s for the history books. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Mission Control: UK-based Mission Control can build Flutter and React Apps for companies big and small, including Fortune 500 companies or startups getting their first project off the ground. Reach out and tell them Coder sent you! Promo Code: Tell them Coder Radio Sent You! Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 Coder Radio 439: Github NoPilot — Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature. Coder Radio 421: Misdirected Request — Has Google already started its decline? Our surprising take. Plus the trouble with Co-Pilot, and a lot more. Coder Radio 472: Drunken Copilot — Mike just signed up for a year of GitHub Copilot and Chris tries to understand why. Then we catch each other up on some recent surprises. Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far — A new survey by tech trade-in site SellCell found that AI is an important factor when choosing a new smartphone. markitdown — Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

Sam's Checkmate: How Open Source AI and Silicon Valley Kingmakers dethroned the OpenAI emperor! Plus, Tesla's API Apocalypse has arrived. Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost with Fountain.FM and kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution! 🚀 Tesla Is Screwing Over Dozens Of App Developers — Tesla is preparing to begin charging software developers to access the Application Programming Interface for its cars—something used by just about every third-party dev that builds software that integrates with Tesla's vehicles. Donald Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar — Intelligence and Cryptocurrency, two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness. David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas,” E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more - YouTube OpenAI launches a new $200 monthly subscription and an updated model — The company is also introducing ChatGPT Pro, a new $200 monthly subscription tier that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. It also includes a version of o1, exclusive to Pro users, that uses more compute to provide the best possible answer to the hardest problems (called o1 pro mode). Introducing ChatGPT Pro — ChatGPT Pro provides a way for researchers, engineers, and other individuals who use research-grade intelligence daily to accelerate their productivity and be at the cutting edge of advancements in AI. OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive — OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising to its artificial intelligence products, as the ChatGPT maker seeks new revenue sources as it restructures as a for-profit company. AI startups snatch San Francisco offices, use Zoom fatigue to recruit — “In-person teams have a magic to them,” Tratar said. “When one thing is going well it adds energy to the system and people get excited.”

GitHub has done the research, brought the receipts, and knows just what to do to get more developers into the flow state. Is it legit or hype? We’ll dig in. Plus, making the case that Rails is better low code than low code, and we help someone go from Pizza to Rust. Sponsored By: Coder QA: 30% off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: blackfriday Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy Bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Advent of Code 2024 — Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. Jupiter.Party Network Membership — Use Promo code: blackfriday Stack 30% off ontop of one-month free! The ultimate guide to developer happiness — Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness—and a more innovative workplace. Rails is better low code than low code — Both arcs unfold before me in parallel … rust-query: Type safe query builder for rust — The goal of this library is to allow writing relational database queries using familiar Rust syntax. The library should guarantee that a query can not fail if it compiles. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires — Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company’s board of directors.

A survey found that nearly 10% of developers are ghosts doing nothing - our thoughts on that, AI Big Brother as a service comes to the workplace, OpenAI's NYT standoff, and Google's growing problem. Sponsored By: Mission Control: UK-based Mission Control can build Flutter and React Apps for companies big and small, including Fortune 500 companies or startups getting their first project off the ground. Reach out and tell them Coder sent you! Promo Code: Tell them Coder Radio Sent You! Coder QA: 30% off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: blackfriday Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Jupiter.Party Network Membership Black Friday Link — Support all the shows and get all the special features annually. Get one month for free, and stack the Black Friday deal on top of that. Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 — Newly expanded financial aid will cover tuition costs for admitted students from 80 percent of U.S. families. 9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers — We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies. DOJ wraps up ad tech trial: Google is “three times” a monopolist — "Google is once, twice, three times a monopolist," Teitelbaum said, while reinforcing that "these are the markets that make the free and open Internet possible." DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly — The filing includes a broad range of requirements the DOJ hopes the court will impose on Google — from restricting the company from entering certain kinds of agreements to more broadly breaking the company up. The DOJ’s latest proposal doubles down on its request to spin out Google’s Chrome browser, which the government views as a key access point for searching the web. DOJ’s staggering proposal would hurt consumers and America’s global technological leadership — As just one example, DOJ’s proposal would literally require us to install not one but two separate choice screens before you could access Google Search on a Pixel phone you bought. And the design of those choice screens would have to be approved by the Technical Committee. And that’s just a small part of it. We wish we were making this up. Niantic quietly using Pokemon Go player data to train AI map models — The model uses geolocation information from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing Pokémon Go. Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence – Niantic Labs — This scanning feature is completely optional – people have to visit a specific publicly-accessible location and click to scan. This allows Niantic to deliver new types of AR experiences for people to enjoy. Merely walking around playing our games does not train an AI model. Employee monitoring software has gone off the deep end with AI — Had the pleasure of sitting through a sales pitch for a pretty big "productivity monitoring" software suite this morning. OpenAI accidentally erases potential evidence in training data lawsuit — While OpenAI’s lawyers characterized the data erasure as a “glitch,” The New York Times’ attorneys noted they had “no reason to believe” it was intentional. Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival — The new funding brings the tech giant’s total investment to $8 billion, though Amazon will retain its position as a minority investor. AI’s Future and Nvidia’s Fortunes Ride on the Race to Pack More Chips Into One Place — Musk’s xAI and Meta are among firms building clusters of advanced chips Cold reading an ADHD affliction — You don't need a diagnosis to be a flawed human. It goes for all of us. So if you want to supercharge your morning's productivity routine by popping a pill or two of amphetamines, own it! Mike Launched a blog for Alice!

We react to Microsoft's new vision for the desktop PC, discuss the realities of working with large dependency chains in your projects, and discuss Google selling off Chrome. Then, we read some spicy tech CEO emails! Sponsored By: Mission Control: UK-based Mission Control can build Flutter and React Apps for companies big and small, including Fortune 500 companies or startups getting their first project off the ground. Reach out and tell them Coder sent you! Promo Code: Tell them Coder Radio Sent You! Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Chained to Complexity: Python Dependency Management — Dependency management in software development is often akin to playing an elaborate game of Jenga where everyone involved is on their third IPA: every block you move introduces the risk of toppling the tower which is becoming more wobbly over time. Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud — Microsoft has created its own purpose-built device for the cloud-based version of Windows. Windows comes to the Meta Quest — “Full capabilities,” in this context, means that you’ll be able to access a local Windows PC or cloud instance of Windows (via Windows 365) from a Quest headset. Microsoft says it only takes “seconds” to connect, and likens the experience to a “private, high-quality, large, multi-monitor workstation.” We’ll be the judge of that. Microsoft’s new Windows Resiliency Initiative aims to avoid another CrowdStrike incident — Microsoft is working on a new framework to move Windows security vendors out of the kernel for antivirus scanning. US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android — Bloomberg reports that DOJ lawyers will try to break up Google’s search monopoly by targeting Chrome, Android, and AI Overviews. DOJ to seek Chrome sale - YouTube Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI — Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.

Python's eating the world - and AI's helping it digest. A cheeky look at why this programming language is suddenly everywhere and the bizarre tale of how AI infiltrated the last place you'd expect. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Annual Membership - Jupiter Party: Put your support on auto-pilot and get one month for free! Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains — AMD now accounts for 25 percent of all x86 processor shipments, but only made a slight increase in the past quarter against industry leader Intel in servers – the main gains came from the desktop market. Intel exec says Arrow Lake launch ‘just didn’t go as planned' — Intel’s Arrow Lake chips’ “bones are solid,” Hallock said during the interview. Still, the company has identified factors “that can combine to produce some pretty wild unintended effects.” Hallock was also clear that the new Arrow Lake performance issues are strictly Intel’s responsibility, and not the fault of Microsoft or anyone else. Announcing .NET 9 — Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. It’s the result of another year of effort on the part of thousands of developers from around the world. Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges - The GitHub Blog — In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size. TensorFlow — TensorFlow makes it easy to create ML models that can run in any environment. Learn how to use the intuitive APIs through interactive code samples. NumPy - — The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python pandas - Python Data Analysis Library — pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool, built on top of the Python programming language. PyTorch — A rich ecosystem of tools and libraries extends PyTorch and supports development in computer vision, NLP and more. I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me — We didn’t call it AI at first. The first thing that happened was these new innovations just crept into our electronic medical record system. They were tools that monitored whether specific steps in patient treatment were being followed. If something was missed or hadn’t been done, the AI would send an alert. It was very primitive, and it was there to stop patients falling through the cracks. Text Editor Election Results

Malicious NPM packages are sneaking into codebases while FFmpeg devs prove old-school assembly skills can still smoke the competition. Plus, a rare bee species takes on Zuck's AI dreams. Sponsored By: Annual Membership - Jupiter Party: Put your support on auto-pilot and get one month for free! Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Oops, Apple approved another illegal streaming app — A ‘productivity app’ that streams pirated movies seems to have slipped past Apple’s review process — and it’s far from the first one to do it. Why Avoiding Technical Debt Might Be Your Biggest Mistake — In this post, I’ll argue that technical debt isn’t inherently bad — it’s unmanaged technical debt that causes problems. Programmers who refuse to incur any technical debt pay a high price, using up one of a company’s most valuable resources: present time! Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines — The malicious packages have names that are similar to legitimate ones for the Puppeteer and Bignum.js code libraries FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code — The developers have created an optimized code path using the AVX-512 instruction set to accelerate specific functions within the FFmpeg multimedia processing library. By leveraging AVX-512, they were able to achieve significant performance improvements — from three to 94 times faster — compared to standard implementations. AVX-512 enables processing large chunks of data in parallel using 512-bit registers, which can handle up to 16 single-precision FLOPS or 8 double-precision FLOPS in one operation. This optimization is ideal for compute-heavy tasks in general, but in the case of video and image processing in particular. Regulators reject power deal for nuclear Amazon datacenters — Amazon has hit a roadblock in its plans for nuclear-powered US datacenters. Federal regulators rejected a deal that would let it draw more power from a Susquehanna plant to supply new bit barns next to the site, on the grounds this would set a precedent which may affect grid reliability and increase energy costs. Meta’s nuclear datacenter plan reportedly stung by bees — CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees at an all-hands meeting that the discovery of a rare species of bees on the prospective build site had contributed to the cancellation of the datacenter project, according to The Financial Times. AI's energy appetite has Taiwan reconsidering nuclear option — The global surge in AI is placing unprecedented pressure on energy resources, with chipmakers such as TSMC consuming vast amounts of electricity to meet growing demand for advanced silicon. In response, Taiwan's government is signaling a potential shift in its longstanding opposition to nuclear energy to address its mounting power needs. Mike's Poll says it all. — Let’s celebrate Election Day by voting to “settle” a classic debate.

Mike reports in from the COSMIC frontier! Plus: Microsoft's juicy Google drama, GPU eye candy that'll make your wallet nervous, and the tea on why OpenAI's AGI Czar went full scorched-earth on his exit. Sponsored By: Annual Membership - Jupiter Party: Put your support on auto-pilot and get one month for free! Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Microsoft says Google is running 'shadow campaigns' in Europe in cloud — Microsoft said Google is running “shadow campaigns” to discredit the software giant with regulators in Europe. cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment — Currently an incomplete alpha. Testing instructions below for various distributions. System76 - Linux Laptops, Desktops, and Servers — We aim to liberate the computer with a new desktop environment powerful enough to build custom OS experiences — for users, developers, and makers of any device with a screen. COSMIC - ArchWiki nixos-cosmic: Flake for using COSMIC on NixOS LINUX Unplugged 574: COSMIC Encounter Geary — Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to read, find and send email with a straightforward, modern interface. M4 Pro Chip Announced: Up to 14-Core CPU and 20-Core GPU, Up to 64GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 5 Support, and More — Apple today unveiled the M4 Pro chip, with key specifications including up to a 14-core CPU, up to a 20-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and support for up to 64GB of RAM. For the 14-core CPU, there are 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips — Apple today announced fully redesigned Mac mini models featuring the M4 and M4 Pro chips, a considerably smaller casing, two front-facing USB-C ports, Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, and more. Apple’s first smart home display could pay homage to a classic iMac — Apple plans to release a low-end, non-robotic smart home display that looks like the ‘lampshade’ iMac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. OpenAI's AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn't ready For What It's Building — "I decided," Brundage wrote, "that I want to impact and influence AI's development from outside the industry rather than inside."

We get frustrated with Nintendo. Then, dig into the 30-year-old backdoor that was recently exploited and the hard lesson we should learn from it. Then, we'll break down some "hot tips" that promise to make you the next DevRel star. Sponsored By: Annual Membership - Jupiter Party: Put your support on auto-pilot and get one month for free! Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Ryujinx Switch Emulator Project Shuts Down Under Nintendo Pressure — Open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has thrown in the towel under pressure from Nintendo. Lead developer 'gdkchan' was reportedly contacted by the gaming giant on Monday. He was given the opportunity to stop working on the project and shut down everything under his control, presumably to avoid further action. The project's repo on GitHub has already been deleted. 'Modded Hardware' Defendant Denies Nintendo's Copyright Claims in Court — The alleged operator of Modded Hardware has filed an answer to Nintendo's copyright complaint, denying any wrongdoing. The defendant, who represents himself in court, counters with a long list of affirmative defenses including fair use. The case will now move forward to the discovery process. Meanwhile, the Modded Hardware site has gone private. The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite — The wiretap systems, as mandated under a 30-year-old U.S. federal law, are some of the most sensitive in a telecom or internet provider’s network, typically granting a select few employees nearly unfettered access to information about their customers, including their internet traffic and browsing histories. Meredith Whittaker on Masto — Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use. Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials — US investigators believe the hackers potentially accessed wiretap warrant requests, two of the sources said, but officials are still working to determine what information the hackers may have obtained. US broadband and internet providers AT&T, Verizon and Lumen are among the targets, the sources said. Exclusive | U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack - WSJ — AT&T and Verizon are among the broadband providers that were breached Unlocking the ‘aha’ moment: Developer relations for startups — Developer relations (DevRel) can be a cornerstone of product adoption and growth for early-stage companies, but too often early-stage companies end up focusing on the wrong things. The linchpin for success lies in how quickly developers reach their first "aha" moment Mermaid | Diagramming and charting tool — JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. Integrations | Mermaid

Our reaction to Google's major legal blow, forcing them to open the Play Store wide, our thoughts on the world's lovefest with AI-generated podcasts, and the next tool Microsoft is porting over from Linux. Sponsored By: Annual Membership - Jupiter Party: Put your support on auto-pilot and get one month for free! Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge — Google must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps — and distribute third-party stores. Why Google is appealing the U.S. Epic Games verdict — The Epic verdict missed the obvious: Apple and Android clearly compete. We will appeal and ask the courts to pause implementing the remedies to maintain a consistent and safe experience for users and developers as the legal process moves forward. There’s a New Hit Podcast That Will Blow Your Mind - WSJ — With this Google tool, you can make a show about any topic you could possibly imagine. The hosts aren’t human. You won’t believe your ears. List of "Fake Podcasts" — Listen Notes' list of AI-genreated podcasts. Analyzing Poop & Fart written 1,000 times — Creating meaning from the meaningless. NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources — Today, we're introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can even download the conversation and take it on the go. ebpf-for-windows — eBPF is a well-known technology for providing programmability and agility, especially for extending an OS kernel, for use cases such as DoS protection and observability. This project is a work-in-progress that allows existing eBPF toolchains and APIs familiar in the Linux ecosystem to be used on top of Windows. That is, this project takes existing eBPF projects as submodules and adds the layer in between to make them run on top of Windows.

Our thoughts on big tech firing up old nuclear reactors to satisfy the AI growth plans, Sam's big week, and debate if Meta just had their iPhone moment. Sponsored By: Annual Membership - Jupiter Party: Put your support on auto-pilot and get one month for free! Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Meta Quest 3S — Unreal experiences at an unreal price Coming Oct 15. Pre-order yours today. Microsoft Is Discontinuing HoloLens 2 As Production Ends — HoloLens 2 launched in 2019, three years after the original, with upgrades to almost every aspect: a wider field of view, higher resolution, eye tracking, vastly improved hand tracking, and more powerful compute housed in the rear of the strap to deliver a balanced comfortable design. Annual Membership — Here is the annual Membership link for all the Jupiter Broadcasting shows! California governor vetoes major AI safety bill — SB 1047 would have required the state’s biggest AI companies to implement security measures designed to protect the public from harm. The Intelligence Age — In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it. Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity | Reuters — Chief executive Sam Altman will also receive equity for the first time in the for-profit company, which could be worth $150 billion after the restructuring as it also tries to remove the cap on returns for investors, sources added. The sources requested anonymity to discuss private matters. OpenAI considering restructuring to for-profit, CTO Mira Murati and two top research execs depart - YouTube OpenAI Mulls Giving CEO Altman 7% Stake in Shift to For-Profit - YouTube Apple not investing in OpenAI after all, new report says — Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected to raise as much as $6.5 billion, an 11th hour end to what would have been a rare investment by the iPhone maker in another major Silicon Valley company. Sam Altman Just Pitched The Biden Administration On A Massive Build Out Of AI Data Centers — OpenAI has urged the Biden administration to support the construction of massive data centers, each consuming as much power as a city, to advance AI development and compete with China. Rihard Jarc on X — The $NVDA bull & bear case summarized in 2 minutes by Zuck. BLOCKBUSTER MICROSOFT DATACENTER DEAL RESURRECTING THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT — Microsoft and nuclear plant owner Constellation have agreed to a massive, unprecedented deal to restart the closed Three Mile Island by 2028 to power its datacenters, per the New York Times. AWS hiring for data center 'principal nuclear engineer' to evaluate SMRs and nuclear fuel strategy roadmaps — The previously unreported job listing mentions working with external partners to influence the design of "operationally efficient and safe modular nuclear plants" to support its growing cloud power demands. Apple has silently now included nuclear in their definition of clean energy — In other news, Apple has silently now included nuclear in their definition of clean energy Word is out: Microsoft is plunging ahead on nuclear energy. — They want a fleet of reactors powering new data centers. And now they're hiring people from the traditional nuclear industry to get it done. Energy Department finalizes loan for Michigan nuclear plant revival — The Biden administration is also awarding $1.3 billion through the Department of Agriculture’s Empowering Rural America program to two rural electric cooperatives, which will discount electricity passed on to their members through emissions-free sources, such as the Holtec plant. NEW DEPT. OF ENERGY NUCLEAR REPORT RELEASED — Some of the absolute sharpest minds in nuclear put in months of work on this report and it shows. OpenAI on X — Starting this week, Advanced Voice is rolling out to all ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu, and Team users globally. Free users will also get a sneak peek of Advanced Voice. Real-time AI voice agents are coming to apps as OpenAI expands access — The ChatGPT developer will let other businesses build on its human-mimicking synthetic voice technology, potentially winning new revenue.

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The insidious undercurrents threatening to crush open-source AI projects, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's "big changes" to Windows post-CrowdStrike. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly. Promo Code: summer Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison — "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said California’s AI Bill Threatens To Derail Open-Source Innovation — While proponents tout amendments made "in direct response to" concerns voiced by "the open source community," critics of the bill argue that it would crush the development of open-source AI models. Mark Ruffalo on X — My open letter to Gov @GavinNewsom on CA’s #SB1047: the AI regulation we need to get ahead of the risks. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google employees support California AI bill — California's SB 1047 has passed both the State Assembly and Senate and now sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, awaiting his signature or veto by Sep. 30. OpenAI Says California’s Controversial AI Bill Will Hurt Innovation — The startup wrote a letter to California State Senator Scott Wiener opposing the legislation. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman leaves safety committee — Other members include Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, retired US Army General and former NSA chief Paul Nakasone, and former Sony general counsel Nicole Seligman. Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident — There’s no talk of locking down the Windows kernel just yet, but Microsoft clearly wants to move endpoint security systems out of there. Finalement, nos téléphones pourraient bel et bien nous écouter - YouTube

Our thoughts on the iPhone 16, and then Mike surfs the WSL wave. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly. Promo Code: summer Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Enable your independence with the fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada and the USA. Focused on Bitcoin excellence, enabling true financial independence 🥇 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 The Biden administration launches its second big attack on Google - POLITICO — The DOJ is expressly seeking to break up the company, a feat not attempted since its case against Microsoft in the early 2000s, and not successful since the historic dismantling of AT&T in the early 1980s. Apple Announces iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with Larger Displays, New Camera Control, and More — The devices are powered by the new A18 Pro chip, made using 2nd-generation 3nm technology. It offers a 16-core Neural Engine with 17% more memory bandwidth, making Apple Intelligence tasks up to 15% faster compared to the previous generation. The 6-core CPU features two performance cores and four efficiency cores, providing 15% faster performance and 20% more efficiency. Additionally, the 6-core GPU is up to 20% faster than the A17 Pro, with hardware-accelerated ray tracing for more realistic lighting in games. Faster USB-C speeds and twice the data processing for video encoding are also supported. AirPods Max Still Lack H2 Chip Following Minor Update With USB-C Port and New Colors — Apple first released the AirPods Max in December 2020, so the headphones are nearly four years old and continue to have the H1 chip from 2019. iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence launches in October, more languages rolling out over time — Apple did not officially confirm which parts of Apple Intelligence will launch when. Starting in October, we expect the company to debut notification summaries, email summaries, the Reduce Interruptions focus, and Clean Up image editing in Photos. Rumors indicate that the image generation functionality, like Genmoji and Image Playgrounds, will roll out in December. Apple’s iPhone 16 AI is useful so far, except when it’s bonkers — Weird like the time it alerted me that Donald Trump had endorsed Tim Walz for president. Surfing the WSL Wave - dominickm.com — With Summer coming to a close I decided to take another surf on the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) wave and in short was not disappointed. hotshots.dashboard — A Shiny-powered dashboard summarizing virtual racing league stats! submissions-pilot4-webR — Development repository for Pilot 4 WebAssembly Shiny App Shocking leak suggests your phone really is listening in on your conversations — An apparent pitch deck from one of Facebook's alleged marketing partner appears to detail how the firm eavesdrops on users' conversations to create targeted ads. Bombshell leak reveals your phone really might be listening to you – and telling Facebook and Google

How Mike plans to win the Clone Wars with Dokku, we review some shocking developer data and say goodbye to another project DMCA'd by Apple. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly. Promo Code: summer Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 AWS CEO Says Most Developers Could Stop Coding Soon As AI Takes Over — "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding," said Garman, who became AWS's CEO in June. Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes — Using conditional writes, you can simplify how distributed applications with multiple clients concurrently update data in parallel across shared datasets. Each client can conditionally write objects, making sure that it does not overwrite any objects already written by another client. This means you no longer need to build any client-side consensus mechanisms to coordinate updates or use additional API requests to check for the presence of an object before uploading data. Syncing Prod & Staging Data With Dokku — Dokku’s apps:clone command is a fantastic utility that allows you to replicate an entire app, including all code, databases and environment variables. Study Finds 77% of Employees Report AI Has Increased Their Workload — The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI's impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. Docker Image disappeared · Issue #799 — The DMCA notice macos: OSX (macOS) inside a Docker container. — By default, macOS Ventura will be installed. But you can add the VERSION environment variable to your compose file, in order to specify an alternative macOS version to be downloaded A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project — Mono had many homes over 23 years, but Wine's repos might be its final stop. Thank you to all the Mono developers!

We reflect on the rise of DevOps and the frustrating dynamics that led to it. Plus, tech's latest bright idea: Roombas with attitude. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly. Promo Code: summer Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 iPad Illustration App Procreate Condemns Generative AI — We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community. Procreate on X — We’re never going there. Creativity is made, not generated. You can read more at http://procreate.com/ai ✨ History of DevOps — The DevOps movement started to coalesce some time between 2007 and 2008, when IT operations and software development communities raised concerns what they felt was a fatal level of dysfunction in the industry. The Cloud Talent Crisis: Skills Shortage Drives Up Costs, Risks — Organizations are facing increased cloud costs, risks, and inefficiencies due to a shortage of skilled cloud professionals. Apple Is Developing a Tabletop Robot for the Home - YouTube — Apple Inc., seeking new sources of revenue, is moving forward with development of a pricey tabletop home device that combines an iPad-like display with a robotic limb. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports this is part of Apple's bigger move into robotics. First Plans for Apple's Tabletop Robot Spotted in Supply Chain Tesla is hiring people to train its Optimus bot via motion capture — The company is paying people to train its humanoid Optimus bot via motion capture, but the task may require vast amounts of data.

The walled garden wrecking ball is fueling up - where we think it strikes first. Plus, what was really behind the recent GitHub outage. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly. Promo Code: summer Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD — Upton explained of the new Broadcom BCM2712 D0 stepping that it eliminates some dark silicon that goes unused by the Raspberry Pi boards but ultimately impacts the die space/pricing and is now eliminated with this new stepping Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly — udge James Donato will issue his final order on what Google gives — and Epic gets — in mere weeks. US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google — This action would mark Washington's first attempt to break up a company for illegal monopolization since the failed bid to dismantle Microsoft two decades ago. GitHub rolls out AI-powered fixes for code vulnerabilities — Copilot Autofix, a new addition to the GitHub Advanced Security service, analyzes vulnerabilities in code and offers code suggestions to help developers fix them. GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself — "We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services," the source code silo said in an advisory on its status page. "We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back." GitHub Status - All GitHub services are experiencing significant disruptions — At 22:59 UTC an erroneous configuration change rolled out to all GitHub.com databases that impacted the ability of the database to respond to health check pings from the routing service. As a result, the routing service could not detect healthy databases to route application traffic to. This led to widespread impact on GitHub.com Diablo 1 for web browsers — I've modified the code to remove all dependencies and exposed the minimal required interface with JS, allowing the game to be compiled into WebAssembly.

Apple goes into full crackdown mode and begins to squeeze even more out of developers and creators. Plus, why tiny models are suddenly the rage. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly. Promo Code: summer Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Ford could be working on a camera system that automatically reports speeding vehicles — A recent patent filing by Ford titled "Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations" appears to show that the company is looking at a way of automatically snitching on speeding motorists. In AI, Smaller, Cheaper Models Are Getting Big Attention — OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are investing in more affordable alternatives to large language models. What is InstructLab? — InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications. Created by IBM and Red Hat InstructLab Demo: Lowering the barrier to AI model development - YouTube granite-code-models — Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps — . Apple is rolling out a change that will require you to give explicit permission on a weekly basis to these types of apps, and every time you reboot your Mac. macOS Sequoia makes it harder to run apps that don’t follow Apple’s rules — In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized. They’ll need to visit System Settings > Privacy & Security to review security information for software before allowing it to run. Apple Requiring Patreon to Use In-App Purchase and Pay 30% Fee for Memberships — Apple is requiring Patreon to adopt the in-app purchase system, a process that Patreon started at the beginning of the year. Gergely Orosz on X — Following news that Apple succeeded in taking 30% from Patreon subscriptions, Substack reveals it's working w Apple for in-app subscriptions. Terrible idea, given it would mean Apple takes 30%, Substack 10%, Stripe 3%: so 43% goes to platforms.

We take a look at SeaweedFS, roast Apple Intelligence, and reveal the vendor that caught Intel's mess before it shipped. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case — udge Amit Mehta ruled in favor of the Department of Justice, writing that Google has maintained a monopoly in the search and advertising markets. Google default search deals break US law, court finds — "This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people," said Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a statement. “No company – no matter how large or influential – is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws." Jason Kint on X — Don't overlook the impact this may have on Apple. Yes, I believe any remedy has to look at forced divestiture of Chrome and Android in addition to killing the exclusive dealing. But if Apple loses its sweetheart deal with Google, it may lose $12B in revenue (mostly profits) Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ — After losses, the chipmaker is cutting $10 billion in costs. Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues — Based on this information, we are definitely experiencing CPU failures higher than our historical average, especially with 14th Gen. We have enough data to know that we don’t have an acute problem on the horizon with 13th Gen — it is more of a slow burn seaweedfs — SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding. PodcastIndex Dashboard 1.1.0 — rPodcast's Podcast Index Dashboard. Apple Intelligence Early Preview: In-Call Recording, Safari Summaries, New Siri — After testing the first beta version of Apple Intelligence myself, I can tell you that the features don’t yet live up to the excitement. Cabel Sasser - Panic Social — Apple Intelligence in 15.1 just flagged a phishing email as “Priority” and moved it to the top of my Inbox. This seems… bad iOS 18: These Apple Intelligence Features Won't Be Ready Until 2025

Why is Google feeling lucky, and the Intel situation slips into pure lunacy. Plus, thoughts on the C# Type Union proposal. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 OpenAI on X: "We’re testing SearchGPT" — We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources. Google’s antitrust defense could benefit from the threat of SearchGPT — The new risk Google faces from AI challengers could play a role in the ultimate outcome of a landmark antitrust trial where a judge must decide whether the tech giant illegally monopolized online search. Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage - YouTube Intel confirms that any Raptor Lake instability damage is permanent, and no, it's not planning a recall — Microcode patch can't reverse the damage caused by the elevated voltage - only prevent further harm. CrowdStrike Outage Losses Estimated at a Staggering $5.4B — Parametrix researchers have found that roughly 25% of Fortune 500 companies experienced disruptions due to the incident, the most heavily affected industries financially being healthcare ($1.94 billion in estimated losses) and banking ($1.15 billion). In addition, a shocking 100% of the transportation and airlines sector was affected, and the group will rack up an estimated $0.86 billion in losses, according to the forecast. The $5.4 billion estimate excludes Microsoft. Parametrix Analysis.pdf proposals/TypeUnions.md — A proposal for type unions (aka discriminated unions) in C#. California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud — The project, in collaboration with tech company Oxhead Alpha on Ava Labs' Avalanche blockchain, will allow California's more than 39 million residents to claim their vehicle titles through a mobile app, the first such move in the United States. How Kamala Harris Could Usher in a Clean Slate for Crypto Regulation — She may not be appearing at Bitcoin Nashville this year alongside Donald Trump. But, if elected president, Kamala Harris could reshape the U.S.'s policy on digital assets. What is Operation Choke Point 2.0? Trump promises to end it. - YouTube — It was one of the many promises made by former President Donald Trump to a cryptocurrency crowd at this year’s Bitcoin conference. Crypto advocates have dubbed efforts to cut off the cryptocurrency industry from banking services “Operation Choke Point 2.0,” and Trump is vowing to end it. Operation Choke Point 2.0 — Crypto still needs on- and off-ramps for US dollars, but the US is making it increasingly difficult to maintain them Operation Choke Point 2.0: How U.S. Regulators Fight Bitcoin With Financial Censorship — “The clandestine Operation Choke Point had more in common with a purge of ideological foes than a regulatory enforcement action”, wrote Frank Keating, a former governor of Oklahoma who served in the DOJ during the Reagan administration, in a 2018 editorial for The Hill. “It targeted wide swaths of businesses with little regard for whether legal businesses were swept up and harmed. In fact, that seemed to be the goal.”

Our thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage and why Intel is in the hot seat with developers. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Andrew Curran on X — Will OpenAI commit to making its next foundation model available to U.S. Government agencies for pre-deployment testing, review, analysis, and assessment? Senators demand OpenAI release data showing it keeps its AI safe — Following a Washington Post report, five lawmakers ask the artificial intelligence start-up to describe how it will ensure its tools don’t cause harm. Lior⚡ on X — This might be the biggest moment for Open-Source AI. Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more - YouTube Open Source AI Is the Path Forward | Meta — Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it. I believe that AI will develop in a similar way. Taiwan makes tough decisions as it faces its worst drought in nearly a century : NPR — This is the third year in a row that rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies not to grow rice this season. The rice uses scarce water that semiconductor factories nearby need. Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts | CrowdStrike — Customers running Falcon sensor for Windows version 7.11 and above, that were online between Friday, July 19, 2024 04:09 UTC and Friday, July 19, 2024 05:27 UTC, may be impacted. Overview of Early Launch AntiMalware - Windows drivers Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown — Gamers have been reporting crashes on Intel CPUs for a number of months now, with the problem appearing to particularly affect games based on the Unreal engine. Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates | Tom's Hardware — Warframe developers provide some crash statistics and describe diagnosing the issue Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August — Intel's advisory says an erroneous CPU microcode is the root cause of the incessant instability issues. The microcode caused the CPU to request elevated voltage levels, resulting in the processor operating outside its safe boundaries.

Are small business owners just the worst? The rant that hits close to home. And how AI is looking more like a unicorn, not a horse, but big tech keeps trying to put a saddle on it. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off your membership for a year, and contribute to our show directly! Promo Code: darthjarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet — Small businesses are amazing and necessary and I love them, but the people behind them are the absolute worst. AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns — “So anyone who's sort of a bit long in the tooth and has seen this sort of thing before is tempted to believe it'll end badly.” Squawk on the Street on X: ""America loves financial manias," Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions — Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way. Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube — We talked at length about his work, OpenAI's mission, and some of the criticisms that the young outfit is facing. We had fun, talking with him for this extended sit-down; hope you'll enjoy it, too. The AI summer — Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform — We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.

Apple finally stands down in its battle with Epic, and Google gets caught with its hand in the full access to everything jar. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off your membership for a year, and contribute to our show directly! Promo Code: darthjarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 Siri features are likely to go into beta testing for developers in January — Siri features are likely to go into beta testing for developers in January and then debut publicly around the springtime — part of an iOS 18.4 upgrade that’s already in the works. Epic Games Newsroom on X — 1/3 Apple has rejected our Epic Games Store notarization submission twice now, claiming the design and position of Epic’s “Install” button is too similar to Apple's "Get" button and that our "In-app purchases" label is too similar to the App Store's "In-App Purchases" label. Apple approves Epic Games Store for iOS — Later the same day, Apple had a change of heart about the situation, and instead has approved the Epic Games Store. Jeff Johnson - Mastodon — Apple has ZERO moral high ground. The crApp Store is the origin of many dark patterns. tvOS 18 Hints at HomePod With Touchscreen Display — A unique touchscreen interface was allegedly found buried in tvOS 18 beta 3 by 9to5Mac, and the finding is actually relevant to the ‌HomePod‌ because the ‌HomePod‌'s software is an offshoot of the tvOS software. Future HomePod Again Rumored to Add Curved LCD Display — In October, Kosutami shared images of component parts that allegedly belong to a prototype touch screen ‌HomePod‌. Other reports at the time claimed to verify the legitimacy of these images with other sources. HomePod Saves Family's Life After Dog Starts Kitchen Fire — omePod‌ has Sound Recognition, an option that is able to detect the sound of a fire alarm and send an alert. Dog Starts Kitchen Fire Video Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 on X — Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel. Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 on X — For those interested: this is done through a built-in Chrome extension that can not be disabled, and does not show up in the extensions panel. hangout_services

Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests, and the crazy deals new AI companies are getting themselves into to access hardware. Sponsored By: Coder QA: Take $1 a month off your membership for a year, and contribute to our show directly! Promo Code: darthjarjar Support Coder Radio Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries. Easily integrates with Fountain.fm. Setup your Strike account, and you have one of the world's best ways to buy sats. 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀 How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perforce to Piper — As of 2011, the single server had been in operation for the past eleven years of Google history. It had served Google the two-year-old startup, and had now scaled to support Google the public company. In fact, around that time, a lucky Google engineer had just snagged PR #20,000,000. Still chugging along, the server was now executing “11-12 million commands” a day. Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM — We owe our Spokane crew a meetup, so let's do it on my way to Montana! Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests — People are starting to use AI to write their tests. This is great! Also very bad. We created the first open-source implementation of Meta’s TestGen–LLM — In February, Meta researchers published a paper titled Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta, which introduces a tool they called TestGen-LLM. The fully automated approach to increasing test coverage “with guaranteed assurances for improvement over the existing code base” created waves in the software engineering world. Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States — Indeed calculates the index change in seasonally-adjusted job postings since February 1, 2020, the pre-pandemic baseline. Where the Economy, and the World, Are Headed - YouTube — If you want to know where the economy is headed, ask an economist. If you want to know why (and more), ask a treasury secretary, an economic diplomat, a director of the National Economic Council and the president of Harvard. Larry Summers has been all of those things (and more). Apple’s Longer-Lasting Devices, iOS 19 and Apple Intelligence on the Vision Pro — Apple’s strategy to make its devices last longer will mean AI and software are even more important to its business. Apple may charge “monthly fees” for advanced Apple Intelligence features — “Though Apple Intelligence will be free to start, the long-term plan is to make money off the capabilities,” said the report. “The company could eventually launch something like Apple Intelligence+ — with extra features that users pay monthly fees for, just like iCloud,” it added. Apple Intelligence coming to Vision Pro headset, some features could eventually be paid — Gurman says that Apple is facing slower hardware upgrades which is why it’s banking more on service fees and subscriptions for growth Apple "will actually be making money from AI," says Bloomberg's Mark Gurman — Longer term, he speculates, the company may be planning a monthly subscription service like "Apple Intelligence+" that offers additional features to monetize the technology. Apple already takes a cut of subscription revenue from any AI partner it brings on board. "The company will be less reliant on hardware tweaks to drive its business and will actually be making money from AI — something everyone in Silicon Valley is hoping to pull off," Gurman says. character.ai — Personalized AI for every moment of your day Character, a Chatbot Pioneer, Mulls Deals With Rivals Google and Meta — The Information