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Chris tries out Spatial Computing using a $3,200 trick, and Mike has a Rails treat you won't want to miss.

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• Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation in mid-February — Microsoft has news to share about the future of Xbox in an event next week.
• Michael Dominick on X — The vital #VisionPro question: “what is this for?” I’m just not seeing it. Am I missing something. #AppleVisionPro
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• Rails 7.1 expands its support for ActiveRecord asynchronous queries — ActiveRecord async queries are a way to execute Active Record queries in parallel, which can improve the performance of your Rails application. This is especially useful for slow or complex queries or for applications that need to handle a lot of concurrent requests.
• In-depth Guide to ActiveRecord load_async in Rails 7 — This seemingly simple change of just adding a single new method that takes no arguments has profound implications for database layer interactions. In this tutorial, we’ll deep dive into the intricacies of this new load async API. We’ll discuss lazy-loaded queries, Ruby threading model, blocking IO, database pool vs. max connections limit, and performance impact of concurrent database clients.

If you're going to come at the king, you better not miss; now it's Apple's turn to make everyone feel pain.

And our spicy take on why AI saftey is really about stopping a movment.

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• Apple says UK could 'secretly veto' global privacy tools — Apple has attacked proposals for the UK government to pre-approve new security features introduced by tech firms.
• Apple won’t give up control of the iPhone — The EU wants to weaken Apple’s gatekeeper power, and the company is on the wrong side of history by fighting it.
• Apple’s Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA
• AI companies will need to report safety tests to US government | AP News — Chief among the 90-day goals from the order was a mandate under the Defense Production Act that AI companies share vital information with the Commerce Department, including safety tests.
• New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure On Code Quality' —

We knew they'd be petulant, but even our expectations were higher than this. We dig into how Apple dunked on devs after last week's show, yet another Microsoft hack, and more.

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• DHH on X — Apple would be wise to study the long arc of Microsoft’s history. Learn that you can win the battle, say, against Epic, and end up losing the war for the hearts and minds of developers.
• Apple's Big Brother Now - dominickm.com — Getting right down to brass App Store tax. You’re almost certainly not saving any money. Apple is only taking three-percent off their cut even if you process the payment via another processor. Payment processors charging what they tend, that means you will likely save no money whatsoever; this is increasingly apparent once you begin to consider the implementation cost of setting up third-party payment processing and complying with the rest of Apple’s onerous terms.
• Evan on X — Apple expects to sell an estimated 300K-400K Vision Pros in 2024 - Bloomberg
• Apple Vision Pro: Lack of Netflix, YouTube, App Store Tensions Threaten Device - Bloomberg — Some big name developers thus far aren’t doing much to help the device. Three of the world’s most popular streaming services — Netflix Inc., YouTube and Spotify Technology SA — have already signaled that they won’t be launching visionOS software or enabling their iPad apps to run on the Vision Pro.
• These Third-Party Apps Are Optimized For Apple Vision Pro So Far - MacRumors — So far, over 250 apps with native support for visionOS have been submitted to Apple, according to a source.
• Google CEO says job cuts needed in 2024 to serve ‘ambitious goals’ — Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in a memo Wednesday that more job cuts are coming this year.
• How Google is Remaking Itself as a “Machine Learning First” Company
• Miguel Fierro on X: "Bad news for the industry" — Diane from Google rants on social

They are building AI into toilets now; CES was a clown show. But we put our business hats on and find the bright side.

Plus, Epic's major loss to Apple that just rolled in, and where we think the next fight will be, and how developers can get ahead of it.

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• Mark Gurman on X — The Vision Pro virtual keyboard is a complete write-off at least in 1.0. You have to poke each key one finger at a time like you did before you learned how to type. There is no magical in-air typing. You can also look at a character and pinch. You’ll want a Bluetooth keyboard.
• Here's How Vision Pro Demos Will Work at Apple Stores — In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said each demo will last around 20 to 25 minutes. After a calibration process, he said the customer will view still photos, panoramas, spatial photos, and spatial videos in the Photos app. Next, he said customers will learn how to position multiple app windows and scroll through pages in Safari. Then, they will view immersive 3D content, including movie clips, sports, and a tightrope scene.
• Epic’s California injunction against Apple’s anti-steering rule takes effect as Supreme Court denies both parties’ petitions — The most important question, however, is whether the United States Department of Justice, which is reportedly readying a major antitrust case against Apple, and/or other private parties are now going to sue Apple over the App Store monopoly, potentially with stronger expert testimony (which is not even the only way in which they could benefit form the lessons learned from Epic Games v. Apple).
• gamesfray on X🧵1/4 — The #EpicGames v. #Apple judgment is now FINAL. The Supreme Court has denied either party's petition for review.

This means the anti-anti-steering injunction that Epic won under California Unfair Competition Law enters into force. Apple wanted to prevent or delay that.

🧵1/4

A prominent developer has brought the anti-trust heat against Apple to the public, kicking off a chain reaction that could have gone very wrong for Apple. Plus, why the Apple Vision Pro is destined for the Friend Zone.

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• Bitcoin ETF widely expected to get approval this week - YouTube — CNBC's Kate Rooney reports on news around Bitcoin.
• Macs can now detect liquids in USB-C ports — On the Mac, however, the code suggests that the daemon is only used for “analytics” and is not associated with end-user features. While Apple may eventually implement an alert similar to the one that already exists in iOS, it seems more likely that the data collected by this daemon will be used for technicians to determine whether a Mac is eligible for free repair.
• Apple Vision Pro sales will start on February 2 — Apple's headset will ship to customers on February 2. Preorders begin on January 19.
• Apple: Developers shouldn't refer to visionOS apps as AR or VR —

The company is asking developers not to refer to visionOS apps using terms such as AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), XR (extended reality), or MR (mixed reality). Instead, Apple says that visionOS apps are “spatial computing apps.”

Mike shares his adventures and process of coming from mobile app projects to working with Unreal Engine, and why he realized a laptop just wasn't going to cut it.

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• Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma — Competition probes in the EU and UK made regulatory approval dicey.
• U.S. Government Officials Reportedly Want DOJ To Investigate Apple For Its Anti-Competitive Behavior Against Beeper Mini Over iMessage — Beeper Mini and Beeper Cloud are still inaccessible for 60 percent of Android users, with Apple trying its best to prevent access to iMessage servers
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• Unreal Engine 5: everything you need to know — Unreal Engine 5 is the real-time creation platform that has it all for game development, visualisation, and VFX.
• A Fan Used Unreal Engine 5 To Make A ‘Zelda: Ocarina Of Time’ Studio Ghibli Movie And It’s Amazing — The second half of the video switches from animated movie to third-person perspective video game, and I’m left thinking “I really want this game, with these incredible cut-scenes.”
• Red Dead Redemption Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the remaster look like poop — Thankfully a devoted fan has taken matters into their own hands by creating a concept for the original Red Dead Redemption remake on Unreal Engine 5.
• Unreal Engine 5's next big RPG is Elden Ring meets Assassin's Creed
• Precision 7865 Tower Workstation — Mike's new rig.

We reflect on how our work has changed over the last year and get some sage advice from buff Uncle Jeff.

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• 2023's Online 'Advent Calendars' — Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles
• The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training — After reading this, will you continue using Brave Browser?
• Texas LinuxFest on X — The CFP deadline for #TXLF has been extended until December 30, 2023, 05:00 UTC (December 29, 2023, 23:00 CST)!
• The Epic question: how Google lost its antitrust case while Apple won — How is Google running an illegal monopoly with the Play store — while Apple’s App Store is in the clear?
• Epic Games chief concerned Google will ‘get away’ with app store charges
• How the Maker of ‘Fortnite’ Beat Google and Got Its Mojo Back  — Epic’s CEO founded the company in his parents’ basement. He isn’t done challenging tech giants.
• Epic: 7 reasons Google lost
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The clever way one developer hacked an online game, why we're not buying the latest round of cyber war fear, and we finally have our Babylon 5 vs Star Trek debate.

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• Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal — The details surfaced today after Google requested the court to keep the specifics of its deal with Spotify sealed earlier in the month.
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• I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Winrate — I could make opponents concede at will so that I never lost a game in Magic: The Gathering Arena
• China’s cyber intrusions have hit ports and utilities, officials say - The Washington Post
• An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World's First Digital Weapon
• The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity — Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
• Should You Watch Babylon 5? — If you liked DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll like B5 even more. If you hated DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll hate B5 even more.
• Musk's Neuralink to start human trial of brain implant — Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients.
• Are my podcast downloads declining because of iOS 17? — : Apple's changes help close the gap between downloads and actual listening behaviour. Not every downloaded episode gets played. So, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer downloads sitting unplayed on people's phones. For sponsors and advertisers, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer ads and promos that never get heard.
• Let’s build an AMD Ryzen Framework 13 DIY together - YouTube — A new challenger enters the ring. The Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen CPU batch 10 arrived at Badger Labs this weekend, so Iets build it!!

The fantastic opportunity Google is letting slip through its hands, and why Apple might win the consumer LLM race.

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• Florida Joker Suing Rockstar Over GTA 6 Character — Seeking between $1 and $2 million USD for using his likeness.
• ChatGPT on X — we've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it 🫡
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• Google just launched a new AI and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real — The company’s demo video, featuring a spoken conversation with Gemini as it identified drawings in real-time, was edited and did not involve an actual spoken prompt.
• Grant♟️ on X: Apple will probably win LLMs — They'll release a model that runs locally/native on your iPhone, is good enough, has great privacy/security and has access to all your personal data.
• Beeper Mini restores iMessage service, now for free — Just days after its debut, Beeper Mini was seemingly killed by Apple. Now, the iMessage app for Android is back.

After years of resistance, Mike finally surrenders to Xcode. And the secret Apple envy leaked to the public this week.

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• Spotify lays off 17 percent of workforce in latest round of job cuts — CEO Daniel Ek announced the cuts in a memo to employees today. They’re expected to impact around 1,500 people at the company.
• Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs — Broadcom's first big move is going to be layoffs: according to WARN notices filed with multiple states (catalogued here by Channel Futures), Broadcom will be laying off at least 2,837 employees across multiple states, including 1,267 at its Palo Alto campus in California.
• Gerald Pfeifer on X — "Broadcom CEO tells VMware workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies"
• Apple contractors to be cut - Austin Business Journal
• Twilio Lays Off Another 5% of Staff in Third Round of Cuts — Company has shed one-third of workforce since September 2022
• Unity Layoff 3.8% Of Workforce — Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will eliminate 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce and end an agreement with a digital video effects company founded by the “Lord of the Rings” director as part of a “reset,” the company said on Tuesday.
• Stefan Ottenbrite on X — CBC/Radio-Canada employees will have a virtual meeting on Monday with CEO Catherine Tait. Between 600 and 700 employees are expected to be laid off across the country, 300 just in Quebec.
• LFNW2024: Ready or not — Quick on the heels of our wildly successful MiniFest this Fall, LinuxFest Northwest is proud to announce a full event: LinuxFest Northwest 2024 1 - April 26-28 2024!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers — We invite you to submit your proposal
• Activision Blizzard had a plan — or ploy — to launch its own Android game store — Court documents show the gaming giant wanted more from mobile.
• Xbox Talking to Partners for Mobile Store, CEO Spencer Says — “It’s an important part of our strategy and something we are actively working on today not only alone, but talking to other partners who’d also like to see more choice for how they can monetize on the phone,’’ Spencer said in an interview in Sao Paulo during the CCXP comics and entertainment convention.
• Microsoft is building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google — Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is key to the company’s mobile gaming efforts. Microsoft is quietly building a mobile Xbox store that will rely on Activision and King games.
• What's new in .NET 8 — .NET 8 is the successor to .NET 7. It will be supported for three years as a long-term support (LTS) release.
• .NET Aspire overview — .NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications.​ .NET Aspire is delivered through a collection of NuGet packages that handle specific cloud-native concerns.
• Google to face investigation over deleted chat history — “I’m going to get to the bottom of who is responsible,”
• OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman — Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously made a personal investment in Rain.
• @laurengoode — "Altman talked to investors in the Middle East in recent months about raising money to start a new chip company to help OpenAI and others diversify beyond their current reliance on Nvidia GPUs and specialized chips from Google, Amazon, and a few smaller suppliers, according to two people."
• Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.