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Hyped tech Updates in 2024 at a glance, What you missed?

Arif Uddin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:24:52 +0000

A curated list of hyped tech events happened in 2024.

The ChatGPT store is about to launch, allowing developers to sell custom GPT agents.
Google releases Gemini Advanced, featuring the Gemini Ultra model, which is said to be faster than GPT-4. Bard is renamed Gemini to reflect its underlying model.
Mark Zuckerberg releases a video on his couch, comparing Meta's VR headset to Apple's Vision Pro.
OpenAI unveils Sora, a text-to-video model capable of generating realistic videos up to a minute long. Google also announced Gemini 1.5.
Google announces Gemini 1.5 and Gemma, a family of open-source models.
Elon Musk files a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a betrayal of the company's founding mission.
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Opus, a large language model that is said to outperform GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra.
Cognition Labs develops Devin, an AI software engineer that can access developer tools, learn technologies, build apps, fix bugs, and train AI models.
Figure 01, a robot with human-like dexterity, is introduced.
A backdoor is discovered in the XZ compression library, affecting certain Linux distributions.
Apple unveils its M4 chip, which it claims has the fastest neural engine for AI workloads on the PC market.
OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a new model that combines text, vision, and audio. Google demos Project Astro,
Similar to GPT-4o. Google also announces Gemini 1.5 Pro.
Next.js 15 is released with partial pre-rendering, and React 19 compiler eliminates the need for hooks like useMemo and useCallback. Solid Start version 1.0 is released,
Angular 18 now supports zoneless change detection.
Svelte version 5 release candidate introduces runes.
Vue.js is developing Vue Vapor mode.
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, raises $6 billion.
Google accidentally pushes internal documents about its search ranking algorithm to GitHub.
Hospitals in the UK are targeted by a ransomware attack.
Apple announces Apple Intelligence, which integrates AI features into iPhones.
Luma Labs releases Dream Machine, a tool for creating realistic video clips using AI.
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, an open text-to-image model, is released under a non-commercial license.
Mistral releases Codestroll, an open-source code generation model.
Ilya Sutskever, former co-founder of OpenAI, launched a new AI company called SSI (Safe Super Intelligence).
The Rabbit R1 has a security vulnerability due to hard-coded API keys.
Figma releases new AI tools, including UI generation and visual asset search.
Claude Sonnet 3.5 is released and is said to be better at writing code than GPT-4o.
OpenAI releases Critic GPT, a model designed to find errors in GPT-4's code.
Nvidia becomes the most valuable company in the world for a day or two.
Problems with Intel's 13th and 14th gen CPUs are widely reported, including a potential 100% failure rate in some contexts.
A bad update from Crowdstrike bricks millions of Windows computers.
More details emerge about the Crowdstrike disaster, pointing to a logic error in a channel file update.
Meta releases Llama 3.1, a large language model that is said to be competitive with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
A US District Court ruled that booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by scraping the Ryan Air website.
Stack Overflow's 2024 survey reveals that 80% of programmers are unhappy.
Node.js gets Typescript support.
Google's Alpha Proof AI model beats Olympic mathletes.
A new search engine called Search GPT has been announced.
Mistral released a new model called Mistral Large 2.
Reddit updates its robots.txt file to charge for scraping.
The Apple Vision Pro was released. Although initially considered a major product launch, Apple scaled back production, and there were rumors of it being discontinued.
Black Forest Labs released Flux, a new AI image generation model, which was considered a Midjourney and Stable Diffusion replacement.
Google released Imagen 3, a new image generator.
Shadcn, a UI framework, released a major update with a component registry.
Vercel hired the developer behind Shadcn, integrating it into their ecosystem.
The Internet Archive experienced a data breach that exposed 31 million email addresses and password hashes. The website was also defaced and experienced DOS attacks. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a core internet protocol, was highlighted as being broken and in need of fixes.
A critical vulnerability was discovered in Firefox and Tor browsers, due to a use-after-free flaw in their CSS animation timeline implementation. This was actively exploited in the wild.
The Internet Archive was attacked, with a data breach, defacement of the website using JavaScript graffiti, and a DOS attack.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses gained popularity due to AI features including the ability to identify people. An app was developed to demonstrate the privacy concerns of this technology.
Microsoft Notepad was updated to include an LLM for text generation and rewriting.
Microsoft Paint also received an AI facelift with generative fill-and-erase features.
GitHub Copilot announced support for multiple models, including GPT, Gemini, and Claude.
GitHub also released a new tool called Spark that allows users to build mini-applications with natural language.
A Stanford study revealed that 9.5% of developers do virtually no work.
Andrew Tate’s “The Real World” website was hacked, exposing 14 GB of data and the information of over 700,000 members. The website was described as “hilariously insecure” by the hackers.
A new voice clone feature was released for Microsoft Teams.
OpenAI launched a new ChatGPT Pro Max plan at $200 per month, providing unlimited access to the 01 model.

Am I missing something important ? Please let me know

Timeline of key events in Nvidia's history

Arif Uddin — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:08:55 +0000

Timeline of key events in Nvidia's history from "The Nvidia Way" book by Tae Kim detailing Nvidia's history, culture, and the management style of Jensen Huang.

1993: Nvidia is founded by Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky at a Denny's restaurant.

Early Years (1990s):

Nvidia released its first graphics chip, the NV1, which failed due to poor VGA compatibility and performance issues with games like "DOOM". The NV1 only partially supported VGA graphics and relied on a software emulator to supplement its VGA capabilities which resulted in slow performance.
Nvidia's second product, the NV2, is abandoned by Sega after a promising start.
Nvidia faces severe financial difficulties after the failures of NV1 and NV2.
Nvidia develops a novel and expensive software emulation machine to test chip designs. This emulator helped them to get their chip working and to the market in record time.
Nvidia released the RIVA 128, which is successful, partly due to innovative software emulation and a hardware-software integrated approach. The company made the chip as large and powerful as possible and took risks with its schedule, making it in record time and without the safety net of multiple quality-assurance runs.
Curtis Priem develops the idea of the ‘resource manager’, a miniature operating system that allows for more flexible design and faster innovation cycles. This allowed Nvidia's engineers to emulate certain hardware features that normally needed to be physically printed onto chip circuits.

Early 2000s:

Nvidia's approach of combining hardware and software design gives it a competitive advantage.
Nvidia’s competitor 3dfx makes a series of mistakes.
2002: Nvidia acquires the assets and patents of bankrupt graphics company 3dfx and hires some of its employees.
2000s-2020s:
- Nvidia establishes itself as a leader in the graphics card market by employing risk-taking, relentless execution, and a focus on combined hardware/software solutions.
- Nvidia invests heavily in massively parallel computing capabilities for the next two decades.
- Nvidia develops its CUDA ecosystem.

Recent Years (Late 2010s - 2024):

Nvidia’s stock experiences explosive growth. In 2019, their stock was trading below $4, and by the end of 2024, it was trading above $130.
Nvidia’s market capitalization soars to over three trillion dollars.
Nvidia becomes a major player in the AI field, leveraging its GPUs and parallel processing capabilities.
Nvidia experiences significant growth due to the ‘AI boom’ launched by ChatGPT and other LLMs.
An attempted acquisition of Arm is thwarted.

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Adobe Photoshop on the web 😯 What's the tech?

Arif Uddin — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 05:19:35 +0000

Photoshop is one of the most useful programs in the world if you are the sort of person that tends to work on graphic design as well as a variety of other photography related things. This program as well as Illustrator have become mainstays of the graphic design and marketing industries.

Recently Adobe announced adobe photoshop and illustrator will launch the web version (currently in beta). Even they don't need to write entire project from scratch.
WebAssembly and its C++ toolchain Emscripten have been the key to unlocking Photoshop's ability to come to the web, as it meant that Adobe would not have to start from scratch, but could leverage their existing Photoshop codebase. Photoshop that are written in C++ can be ported directly to the web without requiring a rewrite in JavaScript.

Photoshop is a famous large, and feature-rich application with hundreds of user interface elements that support dozens of workflows. The application is built by multiple teams using a variety of development tools and practices, but its different parts need to be brought together into a cohesive, powerful whole. To meet this challenge, Adobe turned to Web Components and the Lit library. Photoshop's UI elements come from Adobe's Spectrum Web Components library, a lightweight, performant implementation of the Adobe design system that works with any framework, or no framework at all.

Access Photoshop Web (beta) and learn more

Update 1st Oct, 2023
Available now at https://photoshop.adobe.com/

Awesome Developers & Designers Portfolio list 😎

Arif Uddin — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:06:54 +0000

A portfolio site is an extension of a developer/designers' résumé. It provides a convenient way for potential clients to view your work while also allowing you to expand on your skills and services. This, however, isn’t the ultimate purpose of a portfolio website. Not every job hunter needs a portfolio. But there are certain careers where portfolios prove more helpful than just a resume in showcasing your skills and experience.

This is especially true for careers like art, design, and web development.

Individuals in these jobs often have their own unique style, and a collection of past work will help employers to assess whether that style fits their needs.

Developers and Designers are creative. They build their website with there own flavor and creativity.

I curated some list of Developers' and designers' portfolio/blog site from online and make this awesome-list.

If you have a creative website just PR (pull request) in this repository.