Bitcoin surge, TikTok ban, and Claude 3

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Weekly issue #13

MY PICKS 👇️

1. Bitcoin $69k peak 📈 — Striking a new all-time high, Bitcoin rose from $16k to $69k in under two years.

2. TikTok ban 📵 — “If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” Biden told reporters when discussing a bill that ban’s TikTok usage from US users.

3. Claude 3 Opus 🧠 — Anthropic claims that their latest models can beat OpenAI’s GPT-4.

4. Target Circle 360 🎯 — The Amazon Prime for Target, Circle 360 will launch on April 7th.

HIGHLIGHTS 🔍️

1. 👁️ Innovative solar panel eye implant aims to preserve vision

2. 💻 Russian spies continue cyberattacks on Microsoft

3. 🚗 Original Nissan Leaf app support discontinued; sparks EV lifespan concerns

4. ✌️ Nvidia to discontinue GTX brand

5. 💰 $22 million ransom paid after healthcare cyberattack

6. 💻 Debate continues over quantum computing

7. 📧 OpenAI leaks Musk's correspondence

8. 🎵 Apple hit with $1.84BN EU fine over streaming rules

9. 🗳️ Congress unanimous: TikTok must sell

10. 🔍 Probe to explore icy moons for extraterrestrial life

OTHER NEWS 📰

• 🔒 Ex-Google engineer arrested for AI secrets theft

• 🚫 Google fires protesting employee

• 📈 Reddit's IPO fate lies with its users

• 😴 Inquiry into pilots' 30-minute nap on flight with 153 passengers

• 🚗 Physical controls now required for top car safety rating

• 🧑‍🔬 Scientists unite against AI bioweapons

• 😨 Emotion-detecting AI raises workplace privacy concerns

• 🤖 Palantir secures contract for AI in military operations

• 🖱️ Exploring Vietnam's clandestine 'click farms'

• ⚙️ Matrix math innovation promises AI efficiency leap

• 🔋 Revolutionary 'healable' material may transform battery tech

• 🐜 Teen invents AI device to target invasive insects

• 🌊 New floating device weathers storms and harnesses sea power

• 💉 MIT nanoparticles boost vaccine efficacy

• 🖨️ 3D-printed skin for scar-free healing showcased in rats

• 🧬 Organoids: Versatile mini-organs broadening scientific research

• 🚶‍♂️ Exoskeleton for stroke patient gait improvement

• 🔐 Zama raises $73M with advanced encryption technology

• 💡 Nvidia develops a powerful 1,000-watt GPU

TOP REPOSITORIES 🧑‍💻

1. AUTOMATIC1111 / stable-diffusion-webui — Stable Diffusion web UI

2. Ryujinx / Ryujinx — Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator

3. ente-io / ente — Fully open source, End-to-End Encrypted alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos

4. pineappleEA / pineapple-src — A former citrus fruit-named emulator's Early Access source code

5. ReVanced / revanced-manager — 💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

6. ixartz / Next-js-Boilerplate — 🚀🎉📚 Boilerplate and Starter for Next.js 14+

7. openai / whisper — Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

8. mattermost / focalboard — Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

9. opa334 / TrollStore — Jailed iOS app that can install IPAs permanently with arbitrary entitlements and root helpers because it trolls Apple

10. coollabsio / coolify — An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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