C++'s Borg-like mission continues, and some thoughts on Rails 8.1. Plus, there is a little trouble in Microsoft Paradise. And why Chris finally paid for an LLM.
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- What is the new safe C++ proposal and what do programmers need to know? — The work is being done via the C++ Alliance, and its president and executive director Vinnie Falco said that this was, “a revolutionary proposal that adds memory safety features to the C++ programming language.”
- Safe C++ — Over the past two years, the United States Government has been issuing warnings about memory-unsafe programming languages with increasing urgency. Much of the country’s critical infrastructure relies on software written in C and C++, languages which are very memory unsafe, leaving these systems more vulnerable to exploits by adversaries.
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- solid_queue: Database-backed Active Job backend — Solid Queue is a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind.
- OpenAI, Microsoft reportedly hire banks to renegotiate partnership terms — The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that OpenAI is being advised by Goldman Sachs. Microsoft, in turn, has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley. The two banks previously participated in a deal that gave the ChatGPT developer access to a $4 billion revolving line of credit.
- Introducing canvas, a new way to write and code with ChatGPT. | OpenAI — A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code
- Anthropic's new AI model can control your PC — “We trained Claude to see what’s happening on a screen and then use the software tools available to carry out tasks,” Anthropic wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch. “When a developer tasks Claude with using a piece of computer software and gives it the necessary access, Claude looks at screenshots of what’s visible to the user, then counts how many pixels vertically or horizontally it needs to move a cursor in order to click in the correct place.”
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- Google’s NotebookLM now lets you guide the hosts of your AI podcast — You can now ask your AI ‘hosts’ to talk about a specific topic or tailor their discussion to a certain audience.
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