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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:Coder QA: 30% off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: blackfridayMission 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!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 chipsCold 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!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 - YouTubeInside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI — Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.

Python’s rising influence in AI and data science showcases its versatility and growing popularity. The hosts humorously tackle the dangers of Florida living while critiquing Intel’s struggles amid AMD's gains in the x86 market. They delve into AI's role in healthcare, raising ethical concerns about staffing and decision-making. A playful exploration of popular code editors highlights the tension between aesthetics and functionality, while nostalgic moments recall the joys of classic TV shows.

A mischievous productivity app slips through Apple's cracks, streaming pirated movies and raising eyebrows. The hosts debate the merits of technical debt, highlighting its potential when managed wisely. Malicious NPM packages pose security threats in the developer community, while performance gains in FFmpeg showcase the need for optimization. They reflect on navigating AI frustrations and evolving tech landscapes, along with the fun idea of a developers' party to deepen community ties. This blend of humor and serious topics keeps listeners engaged!

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!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 - ArchWikinixos-cosmic: Flake for using COSMIC on NixOSLINUX Unplugged 574: COSMIC EncounterGeary — 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."

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.Sponsored By:Annual Membership - Jupiter Party: Put your support on auto-pilot and get one month for free!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! 🚀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.Kamal — Deploy web apps anywhere — From bare metal to cloud VMs.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 codeAnthropic'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.”IcePanel — Align on technical decisions across your software engineering and product teams 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.

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!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 breachedUnlocking 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" momentMermaid | Diagramming and charting tool — JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.Integrations | MermaidmacOS Window Manager | BentoBox 🍱 — A window manager that boosts productivity by snapping windows into predefined zones, like a Japanese bento box organizing meals.

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!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!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 - YouTubeOpenAI Mulls Giving CEO Altman 7% Stake in Shift to For-Profit - YouTubeApple 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 energyWord 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.

A quick update from Chris on where the show is at this week, and what to watch out for next week!Sponsored By:Coder QA: Take $2 a month off for the lifetime of your membership and contribute to our show directly Promo Code: jarjarLinks:💥 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! 🚀