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Airbnb’s open-source ML Platform 🌐, ACM Turing Prize winner 🏆, Apple's Spyware Alerts 🕵️

Today's TechToks: Avi Wigderson's recognition, Airbnb sharing ML platforms, potential spyware attacks warned by Apple, trending Github repositories, and more!

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Avi Wigderson, a renowned computer scientist, has been awarded the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computing, for his groundbreaking work on understanding the role of randomness in computation, which has had a profound impact on the field of theoretical computer science.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

Checkr, a background-screening startup last valued at $5 billion, has laid off 382 employees (32% of its workforce) due to the economic conditions impacting companies' hiring, allowing it to operate more efficiently and ensure the long-term health of its business.

Apple has sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks targeting them specifically, with high confidence in the warnings but without disclosing the identities of the attackers or the targeted countries.

Aider is an AI pair programming tool that allows you to invoke it in your terminal and work on code files collaboratively with GPT, with various in-chat commands to manage the session.

A Harvard professor, Avi Loeb, is risking his reputation and securing funding from tech tycoons to search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, including investigating unidentified aerial phenomena and exploring the ocean floor for potential interstellar meteor remnants.

"Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

This repository contains a simple, pure C/CUDA implementation of training large language models like GPT-2, with the goal of providing a clean, efficient, and dependency-free alternative to existing deep learning frameworks.

Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform that provides an intuitive interface for building and testing powerful AI workflows, comprehensive model support, prompt IDE, RAG pipeline, agent capabilities, LLMOps, and backend-as-a-service features, allowing users to quickly go from prototype to production.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

Web development should be easy and fun, which is why we created an integrated frontend platform that combines the realtime collaboration of Figma with the developer experience of VSCode, the extensibility of WordPress, and the power of AI, all in one tool.

Prelaunch Idea Validator turns your idea into a product page in less than 3 minutes! Get feedback from friends, your network, and a 200-million-people panel. Who knows? Your idea might be the next big thing.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Airbnb has open-sourced Chronon, its ML Feature Platform that allows practitioners to use a variety of data sources as inputs, handles data engineering complexity, and provides low latency serving with observability and management tools.