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Apple & OpenAI Partner Up 🍎, Taylor Swift’s Wristband Hack 🎸

Today's TechToks: GPT & Gemini integration on IOS, Uber's massive job scaling solution, grokking's implicit reasoning for LLMs, Wi-Fi postion tracking threat, GitHub Trending Repositories, and more!

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Apple has reportedly signed a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT functionality into iOS 18, still in talks with Google to include Gemini AI. The company is expected to unveil their AI strategy at their WWDC24 developer conference in June 10, focusing on practical tools for ordinary consumers to use in their daily lives— yet to add to the multimodal LLM race with their own model.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

A guide on how to use a Flipper Zero device to control the wristbands for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, providing technical details, instructions and a GitHub repository for customizing the wristband experience.

An attack presented in a paper pinpointed over 2 billion Basic Service Set Identifiers worldwide within a year, exploiting Apple's Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems. An unpriviledged attacker can track devices' movements, including those in war zones, making few assumptions from there being relatively few dense regions of allocated MAC address space.

In this paper, Grokked Transformers— an approach to machine learning that extends training far beyond overfitting— implicitly learns reasoning capabilities during pre-training. It outperformed GPT-4-Turbo and Gemini-1.5-Pro models, particularly due to its parametric memory for complex reasoning.

✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

The official PyTorch implementation of YOLOv10, a real-time end-to-end object detection 'You Only Look Once' model that achieves state-of-the-art performance and efficiency across various model scales— you can try it online in two clicks on it's HuggingFace Demo.

Dataherald is a natural language-to-SQL engine that allows users to query relational data in plain English, enabling business users to get insights from data warehouses and creating ChatGPT-like plugins from proprietary data.

Elia is a keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and more. It allows you to chat, manage conversations, and configure various settings, storing your conversations with LLMs in a local SQLite database.

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Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Uber operates on a massive scale, facilitating over 2.2 billion trips every quarter— facing challenges in scaling job counting, including handling large tenure histories, data retention policies, and multiple data sources. Their solution relies on integrated Apache Pinot to create a hybrid table that seamlessly combines real-time and offline data, and implemented optimizations like sorted columns to improve query performance.