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Today's TechToks: Communication security for elections with AWS, iPhone 16 Launch in September, Smarter Alexa using Claude LLM in October, Rescheduling with an AI, Trending GitHub Repos, Product Picks and much more!
TechTok by João Martins
September 03, 2024
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Today's Picks🍒
⚖️ Why is X (Twitter) Suspended in Major User Base Country
💎 Amazon Alexa Claude Integration, iPhone 16 Launch and Making $1 Million on GitHub Sponsors
☁️ From AWS Engineering: Keeping communications secure for elections
🏎️ From Figma Engineering: How Crunchyroll cleaned confusing workflows
🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories
🧮 Turn databases into spreadsheets
💬 Upload your documents to chat on an easy RAG
🛡️ A fast and customizable vulnerability scanner
📝 Learn Claude and good prompting
🔥 Products of the Week
💡 Create conversational surveys that deliver deeper insights with LLMs
📆 Manage your schedule with AI
🛠️ Decrease tech debt with automated documentation and bug fix suggestions
➕ 5 more products to find companies with plain English, generate video content and more.
🧐 Weekly Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
Brazil's Supreme Court suspended the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) across the country for the lack of a legal representative. Conflict began when Elon Musk refused to comply with orders to block accounts for spreading fake news, some known to be politically related. Musk closed all operations in Brazil — which requires the conflict to continue under international law— after threats of employees arrest and in response, X was shutdown and Starlink's financial assets were frozen to cover $3.28 million in unpaid fines. This Monday (02), supreme court unanimously voted to uphold the ban, while they may step back from ban in another vote with full court.
More picks this week
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt.
🔥Trending products of the week
Search engine to find companies and people, integrated with AI comprehension for your search and LinkedIn-enriched data. Real-time company and people discovery, data updated every 14 days.
Creatify 2.0 makes viral video ads a reality with just ONE CLICK. Turn text or footage into attention-grabbing content using AI Shorts & AI Editing. Perfect for social media, A/B testing, and boosting engagement
Chat with AI to build for the web, and ship faster. Go from prompt to prototypes in seconds. Iterate on a real app in real-time. Own your code, with no lock-in. Integrate with workflows developers love. One-click deploy to production.
🪺 Exopods
Exopods help you deploy the backend, frontend, or open-source apps under one umbrella with features like; Effortless deployment from GitHub, Flexible pay-as-you-go pricing, Free SSL-secured domain, and Unlimited requests.
CommandDash is one-stop destination to integrate any open-source package or framework. As developers, leverage expert AI agents trained on GitHub of the libraries. Ask questions or generate customized code for your project in web or your IDE 🙌🏼.
💯 TechTok Recommends
We’ve tried it and it’s the real deal.
✍️ TheySaid
Send conversational surveys that deliver deeper insights, using a specialized AI that is trained by your URL or internal doc. Your audience can answer and ask questions as if they are talking to you!
Shortcut manual and complex scheduling with an AI-powered intelligent calendar. Built on top of Clockwise’s advanced scheduling engine, Prism serves up more scheduling options, more quickly, than any human can.
📜 Mimrr
Mimrr eliminates your startup's technical debt and increases your productivity and profit by automating codebase documentation, enabling code chat, and suggesting fixes for bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues which our self-hosted AI powers.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that turns any database into a smart spreadsheet. It uses database connectors to integrate with various SQL databases, offering a rich spreadsheet interface with workflow automation features. Can integrate with other tools on Chat, Email and Storage categories (like Slack, AWS SES & GCS).
What can you use this for? Manage and collaborate on database data, create custom views and dashboards and build no-code applications.
An open-source clean & customizable Retrieval-Augmented Generation UI for chatting with documents, built for both end users and developers. It provides a framework for building RAG-based document QA pipelines (local or API-based LLMs), supporting hybrid retrieval, multi-modal QA, and configurable settings.
You can try it online for free on the HuggingFace Demo.
What can you use this for? Use an LLM with all sorts of file uploads for free, ask about private data on a local deploy, and get custom answers with your uploaded documents.
Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner (using simple YAML-based DSL for security checks). It sends requests to targets based on templates, providing zero false positives and fast scanning across various protocols. Works on websites, APIs, cloud infrastructure, IoT devices, and more.
What can you use this for? Scan for a wide range of vulnerabilities, automate security testing, and integrate with existing security workflows.
Repos to learn something new
An educational suite on Anthropic's Claude AI model. It covers API fundamentals, prompt engineering, real-world prompting, and tool use, empowering users to effectively leverage the model. The courses provide interactive tutorials and guides to quickly get started. Additionally, users can explore a Google Vertex version of the prompt engineering course.
What can you use this for? Learn about Claude, best ways to use an LLM and quickly improve your prompts with good examples.
👩🏽💻 Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
 | Crunchyroll, the popular anime streaming service, faced challenges in maintaining consistency across its multiple platforms and global audience, prompting the implementation of a Universal Design System. The design team, led by James Hsu and Susan Lin, introduced 'Dev Mode' to improve workflow and collaboration with engineering, enabling faster feature delivery and reducing redundant efforts. |
 | AWS Wickr, a secure messaging and collaboration service, is being made available at little to no cost to US national party committees and federal candidate committees through a collaboration with Defending Digital Campaigns, enabling political campaigns to securely communicate and share sensitive information. |
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