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Rooms app on the rise 🏡, TikTok shields itself 💰, AI-driven GitHub bug fixes 🐞
Today's TechToks: Spotify's data platform, TikTok's grand exposure, AI for software development, potential global cyberattack averted, and more!
TechTok by João Martins
April 04, 2024
🤯 Game Changers
The most impactful articles of the day
Rooms, a 3D design app and 'cozy game,' has received a major update with new discovery-focused features like an activity feed, explore page, and categories, as its user base has grown to 250,000 in just five months since its beta launch, showcasing the app's growing popularity among interior design enthusiasts. |  |
🧐 Daily Picks
Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today
TikTok released an economic impact report claiming it generated $14.7 billion for U.S. small businesses in 2022 and supported over 224,000 jobs, in an attempt to stall a potential ban on the platform being considered by U.S. lawmakers.
A Microsoft engineer inadvertently discovered a potentially catastrophic backdoor in the Linux operating system that could have enabled a massive cyberattack, earning him widespread acclaim within the tech community. He discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
SWE-agent is a repository that turns language models (e.g. GPT-4) into software engineering agents that can fix bugs and issues in real GitHub repositories, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench test set.
RAGFlow is an open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that provides a streamlined workflow for businesses to leverage large language models (LLMs) for truthful question-answering capabilities, backed by well-founded citations from various complex formatted data sources.
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt
Skyrocket your blog's lead gen potential. Prophet uses AI to build lead profiles of your blog readers, get their emails, and personalize outreach at scale.
Potion lets you create modern email templates without battling archaic drag-and-drop editors. Modelled after the intuitive UX of Notion and the extensibility of Figma with AI-powered autocompletion ✨
Today from Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
The article discusses the importance of a data platform at Spotify, which has evolved over time to manage the company's vast amount of data (1.4 trillion data points processed daily), enabling efficient data collection, processing, and management to support various use cases like financial reporting, experimentation, and machine learning. |  |