Technology and privacy. @Apple, previously @Brave, Co-Founder @dataswift_io. Opinions my own
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Andrius Aucinas retweeted
I see so much FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about the future of sw engineering, mostly from non-devs. Along the lines of “soon anyone can spin off AI agents in bulk that act as hundreds of devs.”
A false premise. Just open your airline app that is built by ~hundreds of devs.
more details on how Apple’s PCC works: security.apple.com/blog/pcc-…
with a link to a very detailed security guide as well
pretty proud to have played a small role in the Private Cloud Compute security.apple.com/blog/priv…
Andrius Aucinas retweeted
So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/
shock horror, retailers slap different brands on the same third-party products and sell at different price points: linksiwouldgchatyou.substack…
the main thing I find dubious here is the claim that it has much to do with online shopping per se
pretty cool! And fun what problems become exciting at scale
I wrote a blog post for SIGOPS giving the backstory of our OSDI paper on Flux (global capacity management for millions of servers). If you’re curious about how this kind of work happens in industry, read on!
sigops.org/2024/the-journey-…
fully funded PhD positions open with some fantastic people in Cambridge: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43518/
quite vague for now, but looking forward to the continuation in the series. Public discourse is useful both if there are lessons to learn and lessons to teach the industry
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Andrius Aucinas retweeted
🪩The @stateofai 2022 is live!🪩
In its 5th year, the #stateofai report condenses what you *need* to know in AI research, industry, safety, and politics. This open-access report is our contribution to the AI ecosystem.
Here's my director's cut 🧵:
stateof.ai
prescription videogame to treat ADHD (endeavorrx.com) sounds like a much more profound prediction from snowcrash than any of the VR stuff. And in a good way! There may well be some risks with it as well (again, snowcrash?), but surely less than stuffing kids with meds
“48 of the top 50 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers, use AWS Graviton processors for their workloads” incredible shift to ARM, one of those things years in the making and then all of a sudden feels overnight
some data marketplaces are worse than others (but are any really better?). Of course when even the FTC comes after you that does not inspire confidence arstechnica.com/information-…
Andrius Aucinas retweeted
"Why is @Amazon acquiring @OneMedical bad news?"
Let's explore.
1. Horizontal integration at Amazon scale of a company that now has the right to access my medical records under HIPAA opens up a huge problem for abuse.
oh the circle of life... From a single subscription to watch broad range of content with no ads, to many subscriptions in fragmented market, and now back to ads. But now powered by treasure trove of personal data and cross-company expertise in advertising variety.com/2022/tv/news/net…
Andrius Aucinas retweeted
Look, just because:
• Ethereum is down 66% from its highs
• All of DeFi “yield” ended up being a Ponzi scheme
• NFT “art” ultimately was just speculation
• The biggest real world use-case of crypto is *still* buying cocaine online
Doesn’t mean that web3 isn’t gonna happen
fascinating (long) read about London’s ringways that weren’t, thankfully worksinprogress.co/issue/lon…
Andrius Aucinas retweeted
A characteristically good post by @danluu : danluu.com/nothing-works/
One observation: "There is a lot of ruin in a nation" applies to other complex systems as well, and being sufficiently good on some margins can excuse almost arbitrarily sized deficits elsewhere.
Yanai (parent company of @UNIQLO_UK ) refuse to leave Russia because "Clothing is a necessity of life. The people of Russia have the same right to live as we do". Apparently more so than ukrainians have the right to live #pickyourside