The Byte Highlight
A tech newsletter by Gor Technologies
August 2024
Introduction
Dear Reader
Preface and Acknowledgement: The reason for starting The Byte Highlight channel and giving credit where it's due.
Noteworthy News
Everything Google announced at the Pixel 9 launch event
Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is its biggest yet, with four phones.
Critical bug in Docker Engine allowed attackers to bypass authorization plugins
A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-41110 (CVSS score of 10.0), in certain versions of Docker Engine can allow an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. It can be mitigated by taking certain steps.
Solid-state batteries are finally making their way out of the lab
The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.
Intel is bringing GPUs to cars
Triple-A gaming is coming to vehicles in 2025, the company said.
AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets
Private IPv6 address offers innate security boost as resources using private IPv6 address cannot access the internet directly, making compliance easy for customers through a quick audit.
Trending In Tech
The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
Open source AI is the path forward, says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term.
X begins training Grok AI with your posts, here's how to disable
X has quietly begun training its Grok AI chat platform using members' public posts without first alerting anyone that it is doing it by default.
OpenAI hits Google where it hurts with new SearchGPT prototype
New tool may solve a web-search problem partially caused by AI-generated junk online.
How a software update from cyber firm CrowdStrike caused one of the world’s biggest IT blackouts
A fault with an update issued by CrowdStrike led to worldwide outages on Friday, July 19. A fix has been issued, but it could be hard to implement - engineers will have to go into each data center running Windows to apply the fix.
5 UX Trends to Watch This Year
This year's top UX trends—such as AI-generated content, real-time analytics, and emotional design—focus on boosting user engagement and satisfaction. Keeping up with these trends is crucial for businesses to stay competitive.
Expert Opinion
Embracing the process: Learning to slow down to deliver clarity
Namika Varma-Chang an expert feature designer at Lyft explains her shift from feature design to refining design systems. She explains the need for a systems-thinking approach to maintain clarity and consistency across the product.
How to choose the best rendering strategy for your app
Explore the use cases and tradeoffs between the most common rendering strategies: SSG, SSR, CSR, ISR, and experimental PPR. These have all been developed to optimize performance, SEO, and user experience in various situations.
Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?
As AI technology progresses, tools like Figma may become outdated, as designers will be able to quickly generate code from sketches. This transition will likely involve reconsidering traditional design processes to better accommodate AI capabilities.
The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers
Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shipped a routine rule definition change to all customers, and chaos followed as 8.5M machines crashed, worldwide. There are plenty of learnings for developers.
How Airbnb Smoothly Upgrades React
Airbnb successfully upgraded its web surfaces from React 16 to React 18 using a React Upgrade System that allows for incremental, testable, and frequent upgrades.
How Stuff Works
The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist. Learn how PostgreSQL does a release.
This article looks at how PostgreSQL changed its release process due to problems with the existing system.
A practitioner's guide to testing and running large GPU clusters
Together AI has put together a guide for operating large clusters of computers for generative AI model training.
Unleashing .NET on Embedded Linux
A Comprehensive Guide to Running Avalonia Apps on Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS Lite
Trillions of Indexes: How Uber’s LedgerStore Supports Such Massive Scale
Look at how Uber implemented the indexing architecture for LedgerStore to handle trillions of indexes and how they migrated a trillion entries of Uber’s Ledger Data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore.
How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI
Software professionals seeking to understand advanced ML/AI papers can follow a four-stage learning roadmap explained in this article with resources included.