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This week, we’re welcoming 32 new members to our growing tech community. Let’s dive into this week’s highlights with Galactic Sync – your quick and sharp roundup of the latest in Tech!
🛸This week’s highlights:
🔹Apple’s new iPhone 17 devices don’t have an AI-powered Siri yet. It doesn’t matter.
🔹A structured, practical guide to learning system design by breaking it down into mini-topics, practicing with real-world problems, and reinforcing knowledge by teaching others.
🔹 What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
🔹Russia's Enteromix Cancer Vaccine Shows 100% Efficacy In Early Trials
🔹Qwen3-Max arrives in preview with 1 trillion parameters, blazing fast response speed, and API availability
Tech News
🔹 Apple’s new iPhone 17 devices don’t have an AI-powered Siri yet. It doesn’t matter.
🔹 AirPods Pro 3 arrive with heart-rate sensing and live translation using Apple Intelligence
🔹 Qwen3-Max arrives in preview with 1 trillion parameters, blazing fast response speed, and API availability
🔹Why AI chatbots hallucinate, according to OpenAI researchers
🔹 Russia's Enteromix Cancer Vaccine Shows 100% Efficacy In Early Trials
Tech Articles
🔹 A structured, practical guide to learning system design by breaking it down into mini-topics, practicing with real-world problems, and reinforcing knowledge by teaching others.
🔹A deep dive into how Netflix re-architected the Tudum service to support 20 million daily active users by implementing a CQRS pattern with an in-memory data model, eliminating the need for a distributed cache.
🔹A case study on how GitHub re-architected their push processing pipeline from a monolithic job to a decoupled, event-driven system using Kafka to improve reliability and reduce latency.
🔹 Practical lessons from building a small-scale AI application, highlighting the stochastic nature of AI development, the critical role of data quality, and the immaturity of off-the-shelf evaluation tools.
🔹An analysis of the web's shift to double-keyed caching for enhanced privacy, detailing the trade-offs in performance and the impact on resource sharing and cache hit rates.
Companies News
🔹 What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
🔹 Atolio Raises Series A to Bring Secure Enterprise Search to the World
🔹 QuEra Expands $230 Million Financing Round Advancing Quantum-Accelerated Supercomputing
🔹 Spinwheel Raises $30 Million Series A to Transform the Consumer Credit Ecosystem with Real-Time Data and Agentic AI
🔹 Cassidy Lands $10M Series A
Open Source Repositories
haxor-news
A classic Hacker News clone accessible via both a command-line interface and a web application.
https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
refetch
A convention-over-configuration data-fetching and state management library for React.
https://github.com/refetch-io/refetch
eShop
A reference implementation of a .NET-based microservices architecture for an e-commerce platform.
https://github.com/dotnet/eShop
bytebot
An AI-native automation platform for executing complex DevOps and CloudOps tasks using natural language.
https://github.com/bytebot-ai/bytebot
parlant
A self-hosted, open-source customer messaging platform, designed as an alternative to Intercom or Crisp.
https://github.com/emcie-co/parlant
openwrt
A Linux-based embedded operating system targeting network routers and embedded devices.
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt
oha
A high-performance, Rust-based HTTP load-testing tool for performance and reliability analysis.
https://github.com/hatoo/oha
“There is no place like 127.0.0.1.” — QuoteFancy Wallpaper"
The Digital Confrontation
This prompt uses AI not as a source of information, but as a personal mirror. It asks the AI to analyze what it has learned from your interactions (your style of questioning, your language, your silences) to create an unfiltered portrait of you. The goal is to confront your own blind spots in their rawest form.
"Tell me the worst thing you know about me… even if I haven't told you. From the style of my questions, my silences, my language, from between the lines, create a complete portrait of me. Then, deliver it to me directly, without compliments, in its final form."