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IN YEARS (5 MINUTE READ) [5]

Apple has added the M5 Pro and M5 Max to its MacBook Pro lineup. The
M5 Pro now comes with 1TB of storage by default, while the M5 Max
comes with 2TB of storage by default. The base storage for the M5
MacBook Pro has increased to 1TB. The upgrades come with increases to
starting prices. Apple has also introduced a pair of new displays.

OPENAI'S NEW GPT-5.3 INSTANT (1 MINUTE READ) [6]

OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Instant is a conversational model designed to have
smoother conversations. The model has improved contextual
understanding of user queries, so it can answer more questions without
assuming bad intent without any loosening of safety controls. This
also makes it better at web searches. The model generates more useful
direct responses rather than presenting users with lists of links.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

AS MOON INTEREST HEATS UP, TWO COMPANIES UNVEIL PLANS FOR A LUNAR
"HARVESTER" (3 MINUTE READ) [7]

Astrolab and Interlune are forming a partnership to build a fleet of
electric harvesters to excavate, extract, and separate Helium-3 from
lunar regolith on the Moon. The companies have not announced when they
are scheduled to deploy an initial harvester, but both are working
toward that goal. Astrolab's FLEX rover will likely be one of the
first payloads on the first SpaceX Starship mission to the lunar
surface. Helium-3 doesn't occur naturally on Earth. It has several applications, but the most near-term use is in cryogenics.

QUANTUM DECRYPTION OF RSA IS MUCH CLOSER THAN EXPECTED (3 MINUTE
READ) [8]

The Jesse-Victor-Gharabaghi (JVG) quantum decryption algorithm
completely upends existing time projections for quantum decryption. It
requires a thousand-fold less quantum computer resources to break the encryption methods used in RSA and ECC than Shor's approach. Shor's
algorithm requires an estimated one million qubits, but JVG requires
less than 5,000. Researchers previously believed we were a decade away
from quantum decryption, but that timeline has now moved up
significantly.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

HOW TO KILL THE CODE REVIEW (10 MINUTE READ) [9]

Humans already couldn't keep up with code reviews when humans wrote
code at human speed, so there's no way we can manually review
AI-generated code at scale, especially when reviewing AI-generated
code requires more effort. Developers need to move upstream and focus
on encoding the constraints. The future is ship fast, observe
everybody, and revert faster.

NOBODY GETS PROMOTED FOR SIMPLICITY (7 MINUTE READ) [10]

Engineering teams praise engineers who overbuild, but the ones who
ship simple things get nothing. This is what happens when companies
evaluate work incorrectly. Complexity looks smart, and our systems are
set up to reward it. Engineers need to learn how to describe the
judgment behind their work to show how decisions were made and why
complexity was avoided.

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MISCELLANEOUS

GIVING LLMS A PERSONALITY IS JUST GOOD ENGINEERING (3 MINUTE READ)
[11]

AI skeptics often argue that while AI can pretend to be people, it
shouldn't. However, the biggest AI labs build human-like systems
because that is the best way to build a capable AI system.
Personalities are the medium that make language models useful. They
guide models to pull from the helpful parts of their training data.

M5 PRO AND M5 MAX ARE SURPRISINGLY BIG DEPARTURES FROM OLDER APPLE
SILICON (7 MINUTE READ) [12]

Apple's Pro and Max chips usually take the same basic building blocks
from the basic chip and just scale them up. However, the M5 Pro and
Max chips use a different CPU architecture. The new Fusion
Architecture welds two silicon chiplets into a single processor.
Rather than just a pair of M5 chips welded together, Apple has one
chiplet handle the CPU and most of the I/O, while the other chiplet is
used mainly for graphics. Apple is also introducing a new type of
'performance core' that prioritizes multi-threaded performance.

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QUICK LINKS

CLAUDE IS AN ELECTRON APP BECAUSE WE'VE LOST NATIVE (3 MINUTE READ)
[13]

Native no longer provides performance and visual benefits compared to
web.

XIAOMI SAYS HUMANOID ROBOTS BEGIN FACTORY TRIALS, TARGETS LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT WITHIN FIVE YEARS (1 MINUTE READ) [14]

The humanoid robot can autonomously perform tasks such as loading
self-tapping nuts at assembly stations and transporting material
boxes.

OPENAI IS DEVELOPING AN ALTERNATIVE TO GITHUB (1 MINUTE READ) [15]

OpenAI decided to create its own GitHub after its engineers
encountered a rise in service disruptions.

AMID NEW COMPETITION, CHROME SPEEDS UP ITS RELEASE SCHEDULE (2 MINUTE
READ) [16]

Chrome will move from a four-week release schedule to a two-week
release schedule starting in September.

STARLINK TARGETS 25M USERS BY YEAR-END AS GEN2 SATELLITE PLAN
PROMISES 100X DATA DENSITY (3 MINUTE READ) [17]

The next generation of Starlink Mobile will deliver broadband
capabilities to unmodified cell phones.

DON'T BECOME AN ENGINEERING MANAGER (6 MINUTE READ) [18]

It's a smarter choice to be an individual contributor in 2026 than an engineering manager.

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