January 30, 2025

Distributed Tracing: A Powerful Approach to Debugging Complex Systems

Member-only story Why distributed tracing is the key to resolving performance issues Hareesha Dandamudi · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · Dec 14, 2024 — (Image by Author) – Distributed tracing — idea Why Distributed Tracing Is the Key to Resolving Performance Issues My articles are free for everyone to read! If you don’t have a Medium subscription, feel free to explore the full article directly on my blog: https://blog.bytedoodle.com/distributed-tracing-a-powerful-approach-to-debugging-complex-systems/

Hareesha Dandamudi January 30, 2025

Mother Games drops first trailer for surrealist RPG Le Zoo

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Mother Games this week dropped the teaser trailer for its upcoming title, Le Zoo. According to the studio, Le Zoo is an “emergent RPG” with surrealist animation, as shown in the trailer. The game is apparently a blend of online gameplay and live-action story, currently in private alpha with testers, and Mother Games plans to launch

Rachel Kaser January 30, 2025

Hardware

AMD shows you how to run DeepSeek on your Ryzen AI CPU and Radeon GPU

TL;DR: AMD has introduced instructions for running DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model on AMD Ryzen AI and Radeon products. This model enhances problem-solving by performing extensive reasoning before providing answers, improving analytical capabilities at the cost of longer response times. It is optimized for complex tasks in math and science. AMD has provided some instructions on how to run DeepSeek’s exciting new R1 distilled “reasoning” model on AMD Ryzen AI and Radeon products… yeah, you can

Anthony Garreffa January 30, 2025

Software

Gems Launches Astra Nova, Raising $1M+ On First Day Of Token Presale | HackerNoon

January 30, 2025 — Gems Launchpad, a community-driven launchpad built around an exclusive investor network, officially launches its latest project: Astra Nova, an AGI-driven RPG (role-playing game) ecosystem and member of the NVIDIA Inception Program. Astra Nova’s Revive token ($RVV) pre-sale kicked off on Gems Launchpad on January 27, raising over $1 million in the first 24 hours. The pre-sale has a tiered pricing structure where the token price increases with each round. The actual

BTCWire January 30, 2025

AR/VR

Former Google, Meta leaders launch Palona AI, bringing personalized, emotive customer agents to non-techie enterprises

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Speaking for myself, interacting with any merchant’s AI-powered chatbot on their website is often an exercise in frustration. Phone trees with robot voices are typically worse. I’d wager I’m hardly alone in my assessment. Who amongst us hasn’t experienced long hold times, slow responses, lack of updated information and awareness of the customer’s own account history,

Carl Franzen January 30, 2025

Software

Messiah | HackerNoon

PHASE: ORIGIN “You will die. Does that scare you?” The words make their way to my ears, but I’m not moved. “Nothing scares me.” The words aren’t mine, they never are. I laugh, the words brittle, dark, and filled with malice. My fingers shake, my body a temple of bad dreams. “You can’t save anyone.” “I know. I was never a messiah.” My body is riddled with shocks, but I don’t dare move, not while

Victor Mairo January 30, 2025

Meta uncharacteristically quiet about $5 billion in VR losses

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In their quarterly earnings report for Q4 2024, Meta actually has a lot to be proud of in the VR arena. Thanks to the Meta Quest 3, their newest headset that commands at least half of the consumer VR gaming market, the company generated $1.1 billion in sales in their Reality Labs department during the fourth

Imran Khan January 30, 2025

OpenAI said to be in talks to raise $40B at a $340B valuation | TechCrunch

OpenAI may have billions of dollars in the bank. But it’s gearing up to raise billions more, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Per The WSJ, OpenAI is in talks to secure up to $40 billion in a funding round that would value the startup at $340 billion. SoftBank would lead the round, pouring between $15 billion to $25 billion into the ChatGPT maker, according to The WSJ. Should OpenAI successfully close

Kyle Wiggers January 30, 2025

Controversial genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics raises $14M Series A | TechCrunch

Last week, Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov realized he hadn’t checked on his genetics in a while. He clicked open a dashboard created by Nucleus Genomics, a Founders Fund-backed startup that gets saliva samples sequenced and then compares the DNA results to extensive data linking health issues to genes. Within seconds, he concluded that he had a predisposition for schizophrenia, a sky-high IQ, and prostate cancer. “Bummer,” he shrugged. If Asparouhov’s reaction seems nonchalant, it’s

Margaux MacColl January 30, 2025

Exclusive: Fintech startup Cushion shuts down after 8 years and over $20 million in funding

Cushion, a fintech startup that described itself as the “Plaid for buy now, pay later (BNPL),” has shut down. On Thursday, founder and CEO Paul Kesserwani posted on LinkedIn about the decision to wind down the company at the end of 2024. In the post, Kesserwani said that “despite bringing multiple new fintech products to market,” Cushion “didn’t reach the scale needed to sustain the business.” Founded in late 2016, San Francisco-based Cushion had raised

Mary Ann Azevedo January 30, 2025