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Another week, another curated selection of top articles and insights just for you:
🚨 Faulty CrowdStrike update causes global IT outage, crippling banks and airlines.
🌎 Lesson of the Week: Geospatial patterns for improved data storytelling.
🦙 Meta has released Llama 3.1, the largest open-source AI model.
🔍 Weekly Tech Tip: Google Search features, easter eggs, and more.
🚀 What’s New: Enhanced leaderboard, improved performance, and backend updates.
📕 Book of the Week: “The Personal MBA” by Josh Kaufman.
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Massive Outage Halts Business Operations
A faulty CrowdStrike update has unleashed a massive global IT outage, crippling banks, airlines, and major businesses worldwide.
The update triggered widespread Windows “blue screen of death” errors, wreaking havoc especially in the travel sector, with Delta Air Lines struggling to recover, causing flight delays and cancellations.
Amid escalating concerns and significant operational disruptions, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has been urgently summoned to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee to address the incident and its far-reaching consequences.
Lesson of the Week
This week’s lesson explores five charts for geospatial patterns, elevating your data storytelling. Find it in our “Selecting Charts” unit.
Question of the Week:
You are given a dataset that contains the average monthly temperatures and average monthly precipitation levels for various cities.
What type of chart would best display the relationship between temperature and precipitation while also considering the population of each city?
Select one:
A) Scatterplot
B) Heatmap
C) Bubble map
See if you’re right–the answer is at the bottom!
Biggest & Best Open-Source AI Model Yet
In his letter released yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, unveiled Llama 3.1, the largest open-source AI model ever released.
This powerful new model is said to surpass top rivals like OpenAI’s GPT-4 on key benchmarks.
Drawing a parallel to the rise of Linux, Zuckerberg highlights that Llama 3.1’s openness, modifiability, and cost efficiency will revolutionize how developers and organizations utilize AI, fostering a more inclusive and secure AI ecosystem.
An interesting interview with Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Meta, parent company of Facebook. He discusses Meta’s launch of AI Studio, the future of creators, and upcoming innovations like smart glasses and neural wristbands.
Weekly Tech Tip
Google Search Tips
Ever wondered how to get better results from your Google searches? Here are a few useful tips and tricks:
- Operators to Refine Your Search
- Use quotations (” “) to search for the exact phrase
- Add a tilde (~) in front of a word to find synonyms
- Exclude terms with a minus (-) symbol
- Find one result or the other with “OR”
- Add “site:” to search a single website
- Advanced Search
- Want to skip remembering different operators? From the Google results page, click “Tools” then “Advanced Search” to bypass them.
- Perform a Reverse Image Search
- Simply drag an image to the search bar to find similar or matching images
There are also some easter eggs while using Google Search; try entering “Google in 1998,” or “Super Mario. Bros. 1985” for a fun surprise!
These are just a few features Google Search offers. Check out PCMag’s full list of 21 features:
What’s New
We’ve been making improvements to our leaderboard in addition to backend updates for better performance.
Book of the Week
“The Personal MBA” by Josh Kaufman offers a practical alternative to traditional MBA programs. It distills essential business concepts into simple, memorable mental models.
The book covers entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, and productivity, providing valuable insights for real-world business challenges.
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Lesson of the Week Answer:
C) Bubble map