Gooooooood morning, Crowd!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
- The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI
- Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping
- RoboTrump – A fully convincing Trump AI text generator
- Courts reshape the rules around AI
- The Google Antitrust Investigations–Learning from Germany’s Facebook Inquiry
- RoboTrump – I made a Trump text generator that is fully convincing
- DeepSORT: Deep Learning to Track Custom Objects in a Video
- Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks
Blockchain and decentralization
- Catalonia protestors use distributed network to securely organize protests
- Days Since a Cryptocurrency Exchange Has Lost More Than $100M
- Boom.fyi – a link shortening service built for IPFS
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Video Architecture Search
- The Elm Architecture (TEA) animation
- The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement
- AWS cross-AZ data transfer costs more than they tell you
- Equifax used ‘admin’ as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
- Serverless doc writing app built using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store
- AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors
- YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
- Cloudflare’s service’s questionable practices
Development and languages
- Digital pollution
- Loopless Programming
- Open Sourcing Fuzz Testing Library for JavaScript/Node.js
- Git Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History
- Client-side web programming in Haskell: A retrospective
- How to prepare a technical interview (and why good programmers also fail)
- Git Tricks: Avoiding merge when dealing with remote conflicts
- Google to use fourth-price auction to select other search providers in Android
- Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
- قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written entirely in Arabic
- Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization
- Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
- Research Based on the .NET Runtime
- Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming
- Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse?
Quote of the week
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
— Brian Kernighan
Enterprises
- Researchers design new material using artificial intelligence
- Amazon is shipping expired baby formula and other out-of-date foods
- Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO
- Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
- TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only
- Gmail Hooked Us on Free Storage. Now Google Is Making Us Pay
- EU data watchdog raises concerns over Microsoft contracts
- Google clamps down on free storage
- Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
- Trip Planner – A tool for planning a trip itinerary using Google Maps
- Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
- Tesla Q3 Financial Results
- Amazon Ready to Pour Billions into Policing Products on Its Site
- Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok
Other news
- HackPPL: A universal probabilistic programming language
- Learn ClojureScript: Discovering Sequence Operations
- How oral contraceptives may affect women’s minds
- Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that’s not Linux-derived
- Samsung Kills ‘Linux on DeX’ with Android 10 Rollout
- Lyft No Longer Showing What Passengers Pay on Trips
- SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork: Sources
- SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
- Softbank to Pay Adam Neuman $200M to Leave WeWork Board
- Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board
- McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn
- WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer
- Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
- WeWork founder will get $1.7B to let SoftBank take over his company
- Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan
- Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off
- A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gift for His Daughter
- Terminal Uses “80×25” Because of Civil War Era Banknotes
- The Hacker Manifesto
- We Never Paid for Journalism
- Women Under the Spell