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AI, bots and robots
- The Case for Causal AI
- Robot Game: Comparing 6502 C, Assembly, and Forth
- Exploring how different framings of the same learning task affect performance
- Letting Robots Manipulate Cables
- Diageo to launch Johnnie Walker whisky in paper bottles
- Ex-Googler’s Startup Comes Out of Stealth with Beautifully Simple, Clever Robot
- Could predictive database queries replace machine learning models?
- Turning Arabian Desert air into bottled water
- Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate phone calls
- TayPO, a Unifying Framework for Reinforcement Learning
- Improving Robustness of Deep-Learning-Based Image Reconstruction
- I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors
My hair is getting too long so I decided to build a robot to cut it for me. To support future projects like this check out my patreon: http://patreon.com/stu… - Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper
- The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
- Amazon warns Alexa Echo Buds earphones pose overheating safety risk
The company sent an email asking customers to check their earphone software has been updated. - Robot wraps fiber optic cables around existing power lines
- Bottle Cap Thread Calculator
- Reinforcement Learning Under Moral Uncertainty
- TensorFlow, Keras and deep learning, without a PhD
- Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer
- Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer
Blockchain and decentralization
- Decentralized Reinforcement Learning
- The Future of Online Identity Is Decentralized
- Moving from Siloed Organizations to Distributed Individuals
- Pulsar – an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging platform
Woman computer scientist of the week
Martha Elizabeth Pollack is an American computer scientist who is the 14th president of Cornell University, serving since April 2017. Previously, she was the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan. Her research specialty is artificial intelligence, where her contributions include works in planning, natural language processing, and activity recognition for cognitive assistance.
Cloud and architecture
- Rust for JavaScript Developers – Pattern Matching and Enums
- TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services from Google
For years, Google Cloud has languished in third place in the cloud computing market, with fewer marquee customers to boast of than rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.Last week, though, word surfaced of a buzzy new customer for Google CloudâTikTok, the app for sharing short videos that is … - AWS Copilot
- Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out
The lawsuit accuses the search engine giant of violating wiretap law and California privacy law by recording what users are looking at in apps. - Pickle’s Nine Flaws
- Cloudflare was down
- Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network. - Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
Development and languages
- Form-validation.js – JavaScript form validation library
- Digital Audio on VHS – The Technics SV-P100
- Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. Create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account (in my case … - StarCLI – Browse trending repos on GitHub by star, date, and more
- WindowSwap: View someone’s window somewhere in the world
- GitHub was down
- GitHub Is Down
- Real World Programming in SWI-Prolog
- Python malware on the rise
The vast majority of serious malware over the past 30 years has been written in Assembly or compiled languages such as C, C++, and Delphi. However, ever-increasing over the past decade, a large amount of malware has been written in interpreted languages, such as Python. The low barrier to entry, ease of use, rapid development process, and […] - Skypack – A new kind of JavaScript delivery network
- The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris
- Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python
- GitHub Down, Once Again?
- The GitHub Availability Report
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our belief is that we can - Mozilla VPN exits beta, launches on Android and Windows for $5 a month
- The GitHub Arctic Code Vault
- Emergency Directive 20-03 – Remote code execution vulnerability in Windows DNS
- Shelly – a programming language to draw in the browser
Shelly: a programming language for drawing - WebRTC JavaScript Library for Audio+Video+Screen+Canvas Recording
- NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
- A watcher for contributors to various projects: GraphQL with GitHub Actions
Quote of the week
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
— Hans Hoffmann
Enterprises
- Migrating Away from Google Analytics
- Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?
- Tesla drops Model Y price by $3k
- The growing short case on Facebook and Google
- Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source world
- Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel
by Jean-Louis Gassée - Tesla May Call Warranty Repairs Goodwill Due to Lemon Laundering
- 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics
- Google to Invest $10B in India
- Google Search Upgrades Make It Harder for Websites to Win Traffic
- Chipmaker Analog Devices to Acquire Maxim Integrated for $21B
Semiconductor maker Analog Devices Inc said on Monday it would buy rival Maxim Integrated Products Inc for about $21 billion in the largest U.S. deal this year, aimed at boosting its market share in automotive and 5G chipmaking. - Tesla jumps 14% on S&P 500 inclusion speculation Now the 10th by market value
- Google announces new Career Certificates and 100k scholarships
- Microsoft adding support for custom ‘+’ email addresses in Office 365
- German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
Germany has banned Tesla from repeating what a court says are misleading advertising statements relating to the capabilities of the firm’s driver assistance systems and to autonomous driving, a Munich judge ruled on Tuesday. - Google faces €600k privacy fine in Belgium
Google Belgium was imposed a fine of €600,000 by the Data Protection Authority (DPA) because the search engine did not respect a citizen’s right to be forgotten, the DPA announced on Tuesday. &qu - AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only
- Google Steers Users to YouTube over Rivals
- Twilio Acquires Electric Imp
- Add what Twitter’s missing – good thread editor, edit tweets and more
- Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors
- Tesla Worst for Reliability in American Driver Survey
Electric car company Tesla has ranked last for reliability in American survey of more than 87,000 buyers and lessees of new cars. The J.D. Power US Initial Quality Study, which gauges problems encountered in the first three months of ownership, included - Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites
- Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings
After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground. - Twitter: Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far
- The New Microsoft Edge
- Twitter Is at Its Best When Verified Accounts Can’t Tweet
On Wednesday, a hack involving high-profile Twitter accounts led the service to suspend the activity of verified users. It was great. - Databricks acquires Redash
- A new and improved Twitter API
Introducing the new Twitter API – rebuilt from the ground up to deliver new features faster so developers can help the world connect to the public conversation happening on Twitter.
- Improving Performance of PHP for Arm64 and Impact on Amazon EC2 M6g Instances
- Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories
Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait sent the following to the editorial staff on Wednesday: To All in Editorial & Research, Enterprise We are still publishing too many enterprise stories that are either mediocre or… - July 15 Twitter Attacks
- Amazon soya and beef exports ‘linked to deforestation’
UK consumers may unwittingly be buying meat linked to the destruction of the Amazon, experts say.
Other news
- Linus Torvalds on ‘Linux kernel in-tree Rust support’
- What Can Bonobos Teach Us About the Nature of Language?
- Merge tag ‘inclusive-terminology’ into Linux kernel
- Target’s Gig Workers Will Strike to Protest Switch to Algorithmic Pay Model
- What does Microsoft want with Linux and Open Source?
- Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro
This used to grate, but I think they need to be reframed. - Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems
- Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel
- The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don’t Compute over Zoom
- The Platonic solids and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics
- Breached Data Indexer ‘Data Viper’ Hacked
- Hacking with environment variables
- Element wins deal to supply half a million licences for German education system
- Hack of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700k Cops
- New York tech entrepreneur found decapitated, dismembered inside luxury condo
The victim was found dismembered and left in bags inside his Lower East Side condo. Police identify him as 33-year-old Fahim Saleh. - Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone
- Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears
- Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
Hackers pumping a crypto giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, individuals and at least one news org. - Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
The easiest and most trusted transaction search engine and block explorer. - Quantum Computing May Help Us Study Quantum Gravity
- Quantifying Vitality: The Progressive Paradox
- How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion
In America, political and commercial strains have led to questions about its value and meaning - European Police Hacked Secret Phone Network, Used AI for Major Bust
- Twitter hack has profound national security implications
You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history, it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago.Beginning in the spring of 2018, scammers began to impersonate noted cryptocurrency enthusiast Elon Musk. They would use his profile photo, select a user name similar to his, and tweet out an offer that was effective despite being too good to be tr - No, you couldn’t have made more money than the Twitter hacker
Analysis of various approaches to monetizing the Twitter hack - I learnt React by building a narrative driven funny(?) web game
- Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world’s most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to internal Twitter administrative tools. This post is an attempt to lay… - Microsoft released ProcMon for Linux
Procmon is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscal… - Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
- Iran state hackers caught with their pants down in intercepted videos
- Learn from Anyone
- Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
- Why It Pays to Be Grumpy and Bad-Tempered
- Hackers tell the story of the Twitter attack from the inside
- On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bonuses
- Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking
Performance monitoring simplified by making uptime monitoring, performance and real user metric tracking along with Global uptimes and SSL information in an easy and simple way. Never let users see your website down or with bad loading speeds. Receive alerts & insights in real time on health and performance. - NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go
Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux. Contribute to lawl/NoiseTorch development by creating an account on GitHub.
