Gooooooood morning, Family!!! 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
- Extreme Learning Machine
- Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate
- A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function
- Parents and students in Kansas have concerns about the Summit Learning program
- Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
- Botan: Crypto and TLS for Modern C++
- Procedural Character Animation with Machine Learning (ThreeJS)
AI4Animation in javascript & three.js. Contribute to sneha-belkhale/AI4Animation-js development by creating an account on GitHub. - Botanists rediscover rare Hawaiian flower thought extinct, thanks to a drone
- Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly
- Relearning Matrices as Linear Functions
- Made an AI to Write News Headlines Like Fox News, CNN, Breitbart etc.
- Robotic driving instructors are here to make lessons less stressful
- Applying the Unix philosophy to neural networks
Neural network inference the Unix way. Contribute to cloudkj/layer development by creating an account on GitHub. - Amazon’s Alexa Reviewers Can Access Customers’s Home Addresses
- Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences
- Brain signals translated into speech using AI
- AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy
- How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout
AI-powered video technology is becoming ubiquitous, tracking our faces and bodies through stores, offices, and public spaces. - A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
- Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI
Developers from AKQA, a global innovation agency most known for working with some of the hottest brands and public figures, trained a recurrent neural network and a deep convolutional generative adversarial network on over 400 sports with the aim of creating a new and original sport - Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot
- TurboTax Deliberately Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they’re keeping Google from seeing it.
Blockchain and decentralization
- Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors
- After the Bust, Are Bitcoins More Like Tulip Mania or the Internet?
- A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful about who’s generating your cryptocurrency keys. - SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son Lost $130M on Bitcoin
Masayoshi Son made a huge personal bet on bitcoin just as prices peaked, losing more than $130 million when he sold out. - Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
- IPFS Camp 2019
IPFS Camp is a 3 day hacker retreat designed for the builders of the Distributed Web. - Offst – A decentralized payment system
- Things Got Weird for Stablecoin Tether
- Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
You can join the discussion on HackerNews here.
We crossed the three year mark of developing YugaByte DB in February of this year. It has been a thrilling journey thus far, but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to go back to the drawing board and even sift through academic research to find a better solution than what we had at hand…. - E*Trade Is Close to Launching Cryptocurrency Trading
Woman computer scientist of the week
Kathleen McKeown is an American computer scientist, specializing in natural language processing. She is currently the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia University. McKeown received her B.A. from Brown University in 1976 and her PhD in Computer Science in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania and has spent her career at Columbia. She was the first woman to be tenured in the university’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and was the first woman to serve as Chair of the Department of Computer Science, from 1998 to 2003. She has also served as Vice Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Cloud and architecture
- Visualization techniques for different data sets
- Anthos – Google’s Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platform
- Portal Cloud Announces Subspace, an OpenSaaS WireGuard VPN Server GUI
- Serverless GitHub Leaderboard Single Page App
- TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes
- Lifetime SaaS Deals (tired of paying monthly for biz tools?)
- Nemu – Modern Hypervisor for the Cloud by Intel
Modern Hypervisor for the Cloud. Contribute to intel/nemu development by creating an account on GitHub. - Fighting vendor lock-in and designing testable serverless apps
What’s the scariest thing about serverless? The answer to that question depends on the person you ask and timing. However, it doesn’t matter if you are talking to the back end developer, system architect, or a business person, there’s one thing that always pops up, and it’s often followed by a few seconds of silence. - A Complete Formal Semantics of x86-64 User-Level Instruction Set Architecture
- The Climate and Cloudflare
- Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws?
Amazon’s reports of low–or zero–profits have long raised suspicions that it’s selling below cost to build a global monopoly. - IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In
- AWS Opens in Hong Kong
- AWS Region in Hong Kong Is Now Open
- SaaS vs. Open Core Software: An Introduction
- Cloudflare’s CTO Wants to Shake Up How We Think About VPNs
- Sauron – an web framework in rust which adheres to The Elm Architecture
Sauron is an html web framework for building web-apps. It is heavily inspired by elm. – ivanceras/sauron
Development and languages
- Asynchronous Programming in Rust
- OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection
- Windows 10-The best features of the May 2019 Update REVEALED
- Python Requests III
- BepuPhysics – Pure C# 3D real-time physics simulation library
- A Visual Introduction to Function Kernels
- From Imperative to Functional Programming: The Dijkstra Algorithm
- Comparing Java Alternatives to JavaScript in the Browser (GWT, CheerpJ, TeaVM, J
- Microsoft Research: Bosque Programming Language
- Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been
- Guide to TensorFlow 2.0 in Python
- Why Programming Is Difficult
- High-Powered REPL for Haskell, Inspired by IPython
- Write Python inline in your Rust code
- Running Datasette (a Python 3 app) on Glitch
- Inline Python in Rust
- WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly
- Sexual harassment is pervasive in US physics programmes
Survey of undergraduate women finds that most experienced some type of gender harassment during their physics studies. - Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming – Open-Source Media Server
Ant Media Server, open source software, supports publishing live streams with WebRTC and RTMP. It supports HLS(HTTP Live Streaming) and MP4 as well. Adaptive bitrate, scalable solutions exist for enterprises. Use community edition for free and in addition you can try enterprise edition for free. - Source for CARBANAK backdoor leaked and placed on GitHub
- GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili
Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u… - Running WebAssembly and WASI with .Net
- Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release
We are pleased to announce that the April 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. - James Webb runs a proprietary JavaScript interpreter by a bankrupt company
- An Introduction to C and GUI Programming
- Assessing Unikernel Security
- .Net for Apache Spark Preview
- The Q-BAL programming language
- WebAssembly Troubles Part 4: Microwasm
- Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google’s best efforts
For a decade, Google has tried to speed up updates to Android phones. For a decade, theyâve failed. Even worse, updates are getting slower every year. - Gitlab 11.10 Released
- Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project
Contribute to niofis/raybench development by creating an account on GitHub. - KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly
- Hertz sued Accenture for failing a $32M “digital transformation” project
Thread by @allafarce: «Hertz has sued Accenture for failing to deliver on a $32 million «digital transformation» project. Follow along as we read te lawsuit’s details… theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/her… The full lawsuit text is here: regmedia.co.uk/2019/04/23/h […]» - Clang/LLVM Support in Visual Studio
- The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta
Quote of the week
Nobody who uses XML knows what they are doing.
— Chris Wenham
Enterprises
- I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
- Google Open Source Tool for Securing C and C++ Software Libraries, Sandboxed API
- Amazon Quits China Market
- How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
- Google Walkout Organizers Say They’re Facing Retaliation
- Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day
- Microsoft engineer complains that company is biased
- Two Google employees say management is punishing them for organizing walkout
- Tesla’s full self-driving computer is now in all new cars
The Tesla computer, a new custom chip designed to enable full self-driving capabilities, is now in all new Model 3, X and S vehicles, CEO Elon Musk said during the company’s Autonomy Day. Tesla switched over from Nvidiaâs Drive platform to its own custom chip for the Model S and X about a mon⦠- How to Ace the Google Interview: Ultimate Guide
- Amazon customers will be able to return purchases to any Kohl’s store in July
- Microsoft Gives Paint the 11th Hour Reprieve It Deserves
Microsoft is reversing course and will keep Paint as a part of the basic install of Windows 10. - Elon Musk Claims on Tesla Chips Don’t Match the Reality
- New version of Stripe Checkout
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes. - New version of Stripe Checkout
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes. - An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace
- Tesla Quarterly Loss Is Bigger Than Foreseen: $702M
The $702 million loss exceeded expectations, but the company reaffirmed its guidance on the year’s deliveries. It said it was open to raising capital. - Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare
- A crowd-sourced social media swarm that is betting Tesla will crash
- NoScript extension officially released for Google Chrome
- How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public
- Amazon fired hundreds of workers a year from one warehouse over ‘productivity’
- Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor
For open-source developers, AWS has gone from a neutral platform to a cutthroat competitor - Microsoft is now a $1T company
- Google Is Eating Our Mail
- Microsoft Is Winning the Techlash
- Twitter won’t ban Neo-Nazis because the algorithm might ban GOP politicians too
- Musk, SEC Settle Legal Fight over His Tweets About Tesla
- Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006
Other news
- Linux 5.2 Is Introducing the Fieldbus Subsystem
- High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment
- Luxury Developers Use a Loophole to Build Soaring Towers for Ultrarich in NY
The spread of these buildings overlooking Central Park is provoking a backlash amid a broader debate about affordable housing, extravagant projects and the city’s identity. - Crux – open-source answer to Datomic
- China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps
China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps, with help from neighboring Kazakhstan - The Academic Destruction of the University of Tulsa
- Could a woman walk around the world today?
- Linux Network Queues Overview
- Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition
- Most Teachers Don’t Teach Climate Change; 4 in 5 Parents Wish They Did
- What can we learn from the matrix.org compromise?
- A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
Contribute to rnorm/book_sample development by creating an account on GitHub. - Mux is looking for a developer who wants to work as a developer advocate
- What do modern women think about fertility?
- SoftBank to invest over 1 bln USD in German payment company Wirecard
News and exclusives on geopolitics, money, automotive, energy and technology. - Nest, designed to keep intruders out of homes, allowed hackers to get in
- The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
- A drug rehab program has sent patients to work without pay
- Is cyberwarfare war? Insurers balk at paying for some cyberattacks
- Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia
- Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia
- Revolut is at risk of losing its European banking licenses
- Robots That Learn to Use Improvised Tools
- US Uber drivers plan 12-hour shutdown over pay and conditions
The drivers’ protest coincides with the ride-hailing firm’s debut on the stock market. - A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers
- Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak
- Slack Warns Investors It’s a Target for Nation-State Hacking
As Slack prepares to go public, the company is warning potential investors that it’s a target for malicious attacks from âsophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors,â according to an SEC filing published today. - US10144532B2 – Craft using an inertial mass reduction device
