Gooooooood morning, Internet!!! 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
- Boston Dynamics prepares to launch its first commercial robot
- Google DeepMind: Self-Supervised Learning
- The Dawn of Robot Surveillance
- A centipede robot
- Chinese Google Translate Sabotage
- We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
- Learning fine motor coordination changes the brain
- Dishcraft Robotics Takes over Dishwashing from Humans
- An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
- Domino’s will start delivering pizzas via an autonomous robot this fall
- Thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com – Semi-Convincing Blog Written by Grover AI
- Deep Learning and Climate Change
- Things We Lost in the Flood: A Massively Multiplayer Loneliness Simulator
- Learning the Arrow of Time
- Unmasking Adversarial AI with Pin-Yu Chen
- An entrepreneur wants to track the residents of a high-crime American community
- Get an Acme Klein Bottle
Blockchain and decentralization
- Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs
- Bitcoin causing CO2 emissions comparable to Hamburg
- Ultralisp: A fast-moving Common Lisp software distribution
- Facebook’s Answer to Bitcoin Poses a Double Threat
- Calibra – Digital Wallet for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency
The Calibra wallet app is built on blockchain technology to enable people to move Libra, a borderless cryptocurrency, freely, securely and affordably. - Libra Core Facebook’s Cryptocurrency
Libraâs mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. – libra/libra - Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra to the world
Facebook says its âstablecoin,â will empower billions and underpin a stunningly ambitious global economy. And it promises to keep its hands off your transactional data. - Facebook Plans Global Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency
Despite skepticism and concern about Facebook’s reach, the company envisions an alternative financial system based on a new cryptocurrency called Libra. - Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France
- HotStuff: BFT Consensus in the Lens of Blockchain
- Cloudflare’s Ethereum Gateway
- He Says He Invented Bitcoin and Is Suing Those Who Doubt Him
- Facebook’s Cryptocurrency: Stop It Before It Starts
- Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users
- Universal Basic Income is ‘best way to distribute equity stake in productivity’
- Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency
Woman computer scientist of the week
Jean Jennings Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. She studied mathematics in school then began work at the University of Pennsylvania, first manually calculating ballistics trajectories, then using ENIAC to do so. She and her colleagues developed and codified many of the fundamentals of programming while working on the ENIAC, since it was the first computer of its kind. After her work on ENIAC, Bartik went on to work on BINAC and UNIVAC, and spent time at a variety of technical companies as a writer, manager, engineer and programmer. She spent her later years as a real estate agent and died in 2011 from congestive heart failure complications.
Cloud and architecture
- Amazon Alexa Secretly Records Children, Lawsuits Allege
- I386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10
- Announcing Timescale Cloud
- Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted
Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than p… - Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defendants in lawsuits
- Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows
The right to repair battle trudges on despite a record amount of legislative proposals. - What bugs cause cloud production incidents?
What bugs cause production cloud incidents? Liu et al., HotOS’19 Last time out we looked at SLOs for cloud platforms, today we’re looking at what causes them to be broken! This is a stu⦠- Cloudflare Time Services
Development and languages
- Uniform Structured Syntax, Metaprogramming and Run-Time Compilation
- Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
- Node.js and Python Interoperability
- Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Android phones for police
- Pointers in Python
- The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
- The Rascal Metaprogramming Language
- JExcel – JavaScript spreadsheet web component – Open source
- WireGuard for Windows Pre-Alpha Is Available
- A serious security flaw has been found in Windows 10
- Everything You Need to Know About Date in JavaScript
- End-User Probabilistic Programming
- Elegant Error Handling with the JavaScript “Either” Monad
JavaScript gives us a built-in language feature for handling exceptions: tryâ¦catch statements. And they’re better than littering our code with if-statements. But they can be problematic. And they are not the only way to handle errors. In this article, weâll take a look at using the âEither monadâ as an alternative to tryâ¦catch. - One liner NPM package “is-windows” has 2.5M dependants, why on earth?
- ParrotSnoop – Android TCP/UDP Packet Capture for IPv4/IPv6
- Download WireGuard for Windows pre-alpha for testing
- We chose Rust as our programming language
- ICFP Programming Contest 2019
- Why in JavaScript
- A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore
In revision r237547 we introduced a new bytecode format for JavaScriptCore (JSC). - Digital nomad has traveled to all four corners of his apartment (satire)
- You Can Now Download the New Open Source Windows Terminal
- New Windows Terminal Preview
Quote of the week
Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
— Dave Cutler
Enterprises
- Apple Still Eyes Intel’s Modem Business
- “Amazon’s Choice” is determined by an algorithm and not always reliable
- Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content
- An artificially intelligent, open-source bionic leg
- Genius discovered Google was scraping their lyrics
- SIM swap horror story: I’ve lost decades of data and Google won’t lift a finger
First they hijacked my T-Mobile service, then they stole my Google and Twitter accounts and charged my bank with a $25,000 Bitcoin purchase. I’m stuck in my own personal Black Mirror episode. Why will no one help me? - Nvidia Makes Arm a Peer to x86 and Power for GPU Acceleration
- Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them
- Google Is Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout
- LA landlords rip out escalators, walls to attract tenants like Google, Netflix
- Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
- Google Calendar Is Down
- YouTuber Simone Giertz Transformed a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck
- Amazon expands its air cargo fleet
Following news from earlier this month that FedEx was dumping Amazon from its air cargo service, Amazon this morning announced the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air. The retailer says it’s leasing an additional 15 Boeing 737-800 cargo aircraft from partner GE Capital Aviat⦠- Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs
- Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl
- Why Google+ Failed
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 ($199) Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K ($374) in Cinebench
These results once again highlight why AMD is chipping away at Intel’s market share both in the consumer as well as the server market. - How Virginia Won Amazon’s HQ2
- Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby
Google Maps is filled with false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby. Some are fibbing to get your business. Others are posted by predators seeing what they can take. - Slack Is Going Public Without an IPO – How a Direct Listing Works
- Tesla Model 3 Spoofed off the highway
The Regulus Cyber researchers found that spoofing attacks on the Tesla GNSS (GPS) receiver could easily be carried out wirelessly and remotely, resulting in controlling the car’s navigation decisions. - Google will no longer make its own tablet devices
- Zhaoxin KX-6000 CPUs Purportedly Match Intel’s Core I5-7400 in Performance
- Artificial Intelligence and the Good Society
- Intel to Slash Desktop Processor Pricing Up to 15 Percent as Ryzen 3000 Nears
- Google’s painful Gmail OAuth verification process
- Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology
- Amazon gets U.S. patent to use delivery drones for surveillance service
- Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch
Other news
- Lessons learned from rewriting code in my 10 years as a developer
- What it’s like to be a white woman named LaKiesha
When you’re a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman named LaKiesha, life can get complicated. This Ohio woman with a name that blurs racial boundaries says people often treat her as an imposter. - Hacking Water
- Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way
- Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s
I was thinking recently that here in the West we take our video game history largely for granted. Look back at the Golden Age of video games, and it’s apparent that we had it pretty good R⦠- Learn to Write a Bare Bones Operating System Kernel
- Boeing seeking to reduce scope, duration of physical tests for new aircraft
- OpenMandriva Lx 4 is released as the first Clang-built Linux distribution
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 final release is out now! Exciting news! Shortly after the release candidate we are very proud to introduce you the fruit of so much work, some visible and much more behind… - Relearn CSS layout
- Origin Of Wireless Security: The Marconi Radio Hack Of 1903
The place is the historic lecture theater of the Royal Institution in London. The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system,⦠- Lenovo Thinkpads Now Ship with Linux (Ubuntu or Red Hat)
- How much are professors paid?
- What Chinese Citizens Have (and Haven’t) Learned About Hong Kong’s Protests
- Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development
- Netflix has Identified Several TCP Networking Vulnerabilities in Linux kernels
Security Bulletins that relate to Netflix Open Source – Netflix/security-bulletins - Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels
- A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?
- Learn anything by creating something everyday
- macOS-Simple-KVM: A New Way to Create macOS VMs in Linux
- How to Turn a Quantum Computer into the Ultimate Randomness Generator
- Differentiation for Hackers
- OIN, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3k licensees
- Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hackers $600k
- Deutsche Bank Faces Criminal Investigation for Potential Money-Laundering Lapses
- QuadrigaCX CEO allegedly traded millions in fake funds to fund luxury lifestyle
- Married to debt: Couples are taking out loans to pay for their weddings
- Why Monzo’s bank transfers weren’t working on the 30th of May
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead. - Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM
Using Ramroot, we can run Arch Linux entirely from RAM! Yes, you read right. It loads the entire root filesystem into RAM at boot. - Another Book on Data Science – Learn R and Python in Parallel
- Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad
- Plutocrat donors are shaping the agenda at our elite universities
- Plutocrat donors are shaping the agenda at elite universities
- A Rogue Raspberry Pi Let Hackers Into JPL Network
- What Facebook’s new currency means for the banking system
