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
Miriah Meyer is an American computer scientist and USTAR professor at the University of Utah. She is noted for her pioneering work in data visualization for research applications. She received an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship in 2006 and served as a reporter for The Chicago Tribune. She was named in MIT Technology Review’s TR35 list in 2011 and Fast Company’s list of the 100 most creative people in 2012. She was named a 2013 TED Fellow for her work in interactive visualization.
Cloud and architecture
- Video Architecture Search
- The Elm Architecture (TEA) animation
- The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement
- Bank of America’s CEO says it’s saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
Brian Moynihan, Bank of America’s CEO, highlighted the firm’s decision to move to a private cloud on its third-quarter earnings call. - AWS cross-AZ data transfer costs more than they tell you
- AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
There are a lot of ways companies can rack up high bills for using cloud services, sometimes unexpectedly. One particularly stiff expense is the cost of shifting data from one cloud providerâs servers to another provider, or to a companyâs own data center. The Information has learned just how … - 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
- Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool
Igloo is a software application for Microsoft Windows which automates common desktop support and systems administration tasks. Igloo uses Python and PowerShell to provide users with TCP scanners, Windows shortcuts, and a simplified command line that helps IT professionals reduce stress and improve t - 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
- US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
A history of edits to the US Constitution as it has been amended. Written in markdown to match original formatting. – JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution - Thanks Gitlab
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- 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
- IBM casts doubt on Google’s claims of quantum supremacy
Google researchers say they have achieved milestone with number-generating computation - IBM Responds to Google Claims: On “Quantum Supremacy”
Recent advances in quantum computing have resulted in two 53-qubit processors - Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival
Platform power is a helluva a drug. Do a search on Google’s Play Store in Europe and you’ll find the company’s own Gboard app has an age rating of PEGI 3 — aka the pan-European game information labelling system which signifies content is suitable for all age groups. PEGI 3 m… - 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
- Stripe to move to South San Francisco
San Francisco is losing one of its most valuable tech startups as Stripe signs a lease in South San Francisco. - Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
SuperGLUE is a new benchmark styled after original GLUE benchmark with a set of more difficult language understanding tasks, improved resources, and a new public leaderboard. - Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok
- Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
How about just: Former Facebook Microsoft engineer James Whittaker on how to fix the company - Google brings in BERT to improve its search results
Google today announced one of the biggest updates to its search algorithm in recent years. By using new neural networking techniques to better understand the intentions behind queries, Google says it can now offer more relevant results for about one in 10 searches in the U.S. in English (with suppo… - Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
Amazon was considered a front-runner for the cloud computing project before President Trump began criticizing the companyâs founder, Jeff Bezos.
Other news
- HackPPL: A universal probabilistic programming language
- Learn ClojureScript: Discovering Sequence Operations
- Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0
This is the story of a summer project that started out of boredom and that evolved into something incredibly fun and unique. It is also the story of how that project went from being discussed on a por - Good UX = Boring UI. Don’t Be Creative
The best user experiences are often found on the most boring interfaces. If you want your product to stand out above the rest, then be average. - How oral contraceptives may affect women’s minds
- Disney+ Doesn’t Work on Linux
First of all, as always my opinions are my own, not those of my employer. Since I have 2 children I was happy to learn that the Netherlands would be one of the first countries to get Disney+ streaming. So I subscribed for the testing period, problem all devices in my home run Fedora. I started up… - FireEye confirms APT41 hacked TeamViewer, may have accessed billions of devices
FireEye confirms that APT41 Group hacked TeamViewer; attackers might have accessed billions of devices : web application security IICS - Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that’s not Linux-derived
- NordVPN confirms it was hacked
NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked. The admission comes following rumors that the company had been breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had an expired internal private key exposed, potentially allowi… - 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
- Man sues AT&T over ‘SIM Swap’ hack allegedly involving employees
Torrance resident Seth Shapiro has filed a federal lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that the wireless provider’s employees helped hackers pull off a ‘SIM Swap’ hack that robbed him of $1.8 million, and he says chat logs from the arrested hackers prove it. - Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food. How did this unlikely scenario come around, you’re no doubt asking? Well, f - Royal Society entire catalog of scientific journals open access until Oct 27
Our international, peer reviewed journals publish high quality science and provide an excellent service to our authors and readers. - The Hacker Manifesto
- We Never Paid for Journalism
- Women Under the Spell
- Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO
As the market continues to turn against the wave of highly valued venture-backed startups operating with little end in sight to their huge losses — Uber and WeWork being two prime examples — another startup is taking a proactive step to get ahead of the story, by cutting costs and restr… - Men hold more positive attitudes towards ex-partners than women do
A study looks at the question of what might distinguish men and women in the ways they view their ex-partners
