Tech roundup 32: a journal published by a bot

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AI, bots and robots

• AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
• Multilingual Neural Machine Translation in the Wild
• Multi-Task Learning in the Wilderness: Karpathy on Autopilot progress
• Electrical Compartmentalization in Neurons
• Population Equivalence Maps with Geopandas
• MIT AI tool can predict breast cancer up to 5 years early
• Autocompletion with Deep Learning
• 3D kinematics using dual quaternions: theory and applications in neuroscience
• Wikipedia’s robots.txt
• Neuralink Live Stream
  Developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
• Neuralink Live Stream
• Large Scale Adversarial Representation Learning Explained
• Threatened TurboTax Profits caused it to charge disabled, students, & unemployed
• If You’re Poor in America, You Can Be Both Overweight and Hungry
• Mr. Robot Season 4 Teaser
• Open-sourcing CraftAssist for studying collaborative bots in Minecraft
• Researchers easily trick Cylance’s AI Antivirus to think Malware is ‘Goodware’
  By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able to trick Cylance’s AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign.
• XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation
• Challenges of AI Adoption
• Meta-learning neural Bloom filters

Blockchain and decentralization

• The Vision for Decentralized Web
• Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network
  With our latest v1.4.1 release, the Sia decentralized cloud storage network is ready for the next stage of adoption.
• Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes
• BitBounce: Email That Pays a Cryptocurrency Spam Solution
• Manticore: A Symbolic Execution Framework for Binaries and Smart Contracts

Cloud and architecture

• Cloud TPU Pods Break AI Training Records
  Google Cloud sets three new records in the industry-standard ML benchmark contest, MLPerf, with each of the winning runs using less than two minutes of compute time.
• The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use
• Cloud Maker – Rapidly create cloud architecture diagrams
• Seeing France’s Wild Mountains Through a Clouded, Classic Windshield
• Apple is an ally in name only on tightening privacy laws
• Tensorflow 2.0 Inference on Google Cloud Functions
  Learn how to run inference on Cloud Functions using TensorFlow 2.0.
• Investigating Multi-Account IAM Issues in S3 and CloudFront
• A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud Hyperbole
  I start more blog posts than I finish, due to no shortage of other distractions and at times near-crippling inability to blog short. When IBM announced they were acquiring Red Hat in October 2018 f…
• – A unified architecture for multi-modal multi-task learning
• QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

Development and languages

• ExpressPython A small Python 3 editor
• Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy
• Microsoft Word for Android has been installed more than 1B times
• Alan Cooper on the “10x” Programmer
• Gen: General-purpose probabilistic programming model with programmable inference
• Interesting Programming Languages
• Programming music for a modern dance piece
• Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform
• A Secret Weapon for Startups – Functional Programming?
  I was admitted to Penn for computer science, and while I got two undergraduate degrees, computer science remained my first love all along. My favorite CS course of all was CSE 121, the second semester of freshman year, which was an introduction to functional programming via the LISP language. Wh
• Vugu: Modern UI Library for Go+WebAssembly
• Sweet.js – Hygienic Macros for JavaScript
• Connect your Android phone with your Mac via KDE Connect
• Faster Fractals with Multi-Threaded WebAssembly
• Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
• How-to set up windows kernel mode debugging, a step by step guide
• Graph Processing with Python and GraphBLAS
  GraphBLAS for Python. Contribute to michelp/pygraphblas development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Pause and Resume WebAssembly with Binaryen’s Asyncify
• What’s Coming in Python 3.8
  The Python 3.8 beta cycle is already underway, with Python 3.8.0b1
  released on June 4, followed by the second beta
  on July 4. That means that Python 3.8 is feature complete at
  this point, which makes it a good time to see what will be part of it when
  the final release is made. That is currently scheduled
  for October, so users don’t have that long to wait to start using those new
  features.
• Gallery of Programmer Interfaces
• GraphQL Zeus – Autocomplete GraphQL Queries in JavaScript and TS
• At what time of day do famous programmers work?
• Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
• ∂P: A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
  Scientific computing is increasingly incorporating the advancements in
  machine learning and the ability to work with large amounts of data. At the
  same time, machine learning models are becoming increasingly sophisticated and
  exhibit many features often seen in scientific computing, stressing the
  capabilities of machine learning frameworks. Just as the disciplines of
  scientific computing and machine learning have shared common underlying
  infrastructure in the form of numerical linear algebra, we now have the
  opportunity to further share new computational infrastructure, and thus ideas,
  in the form of Differentiable Programming. We describe Zygote, a Differentiable
  Programming system that is able to take gradients of general program
  structures. We implement this system in the Julia programming language. Our
  system supports almost all language constructs (control flow, recursion,
  mutation, etc.) and compiles high-performance code without requiring any user
  intervention or refactoring to stage computations. This enables an expressive
  programming model for deep learning, but more importantly, it enables us to
  incorporate a large ecosystem of libraries in our models in a straightforward
  way. We discuss our approach to automatic differentiation, including its
  support for advanced techniques such as mixed-mode, complex and checkpointed
  differentiation, and present several examples of differentiating programs.
• Gitlab: 2019 Developer Report
  Discover key trends, attitudes, and perceptions on the state of culture, workflow, and tooling within IT organizations.
• CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly
• Understand the JavaScript SEO basics
• The Surprisingly High-Stakes Fight over a Traffic-Taming ‘Digital Twin’
• Rust compiler added to Android tree

Quote of the week

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

        — Bram Cohen

Enterprises

• Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads
• How to read the international phonetic alphabet
• AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
• Microsoft backtracks on Partner Network changes that sparked uproar
• MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
• Google Photos is making your photos semi-public and you probably don’t realise
• The Intelligence Myth – Why I cringe when someone tells me my child is smart
• HyperFoods: Machine intelligent mapping of cancer-beating molecules in foods
• Developer Tropes: “Google Does It”
• How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
  Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. But is the platform really a viable part-time hustle?
• Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech from Company Linked to IBM and Google
• Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch
• Intel Core I9 9980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmark
• Explaining a Novel to Pakistani Intelligence
• Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
• ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page
• German schools ban Microsoft Office 365 amid privacy concerns
• Peter Thiel Calls Google ‘Treasonous’ and Says CIA Should Investigate
• To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
• I Cancelled My Amazon Prime
• Block Amazon and Any Site Using Amazon Web Services
• Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform
• Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
• Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google’s ‘Seemingly Treasonous’ Acts
• Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup
• Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data
• Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions
• Google Protest Leader Meredith Whittaker Is Leaving the Company
• Amazon’s Vanishing Cardboard Box
• How Uber, Facebook and Netflix Do SSH
• Trump Targets Google’s China Ties, Citing Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel
• Microsoft security advisory for using memory-safe languages
• Google Search is being routinely gamed by fake blogs and has been for years
  For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. We’ll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.
• Tesla Roadster
• Google’s Project Dragonfly ‘Terminated’ in China
  The firm’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China had faced much criticism.
• EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
• Google Sheets Formula Clock
• Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
  Amazon discounted a wide range of camera gear for Prime Day this week, but some photographers scored what may be the best deals of their lives. Thanks to
• Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows
  The video streaming pioneer blamed price rises for adding fewer paid subscribers than hoped.
• Building the New Twitter.com
• Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store credits
  ‘No safeguards’ on QA accounts, and suddenly this guy gets a Tesla and $1.6m home, say prosecutors
• Microsoft to Explore Using Rust
• Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft
• How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livevideo.com
  Technology Articles and Podcasts
• Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool
• Bypassing anti-incognito detection in Google Chrome
• Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive
  org-mode on the web, built with React, optimized for mobile, synced with Dropbox and Google Drive – DanielDe/org-web
• I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
• Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations are through the roof
• Google and Facebook are tracking your porn preferences – even in incognito mode
• Brains scale better than CPUs. So Intel is building brains
• Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged

Other news

• DeluxePaint/DPaint original 1986 amiga source code
• LiveJournal data breach impacts 33M users with plaintext passwords
• Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
  The bitter battle between the University of California, a leading source of published research papers, and Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of research papers, just got more bitter.
• Bitcoin exchange owner gets 14 months in jail for lying about hack to SEC
• Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior
  The violation of a Bell inequality not only attests to the nonclassical nature of a system but also holds a very unique status within the quantum world. The amount by which the inequality is violated often provides a good benchmark on how a quantum protocol will perform. Acquiring images of such a fundamental quantum effect is a demonstration that images can capture and exploit the essence of the quantum world. Here, we report an experiment demonstrating the violation of a Bell inequality within observed images. It is based on acquiring full-field coincidence images of a phase object probed by photons from an entangled pair source. The image exhibits a violation of a Bell inequality with S = 2.44 ± 0.04. This result both opens the way to new quantum imaging schemes based on the violation of a Bell inequality and suggests promise for quantum information schemes based on spatial variables.
• Streaming Cassandra at WePay
• Building a hackable editor – in your browser
• New face of the Bank of England’s £50 note is revealed
  The note – once called the currency of corrupt elites – gets a makeover with the image of a computer pioneer.
• BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability
• I’m begging you: Stop donating canned goods to food banks
• Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw
• A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit
• Multi-millionaire at 27. What I learned
• I spent all of my millions. This is what I learned
• King – Man + Woman = King?
  Some of the best known examples used to explain the power of prominent NLP tools (like Word2Vec) only seem to work with some cheating.
• Education publisher Pearson to phase out print textbooks
• Forget Silicon Valley, It Still Pays More to Be a Doctor in America
• LessPhone – A minimal android launcher to reduce phone use
• Apple Plans to Bankroll Original Podcasts to Fend Off Rivals
• Why doesn’t Linux apt use HTTPS?
• Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: practices I learned
  For the past few years, I’ve been building and operating a large distributed system: the payments system at Uber. I’ve learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts during this time and seen first-hand how high-load and high-availability systems are challenging not just to build, but to operate as well. Building
• Google Glass May Have an Afterlife as a Device to Teach Autistic Children
• DoNotPay’s new service auto-cancels your free trials
• Daily Stormer Founder Should Pay ‘Troll Storm’ Victim $14M, Judge Says
• Rising health insurance deductibles fuel middle-class anger and resentment
• How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account
• Security Things in Linux v5.2
• Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions

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