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
- A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2
- Microsoft shows freaky A.I. writing Python code
- The What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning Models
- Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be Bots
- CMU Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Bots
- React Native scrollable bottom sheet native animations gestures 60FPS
Cross platform scrollable bottom sheet with virtualisation support, native animations at 60 FPS and fully implemented in JS land :fire: – rgommezz/react-native-scroll-bottom-sheet - 40 Years On, Pac-Man Recreated with AI by Nvidia Researchers
On the 40th anniversary of PAC-MAN, NVIDIA GameGAN generated a fully functional version of the classic — without an underlying game engine. - On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted
Blockchain and decentralization
- Link-lock – Distributed app to password-protect URLs
- Coinbase will be a remote-first company
- Coinbase Making WFH Permanent
- Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
We’re officially making multi-node TimescaleDB, a petabyte-scale distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL available for free – and investing in our community in other ways as well.
Woman computer scientist of the week
Annie J. Easley was an African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She worked for the Lewis Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). She was a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
Cloud and architecture
- New UI pattern for file manager type apps
- VPC Design Studio – Subnet CIDR planning with Terraform/Pulumi code gen
- Woman who designed Florida’s Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position
As Florida starts to reopen, the architect and manager of Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard, announced she’d been removed from her position, Florida Today reported. Rebekah Jones said in an email to CBS12 News that her removal was «not voluntary» and that she was removed from her position because she was ordered to censor some data, but refused to «manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen. « - A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
How a Google Cloud support engineer found one customer’s missing DNS packets - Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future
- AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
- Google Cloud earns defense contract win for Anthos multi-cloud management tool
- ScoutSuite: Multi-cloud security auditing tool
- The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
Development and languages
- Macropy: Syntactic Macros for Python
- Jira forcing users to give write access to GitHub and drive
- XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
- A GitOps development environment in the comfort of your own localhost
- Entropy and the NetBSD Kernel
- A hand-wired USB and Bluetooth keyboard powered by Python
- Python Developers Survey 2019 Results – Jetbrains
- Vrmac Graphics, a cross-platform graphics library for .NET
- Little Ball of Fur – A Python library for graph subsampling
Little Ball of Fur – A NetworkX extension library for graph sampling. – benedekrozemberczki/littleballoffur - Impostor Syndrome in Programming
- JavaScript Promise.all vs. Promise.allSettled
- Mediasoup – WebRTC video conferencing
- Fast high-level programming languages
- The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming
- Python performance: it’s not just the interpreter
- Windows Package Manager Preview
- The Third Age of JavaScript
- Welcome to C# 9.0
- Abusing WebRTC to reveal coarse location data in Signal
Signal Private Messenger’s ease of use, multiplatform support, and end-to-end encryption for both text and calls have attracted millions… - Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5
The goal of this effort is enable .Net-Core apps to be published and distributed as a single executable. Goals The .Net 5.0 single file solution should be: Widely compatible: Apps containing IL ass… - Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website. – kotartemiy/newscatcher - Monadic Functional Control Flow Micro-Library for JavaScript/TypeScript
- Xbox and Windows NT 3.5 source code leaks online
- Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
Description of the new feature/enhancement The readme mentions you collect telemetry, but it doesn’t include information on how to opt out. Opting out is critical, and understanding how should … - Shopify Goes Digital by Default
- An Amazon programmer’s perspective on working at Amazon
An Amazon Programmer’s Perspective (http://pastebin.com/BjD84BQ3) – amznymous.md - I Made JavaScript Color Conversion Library for LCH/Lab/XYZ/RGB/Hex/HSL
- Sizzle Then Fizzle: Buzzy Titles and Borrowing Digitized Books
- Python Generated Sequence Diagrams
- GitLab 13.0
GitLab 13.0 released with Epic Hierarchy on Roadmaps, Auto Deploy to ECS, and much more to help you iterate quickly on a High Availability platform - Programming Inside a Container
Quote of the week
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
— Henry Spencer
Enterprises
- Amazon is handing out ‘Thank you’ t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay
- OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2
- Bizarre new species discovered on Twitter
While many of us use social media to be tickled silly by cat videos or wowed by delectable cakes, others use them to discover new species. Included in the latter group are researchers from the University of Copenhagen’s Natural History Museum of Denmark. Indeed, they just found a new type of parasitic fungus via Twitter. - Google refuses to remove the state-sponsored app used to spy on Russian citizens
- Some Tesla workers still concerned at partially-reopened plant
- Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project
- Amazon Tells Canadian Warehouse Workers They’re Getting a Pay Cut
- California officials reject subsidies for SpaceX over Tesla spat
- Amazon’s Showdown in France Tests Its Ability to Sidestep Labor
- Web Application Exploits and Defenses
- Microsoft admits being ‘on the wrong side of history’ with regard to open source
- Rust/WinRT Brings Microsoft Closer to Adopting Rust Internally
- Tesla says it has health official’s OK to run California plant
- Tesla poised to reveal ‘million-mile’ battery as soon as this year
- Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
- Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon’s Best Selling CPU?
- Google deletes “communist bandits” comments on Youtube globally
- German intelligence can’t spy on foreigners outside Germany
- Walmart says it will discontinue Jet, which it acquired for $3B in 2016
- Microsoft Project Reunion
- Microsoft Fluid Framework Preview
- Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
Build 2020 brought a lot of Microsoft 365 news and announcements for businesses and developers – including the first disclosure of Microsoft Lists. We are pleased to share our vision for Lists – to highlight how you use it to track issues, manage inventory, build out event agendas, report status, ma… - Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
Build 2020 brought a lot of Microsoft 365 news and announcements for businesses and developers – including the first disclosure of Microsoft Lists. We are pleased to share our vision for Lists – to highlight how you use it to track issues, manage inventory, build out event agendas, report status, ma… - Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83
- Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability
- The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review
- Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter
- Left, Right, Above, and Under: Intel 3D Packaging Tech Gains Omnidirectionality
- Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-from-Home Shift
- The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
We are excited to announce the open-sourcing of Microsoft GW-BASIC on GitHub! Yes, seriously 😀 Why? Since re-open-sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 & 2.0 on GitHub last year, we’ve received numerous requests to also open-source Microsoft BASIC. Well, here we are! 😁 The Source These sources, - Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish
- Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files
- Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
It says hundreds of thousands of people have been paying for something they don’t use.
Other news
- The Linux Kernel FPGA Subsystem
- Learn Go: 1000 handcrafted Go exercises and examples
1000+ Hand-Crafted Go Examples, Exercises, and Quizzes – inancgumus/learngo - Hacker Feud
- Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required
- Modern Universities Are an Exercise in Insanity
- Career Fair – Learn about Jobs by People Who Have Done Them
- SoftBank’s Vision Fund Loses $17.7B on WeWork, Uber
- Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant
- Android 10 Is killing Termux terminal app
- Strava cuts off leaderboard for free users, reduces third party apps
- Get help on any Linux command by typing ‘howdoi –’ in your terminal
- J.C. Penney is closing 240 stores as part of its bankruptcy plan
- Unnamed SFU – Open Source One-to-many videoconferencing for teaching/conferences
- 402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed
- EasyJet admits nine million customers hacked
The attack was «sophisticated» the airline said, adding that some credit card details had been accessed. - Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results
- Watch Where the Linux Kernel Drops a Packet
- DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux. - DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux. - Unofficial APIs: A collective list of libraries for your next hack
A collection of unofficial apis. Designed to inspire your next Friday night hack – Rolstenhouse/unofficial-apis - Epic refuses to pay out $1M bug bounty promised for discovering exploit
- The mystery of ‘hacked’ Houseparty users may have been solved
- Free Elixir/Phoenix LiveView Course
- Paypal closes its customer service
- Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more
- G2A pays Factorio developer $39,600 over illegally obtained game keys
- Organ Transplants Down as Stay-at-Home Rules Reduce Fatal Traffic Collisions
- California affordable housing is more expensive than luxury housing
It costs more to build low-income housing in California than anywhere else in the U.S., and the coronavirus pandemic is likely to make matters worse. - VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for FPGA
- Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts
- University of California Will Stop Using Sat, Act
The board of regents voted to stop using the SAT and ACT college admissions exams, dealing a significant blow to the multibillion-dollar college admission testing industry. - The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020
- Deleting a Few Lines of Code Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings on Linux
- Vintage Telephones Hacked with Raspberry Pis to Create Intercom
- Vintage Telephones Hacked with Raspberry Pis to Create Intercom
- I opened 12 bank accounts to benchmark their UX
- Hertz files for bankruptcy protection
- Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove that labor market rigged?
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