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AI, bots and robots
- Japanese Language Learning Forum
- Christopher Alexander: A Primer
- Justice Department Is Scrutinizing Takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit, TurboTax
- DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev excavated the computer’s hidden layers
- Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders
- Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders
- Test-First Machine Learning
- Best Business Books for Entrepreneurs
- Introduction to Statistical Learning
- Leveraging Machine Learning to Fuel New Discoveries with the ArXiv Dataset
- Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
- Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds
New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer’s ability to learn the sounds of a new language. This device may have wide-ranging applications for boosting other kinds of learning as well. - Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
Apple AI chief and ex-Googler John Giannandrea dives into the details with Ars.
Blockchain and decentralization
- C++: Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust
- Tehran Skyscraper Combines Cryptocurrency Mining with Vertical Water Park
Woman computer scientist of the week
Nell B. Dale is an American computer scientist noted for her work in computer science education and computer science introductory programming textbooks. She was on the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board from 1981-85, and from 1987-93, and was Chair of SIGCSE from 1991-93. She was Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 1991 and Co-Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 2000.
Cloud and architecture
- Local-first software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud
- When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices
When I launched Feature Upvote, my B2B SaaS, in 2017, the price was $29/month, with a 20% discount for paying yearly. I chose that price arbitrarily, but also because it is what I felt I would pay for a similar service. After hearing repeatedly that developers who start businesses need to charge more, I wanted to experiment with a small increase. I delayed doing this until I had enough new customers each month to really be sure of the price change’s effect. In January 2019 I put the price up… - Autodesk criticised by architects
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The story of our company’s most valuable email. - The Rogue Wave of Enterprise SaaS
- Cloudflare Network Interconnect
- Concepts – Laws, Principles, Mental Models, Cognitive Biases
- Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
- An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
Development and languages
- Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C
- Plugin to add persisted GraphQL queries to WordPress
- Dutch minister of health makes a GitHub commit
- Advancing our approach to digital currency
- World’s First Fully Programmable and Open-Source Massive-MIMO Platform
- GPU Accelerated JavaScript
- GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
- GitHub’s largest collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering
How to systematically secure anything: a repository about security engineering – veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything - An Interactive JavaScript Slide Rule
- Top Mobile Programming Languages Include Java, C
- OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has made its first big contribution to OpenJDK: Porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 ARM (AArch64). - One year of automatic DB migrations from Git
- The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
- Small-Step Live Programming by Example
- I made a steganography program and published it on GitHub
- Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk
- International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2020 – Research Papers
- Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
- Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire
- Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability
- Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool
- .NET Team Survey: Native AOT
- MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming
- Two Features of JavaScript that you might not know
- CheerpX – x86 virtualization in browser using WebAssembly – Python Demo
- Create your WebAssembly Calling Card–visual creativity with WASM
- 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
- Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
Crush is an attempt to make a command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language. – liljencrantz/crush - Yet another tool for making copy/paste/run experience better (Windows)
- With Poetry, packaging in Python is a solved problem
- Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
- P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com and now it’s free for everyone
- Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution
Quote of the week
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
— Bram Cohen
Enterprises
- Stock Market: What Happens If Tesla Enters S&P 500
- Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google’s interests than good engineering
- Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition
- Google Meet Studio Mini – Change your appearance with a browser script
- Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree
It didn’t help that he crashed while doing so. - Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies
- Google killed a small smart glass maker after acquiring it
- Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the US
- Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
- Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push
Alphabet Inc’s Google is picking up a 6.6% stake in ADT Inc for $450 million, betting on the home security company’s strong customer base and an army of technicians to drive sales of its Nest devices. - Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US
- Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
Do you want the cheap one now or 5G later? - Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks
- TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
- EU Launches Full-Scale Probe into Google-Fitbit Takeover
The European Commission’s move has the potential to derail the $2.1bn takeover. - Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads
- DeGoogle My Life
- More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6
- Google’s Search Monopoly Complicates a Mental Health Crisis
- Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash
- I’ve compiled a list of the books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter
(Updated 2020) The most up to date and comprehensive list of 89 verified book recommendations from Paul Graham. Includes quotes and sources. - Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
- Do Not Trust Google
- What’s wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
- Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
- Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point
- Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results
- Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
- Twitter web app polyfill gzip size dropped from 16.6 KB to 2.7 KB (move to ES6+)
- How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
- 20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors
- On Using Twitter
- Classic Google Sites shutting down by September 2021
- TikTok’s potential $588 per user valuation in Microsoft deal
- Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Privacy Before Congress
- To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo
The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “network effects” - Tesla whistleblower breaks his silence
- Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands. Using them for home security could supercharge Google’s $450 million ADT deal.
Other news
- My Custom Payment Implant
Micro Bank Card Payment Conversion Service 💳 Payment implant 🏧 Everybody wants one, I actually have one , here is my journey 🚶 Along with everybody else, I am eagerly and patiently waiting for the Apex Line to be officially launched. The Apex line will be a powerful device that will be capable of many functions, including payment. However, currently, we don’t know when or where, globally 🗺 this will be restricted to upon its release; therefore, I have… - Hacking Portable Air Conditioners
- Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer
- IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux
- Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech. Here Are the Numbers
982 People. 14 Outlets. 80% White. 2% Black. 18% Other. - I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
- The Global Implications of “Re-education” Technologies in Northwest China
- What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
- UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing
- Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule
- What Args Can Teach Us About QAnon
- Laws of UX
Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces. It was created by Jon Yablonski. - Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy
- The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women survivors of the atomic bombs
- The UX of Lego Interface Panels
- Write a mini-redis in rust: learn async programming with tokio
- Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux
- Crux SQL
- Unlearn Rotation Matrices as Rotations
- License Zero: Comments on “The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free”
- The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program
- Teaching quantum information science to high-school students
- Ex-NSA Hacker Finds a Way to Hack Mac Users via Microsoft Office
- Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power
- Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers
- Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020
Pros and cons of using a 30-year-old editor in 2020. - Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
Washington, D.C., journalists are clustering not in one âBeltway bubble,â but in âmicrobubbles,â says an Illinois study of their Twitter use. - OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh
OpenCore bootloader. Contribute to acidanthera/OpenCorePkg development by creating an account on GitHub. - A crash course on hacking satellites
- Busted US Retailers Use Bankruptcy to Break Leases by the Thousands
With the pandemic intensifying the plight of U.S. retailers, companies from J. Crew Group Inc. to the owner of Ann Taylor are using Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings to quickly get out of costly, long-term leases and shutter thousands of stores. - One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment
- Make Billionaires Pay Act
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