Tech roundup 87: a journal published by a bot

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• Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors
  Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, I have created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors. For this project, I have transformed, or restored (cracks, noses, ears etc.) almost a thousand images of busts to make…
• Astrobotic’s CubeRover program awarded $2M NASA contract
• The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
• Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
• The Computational Limits of Deep Learning
  Deep learning’s recent history has been one of achievement: from triumphing
  over humans in the game of Go to world-leading performance in image
  recognition, voice recognition, translation, and other tasks. But this progress
  has come with a voracious appetite for computing power. This article reports on
  the computational demands of Deep Learning applications in five prominent
  application areas and shows that progress in all five is strongly reliant on
  increases in computing power. Extrapolating forward this reliance reveals that
  progress along current lines is rapidly becoming economically, technically, and
  environmentally unsustainable. Thus,
• 2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company
  Secure Thoughts collaborated with Cyber Security Expert Jeremiah Fowler to expose an AI company which leaked millions of patient medical records online
• Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo
  Photographer Jomppe Vaarakallio has been a professional retoucher for 30 years, but he’s never seen anything quite like this before. While working on an
• Accused Spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma Beat the Polygraph to Penetrate the FBI
• Open Problems in Robotics
  Robotics is one of those things the business funny papers regularly wonder about; it seems like consumer robotics is a revolutionary trillion dollar market which is perpetually  20-years away -more…
• Use of AI to select Superstars in sports
• California bullet train contractors botched bridge project
  A bridge that was supposed to take a year is incomplete after four, partly because of corrosion and other problems involving California’s high-speed-rail contractors.
• IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security
• Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window
• Tackling Open Challenges in Offline Reinforcement Learning
• A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data
• AI ‘pilot’ beats top F-16 fighter pilot in DARPA’s simulated aerial dogfight
• Neuroimaging results altered by varying analysis pipelines
• Microsoft Flight Simulator Maps Entire Globe with AI
  The latest Flight Simulator title promises a near-perfect replica of the entire world.
• Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well
• FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
• FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
• TriFinger: An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity
• Navy F/A-18 squadron commander’s take on AI repeatedly beating real pilot
  Everyone has an opinion when it comes to the stunning results of DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials, now hear what the skipper of a fighter squadron thinks.
• The robotics revolution is here, and it’s changing how we live
• My AI Timelines Have Sped Up
• Boston Dynamics’ Handle Robot Recreated with Raspberry Pi
• Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world
• “Alexander the Grate” on living in the “interstices of the infrastructure”
• Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots
• Thoughts on 2 Years as a Remote Robotics Consultant
• New planets confirmed in machine learning first
• Robots that can walk are now striding to market
• The magic of ion channels in the neurons
• TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm
• Self-Classifying MNIST Digits Using Neural Cellular Automata
• Free Learning List
• Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle
• Using machine learning to detect deficient coverage in colonoscopy screenings
• Neuralink Progress Update, Summer 2020
  The latest from the forefront of neural engineering.
• Google offers to help others with the tricky ethics of AI
• Ex-neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace
  This Friday, Elon Musk’s secretive brain-implants startup Neuralink will give the first major update on its progress in more than a year.
• Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace
• Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
• God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both
• Effective testing for machine learning systems
• FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics
• Robotic Manipulation (Online Textbook)
• Applebot
  Learn about Applebot, the web crawler for Apple.
• Palantir’s S-1 has a paragraph warning its AI technology may do unethical things
• Deep Learning for Compilers
• I Was Excited for Neuralink. Then I Watched the Demo
• Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
  As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of hosts running containers with […]
• Fast Supernovae Detection Using Neural Networks
• How to build a handwriting reader from scratch with deep learning
• Learning@home hivemind – train large neural networks across the internet
  A library to train large neural networks across the internet. Imagine training one huge transformer on thousands of computers from universities, companies, and volunteers.
• Single neuron neural network written in COBOL
  A perceptron written in COBOL. Contribute to victorqribeiro/perceptronCobol development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Rust testing or verifying: Why not both?
  Dijkstra famously dissed testing by saying “Program testing can be used to show
  the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
  As if you should choose one over the other.
  I don’t see them as opposites but as complementary techniques that
  should both be used to improve the quality of your code.

• Reading mind and Visualizing thoughts using AI
• Build Machine Learning Web-Service with Python and Django
• Grounded Language Learning Fast and Slow
• An AI Breaks the Writing Barrier
• The New Neuroscience of Stuttering
• Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  Working with our partners at Google Maps, we used advanced machine learning techniques including Graph Neural Networks, to improve the accuracy of real time ETAs by up to 50%.
• AI color palette generator for Tailwindcss
  A tool for creating new color shades based on a neural network and trained with the Tailwindcss palette.
• Which GPUs to get for deep learning
• On finally learning to program at the age of 40
  Contribute to Dhghomon/programming_at_40 development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Ad Fraud on LinkedIn
  LinkedIn Ads are awash in mistaken clicks and bot traffic that make the platform’s value extremely dubious, according to a new study from RMG.
• The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees
• FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices
• Building Character: Writing a Backstory for Our AI
• Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
  A surveillance-friendly choice.
• AI Ruined Chess. Now, It’s Making the Game Beautiful Again
• USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI Are Both SCSI
• On “Learning to Summarize”
• Amazon’s Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen
• Neural Image Compression Demo
• The Trefle Botanical API is now open source
• A Review of Language Learning Tactics
• Transformers Are Graph Neural Networks
• Using the Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithm in an AI to Beat 2048
• Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots
• Open-source quadruped robot with robotic arm
• Tribuo, a Machine Learning Library for Java
• When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott’s passport number
  Do not get arrested challenge 2020
• He Invented the Rubik’s Cube. He’s Still Learning From It
• Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
• Robust Spammer Detection by Nash Reinforcement Learning
• How attractive is your website? Check using Visual Mind AI
• New Data Processing Module Makes Deep Neural Networks Smarter – NC State News
  AI researchers have improved the performance of deep neural networks by combining feature normalization and feature attention into a single module.
• Webots robot simulator went open-source
• Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing
  Swift for TensorFlow gives you the power of TensorFlow directly integrated into the Swift programming language.
• Free open source Learning Resources related to Web-Development A to Z
• Sktime: A Unified Python Toolbox for Machine Learning with Time Series
• Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts
  As the population increasingly moves towards tech jobs, there’s now a shortage of coconut harvesters in India. That’s why scientists there have built a tree-climbing coconut-harvesting robot, that could perhaps someday take up the slack.
• Bottom Type in F#
• Neurotoxic peptides isolated from venom of giant Australian stinging tree
  Scientists have found a potent chemical that might give Australian giant stinging trees their extraordinarily painful punch.
• Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life
• Watch a Tesla Fail an Automatic Braking Test and Vaporize a Robot Pedestrian
• How to Make a Robotic Worm
• Adventures in hill climbing with AI
• AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3
• FedEx teams up with Reliable Robotics on autonomous cargo planes
• Vocabulary 90 – vocabulary learning automation
• Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
• China’s Social Credit System: It’s both unique and part of a global trend
• ML News – Like HN, but for Machine Learning
• Build Your Own Artificial Neural Network
• Is Reddit doing mass bot suspensions?
• Web Neural Network API
• Think Fast: Tensor Streaming Processor for Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads
• My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
• Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron
• A magnetically actuated microrobot for targeted neural cell delivery
• A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning
• igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
  a delightful machine learning tool that allows you to train, test and use models without writing code – nidhaloff/igel
• How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You
  Modern technology has enabled the development and deployment of the pervasive and precise surveillance that may be slipping out of the control of the public.
• Chat bot powered by GPT-3
  Brief summary of our GPT-3 chat bot for SaaS product sales.
• Remote learning isn’t new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic
  This isn’t the first time America’s schoolchildren have studied remotely – and Chicago’s 1937 ‘radio school’ experiment shows how technology can fill the gap during a crisis.
• The Best of Both Worlds: A New Take on Metal–Plastic Hybrid 3D Printing
• Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI
• Clarifying exceptions and visualizing tensor operations in deep learning code
• AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
  A team of scientists at LMU Munich have developed Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), a deep-learning training technique for natural language processing (NLP) models. Using PET, the team trained a Transformer NLP model with 223M parameters that out-performed the 175B-parameter GPT-3 by over 3 percentage points on the SuperGLUE benchmark.
• An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy
• I made a simple Alexa knockoff that doesn’t spy on me
• Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse
  A data warehouse is an input to the Feature Store. A data warehouse is a single columnar database, while a feature store is implemented as two databases.
• A Guide to Deep Learning and Neural Networks
• Grid: AI platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning
• The Machine Learning Engineering Book
• Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
• Good sleep, good learning, good life
• Fractal Learning
• Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS
• SmartGuitarAmp – Guitar plugin made with deep learning
  Guitar plugin made with JUCE that uses neural network models to emulate real world hardware. – GuitarML/SmartGuitarAmp
• Play the long game when learning to code
• Symptoma – Digital health assistant and symptom checker
• AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
• Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet
  Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control over many Internet servers Trickbot uses to plunder infected systems, based on novel claims that…
• Deep Learning for Procedural Content Generation – a survey
  Procedural content generation in video games has a long history. Existing
  procedural content generation methods, such as search-based, solver-based,
  rule-based and grammar-based methods have been applied to various content types
  such as levels, maps, character models, and textures. A research field centered
  on content generation in games has existed for more than a decade. More
  recently, deep learning has powered a remarkable range of inventions in content
  production, which are applicable to games. While some cutting-edge deep
  learning methods are applied on their own, others are applied in combination
  with more traditional methods, or in an
• Learning Haskell – Miscellaneous Enlightenments
• Dish-O-TRON – AI to detect dirty dishes in the sink
• Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data
  The BAIR Blog
• Machine learning model helps characterize compounds for drug discovery
• On William Deresiewicz’s “The Death of the Artist”
• Algolia releases new AI search features
• Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning
• How to put machine learning models into production
• A family of CRDT’s supporting both State and Op based replication in Rust
• Tinnitus Treatment from Neuromod
  Lenire® is a breakthrough evidence-based tinnitus treatment from Neuromod, based on the science of neuromodulation.
• AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
• Neural Databases
  In recent years, neural networks have shown impressive performance gains on
  long-standing AI problems, and in particular, answering queries from natural
  language text. These advances raise the question of whether they can be
  extended to a point where we can relax the fundamental assumption of database
  management, namely, that our data is represented as fields of a pre-defined
  schema.
  This paper presents a first step in answering that question. We describe
  NeuralDB, a database system with no pre-defined schema, in which updates and
  queries are given in natural language. We develop query processing techniques
  that build on the primitives offe
• Preparing for Solopreneurship
  Hello! 👋 My name is Jen and I’m the founder, engineer, designer and customer support at Lunch Money, a personal finance and budgeting web app.
  It was never part of my life goals to start my own company, let alone a company of one. In fact, if you had asked me before I actually took the leap if this was within the realm of possibility, I would have said hell freakin’ no.
• The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician
• Jonathan Edwards was both ‘a nemesis and an avatar’ of the Enlightenment
• Ships in Bottles – A Bit of the History and Lore
• Data engineering learning path with recommended resources
• Deep Learning in Production Resource List
• Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI
• Slaughterbots
• Throwable Robot Car Always Lands on Four Wheels
• My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too
  Personal websites are usually like old books in a shelf. They languish, accumulate dust, and their wrinkles and cracks become more apparent over time. About 3 years ago I embarked on a simple experiment that would end up prolonging the shelf-life of my website by an unusually large margin. Back in 2017, it seemed like […]
• Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
• Image Processing Techniques That You Can Use in Machine Learning Projects
• Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits
• Learning to Decapsulate Integrated Circuits Using Acid Deposition
• Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI
• AI outperforms humans in speech recognition
• First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
  Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
• Robot’s parents proud of her for finally passing CAPTCHA test
• Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
• Onepanel – Production scale, Kubernetes-native vision AI platform
• Books in .txt format, freely available for AI training purposes
• Neuropilin-1 facilitates SARS-CoV-2 cell entry and infectivity
• The Development of Robotron
• A Bayesian Perspective on Q-Learning
• Essays curated for you with machine learning
• Learnings from Running a Longevity Startup
• Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine Learning
• Body Language and Machine Learning
• Weird AI Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics
• Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models
  Download the free, easy to use app that helps you train custom machine learning models and ship them in your app.
• PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says
  The company failed to notify tens of thousands of customers that blackouts were imminent.
• Reproducible Machine Learning in production
• AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs
• Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots
• Intermittent fasting increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis
  These findings suggest that IF may increase hippocampal neurogenesis involving the Notch 1 pathway.
• AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee’s Bald Head for Ball
• Open letter to founders: entrepreneurship is not physics
  In physics, it’s often possible to describe a process accurately with comparatively little data. In the world of business and human behavior however, that’s rarely the case. Pretending that’s not true leads to inaccurate models with little predictive power.
• Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow
• Learning coupled differential equations subject to non-conservative forces
  In this article we address the question whether it is possible to learn the
  differential equations describing the physical properties of a dynamical
  system, subject to non-conservative forces, from observations of its realspace
  trajectory(ies) only. We introduce a network that incorporates a difference
  approximation for the second order derivative in terms of residual connections
  between convolutional blocks, whose shared weights represent the coefficients
  of a second order ordinary differential equation. We further combine this
  solver-like architecture with a convolutional network, capable of learning the
  relation between trajectories of cou
• The AI Who Mistook a Bald Head for a Soccer Ball

  Second-tier Scottish football club Inverness Caledonian Thistle doesn’t have a camera operator for matches at their stadium so t

• Learning Rust as a Gopher, part 3
• React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning
• Walmart drops inventory robots from its stores
• AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”
• The Economics of Sex Robots
• Online business tools for startups and entrepreneurs
• PyTorch 3D: Digging Deeper in Deep Learning
• Synerise launches their AI Cleora algorithm as an open-source
• A Django code review bot for GitHub pull requests
• AI Expert Roadmap
  Follow these roadmaps to become an Artificial Intelligence expert.
• Learning From Quibi
• Disney unveiled an animatronic robot with the same gaze as humans
• Cool Machine Learning Books
• A Theory of Universal Learning
• Army Wants Smaller Brigades, Stronger Divisions and Lots of Robots
  New technologies and organizations will give soldiers an edge, Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe said, but tanks and foot troops will still face brutal close combat.
• Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast
• Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python
• Self hosted uptime robot alternative written in go
• Volt: A reactive web framework where your Ruby code runs both server and client
• Creating 3000 new Pokemon with AI ( the wrong way) featuring GPT-2
• Plants can grow quickly or accurately, but not both
• Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning
• On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
  I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it’s become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I’m now working at VisioStack and starting a master’s i…
• Researchers’ AI aligns sheet music with MIDI audio
• New Explainable AI Algorithms
• A Software Tester’s Perspective on Statistical Learning Theory
• Rust from a Gopher – Lessons 7, 8 and 9
• Finding bad flamingo drawings with recurrent neural networks
• Five AI failures you need to know before starting AI project
• Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors
• Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI
• Learning State Abstractions for Long-Horizon Planning
• AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can’t be bothered to test
• Why do proof assistants use dependent type theory instead of set theory?
  In his talk, The Future of Mathematics, Dr. Kevin Buzzard states that Lean is the only existing proof assistant suitable for formalizing all of math. In the Q&A part of the talk (at 1:00:00) he
• A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food
• A Novel Framework for Explaining Machine Learning Using Shapley Values
• IoT Unravelled Part 1: It’s a Mess but Then There’s Home Assistant
  With the benefit of hindsight, this was a naïve question: Alright clever IoT folks, I've got two of these garage door openers, what do you reckon the best way of connecting them with Apple HomeKit is? https://t.co/i0RmjSMkkD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 25, 2020 In
• Somfy blinds automated via MQTT and Home Assistant
• You might not need machine learning
• The Neuroscience of Peripersonal Space
• Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP users
• How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique
  What makes a spaced repetition system so effective and how utilizing the method with the best spaced repetition apps will help you to memorize more effectively.
• Machine Learning for Art with Google’s Emil Wallner
• Software and Hardware for General Robots
• Interpretability in Machine Learning: An Overview
  A broad overview of the sub-field of machine learning interpretability; conceptual frameworks, existing research, and future directions.
• College students are learning hard lessons about anti-cheating software
• Could AI be the future of bike race coverage?
• Managers, not workers, are losing jobs to AI and robots: study
• Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google
• In-Database Machine Learning
• Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google Following Email Exchange
• NN-512 – Generate standalone C code for neural nets
• AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google
• ReBeL: A general game-playing AI bot that excels at poker and more
• PixelNeRF Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images
• BBC Micro Bot – Creative Retro Coding
• AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says Google Fired Her After Research Dispute, Email
• Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher
• Deep-learning robot Shimon writes and rhymes in real time
• Scaling Down Deep Learning
• Companies are now writing reports tailored for AI readers
• Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network
• Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown: Learning Autonomy on the Jetson Nano
• More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
  More than 1,000 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias
• Better learning with shape-shifting objects
• Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims
• Horse manure may help pandas tolerate cold temperatures: study
• Snap Circuits Telepresence Robot
• MLSys: Stanford Machine Learning Systems Seminar Series
• Google CEO pledges to investigate exit of top AI ethicist
• Crossminds.ai – A knowledge graph indexed AI research video library
• Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal
• Is deep learning a new kind of programming?
• $100 robot kit running ROS2 and Navigation2
  See ROS 2 Nav2 up and running on the sub-$100 low cost Hadabot Turtle robot.
• George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
  Eurythmics; Take That; Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado, Soshy
• Network effect: visualizing AI connections in the natural sciences
• Notes on Learning Languages
• Europe’s Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
  Crops will grow in stacks 14 layers high and will use more than 20,000 LED lights. Robots on wheels will deliver seeds to the growing shelves.
• How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
• Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies
• Apple’s M1 is up to 3.6x faster at training machine learning models
• Tensions in Google’s ethical AI group increase as it sends demands to CEO
• Deep learning tool that repairs damaged/faded photos
• Google’s AI ethics meltdown could shape policy
• Argos Translate – Neural machine translation made easy with Python
• The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students’ Long-Term Development
• Building a simple neural net in Java
• The U.S. Army Is Creating Robots with Synthetically Grown Muscle
• Neurobiological foundations of neurologic music therapy
• Flower – A Friendly Federated Learning Framework
• Netflix’s Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines
  A complete guide to building end-to-end machine learning pipelines, from training to deployment, with Metaflow and Cortex
• Element AI sold for $230M, founders (Yoshua Bengio et al.) wiped out
• Deep Graph Library: Easy Deep Learning on Graphs
• The NeurIPS 2020 broader impacts experiment
• Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research -documents
  Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a «sensitive topics» review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and…
• Learning to Play the Chaos Game
• Chat roulette is on the rise again, this time with AI
• Homebrew: AVX instructions in Big Sur bottles crash when run in Rosetta 2
• Introduction to Reinforcement Learning with David Silver
  We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all. Explore our work: deepmind.com/research
• 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
  Plenty’s vertical farm in San Fransisco uses 99% less land, 95% less water, recycled plastic packaging, and is powered by renewable energy.
• Diffgram – Human Supervision of AI Data
• AI Update, Late 2020 – Dumpster Fire
• The Elements of Statistical Learning
• Probabilistic Machine Learning, Kevin Murphy (2nd edition, 2021)
• Getting Started in Robotics
• 50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
• Stylebot on Firefox (apply custom css on webpages)
• Think an AI can’t write, design and code? Think again
  Our AI-powered landing page builder helps you create custom landing pages for your business in minutes — no writing, designing or coding required.
• Microsoft files patent to create chatbots from your dead loved ones
• Microsoft patent: Creating a conversational chat bot of a specific person
• Why I’m Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks
• Mljar Automated Machine Learning for Tabular Data (Explanation,AutoDoc)
• Medicine’s Machine Learning Problem
• Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters
• Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
  Jim Keller, a prominent computing chip architect who left Intel Corp last year, has joined a Toronto-based startup developing artificial intelligence chips.
• Incremental learning of polynomials (and other LIP models) with IRMA
• State of Industrial Robotics: Emerging Tech, Challenges, Key Research Directions
• The Way Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance
• 500 ML, Deep learning, CV, and NLP Projects with code
• Deckmill – affordable, high quality, language-learning flashcards
• Research team demonstrates world’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor
• Machine Learning for Developers weekly newsletter (ML4Devs, Issue 1)
  Mission: To curate and create resources for practitioners to design, develop, deploy, and maintain ML applications at scale to drive measurable positive business impact.
• Clearview AI being used to identify Capitol rioters
• Robot Made of Ice Can Repair and Rebuild Itself
• Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant
• FTC settlement with Ever orders data and AI deleted after face recognition pivot
• The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine
  Last time, we briefly mentioned the high-level differences between Stockfish and Leela Chess. To recap, Stockfish evaluates about 100 million positions per second using rudimentary heuristics, wher…
• Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
  The bureaucrats are running the asylum
• Hardware for Deep Learning. Part 4: ASIC
• Learning to Suffer
• Human-like neural network chess engine trained on lichess games
• Lex Fridman AI Podcast Search
• Apple II Basic Bot
• BBC Micro Bot User Guide
• GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy
  Stale Bot’s are a type of automated bot on Github, which locks issues which are “stale” (as in have no recent activity). This seems like a helpful tool at first, but in reality it’s terrible for all p
• A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
• Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
• Machine Learning Models Are Missing Contracts
• Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist
  The inquiry into the actions of Margaret Mitchell follows the ouster last year of Timnit Gebru.
• Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning
• Prostate cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with AI
• Google suspends second AI ethics researcher: union
• Microsoft Patent Shows Plans to Revive Deceased Loved Ones as Chatbots
• Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
  Such accounts can distort online conversations and potentially diminish support for climate policies
• Why can 2 times 3 sometimes equal 7 with Android’s Neural Network API?
• How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?
• Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2
  Deep learning is a group of exciting new technologies for neural networks.
  Through a combination of advanced training techniques and neural network
  architectural components, it is now possible to create neural networks that can
  handle tabular data, images, text, and audio as both input and output. Deep
  learning allows a neural network to learn hierarchies of information in a way
  that is like the function of the human brain. This course will introduce the
  student to classic neural network structures, Convolution Neural Networks
  (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Neural Networks (GRU),
  General Adversarial Networks (GAN), and
• Trophi.com – A forum the represents both sides of an argument
• The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
  All you need to know about Machine Learning in a hundred pages. Supervised and unsupervised learning, support vector machines, neural networks, ensemble methods, gradient descent, cluster analysis and dimensionality reduction, autoencoders and transfer learning, feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning! Math, intuition, illustrations, all in just a hundred pages!
• 100 years later, the dystopian origin of the word ‘robot’ still rings true
• Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews
• If memristors act like neurons, put them in neural networks
• Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-Time Rendering with Implicit 3D Surfaces
  Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Surfaces
• Parents’ income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship
• Human-Learn: Draw Machine Learning Models
• Learning to Negotiate Salaries to Transform Library Culture
• Collection of Deep Learning implementations with side-by-side notes
• Build your own X, a collection of tutorials (Search engine, Neural Net, etc.)
  🤓 Build your own (insert technology here). Contribute to danistefanovic/build-your-own-x development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Reinforcement Learning at Facebook
• How we develop FDA-compliant machine learning algorithms
• CompilerGym: A toolkit for reinforcement learning for compiler optimization
• Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning
• A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning
• Alexander von Humboldt: A Scientist’s Mind, a Poet’s Soul
• AI maths whiz creates tough new problems for humans to solve
  Algorithm named after mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan suggests interesting formulae, some of which are difficult to prove true.
• Sense: A New Open-Source Video Understanding Framework for Deep Learning
• LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine translation API
  Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. 100% self-hosted, no limits, no ties to proprietary services. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.
• Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning
  It resembles the Library of Babel more than HAL.
• Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot
  Hi, I just received 1384 email notifications from gitlab all at once notifying me of some comments made to various issue. Looks a lot like spam…
• Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting
  Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting.
• America’s 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%
• Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning
• Peak Brain: The Metaphors of Neuroscience
• Don’t Mess with Backprop: Doubts about Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
• Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about?
• A Grand Anticlimax: The New York Times on Scott Alexander
• The Origin of Robot Arm Programming Languages
• Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning?
  Can the new M1 Macbooks handle deep learning tasks? How do they compare to a free GPU environment on Google Colab? Read to find out.
• Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
  Thoughts on Ruby from the point of view of a Pythonista, brought to you by Workpath, the strategy execution platform.
• Samsung Develops Industry’s First High Bandwidth Memory with AI Processing Power
• Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1: Learning hardware design as a software engineer
• Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer
  Researchers at Google Brain have open-sourced the Switch Transformer, a natural-language processing (NLP) AI model. The model scales up to 1.6T parameters and improves training time up to 7x compared to the T5 NLP model, with comparable accuracy.
• GPT-3, Esq? Evaluating AI Legal Summaries
• Has Amazon Ruined the Name Alexa?
• Google fires another AI ethics leader (Margaret Mitchell)
  The firing follows the controversial ouster of Timnit Gebru.
• Memory Techniques from Vedic Learning
• Complexity No Bar to AI
  Critics of AI risk suggest diminishing returns to computing (formalized asymptotically) means AI will be weak; this argument relies on a large number of questionable premises and ignoring additional resources, constant factors, and nonlinear returns to small intelligence advantages, and is highly unlikely.
• Two fighter pilots passed out over Nevada last year. Software saved them both
• Bird watching goes both ways
  A new study of urban raptors reveals their close attention to human behavior, even during a pandemic.
• Is Google’s AI research about to implode?
• Shoot Paintballs With Boston Dynamics’ Robot Spot
• An Interview with Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan on the Delhi HC Case
• Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves

Blockchain and decentralization

• USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System
  The United States Postal Service (USPS) has reportedly filed a patent for a blockchain-based mail-in voting system. Following President Donald Trump’s conclusion that mail-in voting would represent ballots all over the place and fraudulent ballots would be named after dogs and dead people, the patent that was filed back in February 2020 was made public …
• OPDS – Easy to Use, Open and Decentralized Content Distribution
• Joxa: A concurrent, distributed Lisp for the Erlang VM
• On Blockchain Commit Times: How miners choose Bitcoin transactions
• Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans
• Filecoin: Proof of Storage Systems
• With $16bn in cryptocurrency, Ripple attempts a reset
• Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication
• Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
  Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.
• Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
• Winklevoss 500k Bitcoin Argument
• Ethereum Is a Dark Forest: A Horror Story
  A horror story.
• We Chose a Distributed SQL Database to Complement MySQL
• Anatomy of a Bubble – Tesla and Bitcoin
  Here we go again
• TerminusHub, Distributed Revision Control for Structured Data
• Fluid framework, for building distributed, real-time collaborative web apps
• How WebAssembly Changes Software Distribution
• Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance
• How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?
• Arbol, a parametric weather risk platform built on IPFS
• Coordination, Collusion, Decentralization and Forking
• Big European states call for cryptocurrency curbs to protect consumers
• Bazel For Open-Source C/C++ Libraries Distribution
• NSQ A realtime distributed messaging platform
• The Future Is Decentralized
• IPFS 0.7.0, the SECIO retirement edition
• The Distribution of Vaccines in the 19th Century
• Handshake – A Namespace for the Decentralized Web
• The IRS Sets a Trap for Cryptocurrency Tax Cheats
• Hal Finney’s Proposal for Optimizing Bitcoin to Be Enabled in Bitcoin Core
  Today, a patent involving the acceleration of cryptographic operations on elliptic curves expired.
• Coinbase is a mission focused company
• Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
  A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
• Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
  Coinbase is offering a package for employees seeking an exit after the release of a blog post from its CEO.
• Tracking Mixed Bitcoins
• The Coinbase post was 100% right. Here’s what you can do about it
• Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged
• 40th Anniversary of the Ethernet
• McAfee Arrested in Spain, DOJ Indictment for Tax Evasion Using Cryptocurrencies
• EU considers phasing out 1 and 2 cent coins
  The European Commission is considering proposing a law to start phasing out the small 1 and 2 Eurocent coins, and round prices off to the nearest 5 cents. On Monday, the Commission opened a 15-week pu
• Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
  Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
• SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API
• ICO investigation into use of personal information and political influence
• Publication of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework
  Attorney General William P. Barr announced today the release of “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework,” a publication produced by the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force.  The Framework provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging threats and enforcement challenges associated with the increasing prevalence and use of cryptocurrency; details the important relationships that the Department of Justice has built with regulatory and enforcement partners both within the United States government and around the world; and outlines the Department’s response strategies. 
• 5% of Coinbase Employees Take Severance Offer over ‘Apolitical’ Stance
• A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company
• Keeping Calm: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
• Efficient Evenly Distributed Sampling of Time Series Records in PostgreSQL
• Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy
• Voting and Governance by Smart Contract
• First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws
• Mission Protocol, a Coinbase-Inspired Code of Conduct
• Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure
• PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network
  PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other virtual coins using the U.S. digital payments company’s online wallets.
• Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise
• Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year
• Efficient smart contract security audits with machine learning and slither-simil
• Grafana Tempo, a scalable distributed tracing system
• TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node
  After two years of dedicated engineering and user feedback, TimescaleDB 2.0 is finally here, setting a new bar for time-series databases – and it’s completely free.
• 5Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
• Distributed Systems Learning Notes
• I Got 99 Problems and a Distributed Database Ain’t One
• Compare sentence length distributions of famous authors
• Study: Focus will shape the future of distributed work
  The shift to working from home has mostly been positive for knowledge workers, but the challenges reveal a $1.2 trillion opportunity.
• My fiber optical modem broadcasts a poem via ethernet frame 0x8300
• AP reports US election results via Ethereum blockchain
• Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years
• Toy Haskell blockchain with variable hash functions for ASIC resistance
• Bitcoin’s price shoots past $15,000 for the first time since January 2018
• Over $1 Billion in Silk Road Bitcoin Is Target of U.S. Suit
• U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road
  Speculation kicked off after someone moved the huge sum on Tuesday, and now we know who it was: the U.S. government.
• Transmit Radio Signals via Ethernet
  Etherify – bringing the ether back to ethernet. Contribute to sq5bpf/etherify development by creating an account on GitHub.
• USPS patent for reliable voting system secured with blockchain
• Cryptocurrency Is Garbage. So Is Blockchain
  Overwhelming evidence shows that blockchain/cryptocurrency space is almost entirely fraudulent
• Elections, Bitcoin and M2
• Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
  A social platform to enjoy and share music
• A framework for offline and decentralised web apps
• Decentralized Computing
• Increase in Bitcoin Addresses as More People Join the BTC Price Surge
  As Bitcoin nears $20k, we see a surge in Bitcoin addresses being created. Read on to see what this means for the furture of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin.
• Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December
• GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
  Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
• Are pixie fairies behind Bitcoin’s latest bubble?
• Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached
• Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
• NYT planning to publish a negative story about Coinbase
• Continuous Bernoulli distribution of Variational autoencoders
• ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
• Tokenized: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
• Twtxt Is a Self-Hosted, Twitter-Like Decentralised MicroBlogging Platform
• Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution
  Tragedy of the comments
• Bitcoin Price Hits All-Time High of $19,786, Topping 2017 Record
• Ethereum 2.0 Launches Successfully
• S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021
  S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of financial data provider S&P Global Inc, said on Thursday that it will launch cryptocurrency indices in 2021, making it the latest major finance company to enter the nascent asset class.
• Maybe we shouldn’t want a fully decentralized web
  Why I have stopped working with IPFS and the distributed web
• Bitcoin (still) makes no sense
• The Dark Future Where Payments Are Politicized and Bitcoin Wins
• Distributed Systems Reading List
• Steve Wozniak launches Efforce, a blockchain-based energy-saving platform
  EFFORCE is the first platform that allows contributors to benefit from the energy savings generated by energy efficiency projects worldwide.
• Mgmt: Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management
• Norman Abramson, creator of ARPAnet and Ethernet precursor ALOHAnet, dies at 88
  His ALOHAnet, designed a half-century ago in Hawaii, was a precursor to the technology used in today’s smartphones and home WiFi networks.
• MicroStrategy will have 0.3% of all Bitcoin supply by the end of 2020
  MicroStrategy is using debt to buy Bitcoin. Their investors hated the idea when it was announced this week, but they’re missing important context.
• Hypercore protocol: a distributed (P2P) append-only log
  A fast, scalable, and secure peer-to-peer protocol.
• Thinking About Decentralized Communities
• A Crypto User Sent $50k to a Smart Contract. It’s Gone Forever
• Re: Debian – The Distribution from Hell
• Generating Cryptographically Secure Random Numbers with Coins and a Cup
• Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent
  The company is awaiting a lawsuit from the U.S. securities regulator over its digital token, XRP.
• SEC formally sues cryptocurrency company Ripple
  XRP, the cryptocurrency created by Ripple in 2012, has the crypto industry’s third-largest market cap.
• Utilizing Quantum BlockChain for 6th Generation Neural Networks
• Run is a platform to build apps and tokens on Bitcoin
• Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP
  Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc said on Monday it would suspend trading in cryptocurrency XRP after U.S. regulators last week charged associated blockchain firm Ripple with conducting a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering.
• Bitcoin Is a Collectors Items
• ZeroPi – $9.99 SBC with 512MB and Gigabit Ethernet
• Bitcoin Hits New High, but Cryptocurrency’s Future Is Uncertain
• Why Bitcoin Could Be Banned or Criminalized in the Coming Years
• Sonyflake distributed unique ID generator implemented in Rust
• Racial priority for Covid-19 vaccine distribution poses problems
• Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm
  As parts of the Twitter application grow, we can scale demands on capacity by adding more instances or replicas to a respective service cluster (i.e., horizontal scaling)
• Bitcoin is a disaster
• Nocoiner predictions: 2021 will be year of comedy gold
• Crush: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data
• BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet
  This is an excuse to have a blog post on the economics of Bitcoin to refer people to. Intended Audience: Laypersons interested or confused about Bitcoin. Reading Time: 15min Disclaimer: I moved to …
• An Incomplete Guide to Ethereum Rollups
• A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines
  A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines. Used in production at comma.ai – geohot/minikeyvalue
• We repurposed NPM to publish and distribute Go binaries for our internal CLI
• LBRY does to publishing, what Bitcoin did to money
• Crypto Market Tops $1T as Bitcoin Breaches $37,000
• Coinbase is experiencing connectivity issues
• Bitcoin price hits $40k less than three weeks after shattering $20K
• Coinbase hits number 30 in the top free apps on Apple’s mobile store
• Tether has been manipulating Bitcoin’s price upwards for years now
• Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
• Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency for Investment Professionals
• Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, open source
• iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet
  I just got done with this incredible experiment, and I couldn’t resist sharing. **EDIT: VIDEO!!!**…
• Bitcoin: Be prepared to lose all your money, FCA warns consumers
• My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
• Bitmessage: A decentralized and trustless P2P communications protocol
• A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3
• Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide
  Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
• Bitcoin: Magic Internet Money
• Why I’ve Changed My Mind on Bitcoin
• Decentralised content moderation
• U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor
• Smart Contracts On Bitcoin
  While Bitcoin is the gold standard in crypto, Ethereum has been the innovator, bringing new ideas, particularly smart contracts, to the table. Smart contracts allow developers to easily build things on a blockchain and we have seen a proliferation of new things built on the Ethereum blockchain as a result. But what if you could […]
• An Economic Analysis of Ethereum
• Software Distributions and Their Roles Today
• The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin
• Bitcoin == Global Warming
• Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C
  Bitcoin is a power-hungry cryptocurrency that is increasingly used as an investment and payment system. Here we show that projected Bitcoin usage, should it follow the rate of adoption of other broadly adopted technologies, could alone produce enough CO2 emissions to push warming above 2 °C within less than three decades.
• Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoin mining
• Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
  Put a price on economic stability and the economic freedom a stable monetary system provides; that is the true justification for the amount of energy bitcoin should and will consume.
• Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust, using Apache Arrow
  Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust, and powered by Apache Arrow. – ballista-compute/ballista
• Is Bitcoin a Scam?
• DECO – Using cell phones to detect cosmic rays and other energetic particles
• IPFS Support in Brave
  Over the past several months, the Brave team has been working with Protocol Labs on adding InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) support in Brave. This is the first deep integration of its kind and we’re very proud to outline how it works in this post.
• Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England
• Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite
• Janet Yellen suggests ‘curtailing’ cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin
• Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla
• Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi’s whitepaper from website after threats from CSW
• FunkWhale: Decentralized Music Server
• Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software
• Rqlite: The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite
  The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite – rqlite/rqlite
• Facebook deactivated account after it advocated decentralized social networks
• Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
  Recent events have made me reflect on a few things in my life I was already thinking about for a while. Also, responses on social media have made me realize that people have strange expectations from me, and what my role in the Bitcoin Core project is.
• Delta Chat – decentralized chat via email
• Reserve – New Sam Altman backed stablecoin crypto project
  Reserve is a stable global currency (a stablecoin) and a digital payment system for people and businesses in countries with high inflation.
• CondensationDB: A general-purpose distributed database with end-to-end security
• Bitcoin Is a Dirty Business
• An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem
• Dogecoin trading volume hits $5B, surpassing Bitcoin’s for the first time ever
• India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency
• Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO
  Visa CEO Al Kelly said the payments giant is in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful and applicable.”
• Grapevine – distributed protocol for replacing Twitter
• Chainlink and Fleta Partner to Advance Medical Blockchain Applications
• IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources
  IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing, according to four people familiar with the situation.
• India Should Buy Bitcoin
• Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF
• Police seize $60M of Bitcoin Now, where’s the password?
• Mt. Gox demise as told by a Bitcoin insider
• A German man is keeping $60M in Bitcoin from police
• The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes
• Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
• My Opinion on Blockchain
• Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
• Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin the filthiest asset imaginable
• Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
• That $100 you didn’t invest in Bitcoin because they said so
• Bitcoin now uses more electricity than Argentina
• Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla’s carrying Bitcoin’s dirty baggage
• Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk
• Bitcoin’s fundamental value is negative given its environmental impact
• Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina
• Bitcoin and Pollution – The Definitive Answer
• Ray Dalio – What I think of Bitcoin
• MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies
  Mastercard Inc said on Wednesday it was planning to offer support for some cryptocurrencies on its network this year, joining a string of big-ticket firms that have pledged similar support.
• Lynx: Power-Efficient Cryptocurrency Using RPi
• Fictional Cryptocurrencies
• A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Bitcoin
• The most terrifying fact about blockchains is rogue AIs you can’t switch off
• Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications
  This is the 6th post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series.
• Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare
• Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
• Nigeria’s Central Bank has prohibited banks from processing cryptocurrencies
• Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime
• Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble
• CheapETH: A Fun Ethereum Testnet
• Archive as you browse, store locally and/or share with others via IPFS
• Nyan Cat on the Blockchain
• Coinbase valued above $100B, ahead of direct listing
• Open source decentralized social network, like Twitter. Developed with WebRTC
• Nano is what Bitcoin hoped to be
• From coding bootcamp graduate to building distributed databases
• When Bitcoin miners take over a town
  Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving.
• Super-efficient blockchain architecture based on FIDO keys
• Data Immutability, Verifiability and Integrity Without the Blockchain Overhead
• Ethereum Isn’t Fun Anymore
  Ethereum isn’t fun anymore. There I said it. And although, the last time I developed an app using it has been more than a year ago, I stand by my word. Developing dapps on Ethereum has become a
• Gridcoin: An open source cryptocurrency that rewards work performed on the BOINC
• Square buys $170M worth of bitcoins
• GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage
• Coinbase is a decentralized company, with no headquarters
• Bitcoin: The Idea That Eats Smart People
• Coinbase S-1
• Our Thoughts on Bitcoin
  With bond yields near zero and pressure on policy makers to diminish the value of fiat currencies, investors are increasingly looking for alternative storeholds of wealth. Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, has received a lot of attention as a potential candidate especially with its recent…
• Fred Wilson: Coinbase (5/8/13)
• CP/Mish is an open source sort-of-CP/M distribution for Z80
• Bitcoin not for me, says ex-Microsoft chief
• Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
• Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix
• Mining Ethereum on M1 Mac GPU
  TL;DR: It’s possible to mine Ethereum on a M1 Mac GPU. Hashrate is about 2Mh/s. Mining on a M1 Mac I’ve had my M1 MacBook Air for a bit of time now, and I also recently started mining E…

Cloud and architecture

• Digital Design in Architecture: research landscape map 1975-2019
• Intel Xe-LP GPU Architecture Deep Dive
• Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projects
• A layman’s guide to understanding the Cloud
• Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of Obesity in Adults
• Architecture of the Nintendo DS
• Canon’s cloud platform has lost users’ files – and it can’t restore them
  Canon USA was allegedly subject to a hacker attack with 10TB of data stolen – now 5% of that data has been leaked
• Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
  Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises
• How to give access to AWS resources without creating 100s of IAM Users?
• New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums
• Cloudflare Workers Documentation Redesign
• How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL
  Note: The vulnerabilities that are discussed in this post were patched quickly and properly by Google. We support responsible disclosure. The research that resulted in this post was done by me and …
• The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
  AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services. Today, ACK is available as a developer preview on GitHub. In this post we will give you a brief introduction to the […]
• Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue
• Apple responds to Epic Games lawsuit, says CEO asked for special treatment
• How anti-trust laws are used to stop independent contractors from organizing
• Don’t Name Classes After Patterns. Mostly
• Cloudflare Package Repository Mirrors
• Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you’re sleeping
• Ketamine that’s injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
  A drug called ketamine that’s injected as a sedative during arrests has drawn new scrutiny since a young Black man named Elijah McClain died in suburban Denver
• Making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps
• Teal – a serverless VM and programming language
• Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
• AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
• Architecture Playbook
• Over 54,000 scanned Australian driver’s licences found in open cloud storage
• Painting a better life through side SaaS hustles
• Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture
• Building storage-first serverless apps with HTTP APIs service integrations
• Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving
• Cloudflare is experiencing failures in its connections to hosts
• Multi-Tenant Architectures
• Analysis of Today’s CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
  Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• AWS Boilerplate
• AWS Tagging Best Practices: Using Terraform and CloudFormation to Enforce Tags
• Upsert anti-pattern in SQL Server
• Microsoft’s $10bn Jedi cloud contract “sets dangerous precedent”, says AWS
• How alarmist rhetoric is informing draconian speech laws in the Global South
• Expanding Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing Portfolio
• Decision Table Patterns
• Octo – Generate a Serverless API from an SQL Query Connected to Any DB
• Designing for Privacy – An Emerging Software Pattern
• Migrating cdnjs to serverless with Workers KV
• Cloudcraft – Architect and budget cloud infrastructure
• F*** Cloud Messaging
• Clouddraw – draw cloud architecture diagrams with ease
• Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
• Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds
• New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
• Direct sales for SaaS startups – our experience and tips
• AWS IAM is having issues again
• AWS IAM is having issues again
• Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
  Cloudflare now populating and using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in its content distribution network application Cloudflare and the Internet Archive are now working together to help make the web more reliable. Websites that enable Cloudflare’s Always Online service will now have their content automatically archived, and if by chance the original host is not […]
• Shutting Down NavHere
• Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture
• Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System
  the journey to create the AWS Nitro System and what the result has meant for our customers.
• Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS Cloud
• How I bypassed Cloudflare’s SQL Injection filter
• Cloud Hypervisor – Open source virtual machine monitor written in Rust
• St Helena laws for inhabitants 1672
• Pricing Low-Touch SaaS
• RIP iCloud, Self-Hosting Part 5: Finale
• Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams
• Security September: Cataclysms in the Cloud Formations
• Advancing NLP with Efficient Projection-Based Model Architectures
• DaaS Bible 2.0: Why Data Standards Matter
• Blazor WebAssembly on Azure Static Web Apps
• The Growing Case for a Microsoft Azure Slowdown
• An update to the Timescale license
  We’re excited to announce an update to the Timescale License that provides expanded rights to our users. Learn how (and why) we’re making all of our features 100% free and investing in our community – while still building a sustainable open-source business.
• Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound
  Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound – ggerganov/wave-share
• Neue Haas Grotesk
• SaaS Financial Model
• Calculus in SaaS
• Don’t trust Cloudflare with your personal data
  It has been over a year since I cancelled my Cloudflare account. They keep emailing me and haven’t taken me off their marketing lists despite repeated requests. Their CTO told me he would inv…
• Bandlab: Cloud-Based Social Music Creation Platform
• Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
• Building a Modern-Day Hit Counter with React, FaunaDB, and Serverless Functions
• The SaaS website content you need to close sales
  This is the SaaS website content you need to close more sales, based on online searches of 1,000s of SaaS buyers.
• Cloudflare’s privacy crusade continues with a challenge to Google Analytics
• Cloudflare Web Analytics
• Apollo – An Extensible Docker-Based Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Cloudflare Radar
• A Fistful of States: More State Machine Patterns in Rust
• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
• AWS releases open source diagramming and visualization tool
  Today we are announcing Diagram Maker, an open source graphical user interface library for IoT application developers. With Diagram Maker, IoT application developers can define their own user interface and user experience, or suppress it completely and build their own custom behavior using Diagram Maker APIs. In this post, we explain how IoT application developers […]
• How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup
  Canny recently hit a major milestone: one million dollars in annual recurring revenue. Here’s how we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup from the ground up.
• Let’s Build a Cloudflare Worker with WebAssembly and Haskell
• State of Independent SaaS
• The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
• IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth
  International Business Machines Corp is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world’s first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing.
• France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws
• Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
  With cloud companies booming during the pandemic, one of the category’s recent public-company success stories is set to make a splash by spending billions to acquire one of its up-and-comers.
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Rook Graduation
• Cloudflare One
• The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
  Are traditional servers dead? Far from it. This article looks at why, despite serverless models finding great utility in specific circumstances, there’s a barrier to more widespread adoption.
• Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals
  Circuit Breaker, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Sidecar, Backend-for-Frontend, and Strangler
• A Survey of Profit Optimization Techniques for Cloud Providers
• Sega Master System Architecture: A Practical Analysis
• The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life
• Tasmota: Cloud-free open source smart home firmware for ESP8266 devices
• John Cocke, the father of RISC architecture
• Reimagining the Browser: Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation Beta
• AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
• I Setup My Own Personal CDN Using Cloudflare and S3
• Atlassian moves to cloud, going to stop selling server licenses
• Using AWS Cloud9 for browser-based development
• Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash
  Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻. Contribute to charmbracelet/glow development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
  Five years ago, if you were building a system, it was a result of the code you wrote. Now, it’s built around the data that is fed into that system. And a new class of tools and technologies have emerged to process data for both analytics and operational AI/ ML.
• Why a good Swift developer doesn’t need to know a ton of patterns
• Patterns of Biophilic Design
• EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
  A pan-European alliance for cloud technology will be set up by the end of the year.
• National Research Cloud: Ensuring the Continuation of American Innovation
• End of Life for Azure Notebooks
• US Department of Justice to file antitrust lawsuit against Google
• AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
  Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has a massive asset
• Design patterns, Smalltalk, and the lost art of reading code
• AWS and their Billions in IPv4 addresses
• Cloudflare Analytics review
  Cloudflare Analytics is a brand new player on the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative market. Here’s my Cloudflare Analytics review.
• Building Kubernetes native SaaS applications by deploying in-cluster data planes
• A Kubernetes operator to sync secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
• The programming architecture of Babbage’s Analytical Engine
• An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits
• AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections
• Faasd – Lightweight Serverless for Raspberry Pi
• Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption
• Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp
  In this post from Transcend’s engineering team, learn how to add zero trust security to your AWS application boundaries.
• Apple breaks GPS support and suggests insecure iCloud backup as fix
• A Grand Unified Theory of Software Architecture
  Take Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt’s thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software! This is what Mr. Brandon Rhodes did. It’s not every day that I find such clear insight. I …
• Emerging JavaScript pattern: multiple return values
• Google Sunsets Google Cloud Print
• AWS ALBs have finally gRPC Support
• Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer
  Learn how to scrape webpages using Puppeteer and Serverless Functions built with OpenFaaS.
• Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism’s clothes
  How and why we took the ideas behind Microservices too far and what to do about it.
• Moving BBC Online to the Cloud
• How not to SaaS – lessons from 2 years of building 3k MRR SaaS
• AWS pre-announces public container image registry
• AWS hearts multi-cloud? It’s gonna happen
• How we made our SaaS homepage cookie-free
  We spent a few days removing all the cookies from our homepage, here’s what we changed.
• Qovery Engine – open-source multi-cloud deployment
• Introduction to Google Cloud Functions
• BBC Online Moves to AWS, Serverless
• OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail
• We are building a CLI first PaaS without a web frontend
• Advanced Join Patterns for the Actor Model Based on CEP Techniques
  Context: Actor-based programming languages offer many essential features for developing modern distributed reactive systems. These system…
• LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support for x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels
• LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels
• Deepnote – a real-time collaborative data science notebook in the cloud
• How to Identify Destructive Leadership Patterns
  In many aspects of our lives, we rely on those in positions of power to lead us. The role of leaders becomes especially salient in times of uncertainty.
• Juicesync: Parallelized Rsync for Cloud Storage
• Changes of Mind – The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention
• AWS Security Maturity Roadmap
• Welcome to the Cloud Zoo
• Micro 3.0 is a platform for cloud native development
• The Flaws of “Subscription Fatigue”, “SVOD Fatigue”, and the “Streaming Wars”
• Koyeb Serverless Engine: Docker Containers, Continuous Deployment of Functions
• AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool
  Learn more about AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to prepare data for analytics and machine learning.
• Migrating Large Heroku Postgres Instances to AWS Aurora Without Downtime
• Judge dismisses Apple’s “theft” claims in Epic Games lawsuit
• SaaS Needs a Single Point of Purchase
• Durable Objects in Production
  Read how Linc is one of the first products worldwide to use Cloudflare’s new serverless real-time data platform.
• Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
  Serverless is like a black hole. It promised exciting adventures, but the gravity sucked me in and I spend most of my efforts dealing with its complexity, in…
• Choreography vs. Orchestration in the Land of Serverless
• Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS
• How and when to acquire SaaS users
• Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13
• AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC
• HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3
  HopsFS-S3: cloud-native distributed hierarchical file system that has the same cost as S3, but has 100X the performance of S3 for file move/rename operations.
• How the Seahawks are using an AWS data lake to improve their game
• Apple M1 MacBook vs. PC Desktop Workstation for Adobe Creative Cloud
• Survey of System Architectures and Techniques for FPGA Virtualization
• Peregrine: A Pattern-Aware Graph Mining System
• The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
• Django refactoring game – can you fix all the Models anti-patterns?
• Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
  One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see […]
• AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
• How to Run a Database on AWS with Better Performance and Lower Cost
• Cloudwatch just stopped triggering our Lambdas
• AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
• PIUMA: Programmable Integrated Unified Memory Architecture
• I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month
• Exploring the use of artificial intelligence in architecture
• Scion EPIC: a path-aware clean-slate internet architecture
• Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
  Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it answered “PENTAGON […]
• Converting millions of viewers to millions of Euros with Serverless
• AWS Proton
• AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
  With AWS Lambda, you pay only for what you use. You are charged based on the number of requests for your functions and the time your code executes.
• AWS Lambda Supports Containers
• AWS Open Sources SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer
  “The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just inertia. Developers might say they prefer to run PostgreSQL to proprietary alternatives (and they do), but enterprises have spent years building data models in Microsoft […]
• AWS costs are up 236% compared to colocation in 2020
• AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 VCPUs
• AWS Lambda now supports container images as a packaging format
• S3 Strong Consistency
  Amazon S3 delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications for any storage request, without changes to performance or availability, without sacrificing regional isolation for applications, and at no additional cost.
• NN-SVG: Generate publication-ready NN-architecture schematics
• Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own
• AWS just went multi-cloud and it’s only the beginning – A Cloud Guru
  Confirmed: EKS Anywhere will support workloads on Azure and GCP. As predicted: AWS hearts multi-cloud. Forrest Brazeal @re:Invent 2020
• AWS: Run Microsoft SQL Server apps on PostgreSQL with little to no code changes
• Architectures for Mitigating AWS Outages
• Major Flaws of Human Thinking
• When Good Patterns Go Bad: The False Positive Regex
• YARA – The pattern matching swiss knife
• Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages, for deploying and hosting JAMstack
• The Architecture of IMGZ
• How we processed €5M in donations in 2 hours using Cloudflare and Stripe
• Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
• Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs
• Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
  The Google Cloud Console UI is a large JavaScript application. This article investigates how it could be sped up.
• Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
  Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics — even without changing your DNS settings.
• The Import on Interaction Pattern
• Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Architecture and Pricing
• Amnesia: IoT flaws dangerous and patches unlikely, say experts
• Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2
• Burnt $72K testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went Bankrupt
• Amazon Wants to Train 29M People to Work in the Cloud
• Google Cloud announces minimum (“min”) instances for Cloud Run
• Google Cloud: $72,000 bill overnight
• Semgrep for Cloud Security
• Geometry by Design: Settlement Patterns of the Mound Villages in SW Amazonia
• Free open-source Media Cloud Platform
• Cloudquery: Easily ask questions about your cloud infrastructure
• Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
  A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
• Fractal Architectures: A Software Craftsman’s take to Infrastructure as Code
• Ross Intelligence is shutting down after lawsuit from Thomson Reuters
• Google Cloud Status Dashboard
• AWS CloudShell
  No matter how much automation you have built, no matter how great you are at practicing Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and no matter how successfully you have transitioned from pets to cattle, you sometimes need to interact with your AWS resources at the command line. You might need to check or adjust a configuration file, […]
• AWS Fault Injection Simulator
  Run controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS to improve application performance, resiliency, and availability with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
• SaaSy Math: A Resource of SaaS Metrics for Your Startup
  A set of SaaS/Subscription metrics, what they measure, and some easy tips and tricks for how to pull this data out of your existing tech stack!
• States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws
• Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
• Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
• On Design Patterns in C++
• AWS Joins the Blender Development Fund
  Today Blender Foundation announced that AWS has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development and innovation for Blender.
• The Laws of Core Data
• AWS Proton: “Conway’s Law-as-a-Service”?
  Proton’s innovation is that it builds explicit assumptions about your organization into its technical design.
• Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
  One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google’s products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that’s not the point of this post. I found out…
• Create a QR code with text in the code pattern
• Back to the ’70s with Serverless
• Google says it’s the cleanest cloud. Signs deal with Saudi oil for new region
• Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and others file amicus brief in support of NSO lawsuit
• Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer
• Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial
  DIY Django + React Boilerplate for starting your SaaS – saasitive/django-react-boilerplate
• The lawn mower eyetracking pattern for scanning comparison tables
• Repurposing Utopia: Two photobooks chart the afterlife of Soviet architecture
• iCloud Account and Sign In has had an outage affecting some users for 24 hours
• Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple’s policy on cloud gaming apps
• 2020: The year in databases at Google Cloud
• Facebook Banned Our SaaS Website
• Types of Dark Patterns
• SaaS We Happily Pay For
• Pilot draws syringe in the sky to celebrate Covid-19 vaccine
• AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 – ServeTheHome
  In this article, we take a quick look at how Amazon AWS added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 using a Nitro controller
• Architecture of the Game Boy Advance
  An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
• Apple loses copyright claims in lawsuit against U.S. security bug startup
  A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday dismissed Apple Inc’s copyright infringement claims against a Florida startup whose software helps security researchers find vulnerabilities in Apple products including the iPhone.
• AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples
  AWS Lambda using Terraform., an Introductory Cookbook – nsriram/lambda-the-terraform-way
• AWS Developer Forums: S3 Block Devices
• Stasis, a simple static site generator with deployment to S3/CloudFront
• Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues
• The design flaws of password managers
• Rust Design Patterns as a Book
• Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
  A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.
• OpenFaaS template for headless Chrome and Puppeteer
• A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community
  A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community.
• Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design
• Log Pattern Recognition: LogMine
• Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS
• AWS Boots Parler
• AnyDB: An Architecture-Less DBMS for Any Workload
• Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience
• Helping to secure internet routing
• Apple scrapped plans to fully secure iCloud backups after FBI intervention
• The Role-Profiles Pattern Across Infrastructure as Code
• InfiniCache: In-memory cache that is built atop ephemeral serverless functions
• Fujitsu A64FX Microarchitecture Manual
• GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
  Now in its third year, the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs compares AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) to tell realistic performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.
• Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers
• Intentionally Leaking AWS Keys
• RSS Feeds with News from AWS
• Serverless SQLite
  Serverless SQL application
• Valetudo is a cloud-free web interface for robot vacuum cleaners
• Twitter refused to remove child porn – it didn’t ‘violate policies’: lawsuit
• AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
  Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). Instead, new versions of the software will be offered under the Elastic License (which limits how it can be used) or the Server Side Public License (which […]
• Complete rewrite of ownCloud to move away from LAMP
  ownCloud Infinite Scale is a new ownCloud product, based on ten years of experience in enterprise sync and share. It is written in Go.
• ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP
• Designing a Ruby Serverless Runtime
• PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances
  With the second gen of Graviton2 instances announced, we decided to take a look at the price/performance from the standpoint of running PostgreSQL.
• Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare
• Senior Fullstack Engineer – Back End Focus (Rails/React/AWS/K8s)
• Micro – A platform for cloud native development in Go
• Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger
• JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you
  TL;DR The Jitsi team at 8×8 are proud to announce the brand new and awesome Jitsi as a Service: world’s easiest way to embed video meetings in your apps and websites! All the power of […]
• The Architecture of My Life
• Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood in the State of New York
• Google Cloud announces VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease
• We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
  85,250 votes and 22,190 comments so far on Reddit
• Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood
  Case 1:21-cv-00777 Document 1 Filed 01/28/21 Page 1 of 9UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTSOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW
• Robinhood Hit with Class Action Lawsuit After Halting GameStop Stock
  Stock trading app Robinhood has been hit with a class-action lawsuit after halting trades on GameStop, other stocks it says are «volatile.»
• Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules
  Facebook is prepping an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, according to The Information.
  The suit reportedly alleges Apple abused its market power by…
• Google Cloud SQL Incident
• According to lawsuit, Subway’s tuna sandwiches contain “no scintilla of tuna”
• Robinhood and Reddit protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress
  Robinhood Markets Inc’s user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers after it blocked a frenzied trading rally in companies such as GameStop Corp that was fueled on social media forums.
• AWS Outposts 2021: Stories for Folks Who Love Spreadsheets
• A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow
  Cloud gaming is a new class of services that promises to revolutionize the
  videogame market. It allows the user to play a videogame with basic equipment
  while using a remote server for the actual execution. The multimedia content is
  streamed through the network from the server to the user. This service requires
  low latency and a large bandwidth to work properly with low response time and
  high-definition video. Three of the leading tech companies, (Google, Sony and
  NVIDIA) entered this market with their own products, and others, like Microsoft
  and Amazon, are planning to launch their own platforms in the near future.
  However, these companies r
• Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
• Mainframe Programming vs. Cloud Computing
• Itanium: Mark Architecture as Orphaned
• Behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role
• Gravesites of Architects
  An illustrated guide to the often-humble final resting places of famous architects, from Alvar Aalto to Frank Lloyd Wright.
• The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
  church-encoding This post explains how the visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding (or Böh…
• Newly Active 250Tbps Subsea Cable – The Google Cloud Dunant Cable
  The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
• Rust-Analyzer Architecture
  An experimental Rust compiler front-end for IDEs. Contribute to rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.
• AWS Cheat Sheets
  AWS Cheat Sheets
  Our AWS cheat sheets were created to give you a bird’s eye view of the important AWS services that you need to know by heart to be able to pass the different AWS certification exams such as the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, as well as the other Associate,
• Iamlive – Generate an IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring
  Generate a basic IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring (CSM) – iann0036/iamlive
• Architecture.md
• Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood
• Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
• Peru’s Cloud Warriors
• AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
• Never Use Cloudflare Free Plan
  Paweł Urbanek – Full Stack Ruby on Rails web developer and consultant, specializing in performance tuning. Experienced in building scalable APIs for startups and refactoring legacy codebases. Blogging about web development related topics.
• Islands Architecture – when SSR meet micro front end
• Microsoft Wallops Amazon in 2020 Cloud Revenue
  Amazon’s AWS cloud unit had an excellent year with revenue of $45.4B, but Microsoft blew past that w/ 2020 commercial cloud revenue of $59.5B.
• Pattern matching accepted for Python
  The Python steering council has, after some discussion, accepted the
  controversial proposal to add a
  pattern-matching primitive to the language.
  «We acknowledge that
  Pattern Matching is an extensive change to Python and that reaching
  consensus across the entire community is close to impossible. Different
  people have reservations or concerns around different aspects of the
  semantics and the syntax (as does the Steering Council). In spite of this,
  after much deliberation, reviewing all conversations around these PEPs, as
  well as competing proposals and existing poll results, and after several
  in-person discussions with the PEP authors, we are
• State of Independent SaaS 2021
• Pattern Generator – Create Seamless, Royalty-Free Patterns
• Stack Overflow Users Rejoice as Pattern Matching Is Added to Python
• Normalizing AWS IAM Policies for use in automated analysis
• Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results
  Fiscal year 2020 revenue totaled $431 million, representing an increase of 50% year-over-year; Q4 revenue totaled $126 million, also representing an increase of 50% year-over-year Fiscal year 2020 GAAP operating margin of (24.8)%, representing an improvement of 1,280 basis points year-over-year; non-GAAP operating margin of (7.9)%, representing an improvement of 1,690 basis points year-over-year Dollar-based net retention of 119%, representing an improvement of 300 basis points sequentially, dri
• Artichoke Ruby Architecture
• “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
• AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?
• Virtual Boy Architecture: A Practical Analysis
• Python Pattern Matching Tutorial
• Python Pattern Matching
• CTO Headaches: Top cloud-to-cloud migration woes (and how to solve them)
• The ‘GaaS or subscription service’ squeeze in games
• Cloudflare Issues in IL
• You cannot contact Google Cloud support team if you are locked out your account
  Google Cloud Platform billing and payments.
• Machine Learning for Computer Architecture
• Boeing 747 loses parts after take-off from Maastricht – 2 injuries
• Nextcloud Hub 21: 10x performance, whiteboard, talk, and groupware
  Nextcloud is the most deployed on-premises file share and collaboration platform. Access & collaborate across your devices. Your data remains under your control.
• Architecture of the Playstation 2
  An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
• Scientists create new class of “Turing patterns” in colonies of E. coli
• Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice
• Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files Slapp Lawsuit to Silence a Critic
• Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
  Kevin is working on creating better tools for thought
• A command-line utility for deploying serverless applications to AWS
• Getting Started with AWS Amplify Flutter
• Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore

Development and languages

• Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository
• ZzFXM – A tiny JavaScript music system
• MicroPython
  MicroPython is a lean and efficient
  implementation of the Python 3 programming language
  that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is
  optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.
• NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver
• Building FunctionTrace, a graphical Python profiler
• Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language
  The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
• WebAssembly without the browser part 1
• TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM
  A Squeak/Smalltalk VM and Polyglot Programming Environment for the GraalVM. – hpi-swa/trufflesqueak
• I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages and it was a nightmare
• Pytov – C-like syntax Python
• A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound
• Graphics Programming Projects
• Samsung Committing to Three Generations of Android OS Upgrades
  Samsung will now support select Galaxy devices for 3 generations of Android OS upgrades
• Ts-migrate: tool to automatically migrate JavaScript projects to TS
• The Consortium for Python Data API Standards
• How the ARM32 Kernel Starts
• Android TV’s homescreen ads are rolling out
• A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
• Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly
• Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go
• Elena Programming Language
• Analyzing Python Code with Python
• On Ethics in Software with the Authors of “The Pragmatic Programmer”
• Python Hash Tables: understanding dictionaries
• WordPressiOS Locked by App Store
• ePaper.js – Easily create an ePaper display using JavaScript and HTML
• Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
• Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar’s digital world
• Implement an emulator for a fantasy CPU in JavaScript
• Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
• Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder
• Writing a simple Python to C compiler: hello, fibonacci
• Dnjs: A pure subset of JavaScript that wants to replace configuration languages
• JavaScript Generators, Meet XPath
• Minotaur: A pythonic, asynchronous, inotify interface
• Mys – an attempt to create a statically typed Python-like language
• Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet
• Writing a Test Case Generator for a Programming Language
• Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended
• Digital Sight Management, and the Mystery of the Missing Amazon Receipts
• Vanilla JavaScript renders 5-10x faster than Preact, 30x faster than React
• Hands-on WebAssembly
  Learn the basics of WebAssembly through code examples and try different ways to compile C and Rust programs for the browser with the help of Docker image from Evil Martians.
• Motoko: A programming language for building directly on the internet
• Little Ball of Fur 2.0 – A graph sampling Python library
• Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab
• ztext.js – JavaScript library (3.9 kb) that makes any font 3D
• Computer Music with Python
• ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
  Replace your notebooks and printed documents with the only tablet that feels like paper.
• Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes
• Using Microsoft Word with Git
• Essentials of Programming Languages
• Keli: A programming language to make Functional Programming a joy for users
• Python setuptools v50 breaks pip installation on Debian/Ubuntu
• GitHub Container Registry
• Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code
  Python library for converting Python calculations into rendered latex. – connorferster/handcalcs
• Pasukon – The easy JavaScript parser generator
• NeoAxis Game Engine 2020.5 Released – .NET Core, VSCode, Improved Built-In GUI
• Multiple Western Digital 5400RPM drives are actually 7200RPM drives
• Git-Based Wiki
• 18.S097: Programming with Categories
• Introduction to Ada Programming
  An interactive learning platform to teach the Ada and SPARK programming languages.
• FixCache – keep track of bug-prone files from Git commit history
• UK scores an own goal with its Digital Services Tax
• My GitHub Readme Is Interactive
  An experimental interactive README experience! Contribute to veggiedefender/typing development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test
• Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users
  A look at the monthly costs of running a webapp on DigitOcean
• Windows update resets your default programs so they can suggest using Edge
• .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
• Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features
• List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills
• Geometric Algebra for Python
  Geometric Algebra for Python. Contribute to pygae/clifford development by creating an account on GitHub.
• How the CPython VM works
• AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac
  AirMessage enables iMessage on your Android phone, Windows PC, Linux computer, or Chromebook.
• Parallelise pipelines of Python async iterables
  Utility function to parallelise pipelines of Python asyncio iterators/generators – michalc/asyncio-buffered-pipeline
• WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. Still Not Using It?
• Ultimate Python Study Guide
  Ultimate Python study guide for newcomers and professionals alike. :snake: :snake: :snake: – huangsam/ultimate-python
• Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python is unauthorized
• Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
• Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jeremy Howard
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe In
  😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in. Contribute to kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood development by creating an account on GitHub.
• You Really Don’t Need All That JavaScript
• OpenJDK is now on GitHub
• OpenJDK is now on GitHub
• New things in Android 11
  The latest release of Android offers easier ways to help you manage your conversations, connected devices, privacy, and much more.
• Is anybody still using Windows 95?
• Apple II and Apple IIe emulators written in JavaScript and HTML5
  An Apple II emulator written in Javascript. Contribute to whscullin/apple2js development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Android 11
• An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot’s API
  An open-source plotting library for statistical data. – JetBrains/lets-plot
• Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a
• C++ was the fastest growing programming language in Sept according to TIOBE
• Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language
• GitPals – Find team for cooperative development
• .NET Memory Performance Analysis
  This is a document to help with .NET memory analysis and diagnostics. – Maoni0/mem-doc
• Sync vs. Async Python: What Is the Difference?
• Relax your coding self with the soothing JavaScript simulation of rain
  Background rain sounds for relaxing and working.
• Rack Elevation Diagram Generator in JavaScript
• Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs
• The UK’s “Chief Digital Officer” job has been open for over a year
• Noise.sh – a digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design
  noise.sh is a digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design.
• Apple is starting to use Rust for low-level programming
• Happy Programmers’ Day to all devs in HN
• We Upgraded PostgreSQL at Gitlab.com
• Sensors of largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapixel images at SLAC
  The camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
• All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL
• Substring Removal Game with Python and JavaScript
• WebRTC Samples
• Control a website by rising your hand – JavaScript library for hand detection
• The Recovering Programmer
• How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Monitor – 8-Bit Buddhism
• a18n – Automated I18n JavaScript Solution
• Zig: Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language
• Jazz up your Python scripts with sound effects
• Beeware – Android and iOS Apps in Python
• Python’s Innards: Introduction
• Google Says It Doesn’t Monopolize Digital Ad Market. Senators Don’t Buy It
• What happened to all the non-programmers?
• Array Programming with NumPy
  NumPy is the primary array programming library for Python; here its fundamental concepts are reviewed and its evolution into a flexible interoperability layer between increasingly specialized computational libraries is discussed.
• A Handwritten Math Parser in 100 lines of Python
• SteelSeries include adware in driver automatically installed by Windows Update
• Dropping modern Python packages into a single program
• Blech Programming Language
• GitHub CLI 1.0
  GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we announced the beta of GitHub
• Data-Oriented Programming in Python
• Reverse Engineering the Logitech Harmony
• Lua in the Kernel?
  BPF is, of course, the language used for
  network (and other) customization
  in the Linux kernel, but some people have been using the Lua language for the networking side of that
  equation. Two developers from Ring-0
  Networks, Lourival Vieira Neto and Victor Nogueira, came to the virtual
  Netdev 0x14 to
  present
  that work. It consists of a framework to allow the injection of Lua scripts
  into the running kernel as well as two projects aimed at routers, one
  of which is deployed on 20 million devices.
• OpenSCAD – The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
• Digital Banking, Now Halal
• CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
  A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT – CadQuery/cadquery
• Why Rust is not a mature programming language
• Reddit – “Windows 10 prompted me to vote”
• Plenary – A privacy focused RSS feed and offline reader app for Android
• Twister OS: Make Raspberry Pi Look Like Windows or macOS
• Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention
• E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of “natural language programming”
• Can TikTok be banned from US based Android devices?
• Object-oriented programming: History, and challenges for the next fifty years
• New GitHub repos to have default branches named “main” instead of “master”
• We need young programmers; We need old programmers
  The software industry loves young people, but old-timers serve an important purpose, too.
• Haskell language features and standard libraries in pure Python
• The future of .NET Standard
• John Cleese Discusses Creativity, Monty Python, and Artichokes
• Cobaul: A COBOL to WebAssembly Compiler
  COBOL to WebAssembly compiler. Contribute to cloudflare/cobweb development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge
• Pinegrow: Multi Platform HTML / CSS / JavaScript GUI
• Swift on Windows
• .NET 5.0 – New APIs
• The Era of Visual Studio Code
  Roben Kleene’s blog
• Visualizing Gzip Compression with Python
• Time spent programming is often time well spent
• How the CPython compiler works
• Developing Online with GitHub Codespace
• Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go
• Mathematics for Programmers
• Strategic Communication – programming language made out of buzzwords
  A best-of-breed language with a holistic approach to moving the needle – rotoclone/strategic-communication
• The Most Important Non-Programming Skills for Programmers
• Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
  Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.
• Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54
• Bean Machine – A Declarative Probabilistic Programming Language
  The final part of my Life series is still in the works but I need to interrupt that series with some exciting news. The new programming language I have been working on for the last year or so has j…
• W64devkit – Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 Windows
• Windows XP source code has leaked
• YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills
  From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1:
• Bypassing Android MDM Using a $1.50 Electric Gas Lighter
• Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac
• On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
  Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
• Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
• LibreDWG: “Plans are to add support for SolveSpace, OpenSCAD and PythonCAD”
• PyPy 7.3.2 triple release: Python 2.7, 3.6, and 3.7
• Picat 3.0 released (logic-based multi-paradigm programming language)
• How to digitize your lab notebooks
  Converting paper records to digital formats provides secure back-ups that researchers can access from anywhere.
• Google requiring Android apps to use its billing system next year
• Elsa is a minimal, fast and secure runtime for JavaScript written in Go
  ❄️ Elsa is a minimal, fast and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Go – elsaland/elsa
• Python for Kids: A Comprehensive Python Development Tutorial for Kids
• Python 3.9 is around the corner
• Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly
• Elements of Programmnig
• Bare Metal Programming on Raspberry Pi 3
• Gitter is joining Matrix
• Windows XP and Server 2003 compiled from leaked source code
• Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
• Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages
• GitUp – The Git interface you’ve been missing all your life
• Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available
  Now available, code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.
• Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages
• Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers
  All you need is a text editor, a makefile and a USB-serial cable.
• Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions
  The free Zapier/IFTTT alternative for developers to automate your workflows based on Github actions – actionsflow/actionsflow
• Python typosquatting is about more than typos
• Programming Language notation is a Barrier to Entry
  Research in programming languages offers powerful tools, but our systems of notation stymie outsiders. Can we change our notational approach and broaden our audience—without compromising on c…
• Segment Tree
• Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code
• Copper: A statically-typed, loose syntax programming language
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates
• C Programming on System 6
• Node.js malware caught posting IPs, username, and device info on GitHub
• Boa: an experimental Javascript lexer, parser and compiler written in Rust
• An opinionated history of programming languages
• Microsoft forcing Edge browser webview on Outlook for Android app users
• Git Exercises
• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
  Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• Git filter-repo: much easier/faster alternative to filter-branch
• A clear, strong, and thermally insulated wood for energy efficient windows
  Could looking through trees be the view to a greener future? Trees replacing the clear pane glass in your windows is not a work of science fiction. It’s happening now.
• Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change
• Principles of Data Oriented Programming
  Data Oriented Programming in a nutshell. Benefits and drawbacks of data oriented programming. DO vs OOP. DO vs FP.
• Type-Level Programming in Rust
• .NET Orleans
• Python 3.9
• Programmable Search Engine
  Help people find what they need on your website. Add a customizable search box to your web pages and show fast, relevant results powered by Google.
• Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear
• DigitalOcean App Platform
• Array-Oriented Programming with NumPy-1
• CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more
  CLI plain-text note-taking, bookmarking, and archiving with encryption, filtering and search, Git-backed versioning and syncing, Pandoc-backed conversion, and more in a single portable script. – xw…
• Designing a New Rust Class at Stanford: Safety in Systems Programming
• Bill Gates introducing Windows 3.1 (video 60s)
• The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language
• Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
  Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. The …
• Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies without complaining
• Is your programming language unreasonable?
  or, why predictability is important
• Mechanical-Digital Steel Ball Clock
• The Xonsh Python Shell
• Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
  I want to discuss a (minor) antipattern that I think is (slightly) harmful. Lots of websites use large Javascript libraries. They often include them by using a 3rd party Content Delivery Network li…
• PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
• Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go
  Bit is a modern Git CLI. Contribute to chriswalz/bit development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Automatic Optical Illusions Using Python and OpenCV
• Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience
• Towards Tactic Metaprogramming in Haskell
• Espruino: JavaScript for Microcontrollers
  The Espruino JavaScript interpreter – Official Repo – espruino/Espruino
• CVE-2020-16898 – Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• PEP 638 – Lisp-Like Syntactic Macros for Python
• End of the WordPress era? No, we’re aiming for 50% of web, says founder
• The Digital Divide Starts with a Laptop Shortage
• Neon Programming Language
• Luhmann’s Original Zettelkasten Digitalized
• Embracing Asynchronous Communication at Gitlab
• Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps
  Why does this keep happening?
• ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
  FJCVTZS is «Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero». It is supported in Arm v8.3-A chips and later. Which is odd, because you don’t expect to see JavaScript…
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
• Valve Brings a Massive Update to Its Windows Compatibility Layer
• Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity?
• Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming
• Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
  Chris Lattner is a world-class software & hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, and SiFive. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get a free week of premium – Neuro: https://www.getneuro.com and use code LEX to get 15% off – MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off annual sub – Cash App: https://cash.app/ and use code LexPodcast to get $10 EPISODE LINKS: Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm Chris’s Website: http://nondot.org/sabre/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podca
• Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition
  MONOSPACE: Flip dots with feelings, a JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the 1024 bytes demo competition at Assembly 2020.
• Python For Feature Film
  A look into how Python is used to bring your favorite movies to the big screen.
• Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed
• Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go and more
  A small tweak to your Git config that will make the diff output smarter and more language aware
• Hundreds of Native American Treaties Digitized for the First Time
• Programming with a Read-Eval-Synth Loop
• Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim
  Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient scripting – Arturo Programming Language
• Minimalism in Programming: How Complexity Harms Your Productivity
• PyInstrument – A statistical Python profile that focuses on the slow parts
• Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
• Pylo: Python front-end for several Prolog engines
• My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
  My journey to create a YouTube of memories from my family’s old home videos.
• Julia GPU: How the Julia language is making it easy for programmers to use GPU
  How the Julia language is making it easy for programmers to use GPU capabilities
• Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit
  This issue is JFYI. It feels more like a Safari issue than a ESBuild one, but maybe you or someone else (a fellow WebKit engineer?) will find it useful. AFAIK @koenbok already briefly mentioned thi…
• Attempts at Making Python Fast
  Posted on Hacker News there was an Implementation Plan for making CPython (the official Python implementation) faster. The author claims a 5x speedup is possible for the low cost of $2 million USD.
  The four step plan includes
  creating an adaptive interpreter improvements to internal types creating a JIT compiler extending the JIT compiler We have witnessed other attempts at making Python fast, each achieving their own degree of success in terms of performance and compatibility.|
• GitHub Certifications (Beta)
• A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal
• Step-by-Step: Programming Incrementally
• A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication
• Seamlessly Swapping the API back end of the Netflix Android app
• Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries
• PPL Bench: A standard for benchmarking probabilistic programming languages
• NAPI Polling in Kernel Threads
• Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications
  Rapid ongoing progress with digital technologies has increased the prospects for adoption of new forms of digital money for both domestic and international transactions. These include central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and the so-called global stable coins (GSCs) proposed by large technological companies or platforms. This paper explores the complex interactions between the incentives to adopt and use CBDCs and GSCs across borders and discusses the potential macro-financial effects.
• Embedded Programming Without the IDE
• Gitlab: Tech Stack
  A list of tools and applications used internally at GitLab and how to access them.
• Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code
• Gitlab Is Down
• Static single assignment for functional programmers
• YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
  Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u…
• IMF Conference: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) for Cross-Border Payments
• Pale Moon migrating source code from GitHub
• YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository
• Planet eBook – 100% Free Literature for Win, Mac, iOS, Android and Kindle
• GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat’
• Youtube-dl GitHub Template
• Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access
• Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui
  Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of SomaFM internet radio streams while I work as they have a lot of terrific commercial-free programming. One day while being creatively inspired by the Sonic Universe station’s offerings, I had the idea of creating my own music player with support for streaming….
• Git-Retext
• Gitlab compensation calculator is not open to everyone anymore
  Source for https://about.gitlab.com/ This repo/project is for the public-facing marketing website of GitLab, including improvements to the docs and the handbook….
• Otvdm/winevdm: run old Windows software in 64-bit Windows
• Eslisp – An S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like macros
• Web Scraping with JavaScript
• Digital Camera Know-Hows
• Spy inside a running Python application at no performance cost with Austin TUI
  The top-like text-based user interface for Austin. Contribute to P403n1x87/austin-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.
• RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
  An RIAA takedown request, which removed the YouTube-DL repository from GitHub, has ticked off developers and GitHub’s CEO.
• Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
• How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption
  When you run the Ubuntu installer, there’s an option to dual-boot Ubuntu with anexisting Windows installation. There’s also an option to encrypt your Ubuntui…
• Tracing Kernel Functions: FBT stack() and arg
• ADS1115: Analog-to-Digital Converter for Arduino
• Pika parsing: reformulating packrat parsing as a dynamic programming algorithm
• Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
• Pyston v2: Faster Python
  We’re very excited to release Pyston v2, a faster and highly compatible implementation of the Python programming language. Version 2 is 20% faster than stock Python 3.8 on our macrobenchmarks…
• Actively maintained YouTube-DL GitHub repo
  media downloader and library for various sites. Contribute to blackjack4494/yt-dlc development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Tara – A free Jira alternative, now with Gitlab
• What would mechanical programming look like?
• How to create minimal music with code in any programming language
  Making music with low-level C code, from a simple saw wave to playing melodies
• Human-Centered Programming
• Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming
• Why I Prefer Functional Programming
• Using Windows Explorer as a Git IDE
• 2020’s fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way
  2020 was a good year to be an entry-level candidate for technology jobs, especially if you’ve got PHP skills.
• Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-Material Capabilities
• Web based Windows XP desktop recreation (powered by React)
  Windows XP in React and Hooks! Try Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, Notepad in your browser!
• Intent to stop using null in my (JavaScript) code
• Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
• Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
  By David Henry & Mel Yahya
• Winamp for Windows 10
• Presenta Lib, JavaScript presentation library
• Dojo3D – a simple JavaScript library for 3D interactive stories
• GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
• GitHub Is Down
• A Python container for dataclasses \w multi-indexing and vector opps
• How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub
• Kord – Python tool for displaying guitar chords/scales on your terminal
  a music theory development framework in python. Contribute to synestematic/kord development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Malicious NPM package opens backdoors on programmers’ computers
• GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions
• Programming R at native speed using Haskell
• Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms
• DigitalOcean Container Registry Now GA
• A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg
• RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
• GitHub source code in DMCA repo pushed by GitHub CEO
• Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet
• Hosting Provider Leaked 63M Records Including Magento and WordPress Credentials
  Security Expert Jeremiah Fowler, exposed cloud application hosting company which leaked over 63 million records.
• Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language
• Western Digital SweRV RISC-V Core
  SweRV EH1 core. Contribute to chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem
  :man: A NodeJS, git diffable JSON database on yer filesystem. – c9fe/sirdb
• SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript
• The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic
• What’s the Role of Developer Experience in Programming Languages Research?
• What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git repo?
• Feynman, Algorithmic Orchestration and Node Based Programming
• I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript
• Embed Gravity programming language into your code
• Digital sound processing tutorial
• Taking screenshots isn’t allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
• How Python bytecode is executed
• Google Launches App That Lets Banks Remotely Lock Your Android Device
• Using Alfred to open your GitHub repositories in the browser
  I created an Alfred workflow to quickly open my company’s GitHub repos in the browser.
• How does the event loop work in JavaScript?
• Apple requests to remove WebAssembly support in a-Shell
• On the Beauty of Python’s ExitStack
• The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This
• Converting Utzoo-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to PostgreSQL Back End Using Python
• The Battle for the Soul of Digital Freedom Taking Place Inside Your Printer
• The JavaScript Self-Profiling API
• This is how I git
• Ambient noise generator for Windows that I give away, coupon “NOISE”
• Spectre.console – Pretty console apps in .NET
• .NET 5.0
  We’re excited to release .NET 5.0 today and for you to start using it. It’s a major release — including C# 9 and F# 5 — with a broad set of new features and compelling improvements. It’s already in active use by teams at Microsoft and other companies,
• Indie Systems Programming Conference (Nov 14-15)
• Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language
• PyPy: Faster Python with Minimal Effort
• Dead easy Python for executing many HTTP requests asynchronously
• AndroWish – run desktop Tcl/Tk programs almost unaltered on the Android Platform
• Booting a macOS Apple Silicon Kernel in QEMU
  I booted the arm64e kernel of macOS 11.0.1 beta 1 kernel in QEMU up to launchd. It’s completely useless, but may be interesting if you’re wondering how an Apple Silicon Mac will boot.
• Astonishing Performance of .NET 5
  I migrated Fusion to .NET 5 today — and honestly, I was absolutely shocked by the performance boost it brings:
• Switch Git Users CLI
  Switch git user and email at ease. Contribute to geongeorge/Git-User-Switch development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Find GitHub Users’ Email Address
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Module Systems
• A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript
• Universal DOOM – a single EXE for DOS 6, and Windows 95 to Windows 10
• Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
  Ad giant sued after mobile allowances eaten by hidden transfers
• Handmade Seattle – virtual low-level programming conference
  Independent low-level programming conference.
• Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates
• Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison
• A Case for Properties: Programming Language Design
• Code-generating a WebAssembly 6502 emulator from specifications
• Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next 50 years
• I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages
  Minimal URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub pages. – nelsontky/gh-pages-url-shortener
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 2 (Term Rewriting)
• Run Python Applications Efficiently with malloc_trim
• Integrating User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design
• Windows 10 is now nagging users with full screen Microsoft Edge ads
  In production builds, Microsoft is A/B testing a new ‘feature’ that is designed to nag users with fullscreen window-less Microsoft Edge recommendations in the OOBE screen. The nag will appear when users set up their PC, sign in to their system after applying updates, or when they click on a new ad banner within the …
• Git is too hard
  Git is actually sooo hard. Not just to learn, but also to use consistently. And I say that as a person who used it for probably over ten years. Here’s my thoughts on the matter.
• Get real, you don’t need GitHub
• Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster
• Ranked programming: Probabilistic programming without probabilities
• What is extreme programming and how it makes your code better?
• *scratch*.js – Interactive JavaScript Scratchpad
• A Ray of Hope: Array Programming for the 21st Century
  The ideas of APL and its successors, the array programming languages, were two generations ahead of their time. These languages are based on the notion that…
• Before the BSD Kernel Starts: Part One on AMD64
• A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
  A pure JavaScript implementation of git for node and browsers! – isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git
• Building a VLC Media Player in JavaScript (Using Ffmpeg = WebAssembly)
• My First Kernel Module: A Debugging Nightmare
• QuickPYTHON
• The Vale Programming Language
• Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly
  Lunatic is an Erlang inspired runtime for WebAssembly – lunatic-solutions/lunatic
• Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes best practices
  Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python.
• Paradigms Without Progress: Kuhnian Reflections on Programming Practice
• Opytimizer: Nature-Inspired Computation in Python
• JavaScript for Microcontrollers
• Using Python’s Bisect Module
• Books for Programmers
  Most programmers I know started programming out of sheer curiosity and joy. Joy is what keeps…
• pbcopy/pbpaste across machines via Gitlab Snippets
  copy and paste across machines. Contribute to bradwood/glsnip development by creating an account on GitHub.
• The dubiousness of digitized signature services
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 3 (Effect Systems)
• Making Python one-liner-fit with the new pwk (Python With Kurly braces)
• Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
• Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core
  I’ve long said, as a fan of the console and text mode, that the command line is …
• DigitalOcean Response for Taking over 20K DigitalOcean Domains
• Add variables to Python traceback
  Adds variables to python traceback. Simple, lightweight, controllable. Debug reasons of exceptions by logging or pretty printing colorful variable contexts for each frame in a stacktrace, showing e…
• Digital Tools I Wish Existed
• 1000 GitHub Data Science projects, now executable in 1 click
• Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized
• Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting
• RipTable – multi-threaded Python data analytics tools for numpy arrays/datasets
• Dark Mode Coming to GitHub After 7 Years
• Please disable JavaScript to view this site
• Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
• Bivector.net: geometric algebra for computer graphics, vision, and engineering
• Change to support WireGuard in-kernel has been merged into FreeBSD-CURRENT
• A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
• Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
  it’s time
  Toward #8936
• StrongMap – JavaScript Map Meets Your Hard Disk
• Purpose-First Programming
• Write your own arbitrary-precision JavaScript math library
• Tiny 1k Rust binary on Windows
• ARM and Lock-Free Programming
  I was inspired by the release of Apple’s M1 ARM processor to tweet about the perils of lock-free programming which led to some robust discussion. The discussion went pretty well given the inanity o…
• Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
• Why it’s good for users that HTML, CSS and JavaScript are separate languages
• RemoveJS – Remove JavaScript from any website
• A Byte of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles
• Midiblocks – Programming with Face Gestures
• A modern tool for the Windows kernel exploration and observability
• A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming
  My personal workflow for terminal-based coding, writing, research, and more!
• Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler
  F# to JS compiler
• Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
  Radicle is a peer-to-peer stack for building software together.
• Make slides with text, markdown, YAML, JSON or JavaScript, your call
• Exotic Programming Ideas
• High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets
• Skybolt: A C++ planetary environment rendering engine with Python bindings
• Understanding Peer-to-Peer Git Forges with Radicle
• Gustave – Embedded OS kernel fuzzer
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
• Gitter now natively speaks Matrix
• Create bootable USB drives the easy way (Windows)
• GitHub Universe 2020: Opening Keynote
• GitHub Releases Dark Mode
  GitHub is where people build software. More than 56 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.
• CSS in GitHub Readmes
  Style your readme using CSS with this simple trick – sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat
• Working with Unikernel Volumes in Nanos
• Debugging WebAssembly with Modern Tools
• Microsoft releases a preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
  Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.

  As mentioned here, we are giving Windows Insiders in

• How Python object system works
• Implementing Rust’s Dbg in Python
• Modular unikernel designed to run applications securely on micro-VMs
• GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark.
  If you hate it too this is why. Using color theory to show why GitHub dark mode is disappointing
• Yo WASM – The Easy Way to WebAssembly
• Casio Graphing Scientific Calculator Fx-9860GIII Comes with MicroPython
  [Official CASIO Scientific & Graphing Calculator website] Product information, Approved for IB , SAT and ACT Exam / Ideal for learning math.
• Functional Programming Is Not What Makes Haskell Great
• The Secret History of Windows Task Manager from Retired Microsoft Engineer
• Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
• So-called sophisticated cyberattack against US government, a simple GitHub leak
  Cybersecurity expert Vinoth Kumar shares an important clue to the US government breach, which possibly happened due to weak credentials and a GitHub leak.
• My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good
• The Most Complete List of Legally Free Python Books (Updated 2021)
• Show last Git push on an e-paper device
• The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar
  This post has been languishing in my drafts folder for about a decade. It has recently become relevant again. When I was at Vodafone, selling ringtones was our top priority. They cost almost nothin…
• Debian CD Image for AArch64 Windows Laptops
• bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree
• Conditional JavaScript: Only download when it is appropriate
• Github: Token authentication requirements for Git operations
• Getting started with C programming a lightning-fast start for absolute beginners
  This tutorial will guide you through writing the «Hello World» program in the C programming language. You’ll use Unix-style terminal emulators and command-line tools to execute commands, Linux-style package managers to install programs and libraries, the GNU nano text editor to write C code, the meson build system to build executable programs and the Gtk+ library to write portable, cross-platform graphical programs. Instructions for three operating systems are provided: macOS, Ubuntu Linux and Windows…
• Git2graph: Generate a Git graph structure from linear Git history
• Tig – Text-mode interface for Git
• SolarWinds Leaked FTP Password through GitHub Repo “mib-importer” since 2018
  The leaked FTP credentials were being exposed by SolarWinds since June 2018 in mib-importer GitHub repo. There was potentially more sensitive data in that repo, says security researcher Vinoth Kumar.
• Zero to Emacs and Org-roam: a step-by-step guide on Windows 10
• Changes to GitHub Code Search Indexing
• Cimbar – File transfer via color barcodes and the Android camera
• FreeBSD src repository is transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend
• Python at Scale: Strict Modules
• Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January
• AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly
• Ganja.js: Geometric Algebra Generator for JavaScript, C++, C#, Rust, Python
  :triangular_ruler: Javascript Geometric Algebra Generator for Javascript, c++, c#, rust, python. (with operator overloading and algebraic literals) – – enkimute/ganja.js
• How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
  At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
• Extremist Programming
• Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
• Flurly – sell any digital file online
• Mantel-top computerized musical chimes with MicroPython on an ESP-32
• Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed
• Kivy: Cross-Platform Python Framework for UI Development
• An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming
• Python Print() and Beyond
  Beyond the print() function in Python
  Hey guys, today I am going to talk about some features of the print() function in python. You will probably have come across some of these functions while others could seem new.
  Let’s start by understanding the b…
• More challenging projects every programmer should try
  More challenging projects every programmer should try.
• Cakelisp: A Programming Language for Games
• Time to get excited about the growing Windows on ARM Ecosystem
• Turbo: The speed of a SPA without having to write any JavaScript
• Defensive Programming
• Flix – Next-generation reliable, concise, functional-first programming language
• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
  When you haven’t been updated since 2016, expiring certificates are a problem.
• I created a Python library to control a Zoom H6 recorder
• Edamagit – Magit for VSCode
• Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed
• Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
  Instantly share images, videos, PDFs, and links with people nearby. Peer2Peer and Open Source. No Setup, No Signup.
• FreeBSD src repository has transitioned from Subversion to Git
• Accelerating Python on GPUs with Nvc++ and Cython
• In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree
• Making a digital clock in Google Sheets
• Programming Languages as Objects in Nature
• Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
  Can you believe it’s been 6 years since my last Tools list? Tools have changed, …
• What comes after Git?
• Redox OS 0.6, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system
• Free HTML/CSS Landing Page Templates Without JavaScript
• Some of Git internals
• A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators
  We’ll explain the concepts underlying LLVM IR, and how you can use the LLVM C++ API in your programming language’s compiler.
• Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
• Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE
• How much math do you need for programming?
  Whenever I wanted to learn Algorithms, Mathematics used there somehow seemed to be an obstacle. I admit my Math is not that good but it ain’t that bad either but this “ain’t bad&#…
• Lambda.r Functional Programming in R
• Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea
  …for the same reasons why central banks want them – they’ll make helicopter money, negative interest rates, and financial surveillance easier
• Bad programming ideas that only become apparent after years
• Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page
• Under the hood of the Subaru Levorg: ADAS and programmable logic
• WordPress market share keeps growing
• In-depth: Functional programming in C++ (John Carmack, 2012)
  In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, id Software co-founder and technical director John Carmack looks at the value in programming in a functional style with C++.
• Git cake: when is my readme’s birthday?
  Use git log command to find when a file was added or created in your git repository
• Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about
• How Python attributes work
• PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
• How We Built the GitHub Globe
  GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how open source development transcends the
• Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry
  I spent 3 years as an analyst in the reinsurance industry. During this time, I witnessed firsthand how Python is driving rapid technological change. (Goodbye, Excel!)
• Adobe Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
  Microsoft has already confirmed next update for Windows 10 will automatically remove Flash Player. Since Flash Player is nearing its final curtain, Adobe has now issued a new pop-up alert reminding users to remove the software for good. In September 2020, Microsoft confirmed that it’s working on a new automatic Windows Update which will remove …
• WebAssembly Studio
• Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock. No JavaScript, No HTML
• The US Digital Services Playbook
• Doing Python development under Mac OS
• Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly
  💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust. Contribute to artichoke/artichoke development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Compiled, buildtime atomic CSS in JavaScript and all your favorite APIs
• Create Terraform files using Python scripts
• ShenScript – An Implementation of the Shen Language for JavaScript
• GitHub repo of ALL known bug bounty platforms (45) and Halls of Fame (497)
• Python – Create large ZIP archives without memory inflation
• On Repl-Driven Programming
• When Big Brands Stopped Spending on Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?
  When P&G, Chase, Uber, and eBay reduced or paused their digital ad spending, they saw NO CHANGE in business outcomes. Do those examples mean digital marketing doesn’t work; or does it mean something else?
• The Rust module system for Python users
• Verified Programming in F*: A Tutorial
• The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32
• Cory Doctorow: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor
  As I write this in mid-November 2020, there’s quite a stir over the new version of Apple’s Mac OS, the operating system that runs on its laptops. For more than a year, Apple has engaged…
• An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”
  A memristor is a passive component like a resistor, capacitor, or inductor. It’s not widely known, as it was first postulated in the early…
• Handel – A procedural programming language for writing songs in browser
• GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
• Hitler reacts to functional programming
• CheerpX – x86 Node.js/python3/Ruby REPL in browser via WebAssembly JIT
• Fontpreview: Python library for font previews
• 5M+ WordPress sites use “Classic Editor” plugin over Gutenberg
• GitHub is fully available in Iran
  All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers in some countries the full range of GitHub services.
• Build your own programming language in C++
• Lunar programming language by David Moon
• DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x emulation
• Syntropy Stack – The Future of Programmable Networking
• v8-riscv — Port of JavaScript V8 engine to RISC-V
• OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy
  100% FOSS keyboard, based on AOSP. Contribute to dslul/openboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE
• Falsehoods programmers believe about Biometrics
• Some Tesla Model 3 rear windows shatter spontaneously
• Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHub
• JPEG.rocks – Privacy-aware JPEG optimizer built with WebAssembly
• Array – A Better Python List
• DGtal: Digital Geometry Tools and Algorithms Library
• Microsoft Refuses to Open Source VSCode Python Language Sever
  Please consider making Pylance open source so other editors can leverage it.
• Malware on My Android Phone
• Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with passphrase lock
• Hardkernel adds 4x 2.5Gbps to H2
• Cosmic Merge Requests – Git-like workflows for CMS content
• Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem
• Proposal for C23: Improve type generic programming
• Hiding execution of unsigned code in Windows system threads
• A Heart Rate Monitor App Written in Vanilla JavaScript
• JavaScript Rising Stars 2020
  A complete overview of the JavaScript landscape in 2020: trends about front-end and Node.js frameworks, tooling, state management…
• Tracing and visualizing the Python GIL with perf and VizTracer
• CS631: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
• .NET NanoFramework
• Swedish bankers face identity crisis over digital currency plans
• My preferred .NET console stack
• Running MatterMost as a Unikernel
• State of JavaScript 2020
• How to Analyze Volume Profiles with Python
• Building DigitalOcean’s API Gateway
• New ‘Action Roguelike’ C++ Project on GitHub
  For the Stanford University Fall 2020 Curriculum, I built a small game project using mainly C++ mixed with some Blueprint in Unreal Engine. For those interested, the entire Computer Science course (CS193U) was provided through Zoom lectures and has been recorded. I’m working on getting this published and meanwhile, this project is already open-source through GitHub to be taken apart by anyone! Check out the project file right here on GitHub! Description The game was built with a wide set of features to cover a variety of useful coding concepts to students including AI, multiplayer…
• A faster file programming language detector
• The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization
  It’s hard to know where to begin, of course; the situation has many interlocking layers. The most notable and disturbing elements have been well covered, and we continue to learn more about the event each day. The picture, it seems, only grows darker. For my part, I’ve been especially interested in thinking through the role of digital media in these events and what it portends for the future. Here, then, are a few reflections for your consideration along those lines. 
• Misinformation: The First Digital Drug
  noun: a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
• Aegis Authenticator – open-source 2FA for Android
• “Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”
• js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
• Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
  The rapid adoption of Julia, the open source, high level programing language with roots at MIT, shows no sign of slowing according to data from
• Soyuz spacecraft digital clock teardown
• Python 3’s F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax
• KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital
• GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA for source code of torrent tracker nyaa.si
  Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u…
• China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
• Flow-Based Programming
• Cgit, Nginx and Gitolite: A Personal Git Server
  nginx + cgit + gitolite = $5/month
• Toolz: A functional standard library for Python
• Siuba – A Dplyr Port to Python
  Python library for using dplyr like syntax with pandas and SQL – machow/siuba
• Cascade Studio: A Full Live-Scripted CAD Kernel and IDE in the Browser
• Hiding messages in images: steganography with Python and Repl.it
• Rust for Windows
  Rust for Windows. Contribute to microsoft/windows-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Git News – Social News website for developers and GitHub fans
• Android Ported to RISC-V
• Programming Language Foundations in Agda
• Gist.cafe – Execute Gists of Python Node Deno C# Dart Swift Go Kotlin Java VB F#
• Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
• B# Programming Language
• Access Control for GitHub Pages
• .NET GC Internals mini-series
• Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?
• Only Sponsers: Build a Salary with GitHub Sponsors
  Build a Salary with GitHub Sponsors
• Microsoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust
• Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
  With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries […]
• Pip has dropped support for Python 2
• All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits
  The Constitution of India, with each amendment as a commit. – prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india
• AeroPython: Classical Aerodynamics with Python
• The RustyHermit Unikernel
• Build a Hugo static site in the browser using GitHub Codespaces
• Controlling GPT-3 with Logit Bias
• Get notified when a file on GitHub has changed
  With more and more content being hosted on GitHub it’s a shame that you can’t get notified when a particular file has changed. At least not by GitHub, that is. But you can build your own notification service. Here is how.
• Pdoc, a lightweight Python API documentation generator
• Improving how we deploy GitHub
• What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
• Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces
• Study identifies 4 distinct types of digital hoarding
• Programming in Five Easy Pieces
• Evaluating JavaScript in the browser for a low code product
• Python’s Type Checking Renaissance
• Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model
  Bronze/Starter is being phased out and current customers have over a year to transition.
• Evcxr: A Rust REPL and Jupyter Kernel
  Contribute to google/evcxr development by creating an account on GitHub.
• CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python
  CircuitPython – a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers – adafruit/circuitpython
• Gitlab removes its ‘starter’ tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
• WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
  A brief overview of the history, architecture, use cases, and future of WebRTC.
• OO in Python is mostly pointless
• JackTrip WebRTC: high quality, uncompressed, ultra-low delay audio streaming
• Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python
• C-for-Metal: High Performance SIMD Programming on Intel GPUs
• PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter
  Rust bindings for the Python interpreter. Contribute to PyO3/pyo3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Pony – High Performance Safe Actor Programming
• Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming
• Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant
  This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe How we made the page
• Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal
  The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! – microsoft/terminal
• Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup
  Blake Mealey’s digital garden
• ESE: The server-grade, embedded DB ships with Windows
• How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it’s a bad idea
• Watchpoints, an easy to use watchpoints equivalent library for Python
• I work on code search at GitHub – what needs to improve?
• Keynavish – Control the mouse with the keyboard (Windows)
• Math Inspector: A Visual Programming Environment for Scientific Computing
• GitHub Should Start an App Store
• Semgrep: JavaScript browser security concat bypass not detected
• F# is gaining independence from .NET
• Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C
• Android to go in all Ford cars
• JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures (examples and explanations of each)
  📝 Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript with explanations and links to further readings – trekhleb/javascript-algorithms
• Homebrew Python Is Not for You
• Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans
• I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub
• Improving texture atlas allocation in WebRender
• Pragmatic Programmers Entire Catalog on Medium
• Peter Naur’s view of programming
• Now pip runs on a Python interpreter rewritten from scratch in rust
  7380 commits and 1940 pull requests later, pip and get-pip.py are working with RustPython 🎉 🎉. pip can install itself and setuptools!
• Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features
  Python is my favourite programming language. Since I discovered it in 2004, programming in Python became my favourite hobby. I’ve tried to l…
• The programme of art plunder initiated by Hermann Göring
• Reloadr – Hot code reloading tool for Python
  Hot code reloading tool for Python. Contribute to hoh/reloadr development by creating an account on GitHub.
• DigitalOcean user portal includes 20 potential trackers
• Spyder – a free and open source scientific environment written in Python
• Android emulator abused to introduce malware onto PCs
  Attackers have compromised the software distribution system of BigNox, developer of a popular Android emulator for PCs and Macs.
• Programming for Cats – A book written specially for cats who want to program
  A book written specially for cats who want to program.
• JavaScript Minification Benchmarks
• Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-tracking X-Mo
• Qcocal VAX – Free Public-Access Digital Dec OpenVMS VAX Hobbyist Server
• The Mediocre Programmer
• Inside the digital sensorium
• A Visual Language for Digital Integration
• FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home
• Reviving an old VCD dub with Python
• «Programming Algorithms in Lisp” Book
  This book will help you master algorithms programming using Lisp, including using the most important data structures and algorithms. This book also covers the essential tools that help in the development of algorithmic code to give you all you need to enhance your code….
• GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requests, packages
• Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time
  How to format blog content so it’ll last.
• Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
  This paper shows that models which result from gradient descent training (e.g., deep neural nets) can be expressed as a weighted sum of simi…
• «100 Page Python Intro» eBook
• Node.js 14 is over 20x faster than Python3.8 for fib(n)
• Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly
• Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work
• SDL Moves to GitHub
  Everything moved to git generally, and GitHub specifically. Lots of tools and workflows expect you to be using git (Visual Studio and Xcode have built-in git support, etc) and Mercurial is becoming an alien thing to lots of people. Instead of being a thing you use, it’s now One More Thing to learn. It’s far more likely that people familiar with revision control generally will also be familiar with git specifically. I am not a fan of git; I still believe Mercurial is a better piece of software…
• Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
  One second to read GitHub code with VS Code. Contribute to conwnet/github1s development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Flynt: Convert old Python string formatting to f-strings
• Posix Threads Programming
• Web Scraping 101 with Python
• A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies
• Python Cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
• WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
  What the f*ck Python? 😱. Contribute to satwikkansal/wtfpython development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Beej’s Guide to Network Programming
• Switching to Windows
• Upptime – GitHub actions powered uptime monitor
• Well-behaved alias commands on Windows
• Zio: Type-safe, composable asynchronous and concurrent programming for Scala
• GitHub Repo to Local Editor In Less Than 1 Second
• Idioms for the D Programming Language
• git-peek – git repo to local editor instantly
• Digital Pottery in the Browser
• Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi
• How .NET container images are maintained
• IMF researchers: digital footprint yields better credit assessment
• Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation
  Our top sponsors—companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in Python and its community—not only use Python for their own int…
• 78rpm Records Digitized
• Peek into a remote repo from GitHub or Gitlab quickly
• A Streamlit component for real-time video processing web apps, streamlit-webrtc
• A simple website for my JavaScript bundler
• I created the BIPLAN programming language, what do you think about it?
• A closer look at Raspberry Pi RP2040 Programmable IOs
• Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC)
  Join this Jam audio space
• Python Internals Serie: Int (Long) Object
• The digital divide is giving American churches hell
• RethinkDNS – monitor app activity, block ads and firewall apps on Android
• Graphics Programming Weekly
• Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android
• Security features of the Intel/Windows platform secure boot process
• Unikraft Posix Like Unikernel
• 3D Meshes of Signed Distance Functions in Python
• Faster JavaScript Calls
• Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes
  There is a common case when strings are actually mutable.
• Fastcheck: Property based testing for JavaScript and TypeScript
• Windows Refund Day
• The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection
• GitHub Deceased User Policy
• Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating
• Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits
• Guesbook for my static site using GitHub Gist and Netlify Functions
• Precisely: Matcher Library for Python
• Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D
  View a 3D model of your GitHub contribution graph. Share it, print it, and more!
• Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input
• 12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks
  A realistic look at Python web frameworks
• The MetaHumans: High-fidelity digital humans in minutes
• My attempt on functional programming in PHP
• What is the fuss over central-bank digital currencies?
  For central banks, digital cash offers a safer, faster and more flexible alternative to notes and coins
• Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android
  A barebones unofficial Android app for Clubhouse. Contribute to grishka/Houseclub development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Sabre – The bullshit-free (c) programming language
• How can you not be romantic about programming?
• Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
• Passerine: An extensible and expressive new programming language
• pierogis – python/rust image and animation processing
• Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  An incremental parsing system for programming tools – tree-sitter/tree-sitter
• Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help
  Stack Overflow users will help you find solutions for your programming woes.
• Gitlab 13.9 Released
• Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles
• ComputeSharp, Run C# on the GPU
  A .NET 5 library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12 and dynamically generated HLSL compute shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! 🚀 – Se…
• Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker
• An introduction to Programming with ECMA-55 Minimal BASIC
• Tweaking Corn Kernels with Crispr
• Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS
  Myeloid cells are able to utilize a variety of monosaccharides from our diet, including fructose. Here the authors show that when monocytes are reliant on fructose as a carbon energy source they are reprogrammed towards oxidative metabolism, glutamine anaplerosis and a pro-inflammatory phenotype owing to excess pro-inflammatory cytokine production.
• Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer
• Samsung now updates Android for longer than Google does
• Replace printf() with cool generic print, almost like Python/JS
• Microsoft is killing the JavaScript open source community
• GitHub with degraded performance for Git Operations
• How to issue a central bank digital currency
• DigitalOcean S-1
• Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet
• Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
  In 1972, two students learning FORTRAN came up with a fantastic new programming language called INTERCAL. INTERCAL is a bit unusual.
• Creating Serendipity with Python
• Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language
• Bit (1.0) – a modern Git CLI in Go
  Bit is a modern Git CLI. Contribute to chriswalz/bit development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates & times for Python!
  Better dates & times for Python. Contribute to arrow-py/arrow development by creating an account on GitHub.

Quote of the week

[POSIX] unifying unix? more like formalizing historical design mistakes made by major vendors…

        — ttyv0

Enterprises

• Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn
• Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster
  Hermann Hauser wants the UK government to intervene to stop Nvidia buying the chip designer.
• Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court
  On Thursday, California’s 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana found that Amazon.com can now be held liable for injury for selling defective products
• Web by Google (TM)
• I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
• How Purism avoids Intel’s Active Management Technology
• Google: Open Letter to Australians
  g.co/Australia-Letter
• Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
  A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem.
• ACCC: Response to Google Open Letter
  The open letter published by Google today contains misinformation about the draft news media bargaining code which the ACCC would like to address.  Google will not be required to charge Australians for the use of its free services such as Google Search and YouTube, unless it chooses to do so. Google will not be required to share any additional user data with Australian news businesses unless it chooses to do so.
• Here’s an example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon
• Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”
• Simple, open source alternative to Google Analytics
• Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
• Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won’t fix it
• The Haunted House – Privacy on Google Street View
• Amazon’s Project Kuiper Is More Than the Company’s Response to SpaceX
• Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
• Gmail and Google Drive Outage
• Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services
• Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers
• Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon’s
  Two shareholders in self-driving car startup Zoox Inc have sued the company, alleging that a rival bid would have been better for common stockholders than a $1.3 billion offer from Amazon.com announced in June.
• American Express to Acquire Kabbage
• Intel Xe-HP Graphics: Early Samples Offer 42 TFLOPs of FP32 Performance
• 1-1 virtual coffees with top tech talent sourced from Twitter
• Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
  A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.
• Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains
• Microsoft Statement in Support of Epic
• Real Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information
• Microsoft backs Epic in court filing
  The Xbox company has declared support for the Fortnite-maker as it battles Apple’s «monopoly».
• Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages
• Amazon: A New Kind of Antitrust Risk
• Luminar Plans $3.4B Reverse-Merger IPO
  Luminar, an autonomous-driving company, will go public through a merger with blank-check company Gores Metropoulos.
• First tax year with Stripe Atlas
  Demystifying the scariest and sparsely-documented aspect of running a business.
• Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be a Big 113.0 KWh, Topping Tesla’s Best
• Microsoft’s war on plain text email in open source
• Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings
• Amazon launches Halo: tracks activity, body fat, emotions
  Amazon Halo combines a suite of AI-powered health tools with an innovative and stylish wrist band Body feature uses new computer vision technology to give an accurate body fat percentage measurement from the comfort and privacy of home—as accurately as methods a doctor would use Tone feature uses
• New case studies about Google’s use of Go
  Go turned out to have a much broader reach than expected. Its growth in the industry has been phenomenal, and it has powered many Google projects.
• Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore
• Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000
• Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database
• Google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from the Play Store
  Attached: 1 image

  Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I’d imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and «subway» tooter.

  this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

  This is particularly worrisom

• Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
  by Aditya Mavlankar, Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron
• Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps
  Players are ripping out landmarks from Google maps to enhance Microsoft Flight Simulator’s map
• Should Google’s Ad Market Be Regulated Like the Stock Market?
• Intel MKL on AMD Zen
• Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet
• Amazon’s Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power
• Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
• A Saudi Prince’s Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter
• Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime with $98-a-year membership fee
• Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
  NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveils the new GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards.
• ‘Giant Step into the Future’: Nvidia CEO Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
• Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
• XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis
• Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake: Up to 4.8 GHz at 50 W, 2x GPU with Xe
• Leaked salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
  Sharing compensation data has become an annual tradition at Microsoft during this time of year
• Hermann Hauser: ‘It’s in Nvidia’s Interests to Destroy Arm’
• Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver
  Privately held Episerver Inc. said it would acquire Optimizely Inc., a 10-year-old technology company backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and actor Ashton Kutcher for less than it had previously been valued.
• Optimizely Acquired by Episerver
• Justice Dept. plans to file antitrust charges against Google in coming weeks
  The attorney general is said to have set a deadline over the objections of career lawyers who say they need more time to build the case.
• The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down
• Has Intel lost its mojo?
• Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’ Falls Short of Its Name
• Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it
• Mystery seeds: Amazon bans foreign plant sales in US
• Is There a Google-Free Future for Firefox?
• Amazon is filled with fake reviews and it’s getting harder to spot them
• Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
• Albuquerque Police Engaged in Secret Intelligence Gathering Operation Since 2006
• Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
• ScribD acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn
  TL;DR: If you have a LinkedIn account, you were signed up to SlideShare automatically without your knowledge or consent. Your account including all your personal information will be sold to ScribD …
• Chef to be acquired by Progress
  Chefs, We are excited to announce that Chef has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Progress. We expect the transaction to be finalized over the next 30 days or so and, once completed, Chef will become an integral part of Progress.  Progress is a trusted provider of some of the best products to develop, deploy and manage …
• Tesla Shares Fall as It Fails to Make It into S&P 500 Index
• K-9 Mail removed from Google Play Store due to listing description
• Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”
• Bloomberg: Who Is Responsible for Blocking the Internet in Belarus?
  Bloomberg found a connection between the Internet’s failure in Belarus during the presidential election and American equipment delivery for filtering traffic.
• NSA chief who oversaw sweeping domestic phone surveillance joins Amazon board
• Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor
• AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentations for October
• AmazonBasics Electronics Fire Safety Investigation
• Caddy Server Is Acquired By Apilayer
• Stripe Checkout
• Fortnite’s Tim Sweeney on Apple, Google: ‘These Monopolies Need to Be Stopped’
• U.S. Google Antitrust Case Set to Expand with GOP States Joining
• SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40bn
• Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US ‘dropped the ball’ on innovation
  Eric Schmidt says America has fallen behind China when it comes to funding new technology.
• You have turned Google Chrome into IE
• How to blur your house on Google Street View
• Nvidia reportedly to acquire ARM Holdings from SoftBank for $40B
• Microsoft Statement on TikTok
• Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
  NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
• Oracle chosen to acquire TikTok US
• ByteDance won’t sell TikTok U.S. operations to Oracle or Microsoft
• Nvidia’s Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry
  Nvidia Corp’s $40 billion agreement to acquire Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group Corp is likely to meet strong opposition from Nvidia’s chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs of protest emerging in South Korea and China within hours of the deal’s announcement.
• Google Translate for Australian Aboriginal Languages
• Google’s all-time carbon footprint is now zero
  The technology giant has also pledged to be using only carbon-free energy by 2030.
• Microsoft’s underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
  Microsoft’s unusual experiment in the sea off Orkney seems to have provided some valuable lessons.
• Web Performance Profiling: Google.com
  How is Google so fast? It’s so fast we take it for granted. It feels instant from the time you search to when results are displayed. What can we learn abou…
• Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
  Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.
• OneFuzz – A self-hosted Fuzzing-As-A-Service platform
• Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon’s Audible
• Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface
• Microsoft Has a Large Presence at This Year’s X.org Conference
• Intel’s Tiger Lake 11th Gen Core I7-1185G7 Review
• Nvidia Broadcast App
  Turn your gamer den into a home studio.
• Getting rid of the Google cookie consent popup
• ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms
• Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff
• Libcu++: Nvidia C++ Standard Library
  The C++ Standard Library for your entire system. Contribute to NVIDIA/libcudacxx development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm
• Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions
• Google’s Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Genius
• Microsoft Teams as a Platform
  Teams started out as a pure collaboration tool, but it’s now becoming a platform for no-code, low-code and pro-code business apps.
• Microsoft to Acquire ZeniMax Media and Its Game Publisher Bethesda Softworks
• Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked search algorithms
• Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
  Today we announced we’re joining the Microsoft family…
• At the International Mathematical Olympiad, Artificial Intelligence Prepares To
• A Picture of Java in 2020
• Tweet threads cured my writer’s block: Twitter as a medium for sketching
• Google beta launches Tables in the U.S.
  Tables, the newest tool from Area 120 by Google, beta launches in the U.S. to help teams easily track and automate work.
• Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model
• Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network
• Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available
• Tesla Suffers Network Outage Disabling Car Owners’ Mobile App
• Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x Fewer Parameters
  The trimmed-down pQRNN extension to Google AI’s projection attention neural network PRADO compares to BERT on text classification tasks for on-device use
• Luna – Cloud gaming service
• Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days
  What’s changing  Starting October 13, 2020, we’re changing the retention policies for items in the Trash in Google Drive. With this new poli…
• Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
  A second study looked in unprecedented detail at the brains of pigeons and barn owls, finding hints to the basis of their intelligence.
• Google Services Experiencing Disruptions
• Yesterday’s Google outage was a pool of routing servers crashing
• Yesterday’s Google outage was a pool of routing servers crashing
• Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
  SAIC-GM-Wuling’s Hongguang MINI EV has been a runaway hit.
• Amazon Restricts How Rival Device Makers Buy Ads on Its Site
  Some makers of smart speakers, video doorbells and other hardware have hit roadblocks buying key ads in search results. Gadgets made by e-commerce giant get the edge.
• A conversation with Bloomberg Beta venture capitalist Roy Bahat
• Tesla’s battery day affirms Wright’s Law and spells trouble for the competition
• Google’s Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee ‘on-sites’
• New Google ChromeOS updates cause 100% CPU usage, heating issues
• Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing
• Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries
• Manually verified job salaries/offers in Artificial Intelligence
• SEC charges Amazon finance manager with insider trading
• Microsoft 365 Widespread Outage
• Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
  Google’s search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.
• Amazon One – palm recognition for Amazon Go
  We’re always looking for ways to make our customers’ lives better, and one area where we’ve spent time innovating is the customer shopping experience in stores. Today, our physical retail team is excited to introduce a new innovation called Amazon One.
• Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090
  We benchmarked the deep learning performance of the latest NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU.
• Amazon hid its safety crisis
  Confidential documents reveal the company leaders’ deception about the consequences of Prime Day, its robots and more.
• U.S. expected to sue Google next week as DOJ seeks support from states
• Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers
  The European Commission is conducting an in-depth investigation of the Google/Fitbit deal. A static, conventional view would suggest limited issues from a merger of complements. Yet, as this column
• Chromecast with Google TV
• Google TV
  Enjoy content from your favorite apps, organized just for you. Tune into live shows, curate watchlists, and control smart home devices. Meet the streaming device that helps you do more with your TV.
• Amazon Timestream is generally available
  Time series are a very common data format that describes how things change over time. Some of the most common sources are industrial machines and IoT devices, IT infrastructure stacks (such as hardware, software, and networking components), and applications that share their results over time. Managing time series data efficiently is not easy because the […]
• Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco
• Using artificial intelligence to make publishing profitable
• US Senate Subpoenas Heads of Google, Facebook and Twitter
  Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will be quizzed by senators.
• Google pub/sub released an ordering feature
• Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more
  The money, spread over three years and the entire globe, is welcome — but this is PR, not a product.
• Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday
• “This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.”
• Stripe’s Political Correctness
• A curated collection of special locations in Google Street View
• Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”
  Shortly after midnight Pacific Time, Epic Games and Google filed with the United States District Court of the Northern District of Californi…
• Investigate Google Accounts to find their real name, physical location, devices
  🕵️‍♂️ Investigate Google Accounts with emails. . Contribute to mxrch/GHunt development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Modi Govt to Set-Up App Store Alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
  India government is reportedly planning to develop its own App Store to end the duopoly of the mobile ecosystem by Google and Apple. In recent weeks, several start-ups and app-makers have been voicing concern over Google’s policy, which made it mandatory for all developers to give 30% commission for all billings on apps registered on the Play store. Even some popular apps such as Zomato and Swiggy were also sent a notice for violation of store policy. Even Paytm was suspended for several hours and only after complying with Google’s policy, was restored.
• Morgan Stanley to Acquire E*Trade
• For Years, Intel Sat on Its CPU Monopoly and Now the Tide Turns Against Them
• Google says ‘beauty’ filters are bad for your mental health
• Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books
• Feature Rich Wiki for Microsoft Teams
  Replacement for Microsoft Teams built in wiki, with global full text search, print, export to PDF & a whole bunch of other cool features.
• NVIDIA announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer with makers in mind
• Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer
• Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
  The decision to use a spreadsheet format that dates back to the 1980s has proved to be unwise.
• Oswald Spengler – an intellectual life
• Bombshell on Bribe Claims Threatens States’ Google Probe
• Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl”
  At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we’d like to highlight a different story of marginalized people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights. It’s the story of how «big oil» is now using Harvey Weinstein-like destroy-the-accuser tactics to try to crush environmental defenders. It is also the story of how we can all help those defenders peacefully fight back.
• Plausible – self-hosted and privacy-first Google Analytics alternative
  Plausible Analytics is a privacy-friendly and open-source Google Analytics alternative that you can install and self-host on your server.
• Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a rebrand
• Tesla dissolves its PR department
• Archive of tech interview questions of Google, Amazon, Facebook and et al.
  Most comprehensive list :clipboard: of tech interview questions :blue_book: of companies scraped from Geeksforgeeks, CareerCup and Glassdoor. – twowaits/SDE-Interview-Questions
• Amazon, Google, Facebook in Sweden needs half a nuclear plant by themselves
  Published October 6, 2020 at 2:46 p.m.It is Aftonbladet that examined how internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon build server halls in Sweden
• Free VSCode Server on Google Colab
  Learn how to setup and use VSCode as an IDE on Google Colab and Kaggle.
• Google and Oracle’s Decade-Long Copyright Battle Reaches Supreme Court
• Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y
• Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer
• Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
• Microsoft probed by US government over aim to double black staff numbers
• Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
• Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
  Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.
• AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement
• AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU
• What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
• AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
• Google Contractors Say Their Work Is Being Shipped to Poland After Unionizing
• Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently
  Microsoft employees also have options to relocate across the US or internationally
• Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks
  Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Thursday they had taken down more than a dozen disinformation networks used by political and state-backed groups in multiple countries to deceive users on their platforms.
• The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
• Additional steps we’re taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
  We’re announcing additional, significant product and enforcement updates that will increase context and encourage more thoughtful consideration before Tweets are amplified.
• A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups
• Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
  Google sues me for using the word «droid» in my company name Orpheusdroid
• OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
• Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
  It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. 
• Feds may target Google’s Chrome browser for breakup
• Self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and Google Analytics
• Meetings should not be held with phones present – Dutch intelligence officer
  Jan Swillens, de directeur van de Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD), adviseert grote organisaties niet met een smartphone of tablet op tafel te vergaderen. Het risico op spionage is dan te groot, zegt hij in een maandag verschenen interview met De Telegraaf.
• Microsoft’s CEO is tired of working from home and he’s not alone
• Google’s Internal Data Show Engineers Found It Harder to Code from Home
  Google’s engineering directors are grappling with a worrisome trend: internal data that indicate productivity during the coronavirus shutdowns deteriorated among engineers, particularly newly hired ones. One internal survey viewed by The Information found that in the three months ended in June, …
• Google Is Killing Unlimited Drive Storage for Non-Enterprise Users
• Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust
  A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
• Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon
• Crypto scammers piggybacking Trump’s Twitter, cloning Medium, stealing crypto
• Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsoft Edge
• Twitter Censors Direct Messages
• Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
• Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
• Why Twilio Acquired Segment
• Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
  camelcamelcamel: Amazon price tracker, Amazon price history charts, price watches, and price drop alerts.
• Reverse Engineer Amazon’s Whispersync
• Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+
• Twitter and Facebook’s action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
  Twitter’s chief says the way it communicated its decision to restrict an article was «unacceptable».
• “Google disabled my husband’s account”
• Hum to Search Song
  Google Search helps you find the melody that’s stuck in your head with machine learning technology.
• Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100
  Buy Coral Dev Board Mini for $99.99. The SBC combines MediaTek MT8167S CPU with Google Egde TPU for Tensorflow Lite or AutoML AI inference
• An Intel MCS-48 based dual temperature sensor
• Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy
• Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
• Gmail/G Suite now editing URLs in mail message bodies to use Google URL redirect
• Google’s penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary
• Google kills off app that let you find loved ones’ location during an emergency
• Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
• Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
  SEOUL, Republic of Korea and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 20, 2020
• Twitter Investigation Report
• Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Google
• U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
  A victory for the government could remake one of America’s most recognizable companies and the internet economy that it has helped define.
• DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federal antitrust law today
• When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube
• Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google
• United States vs. Google
  The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, and if it fails it gives a template for Congressional action.
• Gardening Your Twitter
• The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t
• Tesla Earning Result 3Q 2020
• Google Antitrust Notes
• Chrome won’t clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to
  Browser retains site data in defiance of privacy settings
• Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors
• Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
  Now for the hard part
• TwitGrid – A simple, broadsheet layout for reading Twitter feeds
• Twitter early release v2 API conversation tree example
• Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away
• You can no longer join any Google Meet session without a Google account
• Amazon SNS FIFO – First-in-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging
• Microsoft Tilecode
  Design, Code and Play Games on MakeCode Arcade Devices
• How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible
• SK-Intel NAND deal points to wider shake-up of chip sector
• Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
  In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies.
• Twitter still hasn’t unlocked the New York Post’s account
  Then one must ask, why is the New York Post’s Twitter account still locked?
• Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand
• Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains
  Twitter tried to reduce load times for external links, but made things slower instead. It mistakenly normalizes domains to a point where they’re no longer useful.
• Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page
• A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool
  Mozilla’s blog features guides to making your online life better, stories from the movement, and critical analysis of issues around internet health.
• Microsoft Teams policies are only applied on the client and can be bypassed
  Administrators can use teams policies for controlling what users can do in Microsoft Teams.

  In this blog, I’ll show that these policies are applied only in client and thus can be easily bypassed.

• Google’s new logos are bad
• Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
• Senate report says Google’s AMP should be policed by the FTC
• Apple Building Search Engine to Take on Google, Report Claims
• Stripe Climate
  Stripe Climate vous permet d’éliminer le carbone tout en développant votre entreprise
• Consumer Reports: Cadillac’s Super Cruise Outperforms Tesla’s Autopilot
• Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8
• AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
• Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support
• Amazon Argues Users Don’t Own Purchased Prime Video Content
• Microsoft Overhauls Excel with Custom Data Types
• Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers
• Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings
• Jack Dorsey: Twitter has no influence over elections
• From McDonald’s to Google
  Kelsey Hightower defied the tech sector’s diversity problems to become one of the industry’s leading figures. Now he wants everyone’s voice to be heard.
• Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release
• People Are Jailbreaking Used Teslas to Get the Features They Expect
  Tesla is getting more aggressive in revoking paid software features on used cars, raising the stakes in a battle over what used Teslas can do that has raged for years.
• Apple is warning Mac users that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware
• No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday
• Microsoft and the NSA
• Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in co-op with the NSA
  A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
• As a former social media analyst, I’m quitting Twitter
• Goodbye, Twitter
• Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
  Posted by Tingbo Hou and Tyler Mullen, Software Engineers, Google Research Video conferencing is becoming ever more critical in people’s …
• Google users locked out after 15 years’ use
• Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
  How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure
• No More Google
  Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don’t track you
• Shanghai stock exchange suspends Ant Group’s A-share IPO
  Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment, technology, video and pictures.
• Google patches second Chrome zero-day in two weeks
• Intel enters the laptop discrete GPU market with Xe Max
• Amazon Academy India
• Microsoft Fluent UI System Icons
• Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service
• Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests
• Switching from Vim to Intellij
• AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 5950X, 5900X, 5800X and 5700X Tested
• Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence
• Why There Aren’t More Googles
• Billionaire Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant’s mega IPO with him
  They say talk is cheap. Tell that to Jack Ma.
• Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake
• Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall
• AMD/aocl-libm-ose: AMD libm
• macOS file diff app, Kaleidoscope, acquired by Letter Opener GmbH
• Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor
• Artificial intelligence may be making people buy things
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
  Eric Schmidt is effectively buying a passport that he can use to enter the European Union.
• Amazon Review Scam
• Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely
• Twitter alternative Parler adds 2M users in a single day
• EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges over merchant data
• Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
• Thread Helper: A serendipity engine on the Twitter sidebar
• Google Fiber 2 Gig
• Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future
• Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
  Nothing uploaded before then will count, but it’s still a bummer.
• Intel Xe Graphics: An Interview with VP Lisa Pearce
• RIP Google Music, one of the company’s last examples of generosity
• Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
• Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers
  Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.
• Intel about Apple M1 “There is a lot of innovation that only Intel can do”
• Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action
• Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
• Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to Stripe Billing
  Stripe Billing fournit aux entreprises qui encaissent des paiements récurrents ou facturent des abonnements à leurs clients des outils permettant de réduire le taux de perte de clients. Utilisez les API de Stripe pour configurer rapidement une facturation récurrente et des paiements automatiques. Créez et gérez facilement des abonnements et des factures récurrentes directement depuis le Dashboard.
• Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA
  Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u…
• Xi Jinping personally halted Ant’s IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders
• Researcher: Google’s Go Vote reminders were only shown to liberal audience
• Never Use Third Party Auth to Sign In
  If a website offers you to sign-in using Google (or any third-party service, say Facebook, Github, etc.), don’t use that feature.
• Intel’s disruption is now complete
  “Look, Clayton, I’m a busy man and I don’t have time to read drivel from academics but someone you told me you had this theory… and I’m…
• Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter
• Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life
• Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor to WebP Image Format
• AMD at a Tipping Point with Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators
• Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
  The Internet is a dangerous place in the best of times. Sometimes Internet engineers find ways to mitigate the worst of these threats, and sometimes they fail. Every now and then, however, a major …
• Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
• Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
• AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT Review
  Introduction and Technical Specifications
• Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more
• Chrome ‘Bug’ Exempts Google Cookies from Data Privacy Settings
• Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
• Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
• Google to end the “top stories carousel” benefit to AMP next spring
• Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks
• Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away
• Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs. M1
  Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs M1
• Google signs copyright agreements with six French newspapers
• I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
• Google to shut down Google Voice integration with classic Hangouts
• Native Intelligence
• Google to block less secure browsers and applications
• Police in Mississippi to Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
  The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the security cameras, including Amazon Ring cameras, of participating residents.
• Use Netlify Functions and the Twitter API v2 as a CMS for Your Gatsby Blog
• Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices
• Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
• ‘Smart’ doorbells for sale on Amazon came stocked with security vulnerabilities
• Intel is spreading FUD about supposed Ryzen 4000 performance drops on battery
• “Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm
• Google makes breaking change to publishing Sheets as data
• AMD laptops have a hidden 10-second performance delay
• Amazon Sidewalk
• Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
• The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
• Salesforce Possibly Acquiring Slack
• This is how Google will collapse
• TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D ‘stacking’
  Taiwanese chip titan testing new production tech to boost computing power
• Amazon Sorry for Sidewalk ‘Confusion’
• An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools
  After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here’s one ex-Googler’s guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you’re feeling, and introducing these to your new team.
• People Can’t Vacuum or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon’s Servers Are Down
  There is a problem with Amazon Web Services (AWS). And unfortunately, for those who own AWS-dependent vacuums or doorbells, many of the so-called “smart” objects will stop working. AWS is the largest cloud hosting software in the world. Over a decade, Amazon’s products have become essentially the backbone of the Internet. And early Thursday morning …
• Metal for IntelliJ Platform
• Microsoft’s Creepy New ‘Productivity Score’ Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
• Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries
• US agency investigating Tesla front suspension failures
• Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
• Roblox pays 26% of its revenue to Apple/Google for payment processing
• Rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
• Microsoft patents tech to score meetings with body language, facial expressions
• E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services
  your data is YOUR data
• Running a full desktop environment on an Amazon Kindle
• LuckysheetServer – Google Sheets-like realtime collaborative spreadsheet
• Rancher Lab Acquired by SUSE
  In July, I announced SUSE’s intent to acquire Rancher Labs, and now that the acquisition is final, today we embark on a new journey with SUSE. I couldn’t be more excited about our future and what this means for our customers around the world.
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry
  In November, we announced that we intended to create a public container registry, and today at AWS re:Invent, we followed through on that promise and launched Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (ECR Public). ECR Public allows you to store, manage, share, and deploy container images for anyone to discover and download globally. You have long […]
• Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
  Combination of #1 CRM platform with the most innovative enterprise communications platform will create the operating system for the new way to work, enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1, 2020 – Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in CRM, and Slack Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: WORK), the most […]
• Google partners with SkyWater to enable open source manufacturing of ASICs
  SkyWater provides foundry services for mixed-signal asic and next-wave technologies including custom development and volume manufacturing.
• Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance
  Productivity score potentially allowed managers to identify individual employees who weren’t contributing enough
• Google Poly is shutting down
• Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
• Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
• TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
  Our benchmark results surprised even us – but even after testing with several configurations, we found Amazon Timestream slow, expensive, and missing key database capabilities like backups, restores, updates, and deletes.
• AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust
• Stripe: Platform of Platforms
  Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition.
• Stripe Treasury
  Stripe Treasury is a banking-as-a-service API that lets you embed financial services in your marketplace or platform, with a single integration.
• Amazon Reportedly Has Pinkerton Agents Surveil Workers Who Try to Form Unions
• Google fired employees for union activity, says US agency
  The US National Labor Relations Board files a formal complaint against Google over staff firings.
• Google will delete all your data on Gmail, etc. if you are inactive for 2 years
  The Inactive Account Manager can help people manage specific content and notify a trusted contact if you stop using your Google Account for a certain period of time (between 3-18 months.
• An update to storage policies across your Google Account
• Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts
  This browser caching change kills the utility of cross-site resource CDNs like Google Fonts.
• Using Google Analytics without GDPR consent
• About Google’s approach to research publication – Jeff Dean
  About Google’s approach to research publication I understand the concern over Timnit Gebru’s resignation from Google. She’s done a great deal to move the field forward with her research. I wanted to share the email I sent to Google Research and some thoughts on our research process. Here’s th…
• Jeff Dean about Timnit Gebru and Google’s approach to research publication
• Scoop: Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks
  The chip, code-named Whitechapel, could show up in phones next year.
• We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
• How Microsoft crushed Slack
• Fixing a 3 year old bug in Nvidia GeForce Experience
• Google removes some IAC browser extensions for ‘policy violations’
  Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Sunday it has removed a number of browser extensions of online conglomerate IAC/InterActive Corp for «policy violations» and is reviewing «enforcement options.»
• Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
  Contribute to oskarsve/ms-teams-rce development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Paul Graham Is Not a Public Intellectual
• Tinder extrapolates estimations on your intelligence and sells it
  With 43 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
• An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft
  Salesforce-Slack and Penguin-Simon & Schuster both show a failure to enforce antitrust laws creates monopolies.
• Tesla to raise up to $5B in share offering, its second in three months
• End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude
• Measuring «efficiency» in document prepration: Microsoft Word vs. LaTex
• Write-Only Interface for Twitter
  Write great Twitter threads.
• Elon Musk moves to Texas
• Tesla called her a criminal. Her fight could be a milestone for employee rights
• DoorDash from Application to IPO
  DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company like DoorDash looks like at the earliest stages.
• Tesla called her a criminal. Her fight could be a milestone for employees
• Why an Apple search engine has a real shot at competing with Google
• Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
  According to a report from The Korea Economic Daily, Hyundai Motor will acquire Boston Dynamics for $921 million (1 trillion won).
• Sony acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll
• Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi
• French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules
  Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment, technology, video and pictures.
• Common Expression Language
  Common Expression Language — specification and binary representation – google/cel-spec
• Google Stories
• Google Alternatives
  Are you ready to stop using Google products? This guide will cover all the google alternatives to ensure your online privacy.
• Finding Critical Open Source Projects
• Airbnb’s Stunning IPO
• ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook
  Up to yesterday, my laptop was a large 15-inch MacBook Pro. It contains an Intel Kaby Lake processor (3.8 GHz). I just got a brand-new 13-inch 2020 MacBook Pro with Apple’s M1 ARM chip (3.2 GHz). How do they compare? I like precise data points. Recently, I have been busy benchmarking number parsing routines where you convert … Continue reading ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook
• Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
  Amazon owns almost 110M IPV4 addresses. At the lower end of the market price this is over $2B.
• Twitter limits users interacting with Trump’s tweets about ‘stolen’ election
  Twitter on Saturday prevented users from liking and replying to a series of tweets from President Trump in which he repeated false claims that he won the election and that the race was “stolen” from him, though the
• Chinese authorities detain Bloomberg News staff member
• Twitter says it ‘inadvertently’ limited engagements on Trump’s flagged tweets
• ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
  In my previous blog post, I compared the performance of my new ARM-based MacBook Pro with my 2017 Intel-based MacBook Pro. I used a number parsing benchmark. In some cases, the ARM-based MacBook Pro was nearly twice as fast as the older Intel-based MacBook Pro. I think that the Apple M1 processor is a breakthrough … Continue reading ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook: a SIMD benchmark
• Tesla’s market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market
• Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development
  I’m pretty impressed by what I’ve seen with Apple’s M1 Chip. It’s really fast and powerful for essential everyday tasks, which include browsing the web, working with Intel-based apps, and using programming apps. Yes – the ecosystem is moving, and that may take time, but I think M1 is worth paying
• Applying TLA+ in cloud systems
  http://conf.tlapl.us/2020/
• Neverware is now part of Google
• Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
  Use Amazon Managed Service for Grafana to monitor and visualize your metrics, logs, and traces from multiple data sources like Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, and Splunk.
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
• Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study
  When Celso Silva Junior, a Ph.D. candidate at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), stepped back from his recently completed map of Brazil’s secondary forests, he was surprised by the sheer quantity that had grown back since the 1980s. About a third of Brazil’s lost forests have recovered naturally, an area approximately the size […]
• Google Analytics Opt Out
• Google Finance Finally Updated
• Identifying Twitter users who repost unreliable news sources
• Amazon Location Service
  We want to make it easier and more cost-effective for you to add maps, location awareness, and other location-based features to your web and mobile applications. Until now, doing this has been somewhat complex and expensive, and also tied you to the business and programming models of a single provider. Introducing Amazon Location Service Today […]
• Google – A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer
  A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer. – jwasham/coding-interview-university
• Amazon marks breakthrough in Project Kuiper development
• Google, Facebook Had Illegal Deal to Rig Ad Market
• Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
  Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. This post provides the context, inflection points, and conceptual frameworks behind our API design.
• Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
• Amazon Has Turned a Middle-Class Warehouse Career into a McJob
• Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET
• I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
  As per the AMP AC charter, I have resigned with immediate effect. As I was a non-corporate representative, I will not be nominating a replacement. I have loved working with the AC. They are a team …
• Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter
• Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
  Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies.
• Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs
• Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
• Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs
• Fuck Amazon Vine
• Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action
• Why Google Fired Me
• Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon
• Google Play rejected Tor Browser update with security fixes
• Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive had a counterintelligence motive
• Amazon’s Surveillance Drones Violate FCC Rules. It’s Time to Enforce Them
• SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative
  The exchange’s new type of direct listing would let companies issue new shares and sell them to public investors in a single, large transaction on the first day of trading, much like the first trade in an IPO.
• Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe
  “What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?” “Umm…that you have to solve this problem at work. But you’re out of ideas, and are looking to interviewees for suggestions”
• Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers
• There is much less intellectual diversity now than there was 100 years ago
• Producer of Netflix Three body problem found poisoned
• Fired Googler says she was told heavy Baltimore accent a “disability”
• The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to competition, privacy, and our health
• A large scale analysis of hundreds of in-memory cache clusters at Twitter
• Intelino the Smart Train
• B.C. man accused of dangerous driving for sleeping in selfdriving speeding Tesla
• Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’
• A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy
• Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs
  A security vulnerability in Google Docs could have let attackers steal screenshots of your sensitive documents. The cause of this was a postMessage security misconfiguration.
• Google Maps’ Moat Is Evaporating
• A Tesla Model S erupted ‘like a flamethrower’; renews old safety concerns
• 10,800 Years Ago, Early Humans Planted Forest Islands in Amazonia’s Grasslands
• Hedge fund Third Point urges Intel to explore deal options
• Tesla FSD Beta 8 tested for self-driving performance in snowy conditions
  A Tesla Model S owner with Autopilot FSD Beta version 8 tests the latest software’s capabilities in snowy conditions (video, commentary).
• Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
• Tesla: Soaring share price creates army of ‘Teslanaires’
  Many people have become millionaires from Tesla’s share price rocketing more than 700% this year.
• Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short videos from TikTok and IG
• IntelliJ Idea 2020.3.1 Is Out with Apple Silicon Support
• Stripe co-founder on how his billion-dollar company continues to evolve
• Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
  Amazon has done little to stop sellers from gaming its search algorithm.
• Chobani Yogurt CEO Hamdi Ulukaya Is a Pro-Employee Billionaire in Expansion Mode
• LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
• Tesla Service Centers Are Preventing Delivery Refusals in Weird Ways
• Tesla Short Sellers Lost $38B in 2020 as Stock Surged
• Why Openstreetmap as a product fails to compete with Google Maps – part 1/3
  The landscape of OpenStreetMap-based mobile apps
• AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech
  Intel has been talking about on-processor FPGAs since 2014, but AMD’s patent might actually result in one.
• We’re Google Workers, and We Are Forming a Union
• Google workers announce plans to unionize
  The Alphabet Workers Union will be open to all employees and contractors at Google’s parent company.
• Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems
• AMD’s desktop CPU share passes Intel’s for first time in 15 years
• GOV.UK site broke Google realtime analytics during lockdown announcement
• Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry
• My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
  Good, Cheap and Fast was the most ideologically pure thing that I’ve ever created. Then, Google killed it.
• Payment processor for Amazon India had leak of over 100M users
• Microsoft job posting suggests a major user interface update expected in 2021
• Security Flaw Afflicts Intel x86 Boot ROMs
• Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet
• What I Use Instead of Google
• Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?
• Linus Torvalds tears into Intel, favors AMD
• KFConsole – Intel NUC 9 enclosure with built in heater for chicken wings
• Microsoft Office 97 clipart converted to SVG
• Twitter appears to have removed the president’s last two tweets
• Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus
• Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room
• Epic acquires RAD Game Tools
• CVE-2021-3011: Key recovery on Google Titan Key
  Download the Writeup Abstract The Google Titan Security Key is a FIDO U2F hardware device proposed by Google (available since July 2018) as a two-factor authentication token to sign in to applications (e.g. your Google account). Our work describes a side-channel attack that targets the Google Titan Security Key’s secure element (the NXP A700X chip) […]
• Sony’s 2021 TV lineup runs Google TV and fully embraces HDMI 2.1
• Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK
  The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.
• Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
  Twitter suspended the account of Sci-Hub, often referred to as the Pirate Bay of science, for violating the counterfeit policy.
• ‘Big Short’ investor predicts Tesla stock will collapse like the housing bubble
• Why Plainclothes Police Had Striped Reflective Tape on Their Glocks
• Intel Talks with TSMC, Samsung to Outsource Some Chip Production
• Red Hat to Acquire Kubernetes-Native Security Leader StackRox
• Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
• Google Bans Parler from the Google Play Store
• Parlor has been removed from Google Play
• Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case
• Parler App delisted from Google Play; Apple threatening same within 24h
• What is happening to Lazada is happening to all companies acquired by Alibaba
• Ugandan Govt Blocks Google Playstore, Apple AppStore, and YouTube
  The govt through the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has reportedly requested all major telecom companies to
• Twitter Confirms It Halted ‘Hang Mike Pence’ as a Trending Topic
• Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022
• Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020
  Emily Dickinson lived much of her life isolated in a single room, and I’ve found her poetry coming to me a lot this year. Though her isolation was voluntary, I doubt it was easy. Her room overlooked…
• Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
• Amazon Is Booting Parler Off of Its Web Hosting Service
• Twitter thread – What was learnt from deplatforming ISIS
• Twitter deletes China embassy’s Xinjiang ‘emancipation’ tweet
• US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs
• Trump Twitter ban ‘raises regulation questions’ – UK govt minister
• Stripe bans Trump campaign
• Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
• Trump’s Twitter Exile Spurs Opposition from Germany, France
• Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc
• RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey
• Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
• Who Invented the Alphabet?
• Google Sued by YouTube Rival Rumble over Search Rankings
• Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: Microphone Mute, Real or Fake?
  Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
• Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support
  The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.
• Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter
• US ISP blocks access to Twitter/Facebook citing “censorship”
• Leaked memos Amazon warn ‘be vigilant’ due to threats to blow up data centers
• Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1
• Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
• Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship
• I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts
  You don’t know me, but there’s a good chance I know you.
• Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him
• Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia: A CPU Magnitude Shift
• Google is silently censoring search results
• FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing
  The developer of a period and fertility-tracking app used by more than 100 million consumers has settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company shared the health information of users with outside data analytics providers after promising that such information would be kept private.
• Intel is dying and we can’t save it
• Feds asks Tesla to recall 158,000 vehicles over failing touchscreen displays
• Can Apple’s M1 help you train models faster and cheaper than Nvidia’s V100?
  Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
• Fitbit is now officially part of Google
• Google Completes Fitbit Acquisition
• The threats and violence Twitter won’t police
• Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
• PG: Twitter made a mistake in banning Sci-Hub
• Mini-Microsoft
• How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
• Cancel platform Australia: Google seriously looks at pulling out search engine
• AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile
• Microsoft Space Simulator (Or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box)
• Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company’s First U.S. Union
• Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
  In the old days, when Google wanted you dead it would remove you from search results. But now, they can just block your site in Chrome.
• DuckDuckGo Advertising for Signal on Twitter
• Google Images Restored
• Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
• Google sends ‘24 hour warning’ to free-speech ‘anti-Facebook’ platform, Minds
• Enter Sandbox: Google is building an internet without cookies
• Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon
  Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
• I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
• Can Google Fix the $108B News Industry It Helped Break?
• A low-code alternative for Stripe/Twilio Integrations
• Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
  After initially pausing Prime Pantry during the pandemic, Amazon has permanently shut down its Prime Pantry delivery service.
• How to leave Google and why
• Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest
  Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed to appoint local representatives in Turkey under a new social media law, according to decisions published on Tuesday.
• Intel Problems
  Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.
• Amazon: Not OK – why we had to change Elastic licensing
  We’ve had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• SpaceX acquires former oil rigs to serve as floating Starship spaceports
• Trump pardons former Google self-driving car engineer Levandowski
• Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC’s 5nm process
  TSMC is to start making Intel’s Core i3 on its 5nm process in 2H21 says TrendForce.
• Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer – The case of the extra 40 ms
• Twitter locks account of China’s US embassy over its defence of Xinjiang policy
• Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
• A Computational Model for Intelligent Manufacturing
• Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia
• Google’s Project Loon is shutting down
  Loon’s time as an Other Bet is coming to an end
• Google agrees to pay French news sites to send them traffic
• The spat between Google and Australia, as reported on HN
  Hacker News Search, millions articles and comments at your fingertips.
• Twitter suspended Iran’s supreme leader after a threat tweet to attack Trump
• Alphabet shutting Loon, which used balloon alternative to cell towers
  Alphabet Inc is shutting down Loon after concluding the business, which offers balloons as an alternative to cell towers, is not commercially viable, Google’s parent company said on Thursday.
• Tencent is acquiring a majority stake in Klei Entertainment
  Hello everyone! I want to take a moment to announce that we have agreed to deal for Tencent to purchase a majority stake in Klei Entertainment. As part of this agreement, Klei retains full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio, including projects, talent, and more. …
• Microsoft same-day reversal on Xbox Live Gold price doubling
• Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
• Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by mail on unionization
  Jeff Bezos — a strong Democratic supporter — and Amazon are aiming to postpone a unionization vote at one of its warehouses in Alabama, the Wall Street
• SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting an antitrust wall
  Experts also point to national security hurdles for the $40bn deal
• Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
• Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants
• AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Defeats Intel Tiger Lake in Early Benchmarks
• Google says it may have found a privacy-friendly substitute to cookies
• App suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
  After a tiny unrelated description update, Just Player got suspended from the Google Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity policy". Google finds issues with following: Full descrip…
• Making Twitter a better home for writers
• Google won’t donate to members of Congress who voted against election results
• Revue Is Joining Twitter
• Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine
• AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested
• AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat
• Twitter improves API usage for researchers
  Today we’re excited to launch the Academic Research product track on the new Twitter API.
• Tesla’s Charging Stations Left Other Manufacturers in the Dust
• Tesla Q4 2020 Earnings
• Tesla’s new steering yoke isn’t retro, it’s a safety risk
• Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
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• Google Deletes Nearly 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App
• Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews
• Google reportedly scraps thousands of negative Robinhood reviews
• Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
• Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
• Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
• AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching
  It’s time to update the situation between Nvidia, AMD (and Intel) because there’s been some serious shift for Linux Gamers in the past years.
• Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with 2k US police and fire departments
• Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
• Tesla’s net profit doesn’t come from selling cars
• Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
  Google Stadia, the late 2019 streaming platform that promised to revolutionize gaming by letting users stream games without needing to own a powerful PC or console, is altering course, getting out of the game-making business and will now offer its platform directly to game publishers alongside offering Stadia Pro to the public.
• Building XNU for macOS 11.2 (Intel and Apple Silicon)
• Google, Department of Labor settlement resolves alleged pay, discrimination
• Australia’s PM Suggests Bing Adequate If Google Blocks Searches Down Under
• 2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release
• Intel leak: 20GB of source code, chipset design and Intel Management Engine (ME)
• Amazon’s anti-union propaganda site for its Alabama warehouse
• Indian government orders Twitter to remove contents related to farmers protest
• Intel Processor Names, Numbers and Generation List
• Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny
  Google’s Privacy Sandbox is under increasing scrutiny throughout the digital media industry and now from the U.K. government as well.
• Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips
• Google News Showcase Launches in Australia
• What Google recruiters look for in a technical resume
• Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims
• Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Have Time to Be CEO of Amazon
• Will India Ban Twitter?
• Netflix’s Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?
  Netflix put some serious design resources into its Annual Reports pre-2010. What changed?
• Intel Fires Back at Apple’s M1 Processors with Benchmarks
• Oil companies buying up EV charging networks: Shell acquires Ubitricity
  The European oil giants Total, BP and Shell have been buying up assets all along the EV charging value chain. The latest news is that Shell has agreed to buy 100% of the European charging network ubitricity. Founded in Berlin, ubitricity operates in a number of European countries, and claims to be the largest public… Read more »
• Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years
• Google app analyzes your selfie and finds your doppelganger in museum portraits
• One thousand in – I’ve built an IPO “FOMO” web app
• Amazon responds to Musk’s accusations of impeding SpaceX Starlink Internet plans
• Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10m users with one update
  In a single update, a popular barcode scanner app that had been on Google Play for years turned into malware.
• Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer’s Google account gets locked
• Google suspends Terraria author’s account; He cancels support for Google Stadia
• Terraria creator cancels Stadia port after being locked out of Google account
• Reminder: Terraria Dev’s Google Story Is Not Unusual at All
  Terraria co-creator Andrew Spinks is the latest high-profile victim of Google’s ban-first, answer-questions-never approach to creators on its platform, but the problem goes back over a decade.
• Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform
  I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…
• Twitter considering subscription fees to ensure ‘revenue durability’
• Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review
• Vantage Has Acquired Ec2instances.info
• Google could have killed Facebook
• Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs
• Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web
• Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available
• Green Thumb Scores the First U.S. Pot IPO
• Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you ‘hear’ colors and shapes
• Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’
• UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders
  FBI records at UC Berkeley Library show how the federal agency tried to undermine the Black Panthers, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5
  Update 1:58 AM PT: Updated the post to clear confusion about how Google’s Safe Browsing feature works.
• Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week
  Australia will next week introduce landmark legislation to force Alphabet’s Google and Facebook to pay publishers and broadcasters for content, a senior government official said on Friday.
• Google hasn’t updated their iOS apps for 2 months to avoid new privacy labels
• Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned
• First time Microsoft ‘acknowledged’ wine
• Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was an ‘Error’ After All
• The Ramanujan Machine is an intellectual fraud
• Fake Amazon reviews ‘being sold in bulk’ online
  A Which? investigation found 10 sites offering fake Amazon Marketplace reviews from as little as £5 each.
• Jacquard by Google
  Simple, seamless connectivity woven into your everyday essentials.
• Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
  Published via Paygo
• Andriy on Twitter: “Playing Gta3 on FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2
• Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators
• Microsoft/DeleteMe
• Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
  Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead …
• Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
• Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cripples hash rate of RTX-3060
• Checked C
• Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate
  Gamers to the right, miners to the left.
• Bill allows U.S. publishers to team up when negotiating with Facebook, Google
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• Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
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• Fast.ai releases new deep learning course
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• Uber Backup Driver Indicted in 2018 Self-Driving Crash That Killed Woman
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• 2020 is on course to be the warmest year on record
• Parsing Algorithms
• How journalists use youtube-dl
  The popular free software project “youtube-dl” was removed from Github on Friday following a legal notice from the Recording Industry Association of America claiming it violates copyright law. The tool is widely used by journalists for various reporting purposes.
• Is it time to stop counselling patients to “finish the course of antibiotics”?
• Hackable No-Code Tool for MVPs
• ‘What can we learn from cats? Don’t live in an imagined future’
  The philosopher’s new book attacks the idea that any ideology has the answers to life’s questions – but advice from cats might be his exception…
• The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX
• How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup
• Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems
• Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo
• Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age
• What’s in a Linux Executable?
  Executables have been fascinating to me ever since I discovered, as a kid,
  that they were just files. If you renamed a .exe to something else, you
  could open it in notepad! An…
• To protect democracy, journalists need to learn to think like hackers and spies
• A Quantopian Alternative
• Valve put their ‘Pressure Vessel’ container source for Linux games up on Gitlab
  Want to see the dirty innards of more Valve code? Well you’re in luck as they now have a lot of work involved in the Steam Runtime on GitLab including the Pressure Vessel container.
• A JavaScript SDK to reduce video streaming costs by 90%
• Learn about computer science one paper at a time
• Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time
  On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics. This trend means that UX has substantially advanced since 2006.
• How to Navigate Being the Only Woman on Your Team
• Hangover, Win64/Win32 applications on arm64/ppc64le/x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac
  Hangover runs simple Win64/Win32 applications on arm64/ppc64le/x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac – AndreRH/hangover
• Why Leaders Need to Learn the Skill of Writing
• Lithuania is paying people to trade in polluting cars for escooters and ebikes
• How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System
  At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.
• Quantum circuit for the fast Fourier transform
• Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release
• Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux
• Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
• Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting
• A list of what Women Makers shipped in 30 days
• Decision Journal Template
• Apple removes The DoNotPay app from the iOS App Store
• Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver for Linux
• The Linux Commands HandBook
• CERN Online introductory lectures on quantum computing from 6 November
  A series of weekly lectures on the basics of quantum computing will be broadcast via webcast starting 6 November 2020 at 10.30 a.m. CET. New lectures will be broadcast each Friday of the next seven weeks. The talks will focus on the practical aspects of quantum computing and are organised by CERN openlab and the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative. They will be given by Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oviedo in Spain since 2009 and a cooperation associate at CERN since earlier this year.

  Quantum computing is one the most promising new trends in information proc

• Is Hacktoberfest Good for Maintainers?
• AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X Dominate On Linux
• Linux Distributions You Can Rely on for Your Ancient 32-Bit Computer
• New lockdown: Manchester University students pull down campus fences
• Recompile – a 3D Metroidvania-inspired hacking adventure game
• IsRicherThanYou – Whoever pays the most stay on the front-page
• A Linux sysadmin’s introduction to cgroups
• Go in Production – Lessons Learned
• How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
• Learn how to design and defend an embedded Linux device
  This article is going to be an introduction to embedded Linux security.
• The ergonomic Ultimate Hacking Keyboard 60: v2
• “Overpaid Executive Tax” in SF hits firms that pay CEOs 100X more than workers
• WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS
  Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. – Fmstrat/winapps
• Tech Startups Say New Pay Rules for H-1B Visas Are Unaffordable
• Send Payments in India with WhatsApp
  Starting today, people across India will be able to send money through WhatsApp. This secure payments experience makes transferring money just as easy as sen…
• On Spotify, the top 0.4% of artists get 9.9% of the payout
• Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Community
• RansomEXX Trojan attacks Linux systems
  We recently discovered a new file-encrypting Trojan built as an ELF executable and intended to encrypt data on machines controlled by Linux-based operating systems.
• No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
  Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s ( and other smaller sized companies ) with my free work. There isn't much else to say. Take this as an opportunity to send me a six fi…
• XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12 Linux SBC’s
  Sipeed to launch a low-cost RISC-V Linux SBC based on an Allwinner processor based on Alibaba’s XuanTie C906 64-bit RISC-V core.
• Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites
• Disable All Telemetry and Data Collection in Mozilla Firefox Quantum
  The latest Firefox Quantum version comes with lots of changes and improvements such as new Photon UI, redesigned new tab page and preferences page, etc. Apart from these changes, Firefox Quantum al…
• InfluxDB is betting on Rust and Apache Arrow for next-gen data store
• Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications
• InfluxDB 2.0 Is Out
• Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
• Tax working from home ‘to support vulnerable jobs’ – Deutsche Bank
• Option Hacking the Tektronix TDS 420A
  Previous installments in this series: In the Lab – Tektronix TDS 420A Oscilloscope, Tektronix TDS 420A Remote Control over GPIB, Extracting the Tektronix TDS 420A Firmware, A Tektronix TDS 420A, a Serial Debug Console, a Symbol Table, and Ghidra
• Deutsche Bank: Tax home workers ‘to help pay those who cannot’
  Report says working from home should be taxed at 5% to help those whose jobs are under threat.
• Masayoshi Son Again Pulled SoftBank from the Brink. This Time He Had Help
• Linux Command One-Liners
  Handy cheat sheet with basics and tips about working with One-liners on the linux command line.
• “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”
• Public’s trust in science takes a hit when scientific journals take sides
• Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22
• Smaller than ever–exploring the unusual properties of quantum-sized materials
• PokéWalker hacking: A complete device takeover and ROM dump using infrared
• Tiny Bubbles Under a Ship May Be the Secret to Reducing Fuel Consumption
• Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause
• Why I teach vim
• Teach X in Y Minutes
• After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can’t do it anymore. I quit.
• Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to leave California
• What to do if the bank says you’re dead
• Simulating the pandemic: What Covid forecasters can learn from climate models
• How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker of Sri Lanka
• Benefits of Domain-Driven Design in Nuxt Apps
• Twitter names famed hacker ‘Mudge’ as head of security
  Social media giant Twitter Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world’s best-regarded hackers to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.
• FBI: GRU Hackers on Most Wanted list for international cyber attacks
• ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
  A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet – reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
• Linux’s Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready to Be Deemed Stable
• «Equal pay for equal work» in remote jobs
• Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent
• What You Can Learn from Living in Antarctica
• Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle ‘Batterygate’ Case over iPhone Slowdowns
• DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
  Alan Dean Foster and SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal discuss the non-payment by Disney of several contracts for works including multiple Star Wars and Aliens novelizations.
• Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share a Core
• Things I Wish I’d Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years
• Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
  If you have followed Windows 10 at all during the last few years, you know that the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, is the hot topic among developers. You can finally run your Linux tooling on Windows as a first class citizen, which means you no longer have to learn PowerShell or, god forbid, suffer through the ancient CMD.EXE console.
  Unfortunately, not everything is as rosy as it sounds.
• The Year of the Linux Desktop: Switching from MacBook to Linux
  The year of the Linux desktop has arrived. This is a guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience.
• SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers
• Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference
• Linux on iPad
  Linux on the iPad isn’t a reality yet, at least not like on a desktop platform. With hardware becoming more and more powerful every year, obsolete iPadsshould be allowed to continue to serve a purpose. Obsolete iPads could be affordable personal computers and useful for project builds. We believe Linux is the key to bring new life to these devices.
• Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls
• High family income, not SAT scores, is your real ticket to elite university
• Guitar Center files for bankruptcy
  Guitar Center Inc, the largest U.S. retailer of music instruments and equipment, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Saturday, as music lovers moved their shopping online during the coronavirus pandemic.
• How I Spend My Attention
  What you pay attention to becomes your life.
• Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
  The University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca plc, today announces interim trial data from its Phase III trials that show its candidate vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019, is effective at preventing COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and offers a high level of protection.
• Hacker Nearly Stole $8M from Aussie Hedge Fund Using a Fake Zoom Invite
• A No Nonsense List of Google Alternatives for Linux Users
• Why pay $1657 for a $27 USB stick?
• Enterprise UX Design: Make me think
• Hacking the Perfect Auction
• P² quantile estimator – estimating the median without storing values
• Learn Difficult Concepts with the Adept Method
• Quantum nanodiamonds may help detect disease earlier
• What I Learned About UX Writing from a British Prog Drummer and David Lynch
  The subtle art of listening and finding rewarding embellishments.
• Forexbook – Automated trading journal that syncs with Metatrader
  Forexbook automatically imports your trades and chart images from your trading platform. Creating a trading journal has never been this easy.
• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
  It’s a sure revolution, one that most people haven’t noticed yet. That’s because of two new, exciting interfaces: eBPF (or BPF for short) and io_uring, the latter added to Linux in 2019 and still in very active development. Those interfaces may look evolutionary, but they are revolutionary in the se
• Raspberry Pi Used to Hack Tesla Model X
• Security researcher hacks Tesla via Bluetooth LE keyless entry vulnerability
• “A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking”
• Bill Gates is wrong about education
• Amiga 68000 Assembly Course #01 based on the book by Fabio Ciucci
• Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware
• Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon
• Hedy: A Gradual Language for Programming Education
• Buxton Collection: 35 years of input devices
• Long-acting injectable is effective in preventing HIV acquisition in women
• Busybox-based Linux distro from scratch
  Busybox-based Linux distro from scratch
• Oasis Linux: a small statically-linked Linux system
  a small statically-linked linux system. Contribute to oasislinux/oasis development by creating an account on GitHub.
• iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit
• Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits
  It’s 2020. Quarantines are everywhere – and here I’m writing about one, too. But this quarantine is of a different kind.
• GPT-3 Has Learned to Code, Blog and Argue
• Japan and South Korea see surge of suicides among young women
• Hackhunter hunts down malicious WiFi
• How I read books: a guide on how to learn
  Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
• Jailhouse: Linux-Based Partitioning Hypervisor
• UX, Then Architecture, Then Tools
• China achieves quantum supremacy with photonics
• No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report
• “I’ve had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
  The new technology hiring process is a nightmare, says this experienced developer.
• Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany (12/2020)
• Bit Twiddling Hacks
• What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study
• The future of 32-bit Linux
  The news for processors and system-on-chip (SoC) products these
  days is all about 64-bit cores powering the latest computers and
  smartphones, so it’s easy to be misled into thinking that all 32-bit
  technology is obsolete. That quickly leads to the idea of removing support
  for 32-bit hardware, which would clearly make life easier for kernel
  developers in a number of ways.

  At the same time, a majority of embedded systems shipped today do use 32-bit
  processors, so a valid question is if this will ever change, or if 32-bit
  will continue to be the best choice for devices that do not require
  significant resources.

• A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
  The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong.
• Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
  Deep learning’s successes are often attributed to its ability to
  automatically discover new representations of the data, rather than relying on
  handcrafted features like other learning methods. We show, however, that deep
  networks learned by the standard gradient descent algorithm are in fact
  mathematically approximately equivalent to kernel machines, a learning method
  that simply memorizes the data and uses it directly for prediction via a
  similarity function (the kernel). This greatly enhances the interpretability of
  deep network weights, by elucidating that they are effectively a superposition
  of the training examples. The network architec
• Hacker Public Radio
• How does Brown University know where you are?
• Photonic Quantum Advantage?
• Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education
• Forbidden Stories – Cartel Project: global network of investigative journalists
• ZaReason Linux PC Vendor Closes After 10 Years Selling Linux Hardware
• How Payment Transaction Processing Works
  Understanding what happens when you make a purchase with a credit card — and how to ensure the transaction process is safe — is the first step.
• An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26M
• With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
• Professor livestreams entire Computer Science course in 12 hours
• Obarun – Arch Linux based distro with skarnet s6/66 suite
• Security firm FireEye got hacked
  FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely by a government, and that an arsenal of hacking tools used to test the defenses of its clients had been stolen.
• Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer on day 1
• How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?
• Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website’s CSS
• CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”
• CentOS 8 vs. Amazon Linux 2
• MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites unlawful content
  Mastercard Inc and Visa Inc on Thursday stopped processing payments on Pornhub after a New York Times report last week that many videos posted on the adult website depicted sexual assault of children.
• Combinatorial Theory Journal Launches with Innovative Open Access Funding Model
  The eScholarship Publishing program of the University of California is pleased to announce the launch of Combinatorial Theory, a new mathematics journal expecting its first issue in Spring 2021. This journal will publish papers in Combinatorics, an active area of mathematical research with applications throughout the mathematical, computational and natural sciences. Combinatorial Theory is owned by mathematicians who believe in the importance of unfettered access to research as a means of engaging the global combinatorial community. As such, it is an open access publication, with no fees for authors or readers.  Combinatorial Theory was foun
• Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur
  A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper. Contribute to evansm7/vftool development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Study Indicates Diet May Help Reduce Congitive Decline
• Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
• Prehistoric Horses: Exploring the meaning of Lascaux’s galloping herds
• Germany’s State Distance-Learning University
• A Xilinx ZYNQ Linux FPGA Board for Under $20
• I’ve designed Python fantasy cards to learn it easier
• Stressed banks: evidence from the largest-ever supervisory review
• I Hacked into Facebook’s Legal Department Admin Panel
• OSv – Linux binary compatible unikernel for virtualized environments
  OSv, a new operating system for the cloud. Contribute to cloudius-systems/osv development by creating an account on GitHub.
• PayPal introduces new fee for dormant accounts
• The State of Linux Debuggers
• U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
  Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the hacks uncovered so far may be the tip of the iceberg.
• Linux 5.10
• WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
• What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing
• The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
• U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
  Communications at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments were reportedly compromised by a supply chain attack on SolarWinds, a security vendor that helps the federal government and a range of Fortune 500 companies monitor the health of their IT networks. Given the breadth of the company’s customer base, experts say the incident may be just…
• Google Is Getting Left Behind Due to Horrible UI/UX
• Police Say Civil Asset Forfeiture Reduces Crime. New Study Shows They’re Wrong
• Hacker interview – Gummo
• How to Learn Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A Guide for Software Engineers
• Cognitect and Nubank Are Sponsoring Open Source Developers
  We are pleased to announce today that Cognitect and Nubank will be sponsoring dozens of contributors to the Clojure ecosystem with regular monthly support.
• Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year
  New report, «U.S. Press Freedom in Crisis: Journalists Under Arrest in 2020,» details how more than 117 journalists were arrested across the country in 2020.
• Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘remarkable’ letters to Violette Leduc sold at auction
• Guide to Effective Linux and Bash for Data Scientists
• Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate
• Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
  Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux created in response to the effective discontinuation of CentOS. – rocky-linux…
• Things We’ve Learned from NASA’s Mars InSight
• Static Calls in Linux 5.10
• GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
  The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases. – Opticos/GWSL-Source
• “Mobile emulator farms” used to steal millions from US and EU banks
• U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of ‘grave’ threat from hack
  U.S. authorities are expressing increased alarm about an intrusion into computer systems around the globe that officials suspect Russia is behind.
• Hacking Spree Reached into Microsoft
  Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies.
• U.S. has evidence hackers accessed its nuclear networks
  The U.S. Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers gained access to their networks as part of a massive cyber campaign, Politico reported on Thursday, citing officials…
• Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation
  A joint team of researchers at Fermilab and partner institutions have achieved quantum teleportation, teleporting information over a distance of 44 kilometers. The remarkable achievement supports the premise that scientists and engineers can build a workable and high-fidelity quantum network using practical devices.
• How to kill the university
• Being capable of thinking quantitatively is the single most important thing
  Former NFL lineman and MIT grad student John Urschel has penned his memoir, ““Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football.” “Being capable of thinking quantitatively — it’s the single most important thing,” he tells MIT News.
• Crime Shouldn’t Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
• Hackers last year conducted a ‘dry run’ of SolarWinds breach
• A Fraud Operation Stole Millions from Online Bank Accounts
• Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen
• Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware
• Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
  Government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The journalists were hacked by four Pegasus operators, including one operator MONARCHY that we attribute to Saudi Arabia, and one operator SNEAKY KESTREL that we attribute to the United Arab Emirates.
• ‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states
• First release of quantum operating system, Deltaflow
• The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
• Double Blind Passwords a.k.a. Horcruxing
  Before we get into Horcruxing, here’s a quick prologue on online security hygiene. You can skip to the Horcruxing section if it seems redundant.
  Rules for Strong Online Security
  1.
  Longer passwords (atleast 16 characters) are better than shorter on…
• Microsoft and Google join FB’s legal battle against Israeli hacking company NSO
• Nintendo “stalked” hackers with private investigators, coercing into settlements
• Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020
• The Quantum Ad-List contains domains used by ads, trackers, malware
  With over 1900000 blocked domains used by ads that my amazing AI put up together. The AI is like a loyal dog, trained to find those ads, sniffing…
• Linux 5.10 BTRFS performance regression
• Evolving Container Security with Linux User Namespaces
• UX Issues with Notion
  I am an unfortunate user of Notion. I have to use it in my day to day job because it is the tool of my company choice. I suffer every time I’m doing anything in it. Maybe it’s just me. But I honestly don’t think so.
  It’s been a year since my company migrated to Notion from Confluence. And I’m quite confident now that these UX quirks I’m going to talk about won’t go. They are built into Notion DNA. The UX issues are so complex and broad that I don’t even know where should I start. Also, I’m not a user experience…
• Grenfell Tower inquiry: 11 key things we’ve learned this year
• University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI
• The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free
• Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures
  The Hospital Group has confirmed that patient photos are being held to ransom by hackers.
• Sony Publishes an Official Linux Driver for Playstation 5 DualSense Controllers
• Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux
  New Board View, Sub-project and more.
• New Linux port for the Nintendo 64
• Info is available about which college majors pay off, students aren’t using it
• Paying Medieval Taxes Using Eels
• We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India
• Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust
• Teaching the Unfortunate Parts
  Learn programming tools fast. Then remember them.
• HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?
• Cryptocurrency Startup Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Shows
• Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch
  Learn 3D Computer Graphics programming by making a 3D software renderer from scratch. Most comprehensive course online with over 20 hours of video tutorials. Join now.
• These Tech Companies Aren’t Adjusting Pay When Employees Relocate
• Running BSDs on AMD Ryzen 5000 Series – FreeBSD/Linux Benchmarks
• Why make games for Linux if they don’t sell?
• Things I Learnt in 2020
• Banking on Status
• Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US
• It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn
  Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it’s working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
• Learn Quantum Computation
  A university quantum algorithms/computation course supplement based on Qiskit
• Linux Hardening Guide
• Apple’s Mac Mini is killing my Hackintosh
• Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller
• How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters
• SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
• I made a job board that doesn’t allow HackerRank tests
• Things I Didn’t Learn in 2020
• A half-hour to learn Rust
  In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it.
  But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means? In this article, instead o…
• Indian Govt to buy bulk subscription of scientific journals and give free access
• Indian Government proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals
• Equal Pay for Equal Work
  Remote work is on the rise, the economy is on a decline and businesses are re-structuring themselve…
• Dogger Bank’s giant turbines herald a wind of change in UK industry
• SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks
• LibreSSL Languishes on Linux
• Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
• In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice
• How I Learned to Love and Fear the Riemann Hypothesis
  A number theorist recalls his first encounter with the Riemann hypothesis and breaks down the math in a new Quanta video.
• Termux no longer updated on Google Play
• Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit
• Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
  Ticketmaster used stolen passwords and URL guessing to access confidential data.
• Learn Go in ~5mins
  Learn Go in ~5mins. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
  Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
• Why Learn Prolog in 2021?
• Writing 800kB Mac disks with FluxEngine
• Assembly language, arcade games, YouTube: former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer
• Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
  The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.
• What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
  BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his…
• New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations
• Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
• NSA Wanted Backdoor Access in Linux, Says Linus Torvalds’ Father
• JetBrain’s TeamCity May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack
• Simple Bank Is Closing
  The company embodied both the aspirations and disappointments of the Portland tech community in the years after the Great Recession.
• BBVA shutting down banking app Simple, will transfer users to BBVA USA
• Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B
  The Boeing Company (Boeing) has entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve a criminal charge related to a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) in connection with the FAA AEG’s evaluation of Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane.
• Scipy Lecture Notes
• Apache Beam for Search: Getting Started by Hacking Time
• When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux
• Holiday Hacking – Tracking my heart rate while playing Call of Duty
• Teacher creates ingenious exam question to find cheaters and catches 14 students
• Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform
• The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
  That standard image that explains the difference between on-premises, IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS in the cloud? You know what, it is hugely misleading. Here is the real deal.
• NixOS Linux
• Teaching and Assessing Property-Based Testing
• Baby Megalodons Were 6-Foot-Long Womb Cannibals, Study Suggests
• What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?
• America Bankrupted Its Cities – The Growth Ponzi Scheme
• AlmaLinux an open-source RHEL fork
• Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems
• Learn X by Doing Y – A project-based learning search engine
  Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.
• Drawbridge: What SQL Server on Linux is built on
• BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
• ‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Smart Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom
• Dollar General plans to pay employees to get Covid-19 vaccination
• macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 adds full native kernel support (Linux, BSD et al.)
• Signal AppImage for Linux
• A Complete Course of the Raku programming language
• Hack together your own e-paper smartwatch with this $50 open-source kit
• Free ePub books from the Open University on mutiple topics
• Alpine Linux 3.13 Released
• ROM Hacking tool for Gameboy Advance game (+ detailed technical posts and talks)
• Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs
• The State of VR on Linux
• Pristine GM EV1 Preserved by University Caretaker
• Small modular nuclear reactors may help polluting industries reduce emissions
• Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement
• Dave’s Short Course on Complex Numbers
• WontFix: Chromium forcing its own title bar and borders on Linux
• How a senior journalist got scammed by a fake job offer from “Harvard”
   
• Python infrastructure DDoS ongoing since day after SolarWinds hack revealed
• JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
  JingOSThe World’s First iPadOS-style Linux DistroDownload JingOS v0.6Join Our Mailing ListMobile First, Well Designed● iPadOS-like UI and UX● Multi-Touch gestures supported● Beautifully designed icons and animations● Compatible with Surface Pro 6, Huawei Matebook 14…JingOS Native AppsJingOS comes with several basic mobile Linux apps, including Calendar, Timer, Files, Media Player, and Calculator.Full-Function Linux That Can Run … The World’s First iPadOS-style Linux Distro Read More »
• Another scam paper published in a “scientific” journal
  I’ve written before about predatory scientific journals: those fly-by-night venues that will publish nearly any submitted paper, however dreadful. Their motive is to get the thousands of doll…
• QuantMath: Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk in Rust
  Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk – MarcusRainbow/QuantMath
• In 2021, Don’t Learn a New Programming Language
• Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says
• A high-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance
• Linux and Powershell
• Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
• Inexpensive battery charges rapidly for electric vehicles, reduces range anxiety
• Il2cpp-modder – Generate DLL injection projects for hacking Unity games
• Kids Find a Security Flaw in Linux Mint by Mashing Keys
  * Cinnamon version: Cinnamon 4.6.7 * Distribution: Fedora 32 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 47…
• Linux Running on Apple M1
• I built an online interactive course that helps you learn vim faster
  Learn and Master Vim with interactive exercises
• New Year, New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Programs: Easier Ways to Access RHEL
• Trader Joe’s, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines
• Yes, Bitcoin Is a Ponzi – Learn How the Investment Fraud Works
  Yes, Bitcoin Is a Ponzi – Learn How the Investment Fraud Works ++ Bitcoin Mining Is an Environmental Disaster – Bitcon is a Greater Fool BagHODLer Zero-Sum Fraudsters’ Greed Fest – The Bigger the Lies the Better – To the Moon! Number Go Up! Will Quadruple to $100 000 in 2021! – When Will the Music Stop? (Hint: Try to Cash Out) – Bitcoin Is Comedy Gold – Bitcoin is the New Standard?! – LOL
• How We Ported Linux to the M1
  A brief overview of our approach to porting Linux to the Apple Mac Mini M1 and a tutorial for installing our Ubuntu POC
• B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers
• Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing
• Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women
  After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists.
• Rolling Stone seeks ‘thought leaders’ willing to pay $2k to write for them
• How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
• Cache Management Lessons Learned
• Glenn Greenwald: ‘Journalists Are Authoritarians’
• MkLinux
• The Pyra Handheld Linux PC Is Now Shipping
• An experiment in teaching a language without relying on translation
• Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate
• Hacking Habit Development with iOS Shortcuts
• PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space
  The Piecewise Geometric Model index (PGM-index) is a data structure that enables fast point and range searches in arrays of billions of items using orders of magnitude less space than traditional indexes.
• A Recursive Model learned index structure
• RadixSpline: A Single-Pass Learned Index
• A comprehensive list of UX design methods and deliverables
  The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process.
• European startups hacking the ageing process
• Central Banks and Disintermediation
• Red Hat simply refused to invest in CentOS Linux – interview
• What I Learned from Google for Startups Founders Academy
• Plex Arcade
• The Serval WS from System76: A Powerful Linux Workstation Running PopOS
• The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans
  The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?
• Stop Doing MOOCs, YouTube Courses, etc.
  Stop procrastinating, go off the happy path, learn just-in-time, and get your hands dirty.
• Losing faith in UX
  Digital design increasingly exploits users.
• Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
• Solarwinds hack explained in detail by a software engineer
• Quantquake: 2020 and the Revenge Against the Nerds
  2020, the most fascinating and boring year of my life, is over, and despite one of the most violent market crashes in history and the sharpest recession of all time, US equity investors clocked in another good year on the calendar. The S&P 500 index finished the year up 18.4%; this
• CVE-2021-3156: Explained, Shown and How to Patch (WSL and Linux)
  Notes regarding CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo – mbcrump/CVE-2021-3156
• University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
• OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support
• A few HiDPI tricks for Linux
• Covid-19 can reduce men’s ability to reproduce
• Airwindows – Free VST Plugins for Mac, Windows and Linux
• Access to vocational education can boost income over the long term
• Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
• A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 2: The particle melting pot
• Garuda Linux
  Garuda Linux is an appealing Arch Linux based Distro with BTRFS (modern filesystem), Linux-zen kernel, auto snapshots, gaming edition and a lot more bleeding edge features.
• GoboLinux
• Getting better at Linux with mini-projects
• Gentoo Linux
• Fluxtion embeddable Java complex event processor
• Quantitative Economics with Julia – Table of Contents
• China promotes education drive to make boys more ‘manly’
• McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source
  Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay at least $573 million to resolve claims by 40-plus U.S. states related to its role in the opioid epidemic and advice it gave to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, according to a person familiar with the matter.
• IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months
• UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates
• Program teaches prisoners coding so they can land tech jobs once released
• I curated a list of actionable advice by indiehackers
• New quantum receiver the first to detect entire radio frequency spectrum
  A new quantum sensor can analyze the full spectrum of radio frequency and real-world signals, unleashing new potentials for soldier communications, spectrum awareness and electronic warfare.
• Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking
• Self-Directed Pandas Crash Course
• “Don’t fall for quantum hype” video by Sabine Hossenfelder
• A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’
• Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
  Bitcoin is the worst waste of resources and energy in human history. It is solely used for financial speculation, with no genuine utility…
• Nuvola Player – Linux desktop integration for web-based streaming services
• Hacking the Git Shell Prompt
• NRA Bankruptcy Will Lead to Unprecedented Disclosure of Org’s Financial Habits
• The Feminine Physique: On Women’s Bodybuilding
• Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD
• Yao: Extensible, Efficient Quantum Algorithm Design for Humans
• 100-GHz Single-Flux-Quantum Bit-Serial Adder Based on 10-KA/Cm2 Niobium Process
  This paper reports the design and test results of a single-flux-quantum (SFQ) bit-serial adder, which we designed with a target-clock frequency of 100 GHz, to investigate several techniques for producing ultra-high-speed computations using SFQ circuits. The bit-serial adder was designed based on a new cell library developed for the ISTEC Advanced Process, where the critical current density and McCumber-Stewart parameters of Josephson junctions were increased to 10 kA/cm
  ²
  and 2.0, respectively, to obtain higher operating frequencies. In addit
• Wombat poop: Scientists reveal mystery behind cube-shaped droppings
• Someone attempted to poison water supply in Florida city during hack
• CD Project Red has been hacked. Hit with ransomware and data stolen.
• Man to pay £25,000 damages over negative TrustPilot review
• No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack
• Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review
  The man left a negative review of a law firm, which then took legal action over his comment.
• Farmers Are Having to Hack Their Own Tractors Just to Make Repairs
• Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone
• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
  The Story of a Novel Supply Chain Attack
• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
  The Story of a Novel Supply Chain Attack
• Explore the Bayeux Tapestry Online
• Learn to program BASIC with a Twitter bot
• Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available
• CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS
• The Protestant impact on literacy and education
• What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it
  Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week’s news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town’s water supply was understandably front-page material. But for security nerds who’ve been warning about this sort of thing for ages, the most surprising…
• Teaching Students How to Cheat During the Pandemic
• What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants
  What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants.
• BeagleV – The First Affordable RISC-V Computer Designed to Run Linux
• Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel
• Running unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia
• Rethinkscape – a new UX/UI proposal for Inkscape
• Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use
  Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time. – jimblandy/context-switch
• So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers
  Every now and then, I read a question about learning how to break ciphers, or more generally how to become a cryptographer/cryptologist.  From my viewpoint, the most important part of learning this…
• New research tackles a central challenge of powerful quantum computing
• Forecasting influenza activity using machine-learned mobility map
• Linux Memory Management FAQ
• Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
  Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs. – ratfactor/ziglings
• Strategies to Reduce Brain Fog and Improve Clear Thinking
  Mental fog is often described as a “cloudy-headed” feeling.
• Fluxus – live coding environment in Scheme
• Learn Functional Programming Visually
• “Location-Based Pay” – Who Are You to Complain?
• The Shame of Swedish Education: J’Accuse
  The following article was written by Swedish high school teacher Filippa Mannherheim and translated by retired Swedish educator Sara Hjelm. It appeared in the Swedish publication Expressen. Sweden …
• India accounts for 11 per cent of global death in road accidents: World Bank
• Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
• Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
  Download courses from khanacademy.org . Contribute to rand-net/khan-dl development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power
• The Other Woman
• SolarWinds hack was ‘largest and most sophisticated attack’ ever: MSFT president
  A hacking campaign that used a U.S. tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft of U.S. government agencies is «the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,» Microsoft Corp President Brad Smith said.
• 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
• Is Your Linux Version Hiding Interrupt CPU Usage from You?
  TL;DR: Some Linux distros and even different kernel versions within a distro have disabled IRQ time accounting. In such case, your monitoring tools will report zero time spent in hardware interrupt handlers (shown as %hi, %irq, hiq, etc). It’s easy to check how your kernel is behaving by looking at /proc/stat and you can still measure interrupt CPU usage using perf and a little creativity.
  Index Index Problem Explanation Kernel configuration options Measuring IRQ time with perf Different distros and kernel versions Summary Here’s a reminder that your Linux kernel may be not breaking down hardware interrupt CPU usage separately
• Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
• I Love Coding on Linux
• Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years
• Easy Forth: Learn forth with REPL in the browser
• UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI
  Ministers will announce plans tomorrow for an £800 million scientific research agency legally entitled to invest in projects that are likely to fail and which will be exempted from freedom of
• Judge: Citibank isn’t entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
  Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead.
• Japan’s ruling party invites more women to meetings, as long as they don’t talk
• Attempting to quantify Keynes’ concept of “animal spirits”
• Reducing Real-Time Query Latency with an HTAP Database
• A Follow-Up to “Location-Based Pay”
• Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes
• CC Academy (Free Fellowship) opens its doors to the 3rd cohort of ML/FE/UX folks
• The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
• Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
• Federal Charges Against Stanford University Researcher Expanded
• Sequoia Capital says it was hacked
• Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
• Linux Sucks 2021
• I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year, and here’s what I learned
• ‘It just blew fire’: Kauai woman watched as an engine fell apart on flight 328
• Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin
  The automaker denies it was the victim of a cyberattack, but the alleged culprit left a pretty detailed digital ransom note.
• Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
• Experimental quantum homomorphic encryption
• Vaccination linked to ‘substantial reduction’ in hospital admissions
• Traitor: Linux privilege escalation made easy
  Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins :arrow_up: :skull_and_crossbones: – liamg/traitor
• A Simple Way to Reduce Cognitive Bias
• Teaching Compilers Backward
• Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency
• 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization: Did I learn anything from D3.js?
• Cproxy: Per app transparent proxy built on Linux cgroup net_cls
• Kindergarden Quantum Mechanics Graduates
• Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices
• Female Fund Manager Opposes Gender Quotas for Startup Boards (no paywall)
• US central bank payment system down for ‘hours’
• Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing
• Facebook says it will pay news industry $1B over 3 years
  The pledge comes as Australia passes a new media law designed to make tech giants pay for news.
• Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the ‘new normal’
  Remote working is «an aberration» that will be corrected as soon as possible says Goldman Sachs chief.
• GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions
• Making hibernation work under Linux Lockdown