Tech roundup 109: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Readers!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.

AI, bots and robots

• Domino Robot Trajectory Generation
• Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
• Study: Challenges students face when learning SQL
• GDC 2019 Talk: Engineering Stable and Reliable AI
• Music composition with Deep Learning: a review
  Generating a complex work of art such as a musical composition requires
  exhibiting true creativity that depends on a variety of factors that are
  related to the hierarchy of musical language. Music generation have been faced
  with Algorithmic methods and recently, with Deep Learning models that are being
  used in other fields such as Computer Vision. In this paper we want to put into
  context the existing relationships between AI-based music composition models
  and human musical composition and creativity processes. We give an overview of
  the recent Deep Learning models for music composition and we compare these
  models to the music composition pro
• Mythic Rolls Out M1000-Series Analog AI Accelerators
• Google’s New AI Photo Upscaling Tech Is Jaw-Dropping
• Dutch Entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening multiple bank accounts
  Smaller entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are trying to avoid negative interest on savings by opening new accounts with different banks, Financieele Dagblad reported after speaking to Dutch banks. Various banks introduced negative interest rates on larger savings accounts over the past year
• AI movie posters
• MadeWithML – A practical approach to learning production machine learning
  Learn how to responsibly deliver value with ML. Contribute to GokuMohandas/MadeWithML development by creating an account on GitHub.
• How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?
• Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening
  Objective To examine the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) for the detection of breast cancer in mammography screening practice.

  Design Systematic review of test accuracy studies.

  Data sources Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from 1 January 2010 to 17 May 2021.

  Eligibility criteria Studies reporting test accuracy of AI algorithms, alone or in combination with radiologists, to detect cancer in women’s digital mammograms in screening practice, or in test sets. Reference standard was biopsy with histology or follow-up (for screen negative women). Outcomes included test accuracy and cancer t

• A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks
• AI powered meme search, open-source
• A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one
  남다른 공부법, 피어나는 지식 노트가든!
• Neurocracy
• Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts “Primates” Label on Video of Black Men

Blockchain and decentralization

• Do You Need a Blockchain?
• Ether Rock – Pet Rocks on the Blockchain
• Ramp up your distributed transactions

Cloud and architecture

• “Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
• Anna Mazurek on Making It as a Travel Photographer and Digital Nomad
• Judge in Nokia and Apple lawsuit owned Apple stock during proceedings
• Building a serverless email delivery service on AWS
• The Sackler Family Wins Immunity from Future Opioid Lawsuits
• Opendesktop.org – Libre Cloud Services
  Libre Cloud Services for users and developers. Keep your personal data save, start new projects, share apps, files and products, communicate freely with friends and colleagues.
• How ksqlDB Works: Internal Architecture and Advanced Features
• Amazon to remove more content that violates rules from cloud service – sources
• When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines

Development and languages

• Apple’s new Private Relay is leaking your original address through WebRTC
  487 votes and 55 comments so far on Reddit
• Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime
  Windows 95 can only run for 49.7 days before crashing, and I’ve had a win95 box slowly counting up until that date. Here’s the final couple hours, complete w…
• Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old
• A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI
  A tiny CSS framework for building faithful recreations of the Windows 7 UI. – GitHub – khang-nd/7.css: A tiny CSS framework for building faithful recreations of the Windows 7 UI.
• Bhagavad Gita Android App for searching verses by topics like anxiety
• Programming, Math, Science: A list with links to useful resources
• Clustering Algorithms with Python
• Pylectronics – Reproduce digital electronics in Python
• Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality
• SPWN – A programming language that compiles to Geometry Dash levels
• New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd)
• Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard
• White House Launches US Digital Corps
  The White House launched a two-year fellowship Monday designed to place early-career software engineers, data scientists and other technologists at federal agencies. Dubbed the U.S. Digital Corps, participants will improve IT service delivery in relation to the federal coronavirus response, economic recovery, cybersecurity and agencies’ individual missions. The Day One Project proposed the fellowship back […]
• MDcat – Simple Markdown to GitHub styled HTML converter
• Windows 11 available on October 5
• Cooperative Package Management for Python
  A longstanding tug-of-war between system package managers and Python’s own
  installation mechanisms (primarily pip, but there are others) looks
  on its way to being resolved—or at least regularized. PEP 668
  («Graceful cooperation between external and Python package
  managers») has been created to provide ways for the two types of package installation
  to
  work together, rather than at cross-purposes at times.
  Since many operating systems depend on Python tools, with package versions
  that may differ from those of users’ Python applications, making them play together
  nicely should result in more stable systems.
• C# for Systems Programming
  Demo of the potential of C# for systems programming with the .NET native ahead-of-time compilation technology. – GitHub – MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp: Demo of the potential of C# for systems program…
• Nuitka: An extremely compatible Python compiler
• Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
• The evolution of WebRTC 1.0. – Advancing WebRTC
  March 2018 update: Firefox 59 now implements transceivers (stage 3) as described in this article. Remote tracks are now muted and temporarily removed from their stream(s), rather than ended, in response to direction changes (e.g. from removeTrack). Listen to stream.onremovetrack instead of track.onended. The WebRTC spec is nearing completion, going to Candidate Recommendation real soon. […]
• Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions
  Far too many developers use Git without understanding it. It’s time to straighten out your thinking about what Git is, and isn’t.
• New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad
• Web-based editor
• BigDecimal – JavaScript Polyfill for proposed Decimal data type
• GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment
  Github Copilot Security Study: Developer Should Remain Awake as GitHub Copilot is Generating Insecure Code In 40% Of Circumstances During Experiment.
• Windows 11: a survey of text boxes
• Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
• Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces
• Controlled Digital Lending
• Faust: Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing
• Pint: Makes Units Easy -Python

Quote of the week

Premature optimizations can be troublesome to revert, but premature generalizations are often near impossible.

        — Emil Persson

Enterprises

• Art and Artificial Intelligence
• Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome
• Apple’s deal with Google is lucrative, but it’s hard to square with its values
• Gap Inc. acquires 3D fitting room startup Drapr
• Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
  Apple has acquired Primephonic, the renowned classical music streaming service that offers an outstanding listening experience.
• Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
• Multi-Chip Intel Core I9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
• Apple and Google must allow other payment systems, new Korean law declares
  A major milestone in global anti-trust legislation
• Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization
• South Korea will require Apple, Google to allow competing payment systems
  The companies will have to open their app stores to alternative payment systems in South Korea under newly passed legislation there, threatening their lucrative commissions on digital sales.
• Allbirds S-1 IPO
• The Tesla Dojo Chip Is Impressive, but There Are Some Major Technical Issues
• Intel’s Lidar, face recognition, and tracking cameras will be discontinued
  Intel’s lidar, face recognition, and tracking cameras will be discontinued, but stereo cameras are safe, for now
• Visualising Twitter Conversations in 3D Space
• Intel XTU Overclocking Utility Adds Alder Lake CPU and DDR5 Support
• Twitter.com’s HTML, which is produced by React Native for Web, explained
• Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says
• Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency
• Tesla Model Y takes over Norway, pushes electric car sales to 72% market share
• New Tesla Roadster delayed again, now shooting for 2023
  Elon Musk took to Twitter to say that the new Tesla Roadster should ship in 2023, citing supply chain shortages as the problem.
• Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers
• The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
  The evidence for fungal intelligence is in: they can operate as individuals, make decisions, learn, and have short-term memory
• Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

Other news

• Lessons Learned from 5 years using Pivotal Tracker
• The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank
• Doing History with Born Digital Files: The Rhoda Métraux and Ed Lorenz Papers
• Sprint ICBM Missile Site price reduced
  For Sale: one of the rarest nuclear hardened underground bunkers in the world!
• “He who pays the piper calls the tune”: Funders suppress health trial findings
  Background Governments commonly fund research with specific applications in mind. Such mechanisms may facilitate ‘research translation’ but funders may employ strategies that can also undermine the integrity of both science and government. We estimated the prevalence and investigated correlates of funder efforts to suppress health behaviour intervention trial findings. Methods Our sampling frame was lead or corresponding authors of papers (published 2007–2017) included in a Cochrane review, reporting findings from trials of interventions to improve nutrition, physical activity, sexual health, smoking, and substance use. Suppression ev
• Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions
  Cutting 20% of sugar from packaged foods and 40% from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S. over the lifetime of the adult population
• When Police Lie, the Innocent Pay. Some Are Fighting Back
• An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux
• Breakthrough: Quantum computers will soon fit in your phone – Sifted
• Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them
• Linux Kernel 5.14
• Music streaming payouts comparison
• The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux
• A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself
• Struggling to learn a new language? Blame it on your stable brain
• Blur Webcam Background on Linux
• RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia
• Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse
• Journal of Controversial Ideas
• Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist’s website for £244k
• Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie
• System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
  The Pangolin is a fast, 15″ lightweight laptop powered by AMD CPU & graphics. Pro Right-to-Repair upgradable laptop with lifetime support & Pop!_OS.
• System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
  The Pangolin is a fast, 15″ lightweight laptop powered by AMD CPU & graphics. Pro Right-to-Repair upgradable laptop with lifetime support & Pop!_OS.
• Rolling your own minimal embedded Linux for the Raspberry Pi
• OpenBSD: Hibernate Time Reduced
• I Have Decided to Stop Supporting My Family’s Non-Linux Devices
• Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks
  Bad things lead to more bad things. But (some) bad things can be fixed.
• AAS Journals Will Switch to Open Access
• Linux on the Framework Laptop
  We’ve been seeing an immense interest in the DIY Edition configuration. This is why we wanted to give a quick update on Linux distros and share how you can get instructions and support for your Framework Laptop!
• Apple to Allow Spotify, Other Media Apps to Link to Websites for Payment Options
• Fuzzing 100 open source projects with OSS-Fuzz: lessons learned
• European Payments Initiative (EPI)
• Injection Attacks Reloaded: Tunnelling Malicious Payloads over DNS
• Product Quantization: Compressing high-dimensional vectors
• Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?
• Renaissance executives agree to pay around $7B to settle dispute with IRS
  Executives of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies LLC could pay as much as $7 billion to U.S. tax authorities after agreeing to settle a dispute over whether they improperly reduced their tax liability from trading profits, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters and a source familiar with the matter.
• Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanford study shows
• PayPal Mafia

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