Gooooooood morning, You all!!! 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
- 2XL – ‘70s toy that faked AI with an 8-track
- Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
- DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby
Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn. - Similarity Learning lacks a framework. So we built one
- How I went about learning Rust
- Wandering Robots in the Wild
- “Learning The Elite Class: My experience at fancy parties”
Blockchain and decentralization
- Crypto-Assets and Decentralized Finance Through a Financial Stability Lens
- IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
- Filecoin Virtual Machine – Polyglot, WASM-based execution environment
- Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
- I watched a friend of mine pump a shitcoin on Binance by buying billboards
- The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money
Woman computer scientist of the week
Joanne Pransky is an American robotics expert and futurist who provides professional advice on using and marketing robotics devices. She calls herself the «World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist» for her expertise on issues concerning the human/robot relationship. She is a graduate of Tufts University in Massachusetts, United States.
Cloud and architecture
- Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals
124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day - Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS
Read about why we have decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS and what we are doing next. - Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling
- Cryptomator – Encrypt files on your cloud storage
- Building multi-architecture Docker images
- SaaS Tools That Get Things Done for Tech Startups
- Can I build my SaaS in no-code tools
- How the Colosseum Was Built and Why It Was an Architectural Marvel
The iconic Roman structure stood as the largest and most complex permanent amphitheater in the ancient world.
Development and languages
- Cissbury Ring: Neolithic flint-mines in the digital age
- Negatypes in Python: A type that is not some type
- Whatcha – social network for digital media
- Windows 3.1 Flash Edition
- Programming a Rogue-Like with Rust
- Bun (can become) the ideal JavaScript runtime
- A design-by-contract Python package in ~100 lines
- Functional programming is finally going mainstream
- Six programming languages I’d like to see
A few weird ideas for programming languages I came up with that it’d be «really» «cool» if someone made (wink) - A Windows 95-like shell for Windows 3.1x
- The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursuit of focus
- It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot
Hiâââthank you for reading this article! Weâd love to talk to you about what youâre making in our C#-focused Discord for Godot game⦠- ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like
We are working on a config language / DSL for building web apps that integrates with React & Node.js. A number of times we’ve been asked “Why are you bothering creating a new language for web app development? Isn’t Github Copilot\ soon going to be generating all the code for developers anyhow?*”. - Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution
- GitHop
- Kernel support for hardware-based control-flow integrity
- Integrating a Rust module into an Android app
- Comparing Rust and JavaScript
- Vala Programming Language
- Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses
A big chunk of Fuchsia-related code has been removed from Android, but Google’s operating systems are still set to be intertwined. - To Ruby from Python
Quote of the week
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Enterprises
- An intellectual starter kit
- Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14
Amazon recently announced that Aurora PostgreSQL supports PostgreSQL major version 14. The new release adds performance improvements and new capabilities, including support for SCRAM password encryption. - Microsoft researched what made employees happy, collaborate less, more autonomy
- NHTSA launches 37th investigation into Tesla after couple killed in crash
The authorities are looking into whether the automated features of the Tesla car were involved in the crash - Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse
- Spotify to Acquire Heardle
- Return Stack Buffer Underflow – Retbleed (Intel)
- Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
Both companies are rolling out mitigations, but they add overhead of 12 to 28 percent. - Implementing Microsoft REST API Guidelines Filter
- What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?
- Microsoft Validation OS
- Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent
- I made a Google sheet of local elections and it’s been removed from Google Drive
- Reddits pretzel-knot of moderation and anti-selfpromotion getting in way of IPO
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) adds support for Arm nodes
- Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla
- 30% of Google’s Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled
- Twitter Is Down
- Twitter experiences longest global outage in years
- Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer
- Open-source authorization service based on Google-Zanzibar
- Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%
- Danish Data Protection Agency bans Google Workspace for Municipalities
- Everything you need to know about breastfeeding and intelligence
Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover
Other news
- U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from several rankings in the current 2022 edition of Best Colleges after the university failed to respond to multiple requests that it substantiate data it had previously submitted. - Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles
- No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to phage scientists
- Clipboard integration between tmux, nvim, zsh, x11, across SSH sessions
- Quantum scientists deliver world’s first integrated circuit at the atomic scale
- Renewables remain cheapest, but cost reductions on hold
- Fluxus – 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence
- Quantum Algorithms Conquer a New Kind of Problem
- What Is a Woman, Anyway? Fuzzy Sets, Family Resemblances, and Conceptual Truths
- Founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund 3AC go missing
- How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
- RISC-V Linux on ESP32
- Learn Something Old Every Day, Part VI: Backward Buffer Overwrite
- What I learned from trying to hang Socrates
- Doom hacker gets Doom running in Doom
- Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
- Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux
Sandboxing for Linux has never been easier. - Rocky Linux 9.0
- Payload – Cross-platform desktop app for LAN file transfers
- From idea to paying customer
- The 970-Ha-Jokes Payphone Project
- “Shit Academics Say” Twitter account hacked, Twitter Support refusing help
- Horses for Main Courses: Eating Horsemeat in France
- Interactive course about “everyday” data science
Throughout my career, I’ve collected techniques for making better decisions. In this interactive course, you will participate in my life stories, and learn data science tricks for optimizing your day-to-day life. You’ll make the perfect glass of lemonade using Thompson sampling. You’ll lose weight with differential equations. And you might just qualify for the Olympics with a bit of statistics.
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