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AI, bots and robots
- Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
- How AlexNet dominated the competition and popularized deep learning
- Dr. Erich Jarvis: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language and Music
- Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan?
- Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?
- Programming Cognitive Robots
- Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology
- AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans
- Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
- Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k?
- Generating Fashion Using AI
- AI is getting better at generating porn
AI image generators like Stable Diffusion are powering new websites that generate highly customize porn. The trend could have far-reaching consequences.
Blockchain and decentralization
- Avalanche conspires with law firm to attack competing blockchains
- Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in ‘just over an hour’
Woman computer scientist of the week
Tandy Jo Warnow is an American computer scientist, the Founder Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is known for her work on the reconstruction of evolutionary trees, both in biology and in historical linguistics, and also for multiple sequence alignment methods.
Cloud and architecture
- Acorn: A lightweight PaaS for Kubernertes, from Rancher founders
- A History of Silicon Innovation at AWS
- Austrian ISPs Block Cloudflare IP addresses after apparent court order
- Rights, Laws, and Google
- Decoding AWS Reserved Instances
- AWS services, explained in Victorian English with GPT-3
- AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture
- Becoming a Systems Architect
- XCode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available
Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers. - SmartDry’s useful laundry sensor to be cloud-bricked next month
- What would make AWS even better
#10 on my Re:Invent 2022 Wishlist countdown
Development and languages
- Corman Lisp development environment for MS Windows
- A Programming Language Database
PLDB: a Programming Language Database. Contribute to breck7/pldb development by creating an account on GitHub. - Built-in container support for the .NET SDK
- I like the Odin programming language
As someone who is interested in systems programming, and has experience working with Go, but not with C or C++1, The Odin language is a great fit. Proper systems language Odin is a systems langauge… - What does it take to be a good programmer?
- Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
- The state of Flow-based Programming
- Git’s database internals I: packed object store
- The OK? Programming Language
- Is Over, Bye GitHub
- Using Python to vectorize artwork for PCBs
- Python library for univariate regression, interpolation, and smoothing
- Programming on 34 Keys
- JavaScript Hydration Is a Workaround, Not a Solution
- Git’s database internals II: commit history queries
- Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control. - Moving “The Swift Programming Language” Book to Open Source
- Performance Improvements in .NET 7
- Git’s Database Internals III: File History Queries
- Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust
- Cognitive loads in programming
- WebKit on GitHub
On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub. - Encrypted Git hosting should be easy
encrypted git hosting should be easy. Contribute to nathants/git-remote-aws development by creating an account on GitHub. - Crystal Programming Language
- GitHub is removing the Trending Repositories page due to “low usage”
I just got the message: Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September … - Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US
- GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
I just got the message: Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September … - From Prison to Programming
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today’s guest is Rick Wolter. He’s an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed somebody and for some that’s all they need to know about Rick. But today’s… […]
Quote of the week
This ‘users are idiots, and are confused by functionality’ mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
— Linus
Enterprises
- Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content
- Intel enters a new era of chiplets
- They’re trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn’t care
- Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is Twitter became a company
- Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
Google has announced last month that they will be changing their Play Store policies for developers. These changes aim to improve the ads experience, tighten security and limit misinformation according to the company. The policies are going into effect later in 2022, which all existing apps will need to comply with. One of the main policy changes concerns the VPN Service which will take effect on November 1, 2022: Google claims to be cracking down on apps that are using the VPN service to tr… - Run Stable Diffusion on Intel CPUs
Contribute to bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino development by creating an account on GitHub. - AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Launch: Ryzen 7950X and More, Coming Sept. 27th
- Understanding Google’s File System
- Tesla’s ban on pro-union shirts is illegal and must be rescinded, NLRB rules
- Why Did Garry Tan Block You on Twitter?
- US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
- Random Google Street View
Simply click ‘Next’ and continue to be amazed. Select your favorite country. Play a slideshow in fullscreen. Use as a screensaver. Best way to kill your time. - Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract
- Customer who defamed BC company on Google, Yelp ordered to pay $90k
- Google Blocks Truth Social from the Play Store – Will Apple Be Next?
- Google employee resigns, saying company ‘silences Palestinians’
- I’m building an open-source Amazon
Multi-channel fulfillment at scale - Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election
- Intel details 12th Gen Core SoCs optimized for edge applications
- Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter
- Amazon’s Global Quest to Crush Unions
Other news
- Accept payments in crypto on your website (5 lines of code)
- Volkswriter Deluxe – One of the first word processors for the IBM PC
- Samba on Linux the Easy Way
- Difficulties of providing a crypto payment system on your website
- GitHub for English Teachers
- The Three Pillars of Functional Autonomy of Hackers
- Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows
- SoftBank’s Epic Losses Reveal Masayoshi Son’s Broken Business Model
- Namecheap CEO gives incentive to hack arbitrary users on their platform
- Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead of $100
- A DIY plate reverb, hacked out of IKEA parts for under $100
- AutoHotkey for Linux
AutoHotkey for Linux (X11-based systems). Contribute to phil294/AHK_X11 development by creating an account on GitHub. - Fed expects to launch long-awaited Faster Payments System by 2023
The new payments system will allow faster payments of bills, paychecks and other transfers around-the-clock instead of days. - Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability. - Being a university fresher can be hard
- Learn PWA
A course that breaks down every aspect of modern progressive web app development. - Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location
- High-dose Vitamin B6 reduces anxiety and strengthens visual surround suppression
- 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?
- Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model
Following the cancellation of thousands of flights this summer, the German state of Lower Saxony, in the country’s north west, has renewed calls to abolish advance payment for flight bookings. - White House Bans Paywalls on Taxpayer-Funded Research
- Hackers created an enormous traffic jam in Moscow
- Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from
- Israeli rules say West Bank visitors must declare love interest
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