Gooooooood morning, Information highway!!! 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
- Amazon Is Gutting Its Voice-Assistant Alexa
- Good Machine Learning Practice for Medical Device Development-Guiding Principles
- Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year
- A Plucky Robot Found the Long-Lost Endurance Shipwreck
- Rhasspy – Offline private voice assistant for many human languages
- CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
Meta AI has built CICERO, the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the popular strategy game Diplomacy. It’s a breakthrough toward building AI that can use language to work with people to achieve strategic goals. - RimWorld: A sci fi colony SIM driven by an intelligent AI storyteller
- Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech
Alexa, how does Amazon decide when the grand plan for conversational commerce has failed? - Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
- AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
- The SF Police Dept is requesting permission for their robots to use deadly force
The San Francisco Police Department is currently applying to the city’s Board of Supervisors for permission to use robots to kill suspects that law - AI Music Generator
- San Francisco police consider letting robots use ‘deadly force’
- I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio
- BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters’ identities
- AI generated puzzles from Wikipedia articles
- Generative AI profits off your code. Make them pay for it
- I/O is no longer the bottleneck
Blockchain and decentralization
- Homebrew (brew.sh) guy has gone full blockchain/Web3
- AWS and Blockchain
- Troubleshooting on a Distributed Team Without Losing Common Ground
- Pipe CEO loaned $80M to a Bitcoin mining company, didn’t tell board
- A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub
Contribute to chatternet/chatternet-client-http development by creating an account on GitHub.
Woman computer scientist of the week
Ileana Streinu is a Romanian-American computer scientist and mathematician, the Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is known for her research in computational geometry, and in particular for her work on kinematics and structural rigidity.
Cloud and architecture
- Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build AI cloud computer
- iCloud for Windows downloading other people’s photos
- A toy example of Bayesian hyperparameter optimization on parallel cloud VMs
- GitBook bypassing Cloudflare DNS to route traffic to their domain
- Hexagonal Architecture vs. Free Monad
Development and languages
- ABI compatibility in Python: How hard could it be?
- A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden
- HelenOS: a microkernel-based, multiserver OS from scratch
- Koch-funded group sues US state agency for installing spyware on 1M Androids
Class-action lawsuit seeks $1 in nominal damages - Run unsafe user generated JavaScript in the browser
- I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
Puk Puk Pukaaak! Cluck cluck… Bwak Bwak Bwaaak, puk puk pukaaak! Cluck-cluck-cluck bok. - QuickJS Running in WebAssembly
- Digitizing Analog Video Through a Digital Camcorder
- Kernel (OS Kernel Book)
- Introduction to Embedded Systems Programming (Ada)
- Little languages are the future of programming
- CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows
TL;DR Recommendations - Yapsl: Yet another Python SMS library
- MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem
- Perlisms – “Epigrams in Programming”
- Atlas OS: We redesigned Windows for gaming
- Music Studio: Windows-based C64 SID music creator software
- Extremely Linear Git History
- JXL.js – JPEG XL Decoder in JavaScript Using WebAssembly in Web Worker
- Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
- Brotli-G: A GPU compression/decompression standard for digital assets
- Quickadd: A Python library for extracting date and time from natural language
- The case for dynamic, functional programming
- WebAssembly back end merged into GHC
- A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue
- Microsoft’s ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 start menu
- Speed up your site by running JavaScript when the browser is idle
- Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programming languages
- Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea
\ˈfor.d͡ʒe.jo\ – libre code forge – a community-run soft fork of Gitea
(Code of Conduct: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/code-of-conduct) - Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀. Contribute to nektos/act development by creating an account on GitHub. - The Origins of Python
Python is arguably the most popular programming language worldwide. Since its debut in 1991, Python’s accessibility and rich functionality has helped it gather a huge userbase. Its design was influenced by creator Guido van Rossum’s involvement with an earlier language, ABC. Lambert Meertens, one of ABC’s developers, recounts Python’s origins and how ABC’s design philosophy shaped its successor.
Quote of the week
It’s not that Perl programmers are idiots, it’s that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
— Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp
Enterprises
- Cannon Lake: Intel’s Forgotten Generation
- A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
- Collapse of Carvana, the ‘Amazon of Used Cars’, Continues
- Twitter was special. But it’s time to leave
- Upgrading Multi-GPU Interconnectivity with the Third-Generation Nvidia NVSwitch
- France bans Office 365 and Google Docs from schools and public administration
Le ministère de l’Éducation nationale confirme ne pas vouloir des offres de Microsoft Office 365 et de Google Workspace dans les écoles. - An offshore workforce is training Amazon’s warehouse-monitoring algorithms
- Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
- The Twitter Advertiser Exodus
- Intel on Demand
- 2 Years at Twitter
- Videolan: Google refuses to take down or unlist domains with tons of malware
- Smart Move, Google
- Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America
- Twitter fired more software engineers.. because their “code is not satisfactory”
- Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries
- Numbers that explain Intel’s decline
- Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
- Microsoft’s Toxic Culture Persists Despite Pledge by CEO Satya Nadella
- 'Very scary' issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones
Action News Jax investigates found numerous complaints online from other Google Pixel 6 owners who say their phones have trouble calling 911 or emergency services. - Germany Forces a Microsoft 365 Ban Due to Privacy Concerns
- Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022
- German state of Hesse has banned the use of Microsoft 365 in its schools
- Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
- Amazon-like product recommendation engine to power open-source eComm
- Google to lay off 10k “poor performers”
- Tesla.com/LICENSE.txt
- Art Made with Artificial Intelligence Wins at State Fair
- German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR
Other news
- Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too
- The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
- Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator
tiniest x86-64-linux emulator. Contribute to jart/blink development by creating an account on GitHub. - Universities and Sports Betting Collaborated
- Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Team Among Top Political Donors Before Bankruptcy
- The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried will leave deep scars
- Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers
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What’s this? Minecraft running on #AsahiLinux with open source GPU drivers?
Image credit: @yuka@fedi.yuka.dev
- Termux on Android 5 or 6
Termux – a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages. – Termux on android 5 or 6 · termux/termux-app Wiki - Anti-Woke Bank GloriFi to Shut Down
- Frog: OCR Tool for Linux
- Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and embedded systems
- Deterministic Linux for controlled testing and software bug-finding
- Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free
- Learn Kubernetes with Google
- Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall
- The Huxleys electrified evolution
- Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
- Stable Diffusion 2.0 on Mac and Linux via imaginAIry Python library
- FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions
- “After 8 months of Blueprint I reduced my epigenetic age by 5.1 yrs in 7 months”
- CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
- iPod Nano V6 LCD Hacking
- ‘Bin chickens’ learned to wash poisonous cane toads
- University offers investigation into Oracle finance disaster
- Bankman-Fried being invited to speak at a New York Times event alongside Yellen
- Black Friday Deals (macOS apps, SaaS, Books, Courses, etc.)
- FTX owned an $11.5M stake in a tiny rural bank in Washington state
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