Gooooooood morning, Subscriptors!!! 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
- Modern Polars: a comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries
- PromptArray: A Prompting Language for Neural Text Generators
- Learning Verilog and FPGA
- “The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”
- Could robots do the work of master marble sculptors? This one is “99%” there
- AMD Alveo V70 AI inference accelerator card
- Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons
- An engineer has built and programmed an all-robot band
- Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm
Geoffrey Hinton, professor at the University of Toronto and engineering fellow at Google Brain, recently published a paper on the Forward-Forward algorithm (FF), a technique for training neural networks that uses two forward passes of data through the network, instead of backpropagation, to update the model weights. - We could stumble into AI catastrophe
- Learning eBPF Exploitation
Blockchain and decentralization
- Banks Are Fleeing Crypto. Bitcoin Investors Should Be Worried
- CoinDesk, Inc. Files Motion to Unseal Names of SBF’s Additional Bail Sureties
Woman computer scientist of the week
Jessica K. Hodgins is an American roboticist and researcher who is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and School of Computer Science. She is also Vice President of Research at Disney Research and is the Director of the Disney Research labs in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.
Cloud and architecture
- Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language
- Microbenchmarking AMD’s RDNA 3 Graphics Architecture
- Cloud Native Diary #4 – Java, OpenTelemetry, Carvel
- A single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
- Old man yells at cloud
- Elastic Cloud password complexity has an “OR” condition
- Architecture diagrams should be code
- Faster PostgresSQL to BigQuery Transfers
- Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site
- Chick Fil A’s Edge Enterprise Architecture
- Circl: Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library
- Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against DeviantArt & others
Stable Diffusion litigation
Development and languages
- Oxygene Pt. 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre, Performed by 19KB of JavaScript Code
- Ideas for a JavaScript Stricter Mode
- Where are my Git UI features from the future?
- Portugal’s digital nomad bubble
- Branchless Workflow for Git
- A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language
- The KCL Programming Language for Data Validation
- I wrote a WebAssembly Interpreter and Toolkit in C
- Mapping Python to LLVM
- Extending the Android SDK
- NetworkX 3.0 – create, manipulate, and study complex networks in Python
- Python framework is faster than Golang Fiber
Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3 and Python3 – GitHub – cirospaciari/socketify.py: Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3 and Pyt… - The source code for Duelyst, a digital collectible card game
- State of JavaScript 2022
- Digital Signals
- Another NaN-based tagging strategy for dynamic programming languages
- Windows OS Security
- T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis
«Pre-Owned» malware in ROM on T95 Android TV Box (AllWinner H616) – GitHub – DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware: «Pre-Owned» malware in ROM on T95 Android TV Box (AllWinner H616) - An online IDE for visual programming in Prolog
An online IDE for visual programming in Prolog. Contribute to toblotron/praxis-ide development by creating an account on GitHub. - GitHub Copilot free plan stopped working – rate limit exceeded
- El Salvador’s Historic Digital Asset Securities Law Passes
- Mapperly – A .NET source generator for object to object mappings
- New GraphQL API for WordPress
- Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
A black hole for Internet advertisements. Contribute to pi-hole/pi-hole development by creating an account on GitHub. - How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records
We could solve more crimes by just allowing police to go into anyoneâs homeâbut do we want to live in that world?
Quote of the week
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
— Alan Kay
Enterprises
- Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
- Microsoft Subdomain Takeover
- Twitter Layoffs Continue into 2023
- Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023
- VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
Since the release of the first text-to-speech (TTS) model, researchers have been looking for ways to improve the way these systems generate speech. The - Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
- The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 at 65 Watts
- Microsoft in talks to acquire a 49% stake in ChatGPT owner OpenAI
- How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster
- Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge
- Tesla Vehicle Safety Report
- Memories: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in the 70s
- How many AMD RX 7900 XTX’s are defective?
- Alphabet unit Verily to trim more than 200 jobs
- New Video of Tesla Crash Demonstrates the Problem of Semi-Automated Driving
I’m not sure how much you keep up with bridge-related holiday car crashes, but there was a huge one this past Thanksgiving on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. This was a genuine pileup, with eight vehicles involved and nine people injured. That’s already big news, but what makes this bigger big news is that the […] - Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse
- Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now
- System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns
- Tesla’s solar factory in Buffalo fizzles
- Amazon S3 now automatically encrypts all new objects
Other news
- Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel. Contribute to vvaltchev/tilck development by creating an account on GitHub. - Tax System in the Faroe Islands
- Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
- Teaching Notes, Slides, & Handouts using org-mode and LaTeX
- Detailed list of USB WiFi adapters that work well with Linux
- Monitoring ECC memory on Linux with rasdaemon
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600 / Ryzen 7 7700 / Ryzen 9 7900 Linux Performance
- Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?
- Reduced pollution caused farmers to use more sulfur fertilizer
- Douglas Adams on Hypercard and new educational models
- Learn Lisp the Hard Way
- DEI is supplanting truth as the mission of American universities
- I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools
Learn how I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools. - Lightweight Arch-based distro that runs, without root, upon any Linux distro
- Sometimes it actually is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16
- Reducing Online Serving Latency from 1.11s to 123.6ms
- World’s only sleeping bank website
- The ‘buy now, pay later’ bubble is about to burst
- Apple’s Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback
- A 116kb WASM of Blink that lets you run x86_64 Linux binaries in the browser
- Alpine Linux in the Browser
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s secret ‘backdoor’ discovered, FTX lawyer says
- Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used software to track her time
Researchers tested GPT-3.5 with questions from the US Bar Exam. They predict that GPT-4 and comparable models might be able to pass the exam very soon.
Why and how I migrated from distributed postgres to distributed sqlite on kentcdodds.com
The U.S.V.I. says JPMorgan Chase didn’t report Jeffrey Epstein’s suspicious financial activities and provided him banking services after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor.
A graphical processor simulator and assembly editor for the RISC-V ISA – GitHub – mortbopet/Ripes: A graphical processor simulator and assembly editor for the RISC-V ISA
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the i…
Learn how you can use clickhouse-local to analyze and transform your local and remote files using just the power of SQL on your laptop
Binary search is a workhorse of competitive programming. There are occasional easy problems where binary search is the solution in and of itself; more often, it’s used as a primitive building block…
Hello and happy new year! It’s 2023, and Windows 11 is finally a mature operating system that most people would be happy to use. Sun Valley has finally arrived, and it’s all about a lon…
Python SQL Parser and Transpiler. Contribute to tobymao/sqlglot development by creating an account on GitHub.
In this post, I’ll iteratively optimize an implementation of matrix multiplication written in CUDA.My goal is not to build a cuBLAS replacement, but to deepl…
AUTOMATIC1111 has 31 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Stable Diffusion web UI. Contribute to AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui development by creating an account on GitHub.
I have been spending some time as of late thinking, and asking the community via the fediverse, about how people deal with virtual environments in Python. I have ended up with various ways of classifying people’s virtual environment management and I wanted to write it all down to both not
A collaboratively curated list of awesome Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Resources – GitHub – ARPSyndicate/awesome-intelligence: A collaboratively curated list of awesome Open-Source Intelligence…
This post from @chriscoyier@front-end.social (via @tomayac) frames an urgent problem I’ve spent many years working to solve, often with push-back from the frontend community who would variously claim that «Apple isn’t anti-web» and «Google should want the web to win»:
The cuts focused on the company’s corporate staff exceed an earlier projection and represent about 5% of the company’s corporate workforce.
We covered Zen 4’s core architecture in depth in two articles. This one will focus on anything we didn’t manage to get to. Some of these details may be specific to the particular CPU sa…
Most systems today rely on Unicode strings. However, we have two popular Unicode formats: UTF-8 and UTF-16. We often need to convert from one format to the other. For example, you might have a database formatted with UTF-16, but you need to produce JSON documents using UTF-8. This conversion is ofte
by James Bandler (ProPublica) In early February 2016, the security gate at a U.S. military base near Washington, D.C., swung open to admit a Navy doctor accompanying a pair of…
A UCLA–MIT Press paper highlights a lack of data infrastructure and data strategy in U.S. higher education.
GitHub and Microsoft are being sued for using open source software without creator attribution in alleged violation of open licensing requirements. What implications does this have for the scholarly literature and Creative Commons licenses?
The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge. We must fight against the instinct to trust a human-sounding machine, argue Emily M. Bender & Chirag Shah.
Yesterday’s video detailing what would happen, THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED: https://youtu.be/NKdFfRWUgS8Bill edit: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlHtbaRWAAEdwdv?for…
Evolution of the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol – pos-evolution/pos-evolution.md at master · ethereum/pos-evolution
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UPDATE, 10:56PM CT: THE POWER OF THE INTERNET SAVED THE DAY. All of the bags of caffeinated coffees sold out. That’s approximately 24,000 bags of coffee. You all are amazing! We are overwhelmed with gratitude and will update tomorrow. Hopefully we can find these lonely bags of decaf a good home, too. We’ve had a…
a lightweight cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, documents, and curated urls. – GitHub – microfeed/microfeed: a lightweight cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podca…
Bored of algorithms? Here are my recommendations that are exciting, understandable, and sometimes even useful!
Linden Lab open-sourced Second Life’s client on January 8th, 2007. In the 15 years since, open source contributions have led to countless new features and bug fixes that have markedly improved the life of our virtual world. Without open source, SL would not be as vibrant, enduring and successful …
Populous for Windows CE/Dreamcast. Special thanks to Comby Laurent and LemonHaze – GitHub – LemonHaze420/DCPopulous: Populous for Windows CE/Dreamcast. Special thanks to Comby Laurent and LemonHaze
Pickup trucks full of software boxes, Win95VersionLie, and other tricks.
The system takes 28 minutes to boot up but it can multitask.
Everything is generated entirely with code.
This adventure starts with git-lfs. It was a normal day and I added a 500 MB binary asset to my server templates. When I went to push it, I found it interesting that git-lfs was uploading at 50KB p…
Open source SQL engine in Python. Contribute to marsupialtail/quokka development by creating an account on GitHub.
Reverse Geocode for OpenStreetmap. Contribute to punnerud/rgcosm development by creating an account on GitHub.
(Bloomberg) — The tailspin in Tesla Inc. shares accelerated Tuesday, marking their longest losing streak since 2018, as a report of a plan to temporarily halt production at its China factory rekindled fears about demand risks. Most Read from BloombergMilan Reports 50% of Passengers on China Flights Have CovidSouthwest Air Memos Showed Growing Alarm on Eve of Epic Winter StormRussia Says Ukraine Must Surrender Even as Putin’s Army RetreatsSouth Korea Sends Drones to Kim Jong Un’s Airspace in Unp
npj Science of Learning – Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics
Hello dear breached usersI’m selling data of +400 million unique twitter users that was scraped via…
What happens when innovation doesnât fit the usual narratives?
CDN Up and Running – Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN – GitHub – leandromoreira/cdn-up-and-running: CDN Up and Running – Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN
The 2022 StackOverflow developer survey shows that more developers use Linux than Mac. And while Windows remains the most used platform with developers
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python. Contribute to scikit-learn/scikit-learn development by creating an account on GitHub.
When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.
Every now and then, a new piece of technology creates a radical shift throughout the world in how people interact with computers. One such shift is currently underway as we speak. It is the rise of AI. Recent breakthroughs have been incredibly exciting to observe. One of the recent innovations
A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores andcalendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have openalternatives…
Wing is a cloud-oriented programming language. Most programming languages think about computers as individual machines. In Wing, the cloud is the computer.
Point cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesis. Contribute to openai/point-e development by creating an account on GitHub.
Contribute to elanmart/cbp-translate development by creating an account on GitHub.
Just installed the latest update for Windows 11 version 22H2 for x64 (KB5020622), and after restarting the Search button on my taskbar now has been given a label ‘Search’ which is unnecessary and 
a fresh & lightweight javascript game engine. Contribute to melonjs/melonJS development by creating an account on GitHub.
Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline. Contribute to open-pdf-sign/open-pdf-sign development by creating an account on GitHub.
Today we are shipping an update for Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 to members of the Windows Subsystem for Android™ Preview Program. This update (2211.40000.7.0) will update WSA to An…
A few months ago, a proposal was published to make WordPress officially support SQLite. After the proposal received a lot of positive feedback from the community, we started working on an implement…
Hands-on exploration of using Docker to run WebAssembly applications.
I often want to program something just for fun without any expectations. But why? Well, a recent scientific paper investigated this idea of programming as play.
When many Java developers hear the word WebAssembly, the first thing they think is “browser technology”. The second thing: “it’s the JVM all over again”. After all, for a Java developer, in-browser apps are prehistory.
The comprehensive Open Source Software insight tool by analyzing massive events from GitHub, powered by TiDB, the best insight building database of data agility.
Content warning: Twitter’s anti-Mastodon filter evasion
A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.
California passed a new law banning Tesla from calling its software Full Self-Driving (FSD). Senate Bill 1398 was one of the hundreds
Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning – GitHub – abb128/LiveCaptions: Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning
Confidential data of about 112,000 taxpayers inadvertently published by the IRS over the summer was mistakenly republished in late November and remained online until early December, the IRS disclosed Thursday.
When was the last time you used – or even saw – a pay phone? A handy Philadelphian is looking to change that.
A book teaching assembly language programming on the ARM 64 bit ISA. Along the way, good programming practices and insights into code development are offer which apply directly to higher level lang…
Learn how to create offline voice assistants like Alexa or Siri that run fully on-device using an STM32 microcontroller.
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Miles Teller, best known for films like Whiplash and Top Gun: Maverick, is reportedly being eyed to play the lead in the series
Disentangle the dependencies between your packages.
A framework-independent data vis library for the web
In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Sharing API, Broadcast Channel API and Internationalization API. Together we will see what they are, where we should use them, and how to use them.
:horse: Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language – GitHub – ponylang/ponyc: Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high per…
*slaps roof of [programming language]* this bad boy can fit so much [syntax sugar] into it – GitHub – betaveros/noulith: *slaps roof of [programming language]* this bad boy can fit so much [syntax …
Co-authored-by: Sean DuBois sean@siobud.com
Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, and 2000
apk.sh makes reverse engineering Android apps easier, automating some repetitive tasks like pulling, decoding, rebuilding and patching an APK. – GitHub – ax/apk.sh: apk.sh makes reverse engineering…
During the summer of 2022, Google engaged NCC Group to conduct a security assessment of VPN by Google One. VPN by Google One is a service that increases connection security and privacy to end users…
DPU startup Fungible has been sold to Microsoft for $190 million after raising over $300 million in funding.
The little data that is coming out of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta looks awful, and that’s putting it mildly.
So early Black Friday sales happened last month and I picked up a Google Pixel 7 since my previous phone was nearing 6 years old and starting to…
Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. It allows you to work with multiple terminal sessions at once.
9 Best Ecommerce UX Practices
On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation.
Dual monitors using a laptop as a second display. This guide assumes that you are using a Debian based distro (X11 only). Both devices must be connected to the same network.
See except for the recent The Verge interview (see link in the comments) with Valve. >Griffais says the company is also directly paying more…
The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.
North Korean authorities warn the public against foreign shows, especially those from South Korea.
The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source.
A repository fully generated by ChatGPT making it believed it checked out a this repository which I described like the first line of the README. – GitHub – vrescobar/chatGPT-python-elm: A repositor…
As we continue down the road to Thunderbird for Android, here’s a preview of the redesigned, modernized message view.
Our most advanced and customizable Ledger yet, enjoy a curved E Ink touchscreen experience unlike ever before.
– The "large-v2" model is trained for more epochs with regularization and shows improved performance compared to the previous large.
A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM – GitHub – exaloop/codon: A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM
A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside Google Search results – GitHub – wong2/chat-gpt-google-extension: A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside Google Search r…
Carvana was once heralded as the future of the car-buying process, but its since run into serious issues as the world rebounds from the pandemic.
My first day DRIVING the Rivian Electric Delivery Vehicle!Iâll talk about all of the exciting new technology in these vans, how the EDV compares to Amazonâs …
The age of “boring AI” will be anything but
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block technology giant Microsoft Corp. from acquiring leading video game developer Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing. Contribute to getlago/lago development by creating an account on GitHub.
In a class-action lawsuit, customers say they were duped by Tesla’s $15,000 Full Self-Driving feature. Company lawyers say failure isn’t fraud.
MSN peddled a story about Grimes and Elon Musk based on a fake tweet. Now, as it turns out, that was only the tip of the iceberg.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
Leaking data of millions and taking over any account
Gig workers, waiters, salespeople and others who rely on fluctuating income may be paying for wage volatility with their health.
Fast-paced video tutorials and challenging projects for the modern app developer.
If you’re looking to get into animation as a career, you have less than 5 years.
Every desktop computer or mobile device comes with some form of “appstore”. There is F-Droid for Android. Debian has “software repositories”at its core. T…
Wasm powered Jupyter running in the browser 💡. Contribute to jupyterlite/jupyterlite development by creating an account on GitHub.
A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) and IBM today announced the decision to withdraw the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform.
Download Firefox Translations for Firefox. Translate websites in your browser, privately.
Using new techniques, every object in Conway’s Game of Life that can be constructed at all, now has a fixed cost of 15 gliders. Here’s how.
Rune is a programming language developed to test ideas for improving security and efficiency. – GitHub – google/rune: Rune is a programming language developed to test ideas for improving security a…
A C++ to Verilog translation tool with some basic guarantees that your code will work. – Metron/TemporalTLDR.md at master · aappleby/Metron
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
Most popular libraries can be sped up by avoiding unnecessary type conversions or by avoiding creating functions inside functions.
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
It’s been almost two years since my last update here. A lot has happened. I hope you all are continuing to weather the ongoing multiple global pandemics and other anthropogenic crises. Apolog…
The TSMC Arizona fab, opening in 2024, will feature a 4nm production line to help meet demand from its big US clients including Apple.
Most command line programs that offer line editing — like bash, Python, GDB, psql, sqlite and more — do so using GNU readline. Readline’s a powerful library that grants history, completion, movement and editing to programs that use it — and a stable and consistent set of keyboard shortcuts.
TWO West Dorset women have said they were visited by a police officer in an act of «intimidation» after raising questions regarding sewage pollution in local rivers and bathing waters with their MP. 
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