Gooooooood morning, Society!!! 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
- Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
They force you to look at the world the way an AI does - The Mysterious Street Snack That Has Baffled Botanists for Decades
Even DNA tests have yet to confirm its identity. - Throwing 99 bottles (of OOP) in the trash
- Generate art from any text with deep learning
- Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
- Machine learning won’t solve natural language understanding
An argument that it is time to re-think our approach to natural language understanding, since the ‘big data’ approach to NLU is implausible and both technically and theoretically flawed.. - Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt’s Big Treatise on AI Panned in Book Review
- U.S. prisons mull AI to analyze inmate phone calls
- Single cortical neurons as deep as (5-8 layer) artificial neural networks
Utilizing recent advances in machine learning, we introduce a systematic approach to characterize neuronsâ input/output (I/O) mapping complexity. Deep⦠- Intro to Deep Learning
- I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death–so I had AI do it for me
Blockchain and decentralization
- Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic
- LightGBM vs. XGBoost: Which distributed version is faster?
- The Problem with Ethereum
How did Ethereum become a system that looks more like the current financial system than anything revolutionary and just? - Coinbase removes ‘backed by US dollars’ claim for USDC stablecoin
- Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks
- The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago
- Cuba’s Bitcoin Revolution
As political demonstrations show the world that Cubans are tired of dictatorship, Bitcoin is providing an option to peacefully protest and opt out of a broken system. - Thousands of Coinbase users now reporting they cannot access their funds
Woman computer scientist of the week
Dianne Prost O’Leary is an American mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns scientific computing, computational linear algebra, and the history of scientific computing. She is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is the author of the book Scientific Computing with Case Studies.
Cloud and architecture
- Apple’s New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable
- Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn
- Three Fundamental Flaws of SIMD
- Difficult math is about recognizing patterns
- Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users’ entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they are stored in the online iCloud service. - A novel approach to entity resolution using serverless technology
- MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3
- Apple drops Lawsuit against Corellium
- AWS recruiter doesn’t want to show what’s new out there
- YouTube deletes “lawsuit against vaccine passport” press conference video
- Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and Azure
- AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses
Tracking the history and size of AWS’s ip-ranges.json file – GitHub – seligman/aws-ip-ranges: Tracking the history and size of AWS’s ip-ranges.json file
Development and languages
- The unknown features of Python’s `operator` module
- Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
- Cleaning Up Git History
- Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
- Why most programming language performance comparisons are most likely wrong
- Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
Follows this logic for verifying a connection to Elasticsearch:
Before the first API request:Make an API request to /, inspect the response:
If call to / fails with 401 or 403 pass the check and … - Chatcontrol 2.0: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence in the EU
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
The EU decided to let providers search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The result: Mass surveillance by means of fu
- addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired
- Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway
Traccar SMS Gateway for Android. Contribute to traccar/traccar-sms-gateway development by creating an account on GitHub. - Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is in the public domain. — kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com (Prologue) BOOK I: GENESIS 1. Dark Satanic Mills (Interlude א: The Cracks In The Sky) 2. Arise To Spiritual Strife (Interlude ב: The Code of the … Continue reading → - Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS
- Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
- New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
The EU decided to let providers search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The result: Mass surveillance by means of fu
- Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art
- AllStar: Continuous Security Policy Enforcement for GitHub Projects
- Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
- Jackson structured programming
- Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series
- Git password authentication is shutting down
Git password authentication is shutting down - Unfuck: A utility for deobfuscating Python 2.7 bytecode
Python 2.7 bytecode d̶e̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r unfucker – GitHub – landaire/unfuck: Python 2.7 bytecode d̶e̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r unfucker - Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python
- The difference between a=a+b and a+=b in Python
- Cedro pre-processor
- Pythonic Monotonic
- How Google bought Android
- WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
? Compose Key for Windows. Contribute to samhocevar/wincompose development by creating an account on GitHub. - First step in making programming easier is to be concious of what makes it hard
- Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads
President Carlos Alvarado on Wednesday signed into law a project that seeks to attract remote workers to Costa Rica. - AVX512/VBMI2: A Programmer’s Perspective
- GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages
Quote of the week
The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.
— E. W. Dijkstra
Enterprises
- Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents
- After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him
Mustafa Suleyman is now just two steps away from CEO Sundar Pichai - Ex-Tesla Employee Called Racial Slur Wins Rare $1M Award
- Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”
- Screw You, Microsoft Edge
- Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
- Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money
Google employees based in the same office before the pandemic could see different changes in pay if they switch to working from home permanently, with long commuters hit harder, according to a company pay calculator seen by Reuters. - Gazing at the Mother Tongue: Analyzing Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm
- Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
- Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’ explaining work-from-home salary cuts
- Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
Next generation Intel C/C++ compilers are even better because they use the LLVM open source infrastructure. . I discuss what it means for users of the compilers, why we did it, and the bright future. - Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses
- Open Compute Project: An Interview with Intel’s Rebecca Weekly
- Twitter’s new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
- Google search led to arrest of cleared campaigner
- Activist raided by London police after downloading docs from Google
- Nvidia’s “Kitchen” Keynote was faked (rendered) and nobody noticed
Talk about a magic trick. One moment, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was holding forth from behind his sturdy kitchen counter. The next, the kitchen and everything in it slid away, leaving Huang alone with the audience and NVIDIA’s DGX Station A100, a glimpse at an alternate digital reality. For most, the metaverse is something seen Read article > - Tests Show All Driver Assist Systems Can Be Fooled, Not Just Tesla
- Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech
- A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA
- Amazon Installs Lockers on a Chicago Park’s Sidewalk
- Amazon will monitor workers’ keystrokes to ‘combat data theft’
Other news
- A woman who rifles through New York’s garbage – exposing the city’s excesses
- History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS
- Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
- Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck’s Linux OS
- Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials’ personal data
They describe themselves as “apolitical” hackers who want to end Belarus’ “terrorist” regime and ensure equal rights for all. But the actions of Cyberpartisans, a group of Belarusian hackers who claim to have secured access to the passport data of millions of Belarusians, raise questions about… - Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
- How to Hack APIs in 2021
- Why MapReduce is making a comeback
Traditional MapReduce is a «batch» processing framework, but what if we could adapt MapReduce to real time data processing? - Hackers steal over $600M, biggest in DeFi history
Hackers exploited Poly Network on DeFi exchanges Polygon, Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. Poly Network is a cross-chain protocol for swapping tokens across various blockchains. - Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading
- What I Learned About Productivity by Writing About Productivity
- An Old Hacker’s Tips on Staying Employed
#1: Don’t Be a Jerk. (That is just a bonus tip, in case you don’t want to read past the subtitle) - Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack
- US to introduce bill to force app stores to allow alternate payment systems
- Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M
In encoded messages, the hacker claimed to be «hacking for good.» - Demonstrating the Fundamentals of Quantum Error Correction
- Geometric Deep Learning Course: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
- Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux
- Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
- Machine Learning – A First Course for Engineers and Scientists
- Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
- Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control
- Hackers detail vulnerabilities at agtech giants John Deere, Case New Holland
- ‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online
- Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
In my lifetime I’ve tried a dozen todo apps. In the beginning they all seem different, novel and special
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades. One of these new-but-actually-old ideas is the idea of a mechanical bricklayer, a machine to automate the construction of masonry walls.
Environmentalists have criticised the gas-fired mine but the company says it offsets its emissions.
The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden’s infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem. This could…
With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Str…
The video conferencing firm denies wrongdoing, but has agreed to boost security measures.
Contribute to langjam/langjam development by creating an account on GitHub.
To my surprise, I recently found out about 2 new additions to the list of high-level commands: git restore and git switch
Simple python source refactoring toolkit based on AST – GitHub – isidentical/refactor: Simple python source refactoring toolkit based on AST
Better font rendering for Windows. Contribute to snowie2000/mactype development by creating an account on GitHub.
At the risk of alienating most of the readership of this magazine, here is a confession. I hated Python for a very long time. My issue was not with the language per se, even though the indentation …
→ Listen to this story on Racket. “You just learn one thing, and that’s the browser,” quipped Bill Gates while showcasing the then-upcoming Windows 98. The empire that Microsoft had built piecemeal—software languages here, DOS and Windows there, Office and a software ecosystem tying it all together—was suddenly
The non-profit defender of software freedom has raised questions about the fairness, legitimacy, and legality of GitHub’s AI-driven coding assistant. 
Some of the now deleted comments accused Microsoft of being tone-deaf, while others harshly criticized Windows 11’s controversial hardware requirements. The company now tries to get the displeased owners of incompatible hardware back under control.
Google’s common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. – libphonenumber/FALSEHOODS.md at master · google/libphonenumber
JSKIDPIX v1.0.2021
A rare tear-feeding moth discovered in Brazil could help explain the bizarre behavior and whether it harms the birds.
[German]Owners of Microsoft Office 2010 who are still using this package should realize that this product has not only fallen out of Microsoft support, but can also no longer be re-activated in case of a fresh install. Microsoft seems to refuses now to activate the product after a re-install, as I h
The large battery fire that started at Moorabool on Friday has been brought under control.
The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May. 
4,149 votes and 468 comments so far on Reddit
Some allegations potentially center around accessing Google user or employee data.
The Official U.S. House website of Congressman Mark Takano of California District 41
In this post I discuss how you can upgrade a NAS Server by adding Thunderbolt 3 for lightning fast connectivity at 20 or 40Gbps. This particular implementation is specific to an Apple Mac Mini M1 an
This school year, tens of thousands of college students in the US and Canada will enjoy the convenience of mobile student IDs in the Wallet app.
Shooting glass beads across the inside of a satellite could probe the limits of quantum wave behaviour. Here’s how.
Learn programming tools fast. Then remember them.
The Valley Village resident said she had gone to the 101 overpass on Gower Street to distribute sandwiches and water to people living at the encampment.
Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year.
We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce. Triton makes it possible to reach peak hardware performance with relatively little
University of Surrey professor secures landmark after the UK, Europe and the US refused applications
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year.
IBM announced IBM z/OS V2.5, the next-generation operating system (OS) for IBM Z, designed to accelerate client adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and drive application modernization projects.
If you are using Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) to access the AWS Management Console, web-based services such as Amazon Chime or Amazon Honeycode, or other parts of the AWS web site (AWS Documentation, AWS Marketing, AWS Marketplace, or AWS Support), it is time to upgrade to a more modern & secure browser such as […]
As JavaScript is getting more and more popular, teams are leveraging its support on many levels in their stack – front-end, back-end…
I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended I have read https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/…
Please provide the following information qBittorrent version and Operating System 4.3.3, Windows 10 20H2, What is the problem Windows Security / Virus & threat protection – blocks / removes exi…
A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint. – GitHub – amirgamil/apollo: A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint.
The git bisect command helps you identify the first commit in a range that broke something. You give it a good commit and a bad one, and it will do a binary search between the two to find the first bad commit. At each step, you say either git bisect …
Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) by 2025.
From time to time Microsoft decides to block or even silently drop emails that are sent by my selfhosted email server. It’s always a pain and takes a lot of effort to deal with it. This time I decided to…Read more ›
First things first: if you are interested in advertising on Techdirt in a non-intrusive, non-obnoxious way, please contact us. We’d love to work with you on cool, innovative advertising and sponsorship that engages, instead of annoys, our…
Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance types to favor those built on AWS Nitro System, and added “Networking” to the title. Let’s go back to the summer of 2006 and the launch of EC2. […]
A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over.
Language learning app Duolingo Inc (DUOL.O) notched a valuation of $6.5 billion after its shares surged nearly 40% in the company’s Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, becoming the latest education technology startup to impress Wall Street.
A few months ago, after finally having received the new disks for our new Ceph cluster, we decided to benchmark them, so we could tune our cluster to get the best performance out of it, but that’s a story for another time.
As part of this year’s DEFCON AI Village, we’re trying something radical by introducing the industry’s first algorithmic bias bounty competition. 
A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort. – GitHub – scandum/fluxsort: A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort.
The lie from ad tech is that there’s no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same.
Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a âspeech neuroprosthesisâ that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.
The fast galley probably sank during an earthquake in the 100s BCE.
Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as a learning project – GitHub – erikgrinaker/toydb: Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as a learning project
IPFS-Less IPFS
While working on taproot support for transactionfee.info, it became apparent that there already exist a few Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) outputs on mainnet. Anyone can spend these outputs, but they are non-standard and thus not relayed between nodes in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network. However, a mining pool can include non-standard transactions in their block. We cover the six P2TR outputs already present on mainnet and explain why the outputs can be spent by anyone before taproot activates.
Imagine a world in which nature is intertwined with the industrial: giant lotus flowers replace concrete skyscrapers; an urban forest forms a city constantly in shift through a tree’s life cycle. This is the imaginarium of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten. To discover his work is to fall under the spe
In the thirteen years since it was founded, Harvard University’s Nieman Lab has developed a reputation for thoughtful explorations of digital trends in journalism and incisive critiques of how reporters and editors go about their business. The Lab’s founder, Joshua Benton, and Harvard, are now facing scrutiny of their own. A former journalism professor has […]
A glimpse of the coming paradigm shift in how we do development
Making neural nets uncool again
Video editing with Python. Contribute to Zulko/moviepy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Two months ago my younger brother asked:-bhaiya I want to learn how to make a website, can you please help me.
Learn how to bring multithreaded applications written in other languages to WebAssembly.
In this blog post, Jean Yang talks about why there aren’t more «deep tech» developer tools startups. Jean debunks myths about lack of budget or developer buying power—and focuses on how we can all work together to use deeply technical solutions to solve major developer problems.
False MS Windows Defender positive of DeCSS DVD decryption software as a virus.
GitHubâs supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report & prevent vulnerabilities.
This is the story of how all non-admin users can read the registryâââand so elevate privileges and access sensitive credential informationâ¦
This weekend, Tesla started offering their long-awaited Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199/month. Along with the package, Tesla is offering a $1,500 hardware upgrade for early owners who have old hardware that is not capable of full self-driving tasks. The problem is, Tesla previously told those same owners that their cars were capable of full […]
The move comes as activist and media organizations publish new findings on the Israeli surveillance vendor.
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) plans to open its network of superchargers to other electric vehicles later this year, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Twitter.
Unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers
ESP32 IoT processor supports up to 8MB PSRAM which makes it just enough to run a minimal version of Linux. There’s little practical application for it,
Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. But the ugly truth…
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances – GitHub – microsoft/CBL-Mariner: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Hungarian targets include media owner Zoltán Varga and his acquaintances, the son and lawyer of former oligarch Lajos Simicska, and several investigative reporters.
Square now offers business banking for small businesses. ✓Manage Cash Flow ✓Checking & Savings Accounts ✓Small Business Loans
After a successful testnet deployement, the London upgrade is now ready to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet. It will go live on block 12 965 000, which is expected between August 3-5, 2021. Client Versions In order to be compatible with the London upgrade, node operators will need to…
We have a much better understanding of physics than we do of consciousness. I consider ways in which intrinsically mental aspects of fundamental ontology might induce modifications of the known laws …
As citizens around the world are confronted with the severe curtailment of political, economic and cultural freedoms associated with COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies (e.g., lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations and/or vaccine passports), new risks to economic freedom and prosperity are quickly emerging which citizens must be aware of and remain vigilant about. One of these risks which is developing with rapid pace are Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). According to a Bank of International S
Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Python for Excel is an O’Reilly book by Felix Zumstein.
? Hosting your own email forwarding service on AWS and manage it with Github Actions – edmundhung/maildog
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM. Contribute to diekmann/wasm-fizzbuzz development by creating an account on GitHub.
The release of GitHub Copilot raises questions about potential copyright infringement and license compliance issues.
The original source for Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker’s 1981 masterpiece “Defender” has been put on GitHub this week! The source code can be assembled into an executable that you c…
Sundar Pichai says AI will change the world – and defends Google’s record on tax, privacy and data.
This is what people are fighting for.
France’s antitrust watchdog slapped a 500 million euro ($593 million) fine on Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday for failing to comply with the regulator’s orders on how to conduct talks with the country’s news publishers in a row over copyright.
In the new report âThe Amazon Panopticon,â UNI Global Union catalogues the various methods Amazon uses to pile pressure on workers through extreme surveillance and monitoring.
12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, IoT for All! Contribute to microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners development by creating an account on GitHub.
Software engineer Manu Cornet says Google went from being like Disneyland to like any other profit-driven company. 
Intel Corp (INTC.O) is in talks to buy semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc for about $30 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools.
The Key Master game machine has been a target for years
To win first place at a hackathon, you need to combine multiple components… and that’s not always possible. Here’s how to make the most of your next hackathon without coming in ‘first place’.
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the social media platform.
Learn to overcome procrastination with 5 min videos, and go to bed happy
A recent lawsuit has prompted Sci-Hub to stop uploading new papers.
A private musing over an AI experiment gone wrong unexpectedly sparked off a culture and ethics debate in China.
Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia, and Aki Vehtari, a computer science professor at Finland’s Aalto University, recently published a list of the most important statistical ideas in the last 50 years. Here, they break it down in easy-to-understand terms.
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
A proposal to ban AI research by treating it like human-animal hybrids
Local Push
Neural network walking simulator. (GAN/ pix2pix)
â¦local South African tech writer Jan Vermeulen wrote an article on MyBroadband titled âMoving Bitcoin overseas from your wallet is aâ¦
Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns – jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension
Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more
Apple’s “iCloud Private Relay” breaks risk based authentication (RIBA). You should get rid of your RIBA process and start towards the passwordless journey.
Forensic Architecture’s Digital Violence investigation is a multidimensional study of the global use of the malware Pegasus made by Israeli cyber-surveillance company NSO Group.
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust + WebAssembly – Casey Primozic’s Blog
Your brain responds in a predictable way when it encounters new or difficult tasks. This unique book teaches you concrete techniques rooted in cognitive science that will improve the way you learn and think about code.
I have been trying to generate code with the help of GPT3 from few months now and recently got access to a better product called Github copilot.
GUI-based Python code generator. Contribute to visualpython/visualpython development by creating an account on GitHub.
magit for neovim. Contribute to TimUntersberger/neogit development by creating an account on GitHub.
Management of kernel extensions has changed significantly in Big Sur and later. This overview for users contrasts kexts with user-level extensions which are replacing them.
Microsoft on Tuesday issued an emergency software update to quash a security bug that’s been dubbed «PrintNightmare,» a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is actively being exploited. The fix comes a week ahead of Microsoft’s normal…
Simple Python Calculation Engine. Contribute to bsdz/calcengine development by creating an account on GitHub.
This is post # 35 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and…
Git repository with a commit for every single shorthash – not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash
For PowerTOP saving power on IA isn’t everything. It is the only thing! PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode where the user can experiment various power management settings for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled these settings. PowerTOP User’s Guide
Iron Finance, once a DeFi darling, went from billions to bust in a day. Should investors have seen the crash coming? How stable are algorithmic stablecoins?
The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to âproveâ that its product has a public benefit.
Unlocking knowledge, empowering minds. Free course notes, videos, instructor insights and more from MIT.
Interruptions are one of the biggest sources of inefficiency for programmers. Now, to be fair, they’re probably a big source of inefficiency for everyone, but relatively speaking, they’re worse for programmers. To understand what I mean, let’s take someone whose job is in sales. A lot of the day is probably spent on the phone […]
GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego said on Sunday his banking business may begin using bitcoin, becoming the country’s first bank to start accepting the cryptocurrency.
The price of SafeDollar (SDO), an algorithmic decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin based on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain.
The internet nowadays is ephemeral. Layers upon layers of trusted 3rd parties are necessary to distribute content online. It requires ongoing maintenance and is susceptible to censorship or hostile takedowns. In this blog post, I describe the steps I took to host my blog in a trustless, permanent, and censorship-resistant way using the IPFS network and Ethereum blockchain.
A comprehensive list of books on Software Architecture. – mhadidg/software-architecture-books
A fun and tricky JavaScript quiz
The Windows 11 announcement was fun and interesting, but there is a reason that Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft’s business.
Today, we’re announcing ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), a new way to build apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you’ll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally
Don’t do it like GitHub Copilot!
I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastinat…
Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw. But…
Windows 11 Home will now require both internet access and a Microsoft account in order to set up the PC. Nope.
Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM takeover via DHCP flood – gain root access by getting SSH keys added by google_guest_agent – irsl/gcp-dhcp-takeover-code-exec
Our Leadership Principles are more than inspirational wall hangings
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
The recent shutdown of two Amazon delivery companies in Portland appears to be the first public example in the United States of such companies using their leverage to protest against Amazon. 
Apple and Intel will be the first customers for TSMC’s 3nm process, reports the Nikkei, with Intel securing the higher volume. The process is due to enter
Dozens of minimal operating systems to learn x86 system programming. Tested on Ubuntu 17.10 host in QEMU 2.10 and real hardware. Userland cheat at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-modu…
These biohackers plan to give away their instructions for how to make insulin for free.
Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax starting later this year unless customers…