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
- Throwing 99 bottles (of OOP) in the trash
- Generate art from any text with deep learning
- Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
- Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt’s Big Treatise on AI Panned in Book Review
- U.S. prisons mull AI to analyze inmate phone calls
- 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?
- 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
- Thousands of Coinbase users now reporting they cannot access their funds
Woman computer scientist of the week
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
- 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
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
- addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired
- Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS
- Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
- 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
- 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
- First step in making programming easier is to be concious of what makes it hard
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
- How to Hack APIs in 2021
- Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading
- What I Learned About Productivity by Writing About Productivity
- Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack
- US to introduce bill to force app stores to allow alternate payment systems
- 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
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