Gooooooood morning, Masses!!! 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
- Sam Altman: AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13.5K a year
- Gender, race, and entrepreneurship: A randomized field experiment on investors
- Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 1996 news article
- Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses
- How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person… - AI Can Generate Convincing Text–and Anyone Can Use It
- Quickdraw with Google AI
- Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robot for Warehouse Automation
- What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur
- Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
- Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out
- Why machine learning struggles with causality
- Errors in learning a foreign language, 2 years in
- Cells Form into ‘Xenobots’ on Their Own
- Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology
Blockchain and decentralization
- Exporting image assets from ethereum smart contract with solidity
- Bitcoin as a Battery
- Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink
In a recent blogpost, Nick Grossman explains how Bitcoin acts as a batteryâââmoving electricity across time and space, from where it can⦠- Tesla Wants Your Bitcoin Without the Downside
- Ray Dalio says the government could ban bitcoin
- Court Orders UK Man to Pay $571m for Operating Fraudulent Bitcoin Trading Scheme
- Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency
Visa Inc said on Monday it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of growing acceptance of digital currencies by the mainstream financial industry. - Ray Dalio: ‘Good probability’ the U.S. will outlaw Bitcoin
- Masks distributed in Canada with microscopic graphene potentially toxic
- The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban
- BundleWrap: Simple Decentralized Configuration Management
- Coinbase to Pay $6.5M for False, Misleading, or Inaccurate Reporting and Trading
- Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate
- Countries That Consumer More or Less Electricity Than Bitcoin in 2021
- New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets
- Goblins: A transactional, distributed actor model environment
- Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive
Amidst the speculative boom for NFTs and crypto-currencies, one decentralized technology foundation is taking the long view by investing in deep history and the far future. Today, the Filecoin Foundation announced a 50,000 FIL grant to the Internet Archive – the largest single donation in the digital library’s 25-year history. “Holy Crow! This is a big […] - Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery
Discovery may explain escape of Capt Henry Every after murderous raid on Indian emperor’s ship - Gridcoin: a simple investment thesis
Introduction - Coinbase to go public on 4/14
- Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file
Woman computer scientist of the week
Gillian Arnold is a British Information technology leader. She is a BCS Vice President and the Past Chair of the BCSWomen Specialist Group that supports women in the IT industry. In 2015, she was identified as the 9th Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015, by Computer Weekly. In 2016, Arnold was again identified as one of the 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016 by Computer Weekly.
Cloud and architecture
- Does Amazon make more from ads than AWS?
Does Amazon make more money from ads than AWS? Quite possibly. - A New Cloudflare Web Application Firewall in Rust
- Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade
- AWS CloudFormation Best Practices
- Azure is having DNS issues
- MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated
- VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust
Development and languages
- One Commander – a new Windows 10 file browser
- Many models workflows in Python: Part I
- I Hate Git Submodules
Spoiler alert. I do not hate submodules. I do how ever have an instant oh oh response when people mention they want to solve a problem with Git submodules. I think this comes from having most exper… - A digital logic designer and circuit simulator
- Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field
- PHP’s Git server compromised, moving to GitHub
- PHP Git server compromised and attacker added backdoors to PHP source code
- Europe’s Digital Decade: digital targets for 2030
- No one gives a sh*t what programming language you use
I’ve had it up to here (gestures at nose level) with the bullshit around programming language elitism. Back when I thought it mattered I was just as bad as the bullshit I’m seeing today… - Git’s commit workflow is backwards, and encourages bad habits
- Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub
- Git email flow vs. GitHub flow
- Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python
? Never use print() to debug again. Contribute to gruns/icecream development by creating an account on GitHub. - Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming
- Google collects 20X more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
Academic research published last week looked at the telemetry traffic sent by modern iOS and Android devices back to Apple and Google servers and found that Google collects around 20 times more telemetry data from Android devices than Apple from iOS. - C# 9 top-level programs and target-typed expressions
- What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove?
- Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes
Despite finding no specific examples, researchers have proved the existence of a pervasive kind of prime number so delicate that changing any of its infinite digits renders it composite. - Android’s new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust
- Google Play limiting Android 11 apps from seeing what’s installed on devices
- repokitteh.io – github workflow automation using starlark
- Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
Windows 95 was the ânext generationâ OS from Microsoft: redesigned UI, long file names support, 32-bit apps and many other changes. Some⦠- Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Programming Language
- GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure
Code-hosting service GitHub is actively investigating a series of attacks against its cloud infrastructure that allowed cybercriminals to implant and abuse the company’s servers for illicit crypto-mining operations, a spokesperson told The Record today. - Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android
- Most loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns
Quote of the week
If we’d asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said “faster horses”
— Henry Ford
Enterprises
- Intel’s Ponte Vecchio Xe-HPC GPU Boasts 100B Transistors
Intel gives a glimpse on Ponte Vecchio’s AI performance. - Amazon driver quits over AI-powered safety cameras in delivery vehicles
- 68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News
- Topfew and Amdahl
- Tesla’s EPA Driving Ranges Didn’t Hold Up to Testing. Twice
- Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona
- Stuck Suez cargo ship in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will - Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in union vote
- ‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
It comes after Amazon’s official accounts hit back at criticism of the company. - Intel Rocket Lake (14nm) Review: Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K, Core i5-11600K
- Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsrs
- Deliveroo shares drop 30% on UK IPO listing
Deliveroo shares close well below their expected price after big investors’ attitude to company soured. - Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Banned from Stripe
- Taking on Google
- Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’
- Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets
- Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
Here’s a snapshot of how we’re using AI to make Maps work better for you with a number of updates coming this year. - Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work
- The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest
- Microsoft Teams and Xbox Live were down for over two hours but have recovered
- An insider-trading indictment shows ties to Bloomberg News scoops
For more than six months, federal prosecutors say, a New York man used inside information to make illegal profits in the stock market—and a core element of his alleged scheme was his interaction with Bloomberg News, which published several stories shortly after the trader arranged to make significant purchases of the companies’ shares. Last month, […]
- Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
Other news
- English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master
- A simple program reducer for any language
- Why don’t companies pay 50x engineers 50x?
“In software, the difference between the average software developer and the best is 50:1; Maybe even 100:1.” Steve Jobs . The Best v.s The Average If you’re a software engineer, you would probably … - Learned to code during lockdown and built a Rotten Tomatoes for tech
- A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style
- Formal Methods of Software Design an Online Course by Eric Hehner
- The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks
Alan Jacobs on Iain M. Banks’s «Culture» novels and the price of bliss. - No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server
- Where to go to learn Rust in 2021
- Zoom will pay zero federal taxes due to tax credits from previous years
- What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging?
- Amazon Security Staff Reported Its Own Tweets as “Suspicious,” Fearing Hack
âThese tweets are unnecessarily antagonistic (risking Amazonâs brand), and may be a result of unauthorized access,â read an employee help ticket. - A statx(2) Linux system Python wrapper
- The end of TenFourFox and what I’ve learned from it
- What I learned living in a trailer in the Utah desert for two decades
- FTC to close down mobile banking app Beam
- Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”
- Oscillator Bank / Spectral Synthesizer driven by graphics data
- PayPal launches crypto checkout service
PayPal Holdings Inc will announce later on Tuesday that it has started allowing U.S. consumers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay at millions of its online merchants globally, a move that could significantly boost use of digital assets in everyday commerce. - How the United States Lost to Hackers
- As Bad Information Spreads, Florida Schools Seek to Teach ‘Digital Literacy’
- UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview – akavel/up - India freezes ByteDance bank accounts
- Latest T2 Linux on an 486 with Just 32MiB RAM
- Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust
The final reports on the testings of the «impossible engine» EmDrive show that it does not produce the previously claimed thrust. - Security Breach at US Universities
- Pro¹X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
- Hacker Exploits Bugs in Original ‘Doom’ Code to Run ‘Snake’ Inside the Game
- Oracle Cloud to Acquire Linux Kernel Technology eBPF
- Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard
never leave the comfort of your home row again - Fatal Error Inspired a Plan to Reduce Friendly Fire – Military Isn’t Interested
- Are Hackers the New Luddites?
‘To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.’ Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought. - What Kind of Genius Makes a Traceable, Illicit Payment on Cash App?
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when they are logged out of the social media platform.
GitLab is building Heroku for production apps in hyper clouds, integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.
Go is one of the most prominent general-purpose programming languages nowadays. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Adobe, to name a few, have been using the language extensively. It’s the language of choice behind multiple cloud computing projects such as Kubernetes, and it’s steadily expanding towards numerous areas of software development. In this article, you’ll find resources to learn about Go and its ecosystem.
The Python Package Index is now a GitHub secret scanning integrator
Qualcomm ended support for the phone after Android 6, but Fairphone is still going. 
In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a
Has the addon been removed from the webstore? The URL listed here is responding with a 404 error. It's not coming up in search either. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanj…
New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote with the right strategy, the right tactics, and most importantly, the right spirit to return Intel to success.
The firm now aims to supply others with processors made in factories based in the US and Europe.
If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.
A website made by the Knuckleheads’ Club to remember Google Reader, an old friend that was taken from us too soon.
A decision to shut down exploits being used by «friendly» hackers has caused controversy inside the company’s security teams.
Estimated dispatch in late April 2021 BODY Dimensions: 160.5mm x 76.6mm x 9.2mm Weight: 185 grams Build: Plastic Colour: Black SIM: Micro-SIM DISPLAY Type: HD IPS capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size: 5.95 inches Resolution: 1440×720 pixels, 18:9 ratio PLATFORM OS: Manjaro with Plasma Mobile OS build Chipset: Allwinner A64 CPU: 64-bit Quad-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A-53 GPU: MALI-400MP2 MEMORY Internal Flash Memory: 16GB eMMC System Memory: 2GB LPDDR3 SDRAM Expansion: micro SD Card support SDHC and SDXC, up to 2TB CAMERA Main Camera: Single 5MP, 1/4″, LED Flash Selfie Camera: Single 2MP
The community around Linux phones is interesting. The phones do sell to a lot of people, but it seems a lot of those people come back to complain that Linux phones isn’t what they expected it is. For some reason all the distributions for the PinePhone are bending over backwards
The mere presence of your phone or apps like Gmail, Slack, and iMessage can decrease your ability to focus even when they don’t actually distract you.
According to RSF’s measures, world press freedom improved very slightly in 2019. However, the Covid-19 pandemic highlights and amplifies the multiple crises that threaten the right to free, independent, pluralistic and reliable information.
Abolishing platform immunity won’t do what anyone wants
Zoom Escaper is a simple tool to help you escape Zoom meetings and other videoconferencing scenarios. It allows you to self-sabotage your audio stream, making your presence unbearable to others.
How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah’s Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Disregarding all of bitcoin’s shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won’t change the world for the better.
Plus! Security; Different Abstractions; Facebook Futurism; SPAC Apathy
India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class.
India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, fining anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets, a senior government official told Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class.
A German man lost 10 Bitcoin to so-called giveaway scammers on Twitter and experts say scams are rising.
Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit. Contribute to Defi-Cartel/salmonella development by creating an account on GitHub.
Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C# – Ryujinx/Ryujinx
Context
WireGuard probably won’t make it into 13.0-RELEASE, but 13.1 seems very likely.
GitHub has done a lot of work in the last six months to improve performance for large monorepos.
Tech industry be whilin.
A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-… stuff. – adamsitnik/awesome-dot-ne…
Q&A interview with John Kozubik, CEO, rsync.net.
ARKâs 2025 price target for Tesla is $3,000. ARKâs bear and bull case suggest it could be worth $1,500 and $4,000 per share, respectively.
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write code to […]
An indie maker’s journey to ramen profitability
#Tusky has been removed from the PlayStore by Google
A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.
Twitter announces call for public input on approach to world leaders.
If you think we’re anywhere near fully autonomous cars, this video might convince you otherwise. 
Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. – harporoeder/ebpfsnitch
First Digital Bank, the first new bank in Israel since 1978, started operations on Sunday on a trial basis, and said it planned to open to the public later in 2021.
Just the first improv game site.
A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages.
The best of Coursera found from analyzing all discussions on Reddit that mention any Coursera course.
Biologists have long held that a fetus needs a living uterus to develop. Maybe not anymore.
Surveys and a field experiment with Twitter users show that prompting people to think about the accuracy of news sources increases the quality of the news that they share online.
Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine. – Overv/outrun
First-year analysts have reported 95-hour working weeks plus poor physical and mental health.
A Vancouver woman who lost her phone in Harrison Lake in September is shocked and surprised that not only has it been recovered from the lake bottom, but that it still works.
How can we build machines with human-level intelligence? There’s a limit to how far the field of AI can go with supervised learning alone. Here’s why self-supervised learning is one of the most promising ways to make significant progress in AI.
The most expensive version of Conway’s Game of Life – running on the Ethereum Blockchain – nialloc/GameOfLife
The average energy consumption for one single Bitcoin transaction in 2020 was 741 kilowatt-hours.
The Bitcoin network may consume as much energy as all data centers globally, with an associated carbon footprint the size of London.
In this blog, I will show you how to use WebSockets support to build a fleet of serverless containers that make up a chatroom server that can scale a high number of concurrent connections (250,000 clients). 
A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors.
Here’s what we’ve learnt about networks and the routers that interconnect them in the last 50 years.
Dolt – It’s Git for Data. Contribute to dolthub/dolt development by creating an account on GitHub.
Can you beat 1024 bytes of JavaScript?
Apple is unveiling a multiyear programming partnership with women’s rights activist and youngest Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android
On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.
The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. – mortdeus/legacy-cc
A digital-only artwork by the American artist Beeple sold for $69,346,250 at auction at Christie’s on Thursday,
raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
Simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. – plausible/analytics
Google staff in the US who complain over racism were advised to take mental health leave, NBC reports.
Neeva is currently in beta with several thousand users.
Consumer group Which? staged a sting operation to investigate fake Google reviews in the UK.
The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.
Open-source enterprise software company SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering in a deal that may value the private equity-backed company with German roots at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), people close to the matter said.
In the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been breached by a hacker earlier this week. 
Introduction | The Mathematical Engineering of Deep Learning
A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.
Based on ultra low power STM32 MCU for daily hacking of access control systems, radio protocols. Compatible with Arduino IDE and PlatformIO.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows. Contribute to rbreaves/kinto development by creating an account on GitHub.
CBD normalizes levels and function of two proteins – TREM2 and IL-33 – key to reducing the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and improves cognition as it also reduces levels of the immune protein IL-6, associated with the high inflammation levels found in the di
In this work, we presented a simple experimental framework for interrogating purported measures of generalization.
We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually.
Could the cryptocurrency’s huge electricity consumption also sink it?
About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of… | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.
Since the start of the year, the AWS Rust team has been drafting our charter and tenets. Charters and tenets are the framework AWS teams use to define our scope and priorities. The charter tells you what the team does, and the tenets tell you how the team will do it. Since one of our […]
Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning. Contribute to BillDietrich/fake_contacts development by creating an account on GitHub.
Simple and reliable optimization with local, global, population-based and sequential techniques in numerical discrete search spaces. – SimonBlanke/Gradient-Free-Optimizers
A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm – McYoloSwagHam/win3wm
Cosmopolitan build, single file that supports 6 operating systems!
My journey from not liking TypeScript to loving it
Power Fx low-code programming language. Contribute to microsoft/Power-Fx development by creating an account on GitHub.
The ubiquitous IEEE floating-point standard defines two numbers to represent zero, the positive and the negative zeros. You also have the positive and negative infinity. If you compute the inverse of the positive zero, you get the positive infinity. If you compute the inverse of the negative zero, you get the negative infinity. It seems … Continue reading How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?
The U.S. government has asked Google to fork over granular data on how its search engine works and is monetized, seeking to prove that the internet giant is a monopoly.
The Final Report VIEW THE INTERACTIVE REPORT DOWNLOAD THE PDF REPORT VIEW PREVIOUS EVENTS The mandate of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s (NSCAI) is to make recommendations to […]
Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
The Alphabet company said that it plans next year to stop using or investing in tracking technologies that uniquely identify web users as they move from site to site across the internet.
Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search.
Payments giant PayPal is considering to acquire startup Curv, which offers secure storage for cryptocurrencies, for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Okta, whose software allows office workers to access their apps through a secure service, is buying one of its top competitors. 
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web…
Banned.h – deprecated C runtime functions. Contribute to x509cert/banned development by creating an account on GitHub.
PyTorch 1.8.0 Release Notes
Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like A Boss – jopohl/urh
The largest and oldest electric power cooperative in Texas filed for bankruptcy protection in Houston on Monday, citing a disputed $1.8 billion debt to the state’s grid operator.
Let’s sudo by face recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs on both WSL 1 and WSL 2. This is a PAM module for Linux on WSL. – nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo
Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs
Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
tl;dr: be very careful when using AWS. Their UX can be highly inaccurate and it might cost you money. If it does, donât expect any supportâ¦
We are reaching another milestone with ProtonDB: we are very close to 7000 Windows games confirmed to be working out of the box with Proton on Linux. The charts says it all: Proton has been receiving many updates in the… 
At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The espionage group is exploiting…
Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, I have created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors. For this project, I have transformed, or restored (cracks, noses, ears etc.) almost a thousand images of busts to make…
Photographer Jomppe Vaarakallio has been a professional retoucher for 30 years, but he’s never seen anything quite like this before. While working on an
A bridge that was supposed to take a year is incomplete after four, partly because of corrosion and other problems involving California’s high-speed-rail contractors.
The latest Flight Simulator title promises a near-perfect replica of the entire world.
Everyone has an opinion when it comes to the stunning results of DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials, now hear what the skipper of a fighter squadron thinks.
The latest from the forefront of neural engineering.
This Friday, Elon Musk’s secretive brain-implants startup Neuralink will give the first major update on its progress in more than a year.
As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of hosts running containers with […]
A library to train large neural networks across the internet. Imagine training one huge transformer on thousands of computers from universities, companies, and volunteers.
A perceptron written in COBOL. Contribute to victorqribeiro/perceptronCobol development by creating an account on GitHub.
A tool for creating new color shades based on a neural network and trained with the Tailwindcss palette.
Contribute to Dhghomon/programming_at_40 development by creating an account on GitHub.
LinkedIn Ads are awash in mistaken clicks and bot traffic that make the platform’s value extremely dubious, according to a new study from RMG.
A surveillance-friendly choice.
Do not get arrested challenge 2020
AI researchers have improved the performance of deep neural networks by combining feature normalization and feature attention into a single module.
Swift for TensorFlow gives you the power of TensorFlow directly integrated into the Swift programming language.
As the population increasingly moves towards tech jobs, there’s now a shortage of coconut harvesters in India. That’s why scientists there have built a tree-climbing coconut-harvesting robot, that could perhaps someday take up the slack.
Scientists have found a potent chemical that might give Australian giant stinging trees their extraordinarily painful punch.
a delightful machine learning tool that allows you to train, test and use models without writing code – nidhaloff/igel
Modern technology has enabled the development and deployment of the pervasive and precise surveillance that may be slipping out of the control of the public.
Brief summary of our GPT-3 chat bot for SaaS product sales.
This isn’t the first time America’s schoolchildren have studied remotely – and Chicago’s 1937 ‘radio school’ experiment shows how technology can fill the gap during a crisis.
A team of scientists at LMU Munich have developed Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), a deep-learning training technique for natural language processing (NLP) models. Using PET, the team trained a Transformer NLP model with 223M parameters that out-performed the 175B-parameter GPT-3 by over 3 percentage points on the SuperGLUE benchmark.
A data warehouse is an input to the Feature Store. A data warehouse is a single columnar database, while a feature store is implemented as two databases.
Guitar plugin made with JUCE that uses neural network models to emulate real world hardware. – GuitarML/SmartGuitarAmp
Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control over many Internet servers Trickbot uses to plunder infected systems, based on novel claims that…
Lenire® is a breakthrough evidence-based tinnitus treatment from Neuromod, based on the science of neuromodulation.
Hello! ? My name is Jen and I’m the founder, engineer, designer and customer support at Lunch Money, a personal finance and budgeting web app.
Personal websites are usually like old books in a shelf. They languish, accumulate dust, and their wrinkles and cracks become more apparent over time. About 3 years ago I embarked on a simple experiment that would end up prolonging the shelf-life of my website by an unusually large margin. Back in 2017, it seemed like […]
Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
Download the free, easy to use app that helps you train custom machine learning models and ship them in your app.
The company failed to notify tens of thousands of customers that blackouts were imminent.
These findings suggest that IF may increase hippocampal neurogenesis involving the Notch 1 pathway.
In physics, it’s often possible to describe a process accurately with comparatively little data. In the world of business and human behavior however, that’s rarely the case. Pretending that’s not true leads to inaccurate models with little predictive power.
Follow these roadmaps to become an Artificial Intelligence expert.
New technologies and organizations will give soldiers an edge, Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe said, but tanks and foot troops will still face brutal close combat.
I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it’s become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I’m now working at VisioStack and starting a master’s i…
In his talk, The Future of Mathematics, Dr. Kevin Buzzard states that Lean is the only existing proof assistant suitable for formalizing all of math. In the Q&A part of the talk (at 1:00:00) he 
With the benefit of hindsight, this was a naïve question: Alright clever IoT folks, I've got two of these garage door openers, what do you reckon the best way of connecting them with Apple HomeKit is? https://t.co/i0RmjSMkkD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 25, 2020 In
What makes a spaced repetition system so effective and how utilizing the method with the best spaced repetition apps will help you to memorize more effectively.
A broad overview of the sub-field of machine learning interpretability; conceptual frameworks, existing research, and future directions.
More than 1,000 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias
See ROS 2 Nav2 up and running on the sub-$100 low cost Hadabot Turtle robot.
Eurythmics; Take That; Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado, Soshy
Crops will grow in stacks 14 layers high and will use more than 20,000 LED lights. Robots on wheels will deliver seeds to the growing shelves.
A complete guide to building end-to-end machine learning pipelines, from training to deployment, with Metaflow and Cortex
Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a «sensitive topics» review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and…
Plenty’s vertical farm in San Fransisco uses 99% less land, 95% less water, recycled plastic packaging, and is powered by renewable energy.
Jim Keller, a prominent computing chip architect who left Intel Corp last year, has joined a Toronto-based startup developing artificial intelligence chips.
Mission: To curate and create resources for practitioners to design, develop, deploy, and maintain ML applications at scale to drive measurable positive business impact.
Last time, we briefly mentioned the high-level differences between Stockfish and Leela Chess. To recap, Stockfish evaluates about 100 million positions per second using rudimentary heuristics, wher…
The bureaucrats are running the asylum
Stale Bot’s are a type of automated bot on Github, which locks issues which are “stale” (as in have no recent activity). This seems like a helpful tool at first, but in reality it’s terrible for all p
The inquiry into the actions of Margaret Mitchell follows the ouster last year of Timnit Gebru.
Such accounts can distort online conversations and potentially diminish support for climate policies
All you need to know about Machine Learning in a hundred pages. Supervised and unsupervised learning, support vector machines, neural networks, ensemble methods, gradient descent, cluster analysis and dimensionality reduction, autoencoders and transfer learning, feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning! Math, intuition, illustrations, all in just a hundred pages!
? Build your own (insert technology here). Contribute to danistefanovic/build-your-own-x development by creating an account on GitHub.
Algorithm named after mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan suggests interesting formulae, some of which are difficult to prove true.
Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. 100% self-hosted, no limits, no ties to proprietary services. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.
Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting.
Can the new M1 Macbooks handle deep learning tasks? How do they compare to a free GPU environment on Google Colab? Read to find out.
Thoughts on Ruby from the point of view of a Pythonista, brought to you by Workpath, the strategy execution platform.
Researchers at Google Brain have open-sourced the Switch Transformer, a natural-language processing (NLP) AI model. The model scales up to 1.6T parameters and improves training time up to 7x compared to the T5 NLP model, with comparable accuracy.
The firing follows the controversial ouster of Timnit Gebru.
Critics of AI risk suggest diminishing returns to computing (formalized asymptotically) means AI will be weak; this argument relies on a large number of questionable premises and ignoring additional resources, constant factors, and nonlinear returns to small intelligence advantages, and is highly unlikely.
A new study of urban raptors reveals their close attention to human behavior, even during a pandemic.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has reportedly filed a patent for a blockchain-based mail-in voting system. Following President Donald Trump’s conclusion that mail-in voting would represent ballots all over the place and fraudulent ballots would be named after dogs and dead people, the patent that was filed back in February 2020 was made public …
Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.
A horror story.
Here we go again
Today, a patent involving the acceleration of cryptographic operations on elliptic curves expired.
A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
Coinbase is offering a package for employees seeking an exit after the release of a blog post from its CEO.
The European Commission is considering proposing a law to start phasing out the small 1 and 2 Eurocent coins, and round prices off to the nearest 5 cents. On Monday, the Commission opened a 15-week pu
Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
Attorney General William P. Barr announced today the release of “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework,” a publication produced by the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force. The Framework provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging threats and enforcement challenges associated with the increasing prevalence and use of cryptocurrency; details the important relationships that the Department of Justice has built with regulatory and enforcement partners both within the United States government and around the world; and outlines the Department’s response strategies. 
PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other virtual coins using the U.S. digital payments company’s online wallets.
After two years of dedicated engineering and user feedback, TimescaleDB 2.0 is finally here, setting a new bar for time-series databases – and it’s completely free.
The shift to working from home has mostly been positive for knowledge workers, but the challenges reveal a $1.2 trillion opportunity.
Speculation kicked off after someone moved the huge sum on Tuesday, and now we know who it was: the U.S. government.
Etherify – bringing the ether back to ethernet. Contribute to sq5bpf/etherify development by creating an account on GitHub.
Overwhelming evidence shows that blockchain/cryptocurrency space is almost entirely fraudulent
As Bitcoin nears $20k, we see a surge in Bitcoin addresses being created. Read on to see what this means for the furture of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin.
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of financial data provider S&P Global Inc, said on Thursday that it will launch cryptocurrency indices in 2021, making it the latest major finance company to enter the nascent asset class.
Why I have stopped working with IPFS and the distributed web
EFFORCE is the first platform that allows contributors to benefit from the energy savings generated by energy efficiency projects worldwide.
His ALOHAnet, designed a half-century ago in Hawaii, was a precursor to the technology used in today’s smartphones and home WiFi networks.
MicroStrategy is using debt to buy Bitcoin. Their investors hated the idea when it was announced this week, but they’re missing important context.
The company is awaiting a lawsuit from the U.S. securities regulator over its digital token, XRP.
XRP, the cryptocurrency created by Ripple in 2012, has the crypto industry’s third-largest market cap.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc said on Monday it would suspend trading in cryptocurrency XRP after U.S. regulators last week charged associated blockchain firm Ripple with conducting a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering.
As parts of the Twitter application grow, we can scale demands on capacity by adding more instances or replicas to a respective service cluster (i.e., horizontal scaling)
This is an excuse to have a blog post on the economics of Bitcoin to refer people to. Intended Audience: Laypersons interested or confused about Bitcoin. Reading Time: 15min Disclaimer: I moved to …
A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines. Used in production at comma.ai – geohot/minikeyvalue
I just got done with this incredible experiment, and I couldn’t resist sharing. **EDIT: VIDEO!!!**…
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
Bitcoin is a power-hungry cryptocurrency that is increasingly used as an investment and payment system. Here we show that projected Bitcoin usage, should it follow the rate of adoption of other broadly adopted technologies, could alone produce enough CO2 emissions to push warming above 2 °C within less than three decades.
Put a price on economic stability and the economic freedom a stable monetary system provides; that is the true justification for the amount of energy bitcoin should and will consume.
Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust, and powered by Apache Arrow. – ballista-compute/ballista
Over the past several months, the Brave team has been working with Protocol Labs on adding InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) support in Brave. This is the first deep integration of its kind and we’re very proud to outline how it works in this post.
The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite – rqlite/rqlite
Reserve is a stable global currency (a stablecoin) and a digital payment system for people and businesses in countries with high inflation.
Visa CEO Al Kelly said the payments giant is in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful and applicable.”
IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing, according to four people familiar with the situation.
Mastercard Inc said on Wednesday it was planning to offer support for some cryptocurrencies on its network this year, joining a string of big-ticket firms that have pledged similar support.
This is the 6th post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series.
Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving.
Ethereum isn’t fun anymore. There I said it. And although, the last time I developed an app using it has been more than a year ago, I stand by my word. Developing dapps on Ethereum has become a
With bond yields near zero and pressure on policy makers to diminish the value of fiat currencies, investors are increasingly looking for alternative storeholds of wealth. Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, has received a lot of attention as a potential candidate especially with its recent…
TL;DR: It’s possible to mine Ethereum on a M1 Mac GPU. Hashrate is about 2Mh/s. Mining on a M1 Mac I’ve had my M1 MacBook Air for a bit of time now, and I also recently started mining E…
Canon USA was allegedly subject to a hacker attack with 10TB of data stolen – now 5% of that data has been leaked
Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises
Note: The vulnerabilities that are discussed in this post were patched quickly and properly by Google. We support responsible disclosure. The research that resulted in this post was done by me and …
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services. Today, ACK is available as a developer preview on GitHub. In this post we will give you a brief introduction to the […]
A drug called ketamine that’s injected as a sedative during arrests has drawn new scrutiny since a young Black man named Elijah McClain died in suburban Denver
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
Cloudflare now populating and using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in its content distribution network application Cloudflare and the Internet Archive are now working together to help make the web more reliable. Websites that enable Cloudflare’s Always Online service will now have their content automatically archived, and if by chance the original host is not […]
the journey to create the AWS Nitro System and what the result has meant for our customers.
We’re excited to announce an update to the Timescale License that provides expanded rights to our users. Learn how (and why) we’re making all of our features 100% free and investing in our community – while still building a sustainable open-source business.
Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound – ggerganov/wave-share
It has been over a year since I cancelled my Cloudflare account. They keep emailing me and haven’t taken me off their marketing lists despite repeated requests. Their CTO told me he would inv…
This is the SaaS website content you need to close more sales, based on online searches of 1,000s of SaaS buyers.
Today we are announcing Diagram Maker, an open source graphical user interface library for IoT application developers. With Diagram Maker, IoT application developers can define their own user interface and user experience, or suppress it completely and build their own custom behavior using Diagram Maker APIs. In this post, we explain how IoT application developers […]
Canny recently hit a major milestone: one million dollars in annual recurring revenue. Here’s how we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup from the ground up.
International Business Machines Corp is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world’s first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing.
With cloud companies booming during the pandemic, one of the category’s recent public-company success stories is set to make a splash by spending billions to acquire one of its up-and-comers.
Are traditional servers dead? Far from it. This article looks at why, despite serverless models finding great utility in specific circumstances, there’s a barrier to more widespread adoption.
Circuit Breaker, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Sidecar, Backend-for-Frontend, and Strangler
Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! ??. Contribute to charmbracelet/glow development by creating an account on GitHub.
Five years ago, if you were building a system, it was a result of the code you wrote. Now, it’s built around the data that is fed into that system. And a new class of tools and technologies have emerged to process data for both analytics and operational AI/ ML.
Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, youâll quickly see that AWS has a massive asset
Cloudflare Analytics is a brand new player on the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative market. Here’s my Cloudflare Analytics review.
In this post from Transcend’s engineering team, learn how to add zero trust security to your AWS application boundaries.
Learn how to scrape webpages using Puppeteer and Serverless Functions built with OpenFaaS.
How and why we took the ideas behind Microservices too far and what to do about it.
We spent a few days removing all the cookies from our homepage, here’s what we changed.
In many aspects of our lives, we rely on those in positions of power to lead us. The role of leaders becomes especially salient in times of uncertainty.
Learn more about AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to prepare data for analytics and machine learning.
Read how Linc is one of the first products worldwide to use Cloudflare’s new serverless real-time data platform.
Serverless is like a black hole. It promised exciting adventures, but the gravity sucked me in and I spend most of my efforts dealing with its complexity, in…
HopsFS-S3: cloud-native distributed hierarchical file system that has the same cost as S3, but has 100X the performance of S3 for file move/rename operations.
One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see […]
Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it answered “PENTAGON […]
With AWS Lambda, you pay only for what you use. You are charged based on the number of requests for your functions and the time your code executes.
“The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just inertia. Developers might say they prefer to run PostgreSQL to proprietary alternatives (and they do), but enterprises have spent years building data models in Microsoft […]
Amazon S3 delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications for any storage request, without changes to performance or availability, without sacrificing regional isolation for applications, and at no additional cost.
Confirmed: EKS Anywhere will support workloads on Azure and GCP. As predicted: AWS hearts multi-cloud. Forrest Brazeal @re:Invent 2020
The Google Cloud Console UI is a large JavaScript application. This article investigates how it could be sped up.
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics — even without changing your DNS settings.
No matter how much automation you have built, no matter how great you are at practicing Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and no matter how successfully you have transitioned from pets to cattle, you sometimes need to interact with your AWS resources at the command line. You might need to check or adjust a configuration file, […]
Run controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS to improve application performance, resiliency, and availability with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
A set of SaaS/Subscription metrics, what they measure, and some easy tips and tricks for how to pull this data out of your existing tech stack!
Today Blender Foundation announced that AWS has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development and innovation for Blender.
Proton’s innovation is that it builds explicit assumptions about your organization into its technical design.
DIY Django + React Boilerplate for starting your SaaS – saasitive/django-react-boilerplate
In this article, we take a quick look at how Amazon AWS added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 using a Nitro controller
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday dismissed Apple Inc’s copyright infringement claims against a Florida startup whose software helps security researchers find vulnerabilities in Apple products including the iPhone.
AWS Lambda using Terraform., an Introductory Cookbook – nsriram/lambda-the-terraform-way
A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.
A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community.
Now in its third year, the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs compares AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) to tell realistic performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.
Serverless SQL application
Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). Instead, new versions of the software will be offered under the Elastic License (which limits how it can be used) or the Server Side Public License (which […]
ownCloud Infinite Scale is a new ownCloud product, based on ten years of experience in enterprise sync and share. It is written in Go.
With the second gen of Graviton2 instances announced, we decided to take a look at the price/performance from the standpoint of running PostgreSQL.
TL;DR The Jitsi team at 8×8 are proud to announce the brand new and awesome Jitsi as a Service: world’s easiest way to embed video meetings in your apps and websites! All the power of […]
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Stock trading app Robinhood has been hit with a class-action lawsuit after halting trades on GameStop, other stocks it says are «volatile.»
Robinhood Markets Inc’s user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers after it blocked a frenzied trading rally in companies such as GameStop Corp that was fueled on social media forums.
An illustrated guide to the often-humble final resting places of famous architects, from Alvar Aalto to Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
An experimental Rust compiler front-end for IDEs. Contribute to rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.
AWS Cheat Sheets
Generate a basic IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring (CSM) – iann0036/iamlive
Paweł Urbanek – Full Stack Ruby on Rails web developer and consultant, specializing in performance tuning. Experienced in building scalable APIs for startups and refactoring legacy codebases. Blogging about web development related topics.
Amazon’s AWS cloud unit had an excellent year with revenue of $45.4B, but Microsoft blew past that w/ 2020 commercial cloud revenue of $59.5B.
Google Cloud Platform billing and payments.
Nextcloud is the most deployed on-premises file share and collaboration platform. Access & collaborate across your devices. Your data remains under your control.
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
Kevin is working on creating better tools for thought
MicroPython is a lean and efficient
The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
A Squeak/Smalltalk VM and Polyglot Programming Environment for the GraalVM. – hpi-swa/trufflesqueak
Samsung will now support select Galaxy devices for 3 generations of Android OS upgrades
Learn the basics of WebAssembly through code examples and try different ways to compile C and Rust programs for the browser with the help of Docker image from Evil Martians.
Python library for converting Python calculations into rendered latex. – connorferster/handcalcs
An interactive learning platform to teach the Ada and SPARK programming languages.
An experimental interactive README experience! Contribute to veggiedefender/typing development by creating an account on GitHub.
A look at the monthly costs of running a webapp on DigitOcean
Geometric Algebra for Python. Contribute to pygae/clifford development by creating an account on GitHub.
AirMessage enables iMessage on your Android phone, Windows PC, Linux computer, or Chromebook.
Utility function to parallelise pipelines of Python asyncio iterators/generators – michalc/asyncio-buffered-pipeline
Ultimate Python study guide for newcomers and professionals alike. :snake: :snake: :snake: – huangsam/ultimate-python
? Falsehoods Programmers Believe in. Contribute to kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood development by creating an account on GitHub.
The latest release of Android offers easier ways to help you manage your conversations, connected devices, privacy, and much more.
An Apple II emulator written in Javascript. Contribute to whscullin/apple2js development by creating an account on GitHub.
An open-source plotting library for statistical data. – JetBrains/lets-plot
This is a document to help with .NET memory analysis and diagnostics. – Maoni0/mem-doc
Background rain sounds for relaxing and working.
The camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
NumPy is the primary array programming library for Python; here its fundamental concepts are reviewed and its evolution into a flexible interoperability layer between increasingly specialized computational libraries is discussed.
GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we announced the beta of GitHub
A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT – CadQuery/cadquery
The software industry loves young people, but old-timers serve an important purpose, too.
COBOL to WebAssembly compiler. Contribute to cloudflare/cobweb development by creating an account on GitHub.
Roben Kleene’s blog
A best-of-breed language with a holistic approach to moving the needle – rotoclone/strategic-communication
The final part of my Life series is still in the works but I need to interrupt that series with some exciting news. The new programming language I have been working on for the last year or so has j…
From the desk of a brilliant weirdo 
Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
Converting paper records to digital formats provides secure back-ups that researchers can access from anywhere.
❄️ Elsa is a minimal, fast and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Go – elsaland/elsa
Now available, code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.
All you need is a text editor, a makefile and a USB-serial cable.
The free Zapier/IFTTT alternative for developers to automate your workflows based on Github actions – actionsflow/actionsflow
Research in programming languages offers powerful tools, but our systems of notation stymie outsiders. Can we change our notational approach and broaden our audience—without compromising on c…
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Could looking through trees be the view to a greener future? Trees replacing the clear pane glass in your windows is not a work of science fiction. It’s happening now.
Help people find what they need on your website. Add a customizable search box to your web pages and show fast, relevant results powered by Google.
CLI plain-text note-taking, bookmarking, and archiving with encryption, filtering and search, Git-backed versioning and syncing, Pandoc-backed conversion, and more in a single portable script. – xw…
Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. The …
or, why predictability is important
I want to discuss a (minor) antipattern that I think is (slightly) harmful. Lots of websites use large Javascript libraries. They often include them by using a 3rd party Content Delivery Network li…
Bit is a modern Git CLI. Contribute to chriswalz/bit development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Espruino JavaScript interpreter – Official Repo – espruino/Espruino
Why does this keep happening?
FJCVTZS is «Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero». It is supported in Arm v8.3-A chips and later. Which is odd, because you don’t expect to see JavaScript…
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MONOSPACE: Flip dots with feelings, a JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the 1024 bytes demo competition at Assembly 2020.
A look into how Python is used to bring your favorite movies to the big screen.
A small tweak to your Git config that will make the diff output smarter and more language aware
Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient scripting – Arturo Programming Language
My journey to create a YouTube of memories from my family’s old home videos.
How the Julia language is making it easy for programmers to use GPU capabilities
This issue is JFYI. It feels more like a Safari issue than a ESBuild one, but maybe you or someone else (a fellow WebKit engineer?) will find it useful. AFAIK @koenbok already briefly mentioned thi…
A list of tools and applications used internally at GitLab and how to access them.
Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u…
Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of SomaFM internet radio streams while I work as they have a lot of terrific commercial-free programming. One day while being creatively inspired by the Sonic Universe station’s offerings, I had the idea of creating my own music player with support for streaming….
The top-like text-based user interface for Austin. Contribute to P403n1x87/austin-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.
An RIAA takedown request, which removed the YouTube-DL repository from GitHub, has ticked off developers and GitHub’s CEO.
When you run the Ubuntu installer, there’s an option to dual-boot Ubuntu with anexisting Windows installation. There’s also an option to encrypt your Ubuntui…
We’re very excited to release Pyston v2, a faster and highly compatible implementation of the Python programming language. Version 2 is 20% faster than stock Python 3.8 on our macrobenchmarks…
media downloader and library for various sites. Contribute to blackjack4494/yt-dlc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 was a good year to be an entry-level candidate for technology jobs, especially if you’ve got PHP skills.
Windows XP in React and Hooks! Try Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, Notepad in your browser!
By David Henry & Mel Yahya
a music theory development framework in python. Contribute to synestematic/kord development by creating an account on GitHub.
SweRV EH1 core. Contribute to chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV development by creating an account on GitHub.
:man: A NodeJS, git diffable JSON database on yer filesystem. – c9fe/sirdb
I created an Alfred workflow to quickly open my company’s GitHub repos in the browser.
We’re excited to release .NET 5.0 today and for you to start using it. It’s a major release — including C# 9 and F# 5 — with a broad set of new features and compelling improvements. It’s already in active use by teams at Microsoft and other companies,
I migrated Fusion to .NET 5 today — and honestly, I was absolutely shocked by the performance boost it brings:
Switch git user and email at ease. Contribute to geongeorge/Git-User-Switch development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ad giant sued after mobile allowances eaten by hidden transfers
Independent low-level programming conference.
Minimal URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub pages. – nelsontky/gh-pages-url-shortener
In production builds, Microsoft is A/B testing a new ‘feature’ that is designed to nag users with fullscreen window-less Microsoft Edge recommendations in the OOBE screen. The nag will appear when users set up their PC, sign in to their system after applying updates, or when they click on a new ad banner within the …
Git is actually sooo hard. Not just to learn, but also to use consistently. And I say that as a person who used it for probably over ten years. Here’s my thoughts on the matter. 
The ideas of APL and its successors, the array programming languages, were two generations ahead of their time. These languages are based on the notion that…
A pure JavaScript implementation of git for node and browsers! – isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git
Lunatic is an Erlang inspired runtime for WebAssembly – lunatic-solutions/lunatic
Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python.
Most programmers I know started programming out of sheer curiosity and joy. Joy is what keeps…
copy and paste across machines. Contribute to bradwood/glsnip development by creating an account on GitHub.
I’ve long said, as a fan of the console and text mode, that the command line is …
Adds variables to python traceback. Simple, lightweight, controllable. Debug reasons of exceptions by logging or pretty printing colorful variable contexts for each frame in a stacktrace, showing e…
it’s time
I was inspired by the release of Apple’s M1 ARM processor to tweet about the perils of lock-free programming which led to some robust discussion. The discussion went pretty well given the inanity o…
My personal workflow for terminal-based coding, writing, research, and more!
F# to JS compiler
Radicle is a peer-to-peer stack for building software together.
GitHub is where people build software. More than 56 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.
Style your readme using CSS with this simple trick – sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
If you hate it too this is why. Using color theory to show why GitHub dark mode is disappointing
[Official CASIO Scientific & Graphing Calculator website] Product information, Approved for IB , SAT and ACT Exam / Ideal for learning math.
Cybersecurity expert Vinoth Kumar shares an important clue to the US government breach, which possibly happened due to weak credentials and a GitHub leak.
This post has been languishing in my drafts folder for about a decade. It has recently become relevant again. When I was at Vodafone, selling ringtones was our top priority. They cost almost nothin…
This tutorial will guide you through writing the «Hello World» program in the C programming language. You’ll use Unix-style terminal emulators and command-line tools to execute commands, Linux-style package managers to install programs and libraries, the GNU nano text editor to write C code, the meson build system to build executable programs and the Gtk+ library to write portable, cross-platform graphical programs. Instructions for three operating systems are provided: macOS, Ubuntu Linux and Windows…
The leaked FTP credentials were being exposed by SolarWinds since June 2018 in mib-importer GitHub repo. There was potentially more sensitive data in that repo, says security researcher Vinoth Kumar.
:triangular_ruler: Javascript Geometric Algebra Generator for Javascript, c++, c#, rust, python. (with operator overloading and algebraic literals) – – enkimute/ganja.js
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
Beyond the print() function in Python
More challenging projects every programmer should try.
When you haven’t been updated since 2016, expiring certificates are a problem. 
We’ll explain the concepts underlying LLVM IR, and how you can use the LLVM C++ API in your programming language’s compiler.
Whenever I wanted to learn Algorithms, Mathematics used there somehow seemed to be an obstacle. I admit my Math is not that good but it ain’t that bad either but this “ain’t bad&#…
…for the same reasons why central banks want them – they’ll make helicopter money, negative interest rates, and financial surveillance easier
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, id Software co-founder and technical director John Carmack looks at the value in programming in a functional style with C++.
Use git log command to find when a file was added or created in your git repository
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how open source development transcends the
I spent 3 years as an analyst in the reinsurance industry. During this time, I witnessed firsthand how Python is driving rapid technological change. (Goodbye, Excel!)
Microsoft has already confirmed next update for Windows 10 will automatically remove Flash Player. Since Flash Player is nearing its final curtain, Adobe has now issued a new pop-up alert reminding users to remove the software for good. In September 2020, Microsoft confirmed that it’s working on a new automatic Windows Update which will remove …
? Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust. Contribute to artichoke/artichoke development by creating an account on GitHub.
When P&G, Chase, Uber, and eBay reduced or paused their digital ad spending, they saw NO CHANGE in business outcomes. Do those examples mean digital marketing doesn’t work; or does it mean something else?
As I write this in mid-November 2020, there’s quite a stir over the new version of Apple’s Mac OS, the operating system that runs on its laptops. For more than a year, Apple has engaged…
A memristor is a passive component like a resistor, capacitor, or inductor. Itâs not widely known, as it was first postulated in the earlyâ¦
All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers in some countries the full range of GitHub services.
100% FOSS keyboard, based on AOSP. Contribute to dslul/openboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
Please consider making Pylance open source so other editors can leverage it.
For the Stanford University Fall 2020 Curriculum, I built a small game project using mainly C++ mixed with some Blueprint in Unreal Engine. For those interested, the entire Computer Science course (CS193U) was provided through Zoom lectures and has been recorded. I’m working on getting this published and meanwhile, this project is already open-source through GitHub to be taken apart by anyone! Check out the project file right here on GitHub! Description The game was built with a wide set of features to cover a variety of useful coding concepts to students including AI, multiplayer…
It’s hard to know where to begin, of course; the situation has many interlocking layers. The most notable and disturbing elements have been well covered, and we continue to learn more about the event each day. The picture, it seems, only grows darker. For my part, I’ve been especially interested in thinking through the role of digital media in these events and what it portends for the future. Here, then, are a few reflections for your consideration along those lines. 
The rapid adoption of Julia, the open source, high level programing language with roots at MIT, shows no sign of slowing according to data from
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Python library for using dplyr like syntax with pandas and SQL – machow/siuba
Rust for Windows. Contribute to microsoft/windows-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.
With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries […]
The Constitution of India, with each amendment as a commit. – prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india
With more and more content being hosted on GitHub it’s a shame that you can’t get notified when a particular file has changed. At least not by GitHub, that is. But you can build your own notification service. Here is how.
Bronze/Starter is being phased out and current customers have over a year to transition.
Contribute to google/evcxr development by creating an account on GitHub.
CircuitPython – a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers – adafruit/circuitpython
A brief overview of the history, architecture, use cases, and future of WebRTC. 
Rust bindings for the Python interpreter. Contribute to PyO3/pyo3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHubâs new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe How we made the page
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! – microsoft/terminal
? Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript with explanations and links to further readings – trekhleb/javascript-algorithms
Hot code reloading tool for Python. Contribute to hoh/reloadr development by creating an account on GitHub.
Attackers have compromised the software distribution system of BigNox, developer of a popular Android emulator for PCs and Macs.
A book written specially for cats who want to program.
Everything moved to git generally, and GitHub specifically. Lots of tools and workflows expect you to be using git (Visual Studio and Xcode have built-in git support, etc) and Mercurial is becoming an alien thing to lots of people. Instead of being a thing you use, it’s now One More Thing to learn. It’s far more likely that people familiar with revision control generally will also be familiar with git specifically. I am not a fan of git; I still believe Mercurial is a better piece of software…
One second to read GitHub code with VS Code. Contribute to conwnet/github1s development by creating an account on GitHub.
What the f*ck Python? ?. Contribute to satwikkansal/wtfpython development by creating an account on GitHub.
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There is a common case when strings are actually mutable.
A realistic look at Python web frameworks
A barebones unofficial Android app for Clubhouse. Contribute to grishka/Houseclub development by creating an account on GitHub.
An incremental parsing system for programming tools – tree-sitter/tree-sitter
Stack Overflow users will help you find solutions for your programming woes.
A .NET 5 library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12 and dynamically generated HLSL compute shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! ? – Se…
Myeloid cells are able to utilize a variety of monosaccharides from our diet, including fructose. Here the authors show that when monocytes are reliant on fructose as a carbon energy source they are reprogrammed towards oxidative metabolism, glutamine anaplerosis and a pro-inflammatory phenotype owing to excess pro-inflammatory cytokine production.
Bit is a modern Git CLI. Contribute to chriswalz/bit development by creating an account on GitHub.
Better dates & times for Python. Contribute to arrow-py/arrow development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hermann Hauser wants the UK government to intervene to stop Nvidia buying the chip designer.
On Thursday, California’s 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana found that Amazon.com can now be held liable for injury for selling defective products
A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem.
The open letter published by Google today contains misinformation about the draft news media bargaining code which the ACCC would like to address. Google will not be required to charge Australians for the use of its free services such as Google Search and YouTube, unless it chooses to do so. Google will not be required to share any additional user data with Australian news businesses unless it chooses to do so.
Two shareholders in self-driving car startup Zoox Inc have sued the company, alleging that a rival bid would have been better for common stockholders than a $1.3 billion offer from Amazon.com announced in June.
The Xbox company has declared support for the Fortnite-maker as it battles Apple’s «monopoly».
Luminar, an autonomous-driving company, will go public through a merger with blank-check company Gores Metropoulos.
Demystifying the scariest and sparsely-documented aspect of running a business.
Go turned out to have a much broader reach than expected. Its growth in the industry has been phenomenal, and it has powered many Google projects.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveils the new GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards.
Sharing compensation data has become an annual tradition at Microsoft during this time of year
Privately held Episerver Inc. said it would acquire Optimizely Inc., a 10-year-old technology company backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and actor Ashton Kutcher for less than it had previously been valued.
The attorney general is said to have set a deadline over the objections of career lawyers who say they need more time to build the case.
TL;DR: If you have a LinkedIn account, you were signed up to SlideShare automatically without your knowledge or consent. Your account including all your personal information will be sold to ScribD …
Chefs, We are excited to announce that Chef has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Progress. We expect the transaction to be finalized over the next 30 days or so and, once completed, Chef will become an integral part of Progress. Progress is a trusted provider of some of the best products to develop, deploy and manage …
Bloomberg found a connection between the Internet’s failure in Belarus during the presidential election and American equipment delivery for filtering traffic.
Eric Schmidt says America has fallen behind China when it comes to funding new technology.
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
Nvidia Corp’s $40 billion agreement to acquire Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group Corp is likely to meet strong opposition from Nvidia’s chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs of protest emerging in South Korea and China within hours of the deal’s announcement.
The technology giant has also pledged to be using only carbon-free energy by 2030.
Microsoft’s unusual experiment in the sea off Orkney seems to have provided some valuable lessons.
How is Google so fast? It’s so fast we take it for granted. It feels instant from the time you search to when results are displayed. What can we learn abou…
Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.
Turn your gamer den into a home studio.
The C++ Standard Library for your entire system. Contribute to NVIDIA/libcudacxx development by creating an account on GitHub.
Teams started out as a pure collaboration tool, but it’s now becoming a platform for no-code, low-code and pro-code business apps.
Today we announced we’re joining the Microsoft family…
Tables, the newest tool from Area 120 by Google, beta launches in the U.S. to help teams easily track and automate work.
A second study looked in unprecedented detail at the brains of pigeons and barn owls, finding hints to the basis of their intelligence.
SAIC-GM-Wulingâs Hongguang MINI EV has been a runaway hit.
Some makers of smart speakers, video doorbells and other hardware have hit roadblocks buying key ads in search results. Gadgets made by e-commerce giant get the edge.
Google’s search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.
We’re always looking for ways to make our customers’ lives better, and one area where we’ve spent time innovating is the customer shopping experience in stores. Today, our physical retail team is excited to introduce a new innovation called Amazon One.
We benchmarked the deep learning performance of the latest NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU.
Confidential documents reveal the company leaders’ deception about the consequences of Prime Day, its robots and more.
The European Commission is conducting an in-depth investigation of the Google/Fitbit deal. A static, conventional view would suggest limited issues from a merger of complements. Yet, as this column
Time series are a very common data format that describes how things change over time. Some of the most common sources are industrial machines and IoT devices, IT infrastructure stacks (such as hardware, software, and networking components), and applications that share their results over time. Managing time series data efficiently is not easy because the […]
Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will be quizzed by senators.
The money, spread over three years and the entire globe, is welcome — but this is PR, not a product.
?️♂️ Investigate Google Accounts with emails. . Contribute to mxrch/GHunt development by creating an account on GitHub.
India government is reportedly planning to develop its own App Store to end the duopoly of the mobile ecosystem by Google and Apple. In recent weeks, several start-ups and app-makers have been voicing concern over Google’s policy, which made it mandatory for all developers to give 30% commission for all billings on apps registered on the Play store. Even some popular apps such as Zomato and Swiggy were also sent a notice for violation of store policy. Even Paytm was suspended for several hours and only after complying with Google’s policy, was restored.
The decision to use a spreadsheet format that dates back to the 1980s has proved to be unwise.
At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we’d like to highlight a different story of marginalized people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights. It’s the story of how «big oil» is now using Harvey Weinstein-like destroy-the-accuser tactics to try to crush environmental defenders. It is also the story of how we can all help those defenders peacefully fight back.
Plausible Analytics is a privacy-friendly and open-source Google Analytics alternative that you can install and self-host on your server.
Most comprehensive list :clipboard: of tech interview questions :blue_book: of companies scraped from Geeksforgeeks, CareerCup and Glassdoor. – twowaits/SDE-Interview-Questions
Published October 6, 2020 at 2:46 p.m.It is Aftonbladet that examined how internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon build server halls in Sweden
Learn how to setup and use VSCode as an IDE on Google Colab and Kaggle.
Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.
Microsoft employees also have options to relocate across the US or internationally
Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Thursday they had taken down more than a dozen disinformation networks used by political and state-backed groups in multiple countries to deceive users on their platforms.
We’re announcing additional, significant product and enforcement updates that will increase context and encourage more thoughtful consideration before Tweets are amplified.
Google sues me for using the word «droid» in my company name Orpheusdroid
It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. 
Jan Swillens, de directeur van de Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD), adviseert grote organisaties niet met een smartphone of tablet op tafel te vergaderen. Het risico op spionage is dan te groot, zegt hij in een maandag verschenen interview met De Telegraaf.
Googleâs engineering directors are grappling with a worrisome trend: internal data that indicate productivity during the coronavirus shutdowns deteriorated among engineers, particularly newly hired ones. One internal survey viewed by The Information found that in the three months ended in June, …
A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
camelcamelcamel: Amazon price tracker, Amazon price history charts, price watches, and price drop alerts.
Twitter’s chief says the way it communicated its decision to restrict an article was «unacceptable».
Google Search helps you find the melody that’s stuck in your head with machine learning technology.
Buy Coral Dev Board Mini for $99.99. The SBC combines MediaTek MT8167S CPU with Google Egde TPU for Tensorflow Lite or AutoML AI inference
A victory for the government could remake one of America’s most recognizable companies and the internet economy that it has helped define.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, and if it fails it gives a template for Congressional action.
Browser retains site data in defiance of privacy settings
In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies.
Twitter tried to reduce load times for external links, but made things slower instead. It mistakenly normalizes domains to a point where they’re no longer useful.
Mozilla’s blog features guides to making your online life better, stories from the movement, and critical analysis of issues around internet health.
Stripe Climate vous permet d’éliminer le carbone tout en développant votre entreprise
Kelsey Hightower defied the tech sector’s diversity problems to become one of the industry’s leading figures. Now he wants everyone’s voice to be heard.
Tesla is getting more aggressive in revoking paid software features on used cars, raising the stakes in a battle over what used Teslas can do that has raged for years.
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don’t track you
Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment, technology, video and pictures.
They say talk is cheap. Tell that to Jack Ma.
Eric Schmidt is effectively buying a passport that he can use to enter the European Union.
Nothing uploaded before then will count, but it’s still a bummer.
Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.
Stripe Billing fournit aux entreprises qui encaissent des paiements récurrents ou facturent des abonnements à leurs clients des outils permettant de réduire le taux de perte de clients. Utilisez les API de Stripe pour configurer rapidement une facturation récurrente et des paiements automatiques. Créez et gérez facilement des abonnements et des factures récurrentes directement depuis le Dashboard.
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âLook, Clayton, Iâm a busy man and I donât have time to read drivel from academics but someone you told me you had this theory⦠and Iâmâ¦
The Internet is a dangerous place in the best of times. Sometimes Internet engineers find ways to mitigate the worst of these threats, and sometimes they fail. Every now and then, however, a major …
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs M1
The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the security cameras, including Amazon Ring cameras, of participating residents.
Taiwanese chip titan testing new production tech to boost computing power 
In July, I announced SUSE’s intent to acquire Rancher Labs, and now that the acquisition is final, today we embark on a new journey with SUSE. I couldn’t be more excited about our future and what this means for our customers around the world.
In November, we announced that we intended to create a public container registry, and today at AWS re:Invent, we followed through on that promise and launched Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (ECR Public). ECR Public allows you to store, manage, share, and deploy container images for anyone to discover and download globally. You have long […]
Combination of 
Productivity score potentially allowed managers to identify individual employees who weren’t contributing enough
Our benchmark results surprised even us – but even after testing with several configurations, we found Amazon Timestream slow, expensive, and missing key database capabilities like backups, restores, updates, and deletes.
Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition.
Stripe Treasury is a banking-as-a-service API that lets you embed financial services in your marketplace or platform, with a single integration.
The US National Labor Relations Board files a formal complaint against Google over staff firings.
The Inactive Account Manager can help people manage specific content and notify a trusted contact if you stop using your Google Account for a certain period of time (between 3-18 months.
This browser caching change kills the utility of cross-site resource CDNs like Google Fonts.
The chip, code-named Whitechapel, could show up in phones next year.
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Sunday it has removed a number of browser extensions of online conglomerate IAC/InterActive Corp for «policy violations» and is reviewing «enforcement options.»
Contribute to oskarsve/ms-teams-rce development by creating an account on GitHub.
Salesforce-Slack and Penguin-Simon & Schuster both show a failure to enforce antitrust laws creates monopolies.
DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company like DoorDash looks like at the earliest stages.
According to a report from The Korea Economic Daily, Hyundai Motor will acquire Boston Dynamics for $921 million (1 trillion won).
Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment, technology, video and pictures.
Common Expression Language — specification and binary representation – google/cel-spec
Are you ready to stop using Google products? This guide will cover all the google alternatives to ensure your online privacy.
Up to yesterday, my laptop was a large 15-inch MacBook Pro. It contains an Intel Kaby Lake processor (3.8 GHz). I just got a brand-new 13-inch 2020 MacBook Pro with Apple’s M1 ARM chip (3.2 GHz). How do they compare? I like precise data points. Recently, I have been busy benchmarking number parsing routines where you convert … Continue reading ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook
Twitter on Saturday prevented users from liking and replying to a series of tweets from President Trump in which he repeated false claims that he won the election and that the race was “stolen” from him, though the
In my previous blog post, I compared the performance of my new ARM-based MacBook Pro with my 2017 Intel-based MacBook Pro. I used a number parsing benchmark. In some cases, the ARM-based MacBook Pro was nearly twice as fast as the older Intel-based MacBook Pro. I think that the Apple M1 processor is a breakthrough … Continue reading ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook: a SIMD benchmark
I’m pretty impressed by what I’ve seen with Apple’s M1 Chip. It’s really fast and powerful for essential everyday tasks, which include browsing the web, working with Intel-based apps, and using programming apps. Yes – the ecosystem is moving, and that may take time, but I think M1 is worth paying
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Use Amazon Managed Service for Grafana to monitor and visualize your metrics, logs, and traces from multiple data sources like Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, and Splunk.
When Celso Silva Junior, a Ph.D. candidate at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), stepped back from his recently completed map of Brazil’s secondary forests, he was surprised by the sheer quantity that had grown back since the 1980s. About a third of Brazil’s lost forests have recovered naturally, an area approximately the size […]
We want to make it easier and more cost-effective for you to add maps, location awareness, and other location-based features to your web and mobile applications. Until now, doing this has been somewhat complex and expensive, and also tied you to the business and programming models of a single provider. Introducing Amazon Location Service Today […]
A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer. – jwasham/coding-interview-university
Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. This post provides the context, inflection points, and conceptual frameworks behind our API design.
As per the AMP AC charter, I have resigned with immediate effect. As I was a non-corporate representative, I will not be nominating a replacement. I have loved working with the AC. They are a team …
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies.
The exchangeâs new type of direct listing would let companies issue new shares and sell them to public investors in a single, large transaction on the first day of trading, much like the first trade in an IPO.
“What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?” “Umm…that you have to solve this problem at work. But you’re out of ideas, and are looking to interviewees for suggestions”
A security vulnerability in Google Docs could have let attackers steal screenshots of your sensitive documents. The cause of this was a postMessage security misconfiguration.
A Tesla Model S owner with Autopilot FSD Beta version 8 tests the latest software’s capabilities in snowy conditions (video, commentary).
Many people have become millionaires from Tesla’s share price rocketing more than 700% this year.
Amazon has done little to stop sellers from gaming its search algorithm.
The landscape of OpenStreetMap-based mobile apps
Intel has been talking about on-processor FPGAs since 2014, but AMD’s patent might actually result in one.
The Alphabet Workers Union will be open to all employees and contractors at Google’s parent company.
Good, Cheap and Fast was the most ideologically pure thing that I’ve ever created. Then, Google killed it.
Download the Writeup Abstract The Google Titan Security Key is a FIDO U2F hardware device proposed by Google (available since July 2018) as a two-factor authentication token to sign in to applications (e.g. your Google account). Our work describes a side-channel attack that targets the Google Titan Security Key’s secure element (the NXP A700X chip) […]
The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.
Twitter suspended the account of Sci-Hub, often referred to as the Pirate Bay of science, for violating the counterfeit policy.
The govt through the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has reportedly requested all major telecom companies to
The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.
You donât know me, but thereâs a good chance I know you.
Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
In the old days, when Google wanted you dead it would remove you from search results. But now, they can just block your site in Chrome.
After initially pausing Prime Pantry during the pandemic, Amazon has permanently shut down its Prime Pantry delivery service.
Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed to appoint local representatives in Turkey under a new social media law, according to decisions published on Tuesday.
Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.
TSMC is to start making Intel’s Core i3 on its 5nm process in 2H21 says TrendForce.
Loonâs time as an Other Bet is coming to an end
Alphabet Inc is shutting down Loon after concluding the business, which offers balloons as an alternative to cell towers, is not commercially viable, Google’s parent company said on Thursday.
Jeff Bezos — a strong Democratic supporter — and Amazon are aiming to postpone a unionization vote at one of its warehouses in Alabama, the Wall Street
Experts also point to national security hurdles for the $40bn deal
After a tiny unrelated description update, Just Player got suspended from the Google Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity policy". Google finds issues with following: Full descrip…
Today we’re excited to launch the Academic Research product track on the new Twitter API.
It’s time to update the situation between Nvidia, AMD (and Intel) because there’s been some serious shift for Linux Gamers in the past years.
Google Stadia, the late 2019 streaming platform that promised to revolutionize gaming by letting users stream games without needing to own a powerful PC or console, is altering course, getting out of the game-making business and will now offer its platform directly to game publishers alongside offering Stadia Pro to the public.
Netflix put some serious design resources into its Annual Reports pre-2010. What changed?
The European oil giants Total, BP and Shell have been buying up assets all along the EV charging value chain. The latest news is that Shell has agreed to buy 100% of the European charging network ubitricity. Founded in Berlin, ubitricity operates in a number of European countries, and claims to be the largest public… Read more »
In a single update, a popular barcode scanner app that had been on Google Play for years turned into malware.
Terraria co-creator Andrew Spinks is the latest high-profile victim of Google’s ban-first, answer-questions-never approach to creators on its platform, but the problem goes back over a decade.
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…
FBI records at UC Berkeley Library show how the federal agency tried to undermine the Black Panthers, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Update 1:58 AM PT: Updated the post to clear confusion about how Google’s Safe Browsing feature works.
Australia will next week introduce landmark legislation to force Alphabet’s Google and Facebook to pay publishers and broadcasters for content, a senior government official said on Friday.
A Which? investigation found 10 sites offering fake Amazon Marketplace reviews from as little as £5 each.
Simple, seamless connectivity woven into your everyday essentials.
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Gamers to the right, miners to the left.
The next best thing after Bloomberg Terminal. Contribute to DidierRLopes/GamestonkTerminal development by creating an account on GitHub.
Whistleblowers say they were forced out after flagging problems with e-commerce giant’s data security and compliance.
CUDA on Intel GPUs. Contribute to vosen/ZLUDA development by creating an account on GitHub.
Google Analytics is only very superficially free. You should not be using it. Here’s why.
When Google users browse in “Incognito” mode, just how hidden is their activity?The Alphabet Inc. unit says activating the stealth mode in Chrome, or “private browsing” in other browsers, means the company won’t “remember your activity.” But a judge with a history of taking Silicon Valley giants to task about their data collection raised doubts Thursday about whether Google is being as forthright as it needs to be about the personal information it’s collecting from users.At a hearing Thursday i
Further investigation led us to a developer’s Xcode project that contained XCSSET source malware, which leads to a rabbit hole of malicious payloads. Most notable in our investigation is the discovery of two zero-day exploits.
刷算法全靠套路，认准 labuladong 就够了！English version supported! Crack LeetCode, not only how, but also why. – labuladong/fucking-algorithm
Radford et al. monitored cattle marked with artificial eyespots in non-commercial cattle farms in northern Botswana, and demonstrate that cattle with these eyespot markings were more likely to avoid predation by large carnivores. Their findings have applications as a cost-effective tool to reduce livestock predation by ambush predators.
An explainer on Citi’s $1 billion blunder.
We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
The editor behind a new academic journal that only publishes unsurprising research hopes the journal will help fix a major problem in scientific research — a bias towards surprising, unexpected results.
We’re releasing Practical Deep Learning for Coders (2020), fastai v2, fastcore, fastscript, and fastgpu.
The element was hard to get and extremely expensive but essential for Curie’s cancer research
open-source IEEE802.11/Wi-Fi baseband chip/FPGA design – open-sdr/openwifi
Learning Vim and Vimscript doesn’t have to be hard. This is the guide that you’re looking for. – iggredible/Learn-Vim
A few years ago, a hacker managed to exploit vulnerabilities in Tesla’s servers to gain access and control over the automaker’s entire fleet. In July 2017, Tesla CEO Elon Musk got on stage at the National Governors Association in Rhode Island and confirmed that a “fleet-wide hack” is one of Tesla’s biggest concerns as the automaker […]
A few thoughts about my experiences switching from Mac to a ThinkPad with Linux the past year. For context, I’m the founder and maker of Wobaka.com and Bootstrap.email. I work with front/backend development, design, marketing and sales every day. I code primarily in Clojure + ClojureScript but I
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people’s privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may…
Why leveraging ideas that were invented by others can be a superpower.
Health care costs were an issue even when the economy was good.
PicoRio upcoming open-source hardware, Linux capable RISC-V SBC that targets Raspberry Pi price, and is designed for battery-powered devices.
A modern audio book player for Linux using GTK+ 3. Contribute to geigi/cozy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Confirmation of Payee was designed to tackle online fraud, but it’s leaving customers unable to transfer funds
Underground experiment undermines gravity as the cause of quantum collapse
Plus: «Cultural competence» through diverse sourcing; limitations in how journalists represent public opinion; and lessons from studying 7,000 news push notifications.
For Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Richards and Peter Inglesby, custom webscrapers have driven their research — and their collaborations.
Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship
Get a MacOS or Linux shell, for free, in around 2 minutes – fastai/fastmac
Improvise, adapt and overcome. 
Hack The Planet Official Site
«Distracted driving is an issue of great importance in our community,» Adel said of the 2018 Uber crash.
? Control Chromecasts from Linux and D-Bus. Contribute to alexdelorenzo/chromecast_mpris development by creating an account on GitHub.
The FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks, swamping a broken enforcement system.
An ICIJ investigation reveals the role of global banks in industrial-scale money laundering — and the bloodshed and suffering that flow in its wake.
Learn about smaller indexes with B-Tree Deduplication, Extended Statistics Improvements, Parallel VACUUM, improved WAL Usage Stats in Postgres 13, and more.
I upgraded my home internet connection to fibre (FTTP) last October. I’m still on an 80M/20M service, so it’s no faster than my old VDSL FTTC connection was, and as a result for a long time I continued to use my HomeHub 5A running OpenWRT. However the FTTP ONT meant…
A deep-dive on the design journey of the Up app. A collaboration between product, design, engineering and our growing base of Upsiders.
Run Linux programs on DOS. Contribute to charliesome/doslinux development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.
An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!
The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren’t fictional anymore.
Inside information and influence with the clerks’ former bosses may figure in the transactions, a new study suggests.
We have found that you could be leaking your Internet traffic when running Linux under WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).
The way we decide may even give insight into delusional thinking
Hacktoberfest
Samsung Ads, named one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work 2020, is Advanced TV Advertising built on the largest, most powerful source of TV data.
Fungi’s role in our world has been vastly underestimated, says biologist Merlin Sheldrake. They can even make decisions, just like us.
Sexuality, relationships and online dating are all rather personal things. They’re aspects of our lives that many people choose to keep private or at the very least, share only with people of our choosing. Grindr is «The World’s Largest Social Networking App for Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer People» which
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Industry guarantees cover only 1% of estimated costs. NEW YORK, October 1 – By failing to…
Teaching our five year old daughter to code by cheating.
Make it time-based, apply metacognition & active recall, and learn what you’re curious about.
The changes will require employers to pay high-skilled foreign workers significantly higher wages, narrow the types of degrees that could qualify an applicant, and shorten the length of visas for certain contract workers.
As the field of machine learning has become ever more popular, a litany of online courses has emerged claiming to teach the skills necessary to “build a career in AI”. Is that what they do, though?
A few days ago I had an idea for a silly skit that I would post on TikTok. I spent about 5-10 minutes filming it with no script or plan and posted it on my T…
The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.
It’s been a long, strange trip but it’s always driven by two motives: Making good products and money.
Computer programming used to be a âpink ghettoââso it was underpaid and undervalued.
Introduction to UDP: sockets, frames, and data encoding. We build a Rust client for a simple name server that converts domain names into IP addresses.
To determine the influence of masticatory efficiency on postprandial satiety and glycaemic response, twenty-one healthy males were recruited for this randomised cross-over trial. The participants consumed a fixed amount of pizza provided in equal-sized portions by chewing each portion either fifteen …
My sister wanted a summer job before starting college. Instead she was scammed out of thousands
“Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of examples it is trained on.
Firefox Reader View as a command line tool. Contribute to eafer/rdrview development by creating an account on GitHub.
QCDOC was a massively parallel, custom-built machine. It consisted of low-power processing elements (500 MHz 440 PowerPC).It was capable of focusing significant computing resources on relatively small but extremely demanding problems in the field of quantum physics.
BBC News witnesses a negotiation between ransomware hackers and a ‘cash-strapped’ university.
Victor Gevers claimed he had access to presidentâs account, De Volkskrant reported, but Twitter said âweâve seen no evidenceâ
«No one should keep money they got by breaking the law,» advocates say.
I was hacked. The attacker gained access to several of my accounts (Apple Cloud, Yahoo, Gmail, Telegram), found private keys, mnemonicâ¦
The criminals demanded from the psychotherapy center Vastaamo 450,000 euros in exchange for stopping publishing the data. The release of patient data – including minors – ceased on Friday, sparking rumors about a possible payment.
A story about domain names, white nationalists, and accusations of money laundering.
The popular free software project “youtube-dl” was removed from Github on Friday following a legal notice from the Recording Industry Association of America claiming it violates copyright law. The tool is widely used by journalists for various reporting purposes.
The philosopher’s new book attacks the idea that any ideology has the answers to life’s questions – but advice from cats might be his exception…
Executables have been fascinating to me ever since I discovered, as a kid,
Want to see the dirty innards of more Valve code? Well you’re in luck as they now have a lot of work involved in the Steam Runtime on GitLab including the Pressure Vessel container.
On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics. This trend means that UX has substantially advanced since 2006.
Hangover runs simple Win64/Win32 applications on arm64/ppc64le/x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac – AndreRH/hangover
At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.
A series of weekly lectures on the basics of quantum computing will be broadcast via webcast starting 6 November 2020 at 10.30 a.m. CET. New lectures will be broadcast each Friday of the next seven weeks. The talks will focus on the practical aspects of quantum computing and are organised by CERN openlab and the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative. They will be given by Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oviedo in Spain since 2009 and a cooperation associate at CERN since earlier this year.
This article is going to be an introduction to embedded Linux security.
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. – Fmstrat/winapps
Starting today, people across India will be able to send money through WhatsApp. This secure payments experience makes transferring money just as easy as sen…
We recently discovered a new file-encrypting Trojan built as an ELF executable and intended to encrypt data on machines controlled by Linux-based operating systems.
Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s ( and other smaller sized companies ) with my free work. There isn't much else to say. Take this as an opportunity to send me a six fi…
Sipeed to launch a low-cost RISC-V Linux SBC based on an Allwinner processor based on Alibaba’s XuanTie C906 64-bit RISC-V core.
The latest Firefox Quantum version comes with lots of changes and improvements such as new Photon UI, redesigned new tab page and preferences page, etc. Apart from these changes, Firefox Quantum al…
Report says working from home should be taxed at 5% to help those whose jobs are under threat.
Handy cheat sheet with basics and tips about working with One-liners on the linux command line.
Social media giant Twitter Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world’s best-regarded hackers to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.
A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet – reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
Alan Dean Foster and SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal discuss the non-payment by Disney of several contracts for works including multiple Star Wars and Aliens novelizations.
The year of the Linux desktop has arrived. This is a guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience.
Guitar Center Inc, the largest U.S. retailer of music instruments and equipment, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Saturday, as music lovers moved their shopping online during the coronavirus pandemic.
What you pay attention to becomes your life.
The University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca plc, today announces interim trial data from its Phase III trials that show its candidate vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019, is effective at preventing COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and offers a high level of protection.
The subtle art of listening and finding rewarding embellishments.
Forexbook automatically imports your trades and chart images from your trading platform. Creating a trading journal has never been this easy.
It’s a sure revolution, one that most people haven’t noticed yet. That’s because of two new, exciting interfaces: eBPF (or BPF for short) and io_uring, the latter added to Linux in 2019 and still in very active development. Those interfaces may look evolutionary, but they are revolutionary in the se
Busybox-based Linux distro from scratch
a small statically-linked linux system. Contribute to oasislinux/oasis development by creating an account on GitHub.
Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong.
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely by a government, and that an arsenal of hacking tools used to test the defenses of its clients had been stolen.
Mastercard Inc and Visa Inc on Thursday stopped processing payments on Pornhub after a New York Times report last week that many videos posted on the adult website depicted sexual assault of children.
The eScholarship Publishing program of the University of California is pleased to announce the launch of Combinatorial Theory, a new mathematics journal expecting its first issue in Spring 2021. This journal will publish papers in Combinatorics, an active area of mathematical research with applications throughout the mathematical, computational and natural sciences. Combinatorial Theory is owned by mathematicians who believe in the importance of unfettered access to research as a means of engaging the global combinatorial community. As such, it is an open access publication, with no fees for authors or readers. Combinatorial Theory was foun
A simple macOS Virtualisation.framework wrapper. Contribute to evansm7/vftool development by creating an account on GitHub.
OSv, a new operating system for the cloud. Contribute to cloudius-systems/osv development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the hacks uncovered so far may be the tip of the iceberg.
Communications at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments were reportedly compromised by a supply chain attack on SolarWinds, a security vendor that helps the federal government and a range of Fortune 500 companies monitor the health of their IT networks. Given the breadth of the company’s customer base, experts say the incident may be just…
We are pleased to announce today that Cognitect and Nubank will be sponsoring dozens of contributors to the Clojure ecosystem with regular monthly support.
New report, «U.S. Press Freedom in Crisis: Journalists Under Arrest in 2020,» details how more than 117 journalists were arrested across the country in 2020.
Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux created in response to the effective discontinuation of CentOS. – rocky-linux…
The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases. – Opticos/GWSL-Source
U.S. authorities are expressing increased alarm about an intrusion into computer systems around the globe that officials suspect Russia is behind.
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies.
The U.S. Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers gained access to their networks as part of a massive cyber campaign, Politico reported on Thursday, citing officials…
A joint team of researchers at Fermilab and partner institutions have achieved quantum teleportation, teleporting information over a distance of 44 kilometers. The remarkable achievement supports the premise that scientists and engineers can build a workable and high-fidelity quantum network using practical devices. 
Former NFL lineman and MIT grad student John Urschel has penned his memoir, ““Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football.” “Being capable of thinking quantitatively — it’s the single most important thing,” he tells MIT News.
Government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The journalists were hacked by four Pegasus operators, including one operator MONARCHY that we attribute to Saudi Arabia, and one operator SNEAKY KESTREL that we attribute to the United Arab Emirates.
Before we get into Horcruxing, here’s a quick prologue on online security hygiene. You can skip to the Horcruxing section if it seems redundant.
The Hospital Group has confirmed that patient photos are being held to ransom by hackers.
New Board View, Sub-project and more.
Learn programming tools fast. Then remember them.
Learn 3D Computer Graphics programming by making a 3D software renderer from scratch. Most comprehensive course online with over 20 hours of video tutorials. Join now.
Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it’s working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it.
A number theorist recalls his first encounter with the Riemann hypothesis and breaks down the math in a new Quanta video.
Ticketmaster used stolen passwords and URL guessing to access confidential data.
Learn Go in ~5mins. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.
BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his…
The company embodied both the aspirations and disappointments of the Portland tech community in the years after the Great Recession.
The Boeing Company (Boeing) has entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve a criminal charge related to a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) in connection with the FAA AEG’s evaluation of Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane.
That standard image that explains the difference between on-premises, IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS in the cloud? You know what, it is hugely misleading. Here is the real deal.
Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.
I’ve written before about predatory scientific journals: those fly-by-night venues that will publish nearly any submitted paper, however dreadful. Their motive is to get the thousands of doll…
Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk – MarcusRainbow/QuantMath
* Cinnamon version: Cinnamon 4.6.7 * Distribution: Fedora 32 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 47…
Learn and Master Vim with interactive exercises
A brief overview of our approach to porting Linux to the Apple Mac Mini M1 and a tutorial for installing our Ubuntu POC
After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists.
The Piecewise Geometric Model index (PGM-index) is a data structure that enables fast point and range searches in arrays of billions of items using orders of magnitude less space than traditional indexes.
The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process.
The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?
Stop procrastinating, go off the happy path, learn just-in-time, and get your hands dirty.
Digital design increasingly exploits users.
Notes regarding CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo – mbcrump/CVE-2021-3156
Garuda Linux is an appealing Arch Linux based Distro with BTRFS (modern filesystem), Linux-zen kernel, auto snapshots, gaming edition and a lot more bleeding edge features.
Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay at least $573 million to resolve claims by 40-plus U.S. states related to its role in the opioid epidemic and advice it gave to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, according to a person familiar with the matter.
A new quantum sensor can analyze the full spectrum of radio frequency and real-world signals, unleashing new potentials for soldier communications, spectrum awareness and electronic warfare.
Bitcoin is the worst waste of resources and energy in human history. It is solely used for financial speculation, with no genuine utilityâ¦
This paper reports the design and test results of a single-flux-quantum (SFQ) bit-serial adder, which we designed with a target-clock frequency of 100 GHz, to investigate several techniques for producing ultra-high-speed computations using SFQ circuits. The bit-serial adder was designed based on a new cell library developed for the ISTEC Advanced Process, where the critical current density and McCumber-Stewart parameters of Josephson junctions were increased to 10 kA/cm
The man left a negative review of a law firm, which then took legal action over his comment.
The Story of a Novel Supply Chain Attack
The Story of a Novel Supply Chain Attack
Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week’s news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town’s water supply was understandably front-page material. But for security nerds who’ve been warning about this sort of thing for ages, the most surprising…
What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants.
Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time. – jimblandy/context-switch
Every now and then, I read a question about learning how to break ciphers, or more generally how to become a cryptographer/cryptologist. From my viewpoint, the most important part of learning this…
Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs. – ratfactor/ziglings
Mental fog is often described as a “cloudy-headed” feeling.
Download courses from khanacademy.org . Contribute to rand-net/khan-dl development by creating an account on GitHub.
A hacking campaign that used a U.S. tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft of U.S. government agencies is «the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,» Microsoft Corp President Brad Smith said.
Ministers will announce plans tomorrow for an £800 million scientific research agency legally entitled to invest in projects that are likely to fail and which will be exempted from freedom of
Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead.
The automaker denies it was the victim of a cyberattack, but the alleged culprit left a pretty detailed digital ransom note.
Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins :arrow_up: :skull_and_crossbones: – liamg/traitor
The pledge comes as Australia passes a new media law designed to make tech giants pay for news.
Remote working is «an aberration» that will be corrected as soon as possible says Goldman Sachs chief.
A new artificial intelligence technique can automatically detect face-swapped videos of politicians 
The long tail of AI is, in some ways, a measure of the complexity of the problem being solved and the effort needed to tackle it. There are, however, ways to treat the long tail as a first-order concern and build for it.
The centuries-old offering was nestled inside an underwater stone box.
What is Olric?
Open-Source Distributed Stream and Batch Processing – hazelcast/hazelcast-jet
There’s no word on when Google and phone makers will incorporate fix from Qualcomm.
Scientists have created a new class of laser beam that appears to violate long-held laws of light physics. These new beams, which the team calls “spacetime wave packets,” follow different rules of refraction, which could lead to new communication technologies.
Timescale Cloud, the leading cloud service for time-series data, is now even more powerful, offering the most cloud provider and region support, best performance, scale, and developer experience of any managed service for time-series data.
Serverless computing is all grown up now, or is it? We look at the different flavors of Serverless, and the pros and cons of each.
Unifying the frontend development toolchain
The GitHub Archive Program & Arctic Code Vault. Contribute to github/archive-program development by creating an account on GitHub.
ZipPy is a Python3 interpreter on top of Truffle framework – securesystemslab/zippy
Hello, jammers! Excited to kick-off our inaugural Programming Language Jam. If you’re just hearing about this, or need a refresher, then please visit the following links: Jam landing page Jam intro post Jam registration instructions If you haven’t signed up yet, or think someone else might be interested, it’s not too late to do so now. We’ll keep registration open for another week. We’re keeping the theme open-ended with the main criteria being «freshness» or new ideas. We won’t be publicizing our complete judgment criteria because that would do the opposite of encouraging new ideas. The most important thing is that you get to a working pro
Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming.
Simple SQL in Python. Contribute to nackjicholson/aiosql development by creating an account on GitHub.
python open source alternative to IDM (Internet Download Manager) with multi-connections, high speed engine, based on python, pycurl, youtube_dl, and pysimplegui – pyIDM/PyIDM
11,302 votes and 986 comments so far on Reddit
Staff at the Berlin-headquartered fintech company are holding votes this week to elect a board for a works council.
Write code that’s compatible with how your brain works.
In this article, we will learn about India’s Unified Payments Interface. A four-year-old payment scheme that has been accounting for 40-45% of digital payments across India.
By Ryan Bednar (CEO of RankScience) Last week on July 29, 2020, the CEOs of the most powerful tech companies in the world—including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—were called in to testify in front of the House Antitrust Subcommittee. The event was widely considered to be mostly political theater, a performance act for Congress to […]
Sweden wants Amazon’s cutthroat efficiency to adapt to its labor and sustainability protections.
Yet another existential threat to PainScience.com.
Featured Image Credit: Tesla Tesla strives to produce its cars with maximal efficiency and quality. That is why Tesla is constantly revising its manufacturing processes. One of the latest areas of focus is the vehicle body.Model Y is the first application for which Tesla is using its new aluminum casting process. The 
An appropriately annoying strategy for dealing with wiki rot at a company.
The Jungle Gym: Issue #16
Announcing the Fortnite Mega Drop. Save up to 20% on all Fortnite purchases on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mac, and on mobile when using select payment methods.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had dire economic effects on the country, but it turns out that most parents are less worried about their finances and more worried about the virus and safely getting kids to school this fall. In a recent survey, we asked about 1,000 parents what their biggest worry amidst the pandemic was, …
Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy. Her plan might even work in the US.
Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.
That could help with the design of quantum computers