Gooooooood morning, Clan!!! 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
- Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot
- Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning
- The File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
- The Mental Process of Learning Is More Complex Than We Thought
- Facebook Now Lets You Turn Any 2D Photo into a 3D Image Using AI
- Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics
- Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Differences in Learning Programming
- In Kaua‘I, Botanists Rediscover an Extinct Plant Once Mistaken for Another
- Artificial and biological neurons communicate over the internet 2020
- Automated code security assistant for developers
- The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
- Deep Learning Algorithms: The Complete Guide
Blockchain and decentralization
- Enterprise Distributed Ledger Technology Platforms – Blockchain Technology
- The ethereal art of fog-catching
- LibraryBox: Portable Private Digital Distribution
- India lifts ban on cryptocurrency trading
- Cryptocurrency Now Fully Legal in South Korea
- Erlay: Bandwidth-efficient Bitcoin transaction relay protocol
- What Sets Us Apart: Filecoin’s Proof System
- Coinbase vs. Coinbase Pro
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Why Cloudflare abandoned Intel for AMD for its latest servers
- ARMv8-A system semantics: instruction fetch in relaxed architectures
- Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones
- Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled
- Crypton – Secure Anonymous SMS in the Cloud
- Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Receive the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize
- Google Cloud charging for Kubernetes Clusters beginning June 2020
- KUI – hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development
Development and languages
- .NET Core 3.0 will reach End of Life on March 3, 2020
- Revisiting stable-kernel regressions
- Android-x86 9.0-r1
- PRML Algorithms Implemented in Python
- Windows93
- Forensic analysis of the Windows telemetry for diagnostics
- Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Github Data Repo
- Introduction to SerenityOS Programming
- ISalt: Interactive Salt Programming
- Please stop recommending Gitflow
- Nfstream: a network data analysis framework using Python
- Project Sandcastle: Android for the iPhone
- GitHub Collapsible Markdown
- Pair Programming Economics
- JavaScript Variables: var and let and const
- Updating Dictionary in Python 3.9
Quote of the week
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.
— Rob Pike
Enterprises
- A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google’s Titan M chip
- AMD Threadripper 3990X Scores Another Win: We Test New SPECWorkstation 3 Update
- Home was not where the heart was for the Enlightenment’s intellectuals
- Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications in June 2020
- Google’s ambitious push into gaming is floundering
- Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home”
- Mailbrew – Automated Email Digests from HN, RSS, Reddit, Twitter
- Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull Out, 30K Sign Petition
- Google indexing DDG search results
- Twitter starts testing ‘Fleets,’ its version of Stories
- Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
- Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home
- The race to save Polesia, Europe’s Amazon
- AMD Is Determined to Gets Its Rightful Datacenter Share
- GM’s new electric car battery tops Tesla’s
Other news
- Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
- UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay
- Uyghurs for sale: ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang
- Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape
- The Hacker Manifesto
- Payment Request API
- Firefox 75 on Linux (Wayland) now to have WebGL and video hardware acceleration
- Connecting businesses and educators with advanced Hangouts Meet capabilities
- Koch is reducing energy consumption of AC Induction Motors by 1/3
- Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer
- One small step for electrons, one giant leap for quantum computers
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors Because of a Repair Ban
- Reducing customer service call volume at Expedia
- Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering Course
- Turn down the quantum volume
- Hacking up your own shell completion
- Indian bank’s meltdown takes out several popular services
- Electricity generation using quantum dots in glass
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