Gooooooood morning, Web!!! 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
- Meta-Learning in 50 Lines of JAX
- Caret Package – A Practical Guide to Machine Learning in R
- Best of Arxiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – January 2019
- Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
- AITopics, news and research about AI
- Capsule Networks – a way to more closely mimic biological neural organization
- Intuit (TurboTax) Notice of Unauthorized Access to Tax Returns
- Myths in Machine Learning Research
- Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy
- Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI
- Topological methods for unsupervised learning problems
- Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old?
Looking at how children process information may give programmers useful hints about directions for computer learning - Long-Range Robotic Navigation via Automated Reinforcement Learning
- License Plate Detection Without Machine Learning
- Finnish is too complicated for AI
- Deep Learning from Scratch to GPU: CUDA and OpenCL
- Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
- Fact-checking chatbot “Meiyu” shuts down dubious family texts
Biting your tongue at yet another questionable article shared in your message group of friends and family? Add artificial-intelligence fact-checker Meiyu as a member, she will jump in with ‘False’ and explain why it’s wrong; quieter mothers-in-law. - Best Deep Learning Books: Updated for 2019
The list of the best machine learning & deep learning books for 2019.
Blockchain and decentralization
- Dynamics at the Boundary of Game Theory and Distributed Computing
- Bitcoins Returned to Bitfinex by U.S. Government
- Announcing k3s: The Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution Built for the Edge
- Alleged Coinomi $60K exploit shows how easy it is to have your Bitcoin stolen
A report by security consultant Warith Al Maawali claims he lost $60,000 to $70,000 while using the Coinomi wallet because of a spell checker vulnerability. - CovenantForum – A decentralized forum powered by CovenantSQL
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cheryl L. Shavers, born in 1953 in San Marcos, Texas, is a chemist, expert in semiconductors, and Chairman and CEO. After gaining a degree in chemistry, she worked as an engineer at Motorola. Shavers returned to university for a few years, gaining a PhD in solid state chemistry, before returning to private industry. Shavers worked at increasingly senior levels in Silicon Valley, at Hewlett Packard and Intel. She served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration (1999-2001), and is a registered patent agent in the US Patent and Trademark Office. After leaving government service in 2001, she established a consultancy and strategy business, Global Smarts Inc. Shavers was inducted into the Women In Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame and the Hall of Fame of the Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Cloud and architecture
- AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
- A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
Innovations like domain-specific hardware, enhanced security, open instruction sets, and agile chip development will lead the way.
- Is a shared database in microservices actually an anti-pattern?
- New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations
A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users. The findings are said to be the first time vulnerabilities have affected both 4G and the incoming 5G standard, which promises faste⦠- FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
- U.S. Cloud Act is raising concern about extraterritoriality
- Cloudflare’s RPKI Toolkit
- Serverless Page Builder
- Famous Laws of Software Development
Like any other field, the world of Software Development has some interesting and famous rules, principles and laws. - As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills
- A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming
- ‘Extinct’ Formosan clouded leopard spotted in Taiwan
- Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
When the government comes for your data, tech companies can’t always tell you. But thanks to a legal loophole, companies can say if they haven’t had a visit yet. That’s opened up an interesting clause that allows companies to silently warn customers when the government turns up to⦠- Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server
- Cheap Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kubeadm
Really cheap Kubernetes cluster on AWS with kubeadm – cablespaghetti/kubeadm-aws - The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless
- Beyond Local Pattern Matching: Recent Advances in Machine Reading
- Paper – Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs
I’m pleased to report that Hyperscan, the regular expression matcher that ate my life from 2008 through 2018, finally has a paper (pdf) – it’s being presented this week at NSDI &#⦠- Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chine… - OpenSSL 3 Strategic Architecture
- AutoML toolkit for neural architecture search and hyper-parameter tuning
An open source AutoML toolkit for neural architecture search and hyper-parameter tuning. – Microsoft/nni - Microsoft Azure Sentinel
- PGHoard – PostgreSQL backup and restore service for cloud object storages
PostgreSQL backup and restore service. Contribute to aiven/pghoard development by creating an account on GitHub.
Development and languages
- Python: Even a Feature That You Do Not Use Can Bite You
- YouPorn goes PWA progressive with new mobile web apps for Android and iOS
- Containers as Kernel Objects – Again
- Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times
- Git 2.21 Highlights
- The CPython Bytecode Compiler Is Dumb
- Beautiful Python List Prompts Package
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Beautiful Python prompts made simple. Build a prompt like stacking blocks. – Mckinsey666/bullet - Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Economics
- Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
- Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
- Follow GitHub Organisations
- Multiprocessing.shared_memory – Shared memory for direct access across processes
- Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
- Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript
- Productivity tricks in Visual Studio
- Grape JavaScript – Free and Open Source Web Builder Framework
- Euboea – simple, fast, AOT-compiled programming language
- Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier
- Browsing a Remote Git Repository
- Hy: A Dialect of Clojure Embedded in Python
- Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
- Does windows 10s telemetry include sending *.docs if word crashed
- Micropython and LittlevGL: high-level GUI library for micropython
- Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology
- A DIFFERENT GitHub redesign proposal
- Git Best Practices
- Tips and Tricks for Asp.net Core Applications
Quote of the week
Security is a state of mind.
— NSA Security Manual
Enterprises
- Microsoft Staff: Do Not Use HoloLens for War
More than 50 employees at Microsoft have demanded the firm end its deal to provide augmented reality to the US army. - Microsoft Workers Protest Army Contract with Tech ‘Designed to Help People Kill’
- New OpenGL Driver for Intel Gen8 GPUs Merged into Mesa
- Google Maps: Bird Mode
- Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics
Twitter threads are a pain to read! So let’s just steal them, right? Umm… Nope, probably wrong. I’m going to say very wrong. Think about it. - Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
- Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas
A large cargo plane crashed Saturday in Texas, killing all three people on board, officials said. - Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory
Designed to get work done. - Site Search Could Kill Amazon
- Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees say crosses a line
- Bypassing ad blockers for Google Analytics
- Notes on the Amazon Aurora Paper
This is my notes on the paper: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases. What’s Amazon Aurora Functionally speaking, an instance of Aurora is same as an instance of MySQL. The differences are Aurora decouples compute from storage and it’s fault-tolerant. It supports all ANSI isolation levels - Bloomberg: Spain is now the healthiest country in the world
Spain Tops Italy as World’s Healthiest Nation While U.S. Slips - Intel ends 5G modem alliance with Beijing-backed chipmaker
Unisoc loses tech partnership in new blow to China’s chip ambitions - Amazon Personalize: Real-Time recommendation, based on tech used at Amazon.com
Amazon Personalize is a machine learning service that makes it easy for developers to create individualized recommendations for customers using their applications. - Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”
- Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN
- All Medium paywalled stories now free, unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter
- Tesla: Great things are launching at 2pm
- Tesla – Great things are launching at 2pm
- $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now
We are incredibly excited to announce that the standard Model 3, with 220 miles of range, a top speed of 130 mph and 0-60 mph acceleration of 5.6 seconds is now available at $35,000! Although lower in cost, it is built to achieve the same perfect - Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars online
- When Does Intelligence Peak?
- Amazon Web Services CEO: We’re a $30b revenue business in the ‘early stages’
- Amazon to open grocery chain separate from Whole Foods
- NY Gov Speaks with Bezos, Hints of ‘Other Ways’ to Clear Path for Amazon Return
The governor of New York has called Mr. Bezos and other Amazon executives to persuade them to resurrect their plan to build a campus in Long Island City. - Amazon’s Project Zero will let brands remove fake product listings
- Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video
Anti-vax documentaries have disappeared from search results on the platform, and appear to no longer be available to Prime members for free streaming. - He Was Part of a Twitter Mob That Attacked YA Novelists. Then It Turned on Him
Other news
- My first website a simple Recurring Payments
- Linux Fsync Issue for Buffered IO and Its Preliminary Fix for PostgreSQL
In case you didn’t already see this news, PostgreSQL has got its first minor version released for 2019. This includes minor version updates for all supported PostgreSQL versions. We have indi⦠- Aptana.org Hacked?
- Journalist, 12, faces off with police officer who threatened to arrest her
- Linux kernel: Add io_uring IO interface
- Azlo – Fee-free small business banking
- Linux Desktop Setup
- Hack Club Bank – A Bank for Student Hackers
- Arcade Rats on the Moon
- Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism
- 40% of Smart Homes at Risk to Hackers
- Thousands of Women Say LuLaRoe’s Legging Empire Is a Scam
- Congratulations Women, Judge Rules the US Military Should Draft You Too
- Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
Pay one cent per letter - Quilc: An optimizing quantum compiler written in Common Lisp
- Bell cuts phone service to family struggling to pay surprise $1,800 bill
- Learn anything every new tab
- Millions of Binaries Later: A Look into Linux Hardening in the Wild
- Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take
- A Woman Who Harvested a Two-Acre Wheat Field Off Wall Street
Agnes Denes, the queen of Land Art, made one of New Yorkâs greatest public art projects ever in 1982. Now, the world might be catching up with her. - Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
- Would You Pay $32,709 for a Lab-Grown Diamond?
A simple drug cocktail that converts cells neighboring damaged neurons into functional new neurons could potentially be used to treat stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain injuries. 
Design reduces by 99 percent the data users need to join the network and verify transactions.
A distributed system for rendering 3D content with focus on bandwidth and resource efficiency – GENIVI/ramses
People are resorting to blockchain for all kinds of reasons these days. Ever since I started doing smart contract security audits in…
Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.
A TCO comparison between the Lambda Hyperplane 8 x V100 Server and the AWS p3dn.24xlarge instance. The Hyperplane cost comparison is very similar to that of the DGX-1.
The Japanese automaker, which employs 3,500 at its Swindon, England, plant, is set to close the site by 2021.
Boss sent Mark Weathers a work email on Good Friday, then called him in church during Easter weekend to make him work, religious-discrimination suit alleges.
GitHub is where people build software. More than 31 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.
Git extensions for m-of-n signing and verification on commits/tags. – hashbang/git-signatures
Company broke privacy and competition law and should be regulated urgently, say MPs
tl;dr Programming interview questions can feel unnecessarily difficult. Sometimes they actually are. And this isn’t just because they make interviews excessively stressful. Our data shows that harder programming questions actually do a worse job of predicting final outcomes than easier ones.
Learn how to block in-app and video ads on Android, without root.
The prize was clear: A promised 25,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000, but Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio were urging Amazon to hire a union workforce.
Multi-task learning and language model pre-training are popular approaches for many of today’s natural language understanding (NLU) tasks…
Antitrust agencies are concerned that the autonomous pricing algorithms increasingly used by online vendors may learn to collude. This column uses experiments with pricing algorithms powered by AI in
Police are increasingly using judge-approved “reverse location” search warrants to find cellphones near crime scenes. Civil liberties experts worry it’s a digital dragnet ripe for abuse. Authorities say it’s an important new crime fighting tool.
Bill Pollock says Amazon is printing them—and even the product photo is fake.
New system of “strain engineering” can change a material’s optical, electrical, and thermal properties.
Your digital tip jar, using Lightning Network and Bitcoin.
European Union countries on Wednesday endorsed an overhaul of the bloc’s co…
Google is finally ending forced arbitration for its employees. These changes will go into effect for both current and future Google employees on March 21. While Google won’t reopen settled claims, current employees can litigate past claims starting March 21. For the contractors Google works wâ¦
Synthetic DNA seems to behave like the natural variety, suggesting that chemicals beyond natureâs four familiar bases could support life on Earth.
Some Microsoft Corp employees on Friday demanded that the company cancel a $480 …
An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server. – imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
When I was a college student, I saw a list of essential math books on a blog. I promised to myself to read all those books in 10 years…
:star: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. – trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
Why are churches across Britain adorned with carvings of naked women exposing their genitalia?
The “sophisticated” activity follows an intrusion on parliamentary servers, PM Scott Morrison says.
Warren Buffett’s business partner Charlie Munger has warned that teaching people to trade stocks is like starting them on heroin.
I figured out the appleid.apple.com issue.
When everything is quantified, power accrues to whoever is keeping score
DVC is designed to handle large data files, models, and metrics as well as code. DVC is an open-source framework and distributed version control system for machine learning projects.
Ludwig is a toolbox that allows to train and test deep learning models without the need to write code
ð§ Leon is your open-source personal assistant. Contribute to leon-ai/leon development by creating an account on GitHub.
disclaimer: all intellectual property and techniques described in this article have been previously disclosed in US Patents US10014002B2…
Toby Walsh, a researcher in artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Australia, predicted a new arms race if autonomous robots take on combat roles, as well as the possibility they would eventually be used by police and border agents
Orca could help to fill a yawning gap in the American submarine fleet. In December 2016, the U.S. Navy announced it needed 66 nuclear-powered attack subs, or SSNs, to meet regional commanders’ needs.
U.S. investment bank JP Morgan Chase has entered the crypto world. It has created a stablecoin known as the JPM Coin, is it the next big cryptocurrency?
A blockchain-based storage network and cryptocurrency
Weâre happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech. This is the last step in the process, weâve won.
Sample cloud-native application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, gRPC and OpenCensus. Provided for illustration and demo purposes. – GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo
Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit. Contribute to magit/forge development by creating an account on GitHub.
My heart for Cutie Pai. Contribute to susam/heart development by creating an account on GitHub.
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when youâre coding a work in progress.
One key benefit that WebAssembly offers is _predictable_ performance across browsers. But how do you turn hot path written in JavaScript into WebAssembly?
An October 2019 update is still planned, but previews of that will come in spring.
At the end of January the .NET Core development team has released a new version of the .NET Core framework, .NET Core 3 preview 2. It delivers a few new C# features to developers. It is nice to see the language improving and I like all of them. But today
A plea to all android app developers and small start-up tech business owners to come together and force Google to change their automatic…
My Bitcoin News • The CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, has said that the companyâs Cash App will integrate Bitcoinâs Lightning Network and that itâs only a matter of
Despite getting rewarded repeatedly with promotions, compensation, recognition, and praise, I wasn’t motivated enough to do another year.
Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. The API has been in developer preview since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 anâ¦
Amazon is about to expand its smart home offerings in a big way. The company just announced its intention to acquire Bay Area-based home mesh router startup, Eero. Itâs a pretty clear fit for the online retailer as it pushes to make Alexa a feature in the connected home. The move also makes sense fâ¦
Video game development platform Unity Technologies is gearing up to go public, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, which was valued at a little more than $3 billion as of its last funding round in June 2018, is aiming to do its initial public offering during the first half of 2020 ã¼ provided that market conditions are favorable, a source told Cheddar.
What is the relationship between intellectual giftedness and meaning in life?
Amazon.com Inc and General Motors Co are in talks to invest in Rivian Automotive…
The festival’s marketing agency also co-produced the film, resulting in a misleading version of who bears responsibility for the fraud.
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter’s product issues.
DMN follows the legal paper trail from France and Ireland back to sunny California
Amazon, the ubiquitous purveyor of two-day delivery of just about everything, nearly doubled its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018 from $5.6 billion the previous year and, once again, didnât pay a single cent of federal income taxes.
Its plan to build a sprawling complex in Queens in return for nearly for $3 billion in government incentives had come under fierce opposition from local lawmakers.
Now that Amazon has said that itâs taking its ball and going home rather than deal with mean, pushy New Yorkers, outside observers are giving off the sense that the city (and its local politicians) are losing out for their recalcitrance. They’re wrong. New York City is running at about a 4.3 â¦
Alphabet Inc’s Sidewalk Labs unit is proposing it get a share of property t…
Blocking all ads faster than the blink of an eye.
The federal judiciary charges 10 cents a page to see electronic court records. Retired judges and civil rights groups say access should be free.
Client did not pay? Add opacity to the body tag and decrease it every day until their site completely fades away – kleampa/not-paid
Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup, has raised $940 million in financing from the SoftBank Vision Fund, a whopping amount that will be used to expand its delivery service, add new partners, hire employees and scale up its fleet of self-driving bots. Nuro has raised more than $1 billion from partâ¦
Mars One, a Dutch company that planned to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars and start the first human colony on the Red Planet, has been declared bankrupt.
When writing a book or course, you deal with hundreds of thousands of words and Vim helps you manage that in a sane way.
Uber fought as hard as any company in America in the past few years to assure th…
After a while, I decided a write a short blog post about Linux binary reversing CTFs in general. How to approach a binary and solving for beginners. I personally am not a fan of Linux reverse enginâ¦
VR software Gravity Sketch allows a faster way to sketch cars.
Simple artificial-intelligence problem puts researchers up against a logical paradox discovered by famed mathematician Kurt Gödel.
About C$180 million ($137.21 million) in cryptocurrencies have been frozen in th…
Why it’s so hard to find roles in cloud technology, while jobs go unfilled.
A Python Interpreter written in Rust. Contribute to RustPython/RustPython development by creating an account on GitHub.
A Haskell to WebAssembly compiler. Contribute to tweag/asterius development by creating an account on GitHub.
Exhaustive, simple, beautiful and concise. A truly pythonic cheat sheet about Python programming language.
This website presents a series of lectures on quantitative economic modeling, designed and written by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski.
Open Source Messenger App For Android – Real-time Messaging, Voice and Video Calls – mesibo/messenger-app-android
Live Programming Environment. Contribute to hundredrabbits/Orca development by creating an account on GitHub.
Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.
Gabriel Nicholas examines the new tech landscape of American monopolies.
Implementation of Quickdraw – an online game developed by Google – vietnguyen91/QuickDraw
The popular video streaming service Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018ÂÂâ$845 millionâon which it didnât pay a dime in federal or state income taxes. In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal income tax rebate.
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
Amazon at times dips into the tips earned by contracted delivery drivers to cover their promised pay, a Times review of emails and receipts reveals.
It’s one of the biggest traffic drivers on the web, but Google’s policies about how to get into the index are opaque, and applied at random.
For the first piece in our series How CEOs Write , we talked about how Tesla’s missteps and failures can be traced back to three criticalâ¦
Amazon executives are re-evaluating a planned campus in New York City, people familiar with the matter said, turning up the heat on local officials who have rallied opposition to giving billions of dollars in tax incentives to one of the world’s most valuable companies.
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How did it start? In 2010 a very sharp technology marketer named Sean Ellis coined the term “Growth Hacking”. Andrew Chen, another very skilled technologist and current Partner at A16Z, followed on with a post describing the role of a Growth Hacker as the “new VP of marketing“. In parallel to that companies like Facebook … Continue reading A Post Mortem on Growth Hacking →
Seeing the (Random) Forest Through the (Decision) Trees
Network Threats – A white hat hacker is facing an 8-year jail term for exposing vulnerabilities in the database of Magyar Telekom after the latter filed a complaint against him. Read to know more!
Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
Learning from mistakesâyour own and those made by othersâis a mark of effective organizations. Fostering a learning environment means seeing every…
Apple Inc on Thursday rolled out software updates to iPhones to fix a privacy is…
There has been a long debate about whether man is able to learn from history. I’d argue that we can – at least to some degree. One of the lessons that we could have learned by now is hoâ¦
The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time, Mike Monteiro gives us some valuable advice on how to get paid for the work that you do.
In an age of populist nationalism, open societies have increasingly come under strain. But the threat of atavistic ideological movements pales in comparison to that posed by powerful new technologies in the hands of authoritarians.
In a health system riddled with inequity, we risk making dangerous biases automated and invisible.
I. Zero To One might be the first best-selling business book based on a Tumblr. Stanford student Blake Masters took Peter Thiel’s class on startups. He posted his notes on Tumblr after each lâ¦
When making a start in a new field it is common to feel overwhelmed. You may lack confidence or feel as though you are not good enough or that you are lacking some prerequisite. You will explore these issues in this post and learn that such feelings can lead to actions that can consume a …
518 leaderboards ⢠966 tasks ⢠706 datasets ⢠9193 papers with code.
In the last post , we described a protocol that should satisfy the requirements and invariants established in the first post . Today we will look at formal verification with TLA+. Formal verification is just another (niche) tool in the toolbox. Some tools require more skill than others to use. So
Innovations like domain-specific hardware, enhanced security, open instruction sets, and agile chip development will lead the way.
The Cloud Firestore database is a NoSQL, serverless solution for mobile and web application development — now generally available globally.
While Amazon’s cloud business was only 11% of its overall sales last year, it delivered more operating income than all other business units combined.
Random investigations. A very low level tech blog. – kjpgit/techdemo
A directory of Western Digitalâs RISC-V SweRV Cores – westerndigitalcorporation/swerv_eh1
Solve and generate mazes in JS. Contribute to dmaydan/Maze_Solver_Generator development by creating an account on GitHub.
a javascript spreadsheet for web. Contribute to myliang/x-spreadsheet development by creating an account on GitHub.
I’m here to tell you that visual programming, and diagrammatic reasoning in particular, is a formidable tool-set if used the right way…
Itâs not every day where students new to programming get to ask 709 software developers for advice. Overview There is a school here in Malmö, Sweden called The Game Assembly. This school focuses on teaching students game production. Everything from programming to art and design. This is a three year…
Netflix is an Aggregator, with a value chain that lets it drive demand, raise prices, and dismiss competition.
Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health. Those are just a few of the advertising labels that Google’s adtech infrastructure routinely sticks to Internet users as it watches and tracks what they do online inâ¦
According to reports, the TSMC Nanke 14 Factory has experienced a production shutdown after substandard chemicals used in the manufacturing process ruined tens of thousands of wafers. These defects in the silicon wafers are not able to be detected until after the production run. Companies affected include industry heavyweights such as NVIDIA, MediaTek, Huawei Hisilicon, and some ARM server processors. The 16/12nm process is one of TSMC’s main sources of revenue. TSMC does not know the financial impact of the loss at this time, but it is expected to be extremely high due to the advanced technology that uses these chips such as NVIDIA GPUs.
I wonder what will happen if Google isn’t able to reward good actors at the expense of bad ones. Maybe something good.
Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why.
It looks like Facebook was not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users. Google has been running an app called Screenwise Meter, which bears a strong resemblance to the app distributed by Facebook Resâ¦
Google joins Facebook in Apple’s banning spree
Apple has blocked Google from distributing its internal-only iOS apps on its corporate network after a TechCrunch investigation found the search giant abusing the certificates. “Weâre working with Apple to fix a temporary disruption to some of our corporate iOS apps, which we expect will be râ¦
In Davos, the CEO reflects on his tenure, dealing with competitors and the tech industry’s image problem
A professor loses her job as programme director after urging Chinese students to speak â100% Englishâ.
A group of current and former BuzzFeed employees are asking the company to pay out paid time off to all recently laid-off staff. In response, Lenke Taylor, BuzzFeedâs human resources lead, said it wants to meet with staff and is âopen to re-evaluatingâ its decision on PTO. In an open letter to Taylâ¦
Yep, thatâs right. Eighty cents. Thatâs what Instacart actually paid Tom, an Instacart worker, for 69 minutes of his time .
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed iâ¦
A spying squad based in Abu Dhabi used a hacking tool called Karma to spy on iPhones of opponents. Reuters explains how the exploit worked.
India’s largest bank has secured an unprotected server that allowed anyone to access financial information on millions of its customers, like bank balances and recent transactions. The server, hosted in a regional Mumbai-based data center, stored two months of data from SBI Quick, a text messâ¦
Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Nat…
Google and Facebook should be allies of quality journalism, not its gravest threat.
Application that will help you learn React fundamentals. Install this application locally – there’s guided tutorial as well as guided exercises. – tyroprogrammer/learn-react-app
The European Union’s antitrust authority has charged eight unnamed banks wi…
Oregon’s bottle deposit system is recycling more containers than ever before despite major disruptions in global recycling markets.
Here is the patent that includes optionals chaining: 9,952,841 This is very disturbing. It’s like Apple has gone insane. Computer languages are not supposed to be owned by any company. We learned this mistake with Java and APIs. Computer languages are supposed to be a part of the Commons, owned by everyone for the benefit of humanity, not the benefit of a greedy corporation.
An update on Oracle v. Google, our long-running copyright dispute over the use of software interfaces.
Nick Confessore, an investigative reporter who has written about social media and data privacy, has changed his tech habits after what he has learned.
Recent months have seen an uptick in reports of JavaScript malware that hides in image files. This is often referred to as “image based…
:zap: This guide details the planning and the tools involved in creating a secure Linux production systems – work in progress. – trimstray/the-practical-linux-hardening-guide
One year ago, we announced the Series A program (YCA) to bring more transparency and consistency to fundraising. Six months ago, we announced the first Series A Batch. Hereâs how it has been going, and a bit of what we learned.