Gooooooood morning, Humanity!!! 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
- Human-robot teams work better when there’s an emotional connection
- Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money
- Benchmarking TPU, GPU, and CPU Platforms for Deep Learning
- Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance: Study
- How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner
- Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning
- Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino
- Advances in Conversational AI
Blockchain and decentralization
- Clinical Trial on a Public Blockchain
- A Comscore Company Distributes a MITM Proxy Spyware Compromising Users Security
Airo Security (AiroAV) has recently discovered that a Comscore product for macOS, called PremierOpinion, uses a harmful Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) practice to facilitate its Spyware functionalities. It is developed, distributed and orchestrated by VoiceFive, Inc. a subsidiary of Comscore, Inc.(NASDAQ: SCOR). This Comscore spyware installs a proxy on ports 8888, 8443 and 8254, where it captures … - MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency
MIT fellow Alex Lipton claims Facebook borrowed the guts of its Libra project from a paper he co-authored last year. - Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: June 25–26, 2019
A close look at two periods of degraded service on Coinbase.com during the week of June 24. - Introduction to Decentralisation
- What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment?
Slateâs Use of Your Data - Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices
- LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store
Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store – zerotier/lf - Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
Woman computer scientist of the week
Hava Siegelmann is a professor of computer science, and a world leader in the fields of Lifelong Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Computational Neuroscience. Her academic position is in the school of Computer Science and the Program of Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; she is the director of the school’s Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Lab. She joined DARPA in July, 2016 and is the Program Manager for the Lifelong Learning Machine (L2M) program.
Cloud and architecture
- Problems with the CSS background-image property
The CSS background-image property allowed us to do some amazing things, but in most cases, it’s time to leave it behind. - How I use the good parts of AWS
- GNES – a cloud-native semantic search system based on deep neural network
- Zoning laws have become absurdly restrictive
- Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple’s iMessage app
The security researchers involved say that Apple has yet to fix all of the discovered flaws. - Why Pattern Discovery Matters
- Universal Laws of the World
- Cortex – An ML model deployment platform that runs in your AWS account
- Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
- Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
Physicists have found examples of âuniversalityâ in a system of confined bubbles. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of singularities. - Lawsuit: Autopilot didn’t prevent Model 3 from driving under semi at 68 MPH
- Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach
Capital One and GitHub have been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the recent data breach that resulted in the data of over 100 million Capital One customers being exposed.
Development and languages
- Exploiting a No-Name FreeBSD Kernel Vulnerability
- GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions
- GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restricted. Please support us
- Lightning video adapters feature Apple Secure Boot, run Darwin kernel
- New Al Zimmermann’s Programming Contest – Reversing Nearness
- GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria, and Crimea
The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing portions of the service, chief executive of the Microsoft-own⦠- Pure Python event bus for multi process apps that supports asyncio and trio
Lahja is a generic multi process event bus implementation written in Python 3.6+ to enable lightweight inter-process communication, based on non-blocking asyncio – ethereum/lahja - B-threads: programming in a way that allows for easier changes
- The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers
- First Programmable Memristor Computer
- (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python))
- Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting
Quote of the week
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
— Rob Pike
Enterprises
- Facebook and Google Algorithms Are Secret–But Australia Plans to Change That
Tech giants Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could have their secretive algorithms policed by a beefed-up watchdog, under what Australia describes as world-first limits to the power that they wield over news and advertising markets. - How Google Search Works (By Google)
- In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall
- Dutch gov publishes report on Microsoft telemetry
On behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, Privacy Company has investigated the privacy risks related to the use of Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise, Office 365 ProPlus and Office Online, as well as the mobile Office apps. With the Ministryâs permission, we are publishing two blog posts - Uber Lays Off 400
The ride-hailing company’s cuts follow an internal reorganization and questions about whether it can make money. - Stripe plans to open office in Baltimore
- Amazon as experiment
I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezosâs desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future youâd find an Encyclopedia of Retail, written in maybe 1985. There would be Post-It notes on every page, and every one of those notes has been turned into a team or an - Google Site Search Alternative
- Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30. This is what happens next
- “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”
- Ring has enormous control over the ways police partners can portray its products
- Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
Google’s parent company now holds $117 billion in cash - Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock
- Combining two great companies: DoorDash to acquire Caviar
- Good for Google, Bad for America
- Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
- Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
- Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
- Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old’s return shipments of dirt
A 22-year-old is accused of scamming the largest internet retailer in the world out of nearly $370,000 by sending returned packages with dirt. - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range
Ryzen sales have reached startling heights – and Intel should be worried
Other news
- Teenage hackers are offered a second chance under European experiment
- Has the Time Come for City-Run Public Banks?
A coalition of bank activists in ten California cities is pushing for public banks. A bill to support them is working its way through the state legislature - Bellingcat journalists targeted by failed phishing attempt
Investigative news site Bellingcat has confirmed several of its staff were targeted by an attempted phishing attack on their ProtonMail accounts, which the journalists and the email provider say failed. “Yet again, Bellingcat finds itself targeted by cyber attacks, almost certainly linked to ⦠- Airbnb host ordered to pay £100k of unlawful profits after letting council flat
- Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use. - Honest to a Fault: Pepys’s journals bear witness to events large and small
- Capital One Systems Breached by Seattle Woman, U.S. Says
- A Critique of Pure Learning: What Neural Networks Can Learn from Animal Brains
- A Programmer’s Regret: Neglecting Math at University
- You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
Appleâs unfair, monopolistic policies on its App Store hurt developers and consumers alike. But thereâs a better way. - Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
- Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
- Amazon, Walmart, Ikea targeted in University of California light bulb lawsuits
- National Australia Bank compromises thousands of customer details
Thousands of National Australia Bank (NAB) customers have had ‘some personal information’ compromised after the bank uploaded the details to the servers of two ‘data service companies’. - Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter
- Valve proposes Linux kernel changes to improve gaming performance
- Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has found that the mental health and experiences of those receiving intrusive examinations, surgery, chemotherapy and emergency care are improved when visual art is installed. - How to Build Payments for an Insurance Startup
- Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
- Programming Algorithms: A Crash Course in Lisp
- Iron Age Celtic Woman Was Buried in a Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk
- Alaska’s scientists despair over plan to shrink state universities
The University of Alaska’s governing board plans to consolidate campuses to cope with a 40% cut in state funding. - China has started a grand experiment in AI education
Map With AI, tool created by Facebook researchers and engineers, is helping the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project map missing roads around the world.
In late 2017, with prices of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin surging, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong faced a tough choice: Would his company, the leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, become more like a traditional financial services company or would it lean into the industryâs wild side?In the end, …
The Internal Revenue Service has begun sending letters to more than 10,000 cryptocurrency holders, warning about penalties for failing to report income and pay tax on transactions involving virtual currencies.
Oregon has advanced the most ambitious response to housing affordability challenges in the country while California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers have struggled to pass strong renter protections and legislation that would significantly increase the state’s supply of homes. 
A collection of Scripts which disable / remove Windows 10 Features and Apps – W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
Nodes is a new way to create with code
After an uproar, DoorDash is changing its tipping policy. What would really be nice is some worker protection laws.
My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea. I may not be able to continue maintaining GameHub in future. I haven't been able to find an actual restrictions li…
The Brazilian president accuses the national space agency of exaggerating the scale of deforestation.
Training deep neural networks is one of the more computationally intensive applications running in datacenters today. Arguably, training these models is
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial
The tiny island will need to turn itself into a data hub to make use of the expected bandwidth
SAN FRANCISCO – In the small South Carolina town of Newberry, Bob’s Red Mill muesli cereal is hard to come by.
I love services like . They are the kind of just-futuristic-enough technology that excites my imagination the same way that magic does. Itâs incredible that we have accurate, automatic speech recognition for a variety of languages and accents, in real-time. There are so many use-cases, and nearly all of them are intriguing. Until now, the [â¦]
Map Caps Lock to Escape, or any key to any key. Contribute to susam/uncap development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hundreds of masked assailants dressed in white have assaulted residents, protesters, journalists and a lawmaker in Yuen Long, hours after an anti-extradition law march ended. Update: Hong Kong police made no arrests after mob assaulted commuters, protesters, journalists The group used bamboo sticks and other weapons to attack people in the area and in the West Rail …
An anonymous, crowdsourced list of which publications pay freelance writers, and how much.
For a number of years now, a group of professional hackers has been busy spying on businesses all over the world: Winnti. Believed to be controlled by China. For the first time, research by German public broadcasters BR and NDR are shedding light on how the hackers work and how much havoc they wreak.
EvilGnome, a rare type of malware with zero detections in VirusTotal, is spying on Linux desktop users by allowing the recording of audio conversations. The malware has infrastructure connections to Russian APT Gamaredon Group.
Simple command line forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts (history of USB events) on GNU/Linux – snovvcrash/usbrip
By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able to trick Cylanceâs AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign. 
With our latest v1.4.1 release, the Sia decentralized cloud storage network is ready for the next stage of adoption.
Google Cloud sets three new records in the industry-standard ML benchmark contest, MLPerf, with each of the winning runs using less than two minutes of compute time.
Learn how to run inference on Cloud Functions using TensorFlow 2.0.
I start more blog posts than I finish, due to no shortage of other distractions and at times near-crippling inability to blog short. When IBM announced they were acquiring Red Hat in October 2018 fâ¦
I was admitted to Penn for computer science, and while I got two undergraduate degrees, computer science remained my first love all along. My favorite CS course of all was CSE 121, the second semester of freshman year, which was an introduction to functional programming via the LISP language. Wh
GraphBLAS for Python. Contribute to michelp/pygraphblas development by creating an account on GitHub.
Discover key trends, attitudes, and perceptions on the state of culture, workflow, and tooling within IT organizations.
Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. But is the platform really a viable part-time hustle?
For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. Weâll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.
The firm’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China had faced much criticism.
Amazon discounted a wide range of camera gear for Prime Day this week, but some photographers scored what may be the best deals of their lives. Thanks to
The video streaming pioneer blamed price rises for adding fewer paid subscribers than hoped.
‘No safeguards’ on QA accounts, and suddenly this guy gets a Tesla and $1.6m home, say prosecutors
Technology Articles and Podcasts
org-mode on the web, built with React, optimized for mobile, synced with Dropbox and Google Drive – DanielDe/org-web
The bitter battle between the University of California, a leading source of published research papers, and Elsevier, the worldâs largest publisher of research papers, just got more bitter. 
The note – once called the currency of corrupt elites – gets a makeover with the image of a computer pioneer.
Some of the best known examples used to explain the power of prominent NLP tools (like Word2Vec) only seem to work with some cheating.
Golang was designed by Google engineers Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a statically typed, compiled language released on March 2012.
Some think automated radio emails are mucking up the spectrum reserved for amateur radio, while others say these new offerings provide a useful service
Untangling the mixed record of the latest big-fix educational trend promoted by Silicon Valley.
Triumph over five human opponents at Texas holdâem brings bots closer to solving complicated real-world problems.
VW Group is investing $2.6 billion in capital and assets into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that burst onto the scene two years ago with $1 billion in backing from Ford. The deal, which has been rumored for months, is part of a broader alliance between VW Group and Ford tâ¦
With .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 out the door, we thought it would be useful to take a brief look at the history of our infrastructure systems and the significant improvements that have been made in the last year or so.
What is the current behavior? Webpack-cli crushes: .\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\cli.js:352 if (!e && fileOwnerId === process.getuid()) utimesSync(openCollectivePath, now, now); TypeError:…
Wage war across the galaxy with three unique and powerful races. StarCraft II is a real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment for the PC and Mac.
Malicious apps from a campaign called “Agent Smith” have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point.
âMonitoring shows anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node when it is supposed to be idle. Node was recently updated. RDP to that node, observe Internet Explorer window loaded MSN homepage and renders animated banner ads. Should send the bill for 8 CPU-hours to Microsoft…â
Ahead of the highly anticipated Ryzen 3000 desktop series launch, here is a look at the AMD Zen 2 core microarchitecture.
Ad campaigns that manipulate searchers’ behavior are frighteningly easy for anyone to run.
Here are all the businesses, brands and subsidiaries (we know of) owned by “The Everything Store.”
How a nascent search engine became a tech behemoth, one edit at a time.
Use Google Sheets as your no-setup data store. Build fast and get a familiar interface for managing the data, with the open source Stein.
Saudi Arabia has quietly directed tens of millions of dollars a year to American universities from M.I.T. to Northern Kentucky. What are the nation’s rulers getting out of it?
An old joke goes: Q: What do you call someone who knows three languages? A: Trilingual Q: What do you call someone who knows two languages? A: Bilingual Q: What do you call someone who knows just oâ¦
Deutsche Bank laid off staff from Sydney to New York on Monday as it began to sl…
Dell E7440 & E7240 Hackintosh Boot Pack Fully Working – ameeno/Dell-E7440-Hackintosh
Maker Faire and Maker Media are getting a second chance after suddenly going bankrupt, but they’ll return in a weakened capacity. Sadly, their flagship crafting festivals remain in jeopardy, and it’s unclear how long the reformed company can survive. Maker Media suddenly laid off all 22â¦
Today we are releasing a new course, Deep Learning from the Foundations, which shows how to build a state of the art deep learning model from scratch.
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
‘Oh wow, the AI just tagged my profile picture as basic’
California is the first state to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their âartificial identityâ when they are used to sell a product or influence a voter.
A new tool estimates how much electricity Bitcoin uses during the course of a year.
Use the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands.
Lawmakers suggest that moving toward “retro” technology on some strategic points could decrease vulnerabilities, inspired in part by a 2015 blackout in Ukraine.
I was playing Hypnospace Outlaw, a game about a retro-themed OS. This OS has a peculiar behavior that when loading a webpage, wiggling the mouse cursor will load the page faster.
Genetically modified microbes release “nanobodies” that alert the immune system to cancer in mice, scientists report.
Local release of an anti-CD47 nanobody from an engineered non-pathogenic Escherichia coli strain is safe and enhances activation of tumor-infiltrating T cells, slowing tumor growth in mice.
Microsoft has closed its ebook store—and will soon make its customers’ libraries disappear along with it.
We don’t really know how much Amazon pays in taxes — it’s time to find out
Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005. In his 2004 book titled On Intelligence, and in his research before and after, he and his team have worked to reverse-engineer the neocortex and propose artificial intelligence architectures, approaches, and ideas that are inspired by the human brain. These ideas include Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) from 2004 and The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence from 2017. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where
Only six months after snapping up virtualization specialist Parallels, Canadian software company Corel is itself getting acquired. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with multiple sources that private equity giant KKR has closed a deal to buy the company from Vector Capital, which has owned some â¦
In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates itâs critical speed score. Itâs no secret that speed has become a crucial factor inâ¦
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against Amazon.com Inc in a case that…
Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration – cuelang/cue
Discusses the benefits of reducing food waste and its impact on the environment
Leaving lawns untreated and allowing flowering plants to grow can help support the endangered rusty patched bumblebee
Youtube’s ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Ask HN: Is this Paypal experience customary? GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
ðââï¸Your new best friend built with an artificial neural network – olivia-ai/olivia
âNo one knows what is true anymore.â From threats to everyday citizens to organized crime and national security issues, deepfakes could affect every level of society. The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held an open hearing to discuss possible countermeasures with leaders in law, foreign policy, and AI development.
Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material
Learn about synthesizers via Abletonâs interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
IBM researchers published details of a new AI model that can predict the development of malignant breast cancer at rates comparable to human radiologists.
A huge acceleration in the use of robots will affect jobs around the world, Oxford Economics says.
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference – probcomp/Gen
Take away my toolbox and ask me to be a carpenter. This is what Google and Apple are asking of Iranâs budding entrepreneurship sector by barring access to essential platforms and software.
Meaningful control of data in distributed systems. – project-oak/oak
For a small group of bitcoin enthusiasts, the internet is a vulnerability. They’re using satellites, ham radios, and mesh networks to stay current on the cryptocurrency.
A distributed database-system implementing an entity-attribute-value data-model that is time-aware, accumulative, and atomically consistent – Workiva/eva
Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up [â¦]
Today we are introducing Service Quotas, a new AWS feature which enables you to view and manage your quotas, also known as limits, from a central location via the AWS console, API or the CLI. Service Quotas is a central way to find and manage service quotas, an easier way to request and track quota increases, [â¦]
Googleâs private Equiano subsea cable will improve connectivity, resilience and latency for the people who live and work in Africa.
Using ARIMA model, you can forecast a time series using the series past values. In this post, we build an optimal ARIMA model from scratch and extend it to Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) and SARIMAX modelsâ¦
Teaching-focused digital circuit simulator. Contribute to tilk/digitaljs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ever since the demise of Google+, many developers have expressed a desire to have a service that would provide a way to create and manage…
With Firefox Preview, weâre combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox’s own mobile browser engine — GeckoView — the same high-performance, feature enabling motor that fuels our Focus app.
Iâm running in to the same issue. After npm install -g npm@latest ⦠any subsequent attempts to re-install npm (downgrade) will fail [2019-06-27T18:17:33.971Z] + npm install -g npm@latest [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! path /var/lib/jenkins/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJS-LTS/lib/node_modules/npm [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! code EISGIT [2019-06-27T18:17:38.093Z] npm ERR! git /var/lib/jenkins/tools/jenkins.plugins.nodejs.tools.NodeJSInstallation/NodeJ…
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference – probcomp/Gen
A tech columnist’s latest privacy experiment found Google Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser â in a single week.
Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business.
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that canât be automated?
The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. Itâs great for securityâbut not so great for your privacy.
Advanced Micro Devices revived its fortunes when it decided to help Chinese partners develop computer-chip technology. The deal sparked a prolonged battle with Washington over national security.
The Trump administration’s decision to charge Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act has generated significant controversy. One legal expert described it as “crossing a “constitutional Rubicon.” CPJ warned that the indictment could be the opening salvo in a broader attack on First Amendment journalistic protections….
Following an audit by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General, it has been confirmed that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) network, part of NASA, has been hacked and the Johnson Space Center has yet to restore all communications data because of continuing concernsâ¦
Security researchers say they have uncovered a massive espionage campaign involving the theft of call records from hacked cell network providers to conduct targeted surveillance on individuals of interest. The hackers have systematically broken in to more than 10 cell networks around the world to dâ¦
Hacked by suspected Chinese cyber spies five times from 2014 to 2017, security s…
Study of thousands of players shows a simple online game works like a ‘vaccine’, increasing skepticism of fake news by giving people a âweak doseâ of the methods behind disinformation. 
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet se…
The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) – microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel
The Calibra wallet app is built on blockchain technology to enable people to move Libra, a borderless cryptocurrency, freely, securely and affordably.
Libraâs mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. – libra/libra
Facebook says its âstablecoin,â will empower billions and underpin a stunningly ambitious global economy. And it promises to keep its hands off your transactional data.
Despite skepticism and concern about Facebook’s reach, the company envisions an alternative financial system based on a new cryptocurrency called Libra.
Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than p…
The right to repair battle trudges on despite a record amount of legislative proposals.
What bugs cause production cloud incidents? Liu et al., HotOS’19 Last time out we looked at SLOs for cloud platforms, today we’re looking at what causes them to be broken! This is a stuâ¦
JavaScript gives us a built-in language feature for handling exceptions: tryâ¦catch statements. And they’re better than littering our code with if-statements. But they can be problematic. And they are not the only way to handle errors. In this article, weâll take a look at using the âEither monadâ as an alternative to tryâ¦catch.
In revision r237547 we introduced a new bytecode format for JavaScriptCore (JSC).
First they hijacked my T-Mobile service, then they stole my Google and Twitter accounts and charged my bank with a $25,000 Bitcoin purchase. I’m stuck in my own personal Black Mirror episode. Why will no one help me?
Following news from earlier this month that FedEx was dumping Amazon from its air cargo service, Amazon this morning announced the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air. The retailer says it’s leasing an additional 15 Boeing 737-800 cargo aircraft from partner GE Capital Aviatâ¦
These results once again highlight why AMD is chipping away at Intel’s market share both in the consumer as well as the server market.
Google Maps is filled with false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby. Some are fibbing to get your business. Others are posted by predators seeing what they can take.
The Regulus Cyber researchers found that spoofing attacks on the Tesla GNSS (GPS) receiver could easily be carried out wirelessly and remotely, resulting in controlling the car’s navigation decisions.
When you’re a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman named LaKiesha, life can get complicated. This Ohio woman with a name that blurs racial boundaries says people often treat her as an imposter.
I was thinking recently that here in the West we take our video game history largely for granted. Look back at the Golden Age of video games, and it’s apparent that we had it pretty good Râ¦
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 final release is out now! Exciting news! Shortly after the release candidate we are very proud to introduce you the fruit of so much work, some visible and much more behind…
The place is the historic lecture theater of the Royal Institution in London. The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system,â¦
Security Bulletins that relate to Netflix Open Source – Netflix/security-bulletins
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead.
Using Ramroot, we can run Arch Linux entirely from RAM! Yes, you read right. It loads the entire root filesystem into RAM at boot.