Gooooooood morning, Information highway!!! 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
- Amazon Is Gutting Its Voice-Assistant Alexa
- Good Machine Learning Practice for Medical Device Development-Guiding Principles
- Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year
- A Plucky Robot Found the Long-Lost Endurance Shipwreck
- Rhasspy – Offline private voice assistant for many human languages
- CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
Meta AI has built CICERO, the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the popular strategy game Diplomacy. It’s a breakthrough toward building AI that can use language to work with people to achieve strategic goals. - RimWorld: A sci fi colony SIM driven by an intelligent AI storyteller
- Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech
Alexa, how does Amazon decide when the grand plan for conversational commerce has failed? - Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
- AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
- The SF Police Dept is requesting permission for their robots to use deadly force
The San Francisco Police Department is currently applying to the city’s Board of Supervisors for permission to use robots to kill suspects that law - AI Music Generator
- San Francisco police consider letting robots use ‘deadly force’
- I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio
- BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters’ identities
- AI generated puzzles from Wikipedia articles
- Generative AI profits off your code. Make them pay for it
- I/O is no longer the bottleneck
Blockchain and decentralization
- Homebrew (brew.sh) guy has gone full blockchain/Web3
- AWS and Blockchain
- Troubleshooting on a Distributed Team Without Losing Common Ground
- Pipe CEO loaned $80M to a Bitcoin mining company, didn’t tell board
- A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub
Contribute to chatternet/chatternet-client-http development by creating an account on GitHub.
Woman computer scientist of the week
Ileana Streinu is a Romanian-American computer scientist and mathematician, the Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is known for her research in computational geometry, and in particular for her work on kinematics and structural rigidity.
Cloud and architecture
- Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build AI cloud computer
- iCloud for Windows downloading other people’s photos
- A toy example of Bayesian hyperparameter optimization on parallel cloud VMs
- GitBook bypassing Cloudflare DNS to route traffic to their domain
- Hexagonal Architecture vs. Free Monad
Development and languages
- ABI compatibility in Python: How hard could it be?
- A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden
- HelenOS: a microkernel-based, multiserver OS from scratch
- Koch-funded group sues US state agency for installing spyware on 1M Androids
Class-action lawsuit seeks $1 in nominal damages - Run unsafe user generated JavaScript in the browser
- I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
Puk Puk Pukaaak! Cluck cluck… Bwak Bwak Bwaaak, puk puk pukaaak! Cluck-cluck-cluck bok. - QuickJS Running in WebAssembly
- Digitizing Analog Video Through a Digital Camcorder
- Kernel (OS Kernel Book)
- Introduction to Embedded Systems Programming (Ada)
- Little languages are the future of programming
- CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows
TL;DR Recommendations - Yapsl: Yet another Python SMS library
- MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem
- Perlisms – “Epigrams in Programming”
- Atlas OS: We redesigned Windows for gaming
- Music Studio: Windows-based C64 SID music creator software
- Extremely Linear Git History
- JXL.js – JPEG XL Decoder in JavaScript Using WebAssembly in Web Worker
- Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
- Brotli-G: A GPU compression/decompression standard for digital assets
- Quickadd: A Python library for extracting date and time from natural language
- The case for dynamic, functional programming
- WebAssembly back end merged into GHC
- A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue
- Microsoft’s ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 start menu
- Speed up your site by running JavaScript when the browser is idle
- Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programming languages
- Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea
\ˈfor.d͡ʒe.jo\ – libre code forge – a community-run soft fork of Gitea
(Code of Conduct: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/code-of-conduct) - Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀. Contribute to nektos/act development by creating an account on GitHub. - The Origins of Python
Python is arguably the most popular programming language worldwide. Since its debut in 1991, Python’s accessibility and rich functionality has helped it gather a huge userbase. Its design was influenced by creator Guido van Rossum’s involvement with an earlier language, ABC. Lambert Meertens, one of ABC’s developers, recounts Python’s origins and how ABC’s design philosophy shaped its successor.
Quote of the week
It’s not that Perl programmers are idiots, it’s that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
— Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp
Enterprises
- Cannon Lake: Intel’s Forgotten Generation
- A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
- Collapse of Carvana, the ‘Amazon of Used Cars’, Continues
- Twitter was special. But it’s time to leave
- Upgrading Multi-GPU Interconnectivity with the Third-Generation Nvidia NVSwitch
- France bans Office 365 and Google Docs from schools and public administration
Le ministère de l’Éducation nationale confirme ne pas vouloir des offres de Microsoft Office 365 et de Google Workspace dans les écoles. - An offshore workforce is training Amazon’s warehouse-monitoring algorithms
- Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
- The Twitter Advertiser Exodus
- Intel on Demand
- 2 Years at Twitter
- Videolan: Google refuses to take down or unlist domains with tons of malware
- Smart Move, Google
- Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America
- Twitter fired more software engineers.. because their “code is not satisfactory”
- Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries
- Numbers that explain Intel’s decline
- Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
- Microsoft’s Toxic Culture Persists Despite Pledge by CEO Satya Nadella
- 'Very scary' issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones
Action News Jax investigates found numerous complaints online from other Google Pixel 6 owners who say their phones have trouble calling 911 or emergency services. - Germany Forces a Microsoft 365 Ban Due to Privacy Concerns
- Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022
- German state of Hesse has banned the use of Microsoft 365 in its schools
- Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam
- Amazon-like product recommendation engine to power open-source eComm
- Google to lay off 10k “poor performers”
- Tesla.com/LICENSE.txt
- Art Made with Artificial Intelligence Wins at State Fair
- German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR
Other news
- Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too
- The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
- Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator
tiniest x86-64-linux emulator. Contribute to jart/blink development by creating an account on GitHub. - Universities and Sports Betting Collaborated
- Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Team Among Top Political Donors Before Bankruptcy
- The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried will leave deep scars
- Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers
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What’s this? Minecraft running on #AsahiLinux with open source GPU drivers?
Image credit: @yuka@fedi.yuka.dev
- Termux on Android 5 or 6
Termux – a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages. – Termux on android 5 or 6 · termux/termux-app Wiki - Anti-Woke Bank GloriFi to Shut Down
- Frog: OCR Tool for Linux
- Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and embedded systems
- Deterministic Linux for controlled testing and software bug-finding
- Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free
- Learn Kubernetes with Google
- Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall
- The Huxleys electrified evolution
- Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
- Stable Diffusion 2.0 on Mac and Linux via imaginAIry Python library
- FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions
- “After 8 months of Blueprint I reduced my epigenetic age by 5.1 yrs in 7 months”
- CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
- iPod Nano V6 LCD Hacking
- ‘Bin chickens’ learned to wash poisonous cane toads
- University offers investigation into Oracle finance disaster
- Bankman-Fried being invited to speak at a New York Times event alongside Yellen
- Black Friday Deals (macOS apps, SaaS, Books, Courses, etc.)
- FTX owned an $11.5M stake in a tiny rural bank in Washington state
Leverage the power of AI in any Notion page. Now in private alpha.
This âintelligent sharpshooterâ farming robot distinguishes crops from weeds â and it could help feed 10 billion people.Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube ⺠h…
I wanted to see how a language model would analyze my existing code. I had the model look at some existing code and rank the probability of each token appearing given the previous tokens. I also had it suggest its own token and compared the probability of my token to the probability of the model’s token.
The long-running project has been shelved after a devastating Accenture report cited multiple areas of concern. ASIC chair Joe Longo said the ASX «failed to demonstrate appropriate control».
A friendly programming language from the future.
Section 230 created a space wherein platforms could build the viable businesses that have come to dominate the internet experience.
Generate your custom image from your GitHub username. A fun experiment of image generation.
Internationally published visual artist based in Brasov, Romania. I shoot vivid portraits and use post production to create and alternative reality 
Meta has open sourced Sapling, a new, Git-compatible source control client that scales to the largest repositories in the world.
Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model of mega publishers to physical device evolution to format obsolescence, digital books are fragile and […]
To hear some people talk about functional programming, you’d think they’d joined some kind of cult. They prattle on about how it’s changed the way they think about code. They’ll extol the benefits of purity, at length. And proclaim that they are now able to “reason about their code”—as if all other code is irrational and incomprehensible. It’s enough to make anyone skeptical. Still, one has to wonder. There must be a reason these zealots get so worked up. What are they so excited about?
A Python PDF parsing library and tool built on top to browse the internal structure of a PDF file – GitHub – desgeeko/pdfsyntax: A Python PDF parsing library and tool built on top to browse the int…
Looking for special servers.
A portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system written from scratch. – GitHub – HelenOS/helenos: A portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system written from scratch.
Play and Enjoy the History of Microsoft Flight Simulator – GitHub – s-macke/FSHistory: Play and Enjoy the History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
2 weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
Lately I’ve been spending time on Mastodon for … reasons. Here’s my link: https://oldbytes.space/@blakespot. In my recently active time on the platform, I have found quite a few excellent retrocomputing-related posts by creative members of the community. One such post, … Continue reading →
Apple and Google have nurtured their walled gardens — App Store and Google Play Store — condemning developers to walking on eggshells around store rules, paying exorbitant fees, and living in the fear of powerful reviewers working behind the scenes. The walls of these gardens are of different height — with Apple’s being far steeper than that of Google’s — but they are both hard to climb.
Update (Nov. 16): Check out this new interview of SBF by my friend and leading Effective Altruist writer Kelsey Piper. Here Kelsey directly confronts SBF with some of the same moral and psychologic…
The similarities between Ivar Kreuger and Sam Bankman Fried.
Online teaching is hard, especially if you don’t have a background in teaching and education. Try these most effective online teaching methods
Beginning in 2023, the U.K. will require Americans to apply for Travel Authorization and undergo biometric checks when visiting.
Sam Bankman-Fried was written up as the J.P. Morgan of crypto, but most of his success was due to very fancy financial engineering
TAU researchers find that exercise defeats cancer by increasing glucose consumption
TL;DR: We’ve created a DSL and compiler for modeling micro-architecture that handles a very broad class of architectures – CPU, GPUs, VLIWs, DSPs, ML accelerators, and embedded devices. This effort grew out of a need to quickly develop and experiment with high-quality compilers and tools to facilitate rapid architecture exploration. We named the DSL “MDL” for “Microarchitecture Description Language”. While being significantly more expressive than TableGen’s Schedules and Itineraries used in LL…
Seems like the other shoe finally dropped and a formal complaint has been filed with the Northern District of California regarding Copilot and Codex. The complaint is fascinating because the one th…
janky twitter replacement. Contribute to diracdeltas/tweets development by creating an account on GitHub.
You can go a long time as a JavaScript developer without ever feeling the need for generators. Hence, it’s natural to wonder: What are they good for? Why would you ever need one? What’s the point? But there generators can do some neat tricks. And they may even change the way you approach certain problems.
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With GitHub code search, your code—and the world’s—is at your fingertips.
GitHub Next Project: Write code without the keyboard. Difficulty typing? Use your voice to code without spelling things out by talking with GitHub Copilot.
Asyncio allows us to use asynchronous programming with coroutine-based concurrency in Python. Although asyncio has been available in Python for many years now, it remains one of the most interestin…
Scientific Reports – Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range
The little-known social network’s user base has swelled after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
The site’s new owner says accounts failing to specify they are parodies will be permanently suspended.
by Fabien Chouteau – Nov 07, 2022. Today I want to share a great story about why many NVIDIA products are now running formally verified SPARK code. This blog post is in part a teaser for the case study that NVIDIA and AdaCore published today. Our journey begins with the NVIDIA Security Team. Like…
NVIDIA PhysX SDK. Contribute to NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX development by creating an account on GitHub.
The media company added 12.1 million Disney+ customers in the most recent quarter, bumping total subscriber base above Netflix.
Take a tour of some of the differences that are notable when migrating to FreeBSD. Along the way, we’ll give insights into the background.
Learn HTML + CSS with a text adventure course
FTX officials appeared to confirm rumors of a hack on Telegram, instructing users to delete FTX apps and avoid its website.
The NetHack Learning Environment. Contribute to facebookresearch/nle development by creating an account on GitHub.
Robb Oat is a robot software engineer.
How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.
Microbial molecules from soil, seawater and human bodies are among the planet’s least understood.
An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek.
Neuroscientists often use neural networks to model the kind of tasks the brain performs, in hopes that the models could suggest new hypotheses regarding how the brain itself performs those tasks. But a group of MIT researchers urges that more caution should be taken when interpreting these models.
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
How prepared the EDA community is to address upcoming challenges isn’t clear.
Colorado is the latest state to enact a law curbing noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements, but it will not be the last, experts predict.
GitHub Copilot litigation
New Lawsuit Argues that Directors Failed to Consider Portfolio Impacts of Corporate Decisions On Monday, October 3, a class action was filed in the …
Create, maintain and consume Protocol Buffers APIs with our modern Protocol Buffers ecosystem
Be careful bending the 12VHPWR power connector.
The party’s over and the pain begins
Manuel Araoz’s personal website.
Earlier today, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison sent the following note to Stripe employees.
Teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine-learning ethics were among those gutted, capping a week of chaos and uncertainty about the company’s future under Elon Musk.
Since we shared our previous article about “Google cracking down on VPN adblockers”, we’ve been closely following the situation of the Google Play Policy changes and the company has now entered into the next phase in their plan to remove VPN based ad blockers. On November 1st, all app developers that use the VpnService API received an email from Google, requiring them to fill in a VPN Service declaration form. This means that Google is determined to enforce their policy and make it harder fo…
Geopolitics could give U.S. tech giant’s contract chipmaking strategy a boost
Nourah al-Qahtani was convicted of «violating public order using social media», activists say.
Rakuten Mobile is replacing Red Hat as its Linux OS supplierCEO Tareq Amin wasn’t happy with Red Hat product support and billing decisionsThose moves “killed m…
Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. Is this Microsoft Linux?
Womp is a totally new way to 3D. No downloads or gray-on-gray apps with 1,000 buttons. Get started with any web browser, and your creativity.
Contribute to Dhghomon/programming_at_40 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bumble has made an open-source version of our Private Detector™ A.I. technology available on GitHub.
This ardent Bitcoin advocate presents us with a vision of Web3 that is very attractive to the end user.
Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.
Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz
Free tier of Heroku Dynos, Postgres and Data for Redis will no longer be available after November 28, 2022. Let's find a list of services with a free plan that developers can use as an alternat…
If you are a Rust developer you have most likely celebrated the news that the version 1.64 released on 22/09/2022 is 10-20% faster on…
Flexible and Constant Time Programming Language. Contribute to PLSysSec/FaCT development by creating an account on GitHub.
Python 3.11 is finally released. In the CPython release team, we have put a lot of effort into making 3.11 the best version of Python possible. Better tracebacks, faster Python, exception groups and except*, typing improvements and much more. Get it here: This is the stable release of Python 3.11.0 Python 3.11.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some …
Using truss, dtrace & ctfconvert to figure out a faulty illumos kernel module.
Compact Magazine, a radical American journal
Examples of common UI elements and interactions with HTML and CSS alone.
In the workplace, spreadsheet experts face a constant barrage of help requests; ârun the other wayâ
Software and game preservation is an increasingly important topic, and the best way to keep software accessible for future generations is by releasing the original source code. That’s exactly what just happened for Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, originally released in 1995.
Google has recently fixed a bug in Chrome with a big implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC / H.265 video content.
A new tool in Google Search can help you easily control whether your personally-identifiable information can be found in Search results.
Those who are now beating up on the new 12VHPWR (although I don’t really like the part either) may generate nice traffic with it, but they simply haven’t reco
Elon Musk now owns Twitter. Here’s how that’s happened, and what’s happened so far under his ownership and leadership.
Intel® Extension for TensorFlow*. Contribute to intel/intel-extension-for-tensorflow development by creating an account on GitHub.
Support for using Rust in the Linux Kernel was recently merged by Linus Torvalds. This is important because Rust is memory safe, meaning that code written in Rust does not suffer from things like buffer overflows, use-after-free, and other memory management vulnerabilities that plague software written in unsafe languages like C and C++. Being able to use Rust in the Linux kernel is an incredible milestone on the road to a more secure future for the Internet and everything else that depends heavily on Linux.
Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
AI models for health care that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest. Here’s why
Bitcoin has failed. Cryptocurrencies and DeFi platforms are now more vulnerable to privacy breaches and hacking than traditional banking.
Butterfly wing patterns have a basic plan to them, which is manipulated by non-coding regulatory DNA to create the diversity of wings seen in different species, according to new research.
A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer. Contribute to rvaiya/warpd development by creating an account on GitHub.
Use new programming languages knowledge to level up your Software Engineer career!
HTMX, WebAssembly, Rust, ServiceWorkers. Contribute to richardanaya/wasm-service development by creating an account on GitHub.
(SECUSO) Lets you watch the weather for cities and locations of your choice
Recently I started migrating my note-taking from Notion to Obsidian. Obsidian does not offer free syncing between devices and you will have to manually set up a method to sync your notes, either by using something like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Git.
GitHub Copilot investigation
Over the past 10-20 years, and particularly in recent years, the computer vision research community has produced an abundance of frameworks capable of taking a single image and using it to perform ‘deepfake puppetry’ – the use of the facial and body movements of one person to simulate a secondary,…
Thank the boom-and-bust cycle—and America’s government
Q: How Faithful is Amazon’s Rings of Power to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Books? ANSWER: Amazon Prime’s show is not very faithful to J.R.R. Tolkien at all. But there’s a legal reason w…
Learn how Li-ion and LiPo batteries move so many electrons without having to open one yourself. Our CT scanner lets you see inside while staying safe.
Jay Solomon sued Dechert LLP, saying they worked with hackers from India to steal emails between him and one of his sources. The law firm disputed the claim.
Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform – GitHub – killbill/killbill: Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform
HTTP does a pretty good job staying out of everyone’s way. If you’re reading this article, there’s a solid chance it was delivered to you
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring. 
For a project I was working on, some of the research involved listening to thousands of sales calls from well known high-growth B2B SaaS companies.
We analyzed trends in the implementation of security best practices and took a closer look at various types of misconfigurations that contribute to the most common causes of security breaches.
Although APIs are the lifeblood of so many software applications today, the impact on their dependencies when they break can often be overlooked. And while full outages can have a more widespread and obvious impact across a user base, breaking changes to an API’s contract can be just as impactful – and much more difficult […]
Why choosing a popular cloud service, like AWS or Google Cloud Platform, may be the wrong choice for you and what to do instead.
A tiling window manager for Windows. Contribute to LGUG2Z/komorebi development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET. Contribute to gui-cs/Terminal.Gui development by creating an account on GitHub.
On October 7th, Toyota revealed a partial copy of their T-Connect source code had been accidentally exposed for 5 years, including access to data for over 290,000 customers.
Zeek, world’s leading open source network security monitoring platform, now deployed on more than one billion global endpoints via Microsoft Windows
Lawsuit claims Amazon is No. 1 seller of deadly chemical used in suicides.
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
Meta’s new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enough value to outweigh their costs.
Project Starline’s early access program allows partners to test Starline and explore how it can help them navigate the future of work.
Can Stripe actually use Stripe Billing to manage subscriptions and invoice its customers? We conducted the experiment.
“This study provides clear data that it’s not as simple as saying, ‘Colonoscopy is the most sensitive test, and therefore it is the best.’ It still prevented cancers.”
Introducing native support for the popular display server protocol on Linux.
One of Solana’s largest DeFi protocol was hacked. Check out what we know so far about how the hacker stole $100MM.
What I’ve learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
New research within the HYBRIT project shows superior results on the properties and quality of the hydrogen direct reduced sponge iron compared to the fossil-based process.
Cellular version of computer game challenges assumptions about intelligence.
Technology · 2022
Uniform eXchange Format (uxf) is a plain text human readable optionally typed storage format that supports custom types. It may serve as a convenient alternative to csv, ini, json, sqlite, toml, xm…
A former Louisville Metro Police Department officer used law enforcement technology as part of a scheme that involved hacking the Snapchat accounts of young women and using sexually explicit photos and videos they had taken to extort them, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed on Tuesday. According to a sentencing memorandum, Bryan Wilson used … Continued