Gooooooood morning, Humans!!! 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
- Dlib: Modern C++/Python Toolkit for Machine Learning
- How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter
- Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence from Gunshot-Detecting AI
Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year. - Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent
- AI Background Remover
- Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks
We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce. Triton makes it possible to reach peak hardware performance with relatively little - Killing Robots and Just War Theory
- South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor
University of Surrey professor secures landmark after the UK, Europe and the US refused applications - After Neurodiversity
- Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch Covid. None of them helped
- The dark side of entrepreneurship
Blockchain and decentralization
- “Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation”
- Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It’s time to ban cryptocurrencies
- Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year. - I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin’s heart
Woman computer scientist of the week
Teresa K. Attwood is a Professor of Bioinformatics in the School of Computer Science and School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at University College London (UCL) from 1993 to 1999 and at the University of Manchester from 1999 to 2002.
Cloud and architecture
- The SaaS Org Chart
- Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server
- CDN experiment: Free CDN shockingly faster than Amazon CloudFront in many cases
- IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
IBM announced IBM z/OS V2.5, the next-generation operating system (OS) for IBM Z, designed to accelerate client adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and drive application modernization projects. - SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen,then turned up on YouTube
- Full-Stack React SaaS Boilerplate with Auth and Payment
- The Baked Data architectural pattern
- “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to PyPI at this time”
- AWS Support for Internet Explorer 11 Is Ending
If you are using Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) to access the AWS Management Console, web-based services such as Amazon Chime or Amazon Honeycode, or other parts of the AWS web site (AWS Documentation, AWS Marketing, AWS Marketplace, or AWS Support), it is time to upgrade to a more modern & secure browser such as […] - Google Cloud offers a model for fixing Google’s product-killing reputation
- The Future of Work at Cloudflare
Development and languages
- Windows Command-Line Obfuscation
- How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack
As JavaScript is getting more and more popular, teams are leveraging its support on many levels in their stack – front-end, back-end… - Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool
- Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information
- Types versus sets in math and programming languages
- Jello: Print “jello ” in every programming language
- Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended I have read https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/… - Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
- Taking Months to Bits: A calendrical journey into low-level programming
- Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
Please provide the following information qBittorrent version and Operating System 4.3.3, Windows 10 20H2, What is the problem Windows Security / Virus & threat protection – blocks / removes exi… - A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint
A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint. – GitHub – amirgamil/apollo: A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint. - Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone
- Text2Code: Converts English queries into Python code
- Functional Programming in OCaml
- Handling 100 Requests per Second with Python and Django
- DigitalOcean Down?
- Drum Synthesis in JavaScript
- Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run
The git bisect command helps you identify the first commit in a range that broke something. You give it a good commit and a bad one, and it will do a binary search between the two to find the first bad commit. At each step, you say either git bisect … - The Array Cast: A podcast about the array programming languages
- What Does Saying That ‘Programming Is Hard’ Say, and About Whom?
- Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
- Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing
- Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
Quote of the week
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
— Sophocles, Ajax
Enterprises
- Hobson’s Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market
- The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds A still life of bags, dirt, and plants
- Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States
- Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X
- 16/30 Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
- Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it’s downright lethal
- Tesla Q2 2021 earnings release – Big profit beat
- Intel’s Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?
- Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025
Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) by 2025. - Tesla second-quarter profits top $1bn even as it struggles to handle demand
- Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2021 Results
- Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – A Sad but True Story
From time to time Microsoft decides to block or even silently drop emails that are sent by my selfhosted email server. It’s always a pain and takes a lot of effort to deal with it. This time I decided to…Read more › - No, Facebook and Google Are Not Public Utilities
- Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code
First things first: if you are interested in advertising on Techdirt in a non-intrusive, non-obnoxious way, please contact us. We’d love to work with you on cool, innovative advertising and sponsorship that engages, instead of annoys, our… - Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down
- Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring
Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance types to favor those built on AWS Nitro System, and added “Networking” to the title. Let’s go back to the summer of 2006 and the launch of EC2. […] - Google and Facebook Mandate Vaccines for Employees At U.S. Offices
- The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over. - Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO
Language learning app Duolingo Inc (DUOL.O) notched a valuation of $6.5 billion after its shares surged nearly 40% in the company’s Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, becoming the latest education technology startup to impress Wall Street. - Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
- How to format text in Twitter using Unicode characters
- Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular data access in December
- Hunting a bug in the i40e Intel driver
A few months ago, after finally having received the new disks for our new Ceph cluster, we decided to benchmark them, so we could tune our cluster to get the best performance out of it, but that’s a story for another time. - Our Tesla Model 3 Hasn’t Delivered Big Savings in Maintenance Costs
- Google Translate pronounces ‘rooster’ in Spanish
- Fire breaks out at Tesla Big Battery
- Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations
- Tesla Megapack Caught Fire at Victorian Big Battery Site in Australia
- 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
- Twitter’s first algorithmic bias bounty challenge
As part of this year’s DEFCON AI Village, we’re trying something radical by introducing the industry’s first algorithmic bias bounty competition. - 300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire
- Better Business Intelligence in Elixir with Livebook
- PaperDelivery – fetch articles from your Twitter feed
Other news
- I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi
- A Linux distro with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more
- Hacking Is the Opposite of Marketing
- Reimagined toilets at a South Korea university transform human waste into biogas
- PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects
- Fluxsort: A stable adaptive partitioning comparison sort
A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort. – GitHub – scandum/fluxsort: A stable adaptive branchless partitioning comparison sort. - Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim
- Digitize MiniDV Tapes with Linux
- Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel
- Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud
- Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
- Citizen pays New Yorkers $25 an hour to livestream crime scenes
- Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
- Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues
- Compilers as Teachers
- Dimensionality reduction in neural data analysis
- iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code
- Brain imaging before and after Covid-19 in UK Biobank
- Blogger has bad UX and it annoys me
- Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
The lie from ad tech is that there’s no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same. - Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database
- So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming
- Common UI/UX mistakes devs make
- Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning
- Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits
- Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the Linux kernel
- Murray’s jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
- Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a âspeech neuroprosthesisâ that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.
The fast galley probably sank during an earthquake in the 100s BCE.
Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as a learning project – GitHub – erikgrinaker/toydb: Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as a learning project
IPFS-Less IPFS
While working on taproot support for transactionfee.info, it became apparent that there already exist a few Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) outputs on mainnet. Anyone can spend these outputs, but they are non-standard and thus not relayed between nodes in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network. However, a mining pool can include non-standard transactions in their block. We cover the six P2TR outputs already present on mainnet and explain why the outputs can be spent by anyone before taproot activates.
Imagine a world in which nature is intertwined with the industrial: giant lotus flowers replace concrete skyscrapers; an urban forest forms a city constantly in shift through a tree’s life cycle. This is the imaginarium of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten. To discover his work is to fall under the spe
In the thirteen years since it was founded, Harvard University’s Nieman Lab has developed a reputation for thoughtful explorations of digital trends in journalism and incisive critiques of how reporters and editors go about their business. The Lab’s founder, Joshua Benton, and Harvard, are now facing scrutiny of their own. A former journalism professor has […]
A glimpse of the coming paradigm shift in how we do development
Making neural nets uncool again
Video editing with Python. Contribute to Zulko/moviepy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Two months ago my younger brother asked:-bhaiya I want to learn how to make a website, can you please help me.
Learn how to bring multithreaded applications written in other languages to WebAssembly.
In this blog post, Jean Yang talks about why there aren’t more “deep tech” developer tools startups. Jean debunks myths about lack of budget or developer buying power—and focuses on how we can all work together to use deeply technical solutions to solve major developer problems.
False MS Windows Defender positive of DeCSS DVD decryption software as a virus.
GitHubâs supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report & prevent vulnerabilities.
This is the story of how all non-admin users can read the registryâââand so elevate privileges and access sensitive credential informationâ¦
This weekend, Tesla started offering their long-awaited Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199/month. Along with the package, Tesla is offering a $1,500 hardware upgrade for early owners who have old hardware that is not capable of full self-driving tasks. The problem is, Tesla previously told those same owners that their cars were capable of full […]
The move comes as activist and media organizations publish new findings on the Israeli surveillance vendor.
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) plans to open its network of superchargers to other electric vehicles later this year, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Twitter.
Unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers
ESP32 IoT processor supports up to 8MB PSRAM which makes it just enough to run a minimal version of Linux. There’s little practical application for it,
Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. But the ugly truth…
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances – GitHub – microsoft/CBL-Mariner: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Hungarian targets include media owner Zoltán Varga and his acquaintances, the son and lawyer of former oligarch Lajos Simicska, and several investigative reporters.
Square now offers business banking for small businesses. ✓Manage Cash Flow ✓Checking & Savings Accounts ✓Small Business Loans
After a successful testnet deployement, the London upgrade is now ready to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet. It will go live on block 12 965 000, which is expected between August 3-5, 2021. Client Versions In order to be compatible with the London upgrade, node operators will need to…
We have a much better understanding of physics than we do of consciousness. I consider ways in which intrinsically mental aspects of fundamental ontology might induce modifications of the known laws …
As citizens around the world are confronted with the severe curtailment of political, economic and cultural freedoms associated with COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies (e.g., lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations and/or vaccine passports), new risks to economic freedom and prosperity are quickly emerging which citizens must be aware of and remain vigilant about. One of these risks which is developing with rapid pace are Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). According to a Bank of International S
Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Python for Excel is an O’Reilly book by Felix Zumstein.
🐶 Hosting your own email forwarding service on AWS and manage it with Github Actions – edmundhung/maildog
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM. Contribute to diekmann/wasm-fizzbuzz development by creating an account on GitHub.
The release of GitHub Copilot raises questions about potential copyright infringement and license compliance issues.
The original source for Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker’s 1981 masterpiece “Defender” has been put on GitHub this week! The source code can be assembled into an executable that you c…
Sundar Pichai says AI will change the world – and defends Google’s record on tax, privacy and data.
This is what people are fighting for.
France’s antitrust watchdog slapped a 500 million euro ($593 million) fine on Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday for failing to comply with the regulator’s orders on how to conduct talks with the country’s news publishers in a row over copyright.
In the new report âThe Amazon Panopticon,â UNI Global Union catalogues the various methods Amazon uses to pile pressure on workers through extreme surveillance and monitoring.
12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, IoT for All! Contribute to microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners development by creating an account on GitHub.
Software engineer Manu Cornet says Google went from being like Disneyland to like any other profit-driven company. 
Intel Corp (INTC.O) is in talks to buy semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc for about $30 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools.
The Key Master game machine has been a target for years
To win first place at a hackathon, you need to combine multiple components… and that’s not always possible. Here’s how to make the most of your next hackathon without coming in ‘first place’.
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the social media platform.
Learn to overcome procrastination with 5 min videos, and go to bed happy
A recent lawsuit has prompted Sci-Hub to stop uploading new papers.
A private musing over an AI experiment gone wrong unexpectedly sparked off a culture and ethics debate in China.
Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia, and Aki Vehtari, a computer science professor at Finland’s Aalto University, recently published a list of the most important statistical ideas in the last 50 years. Here, they break it down in easy-to-understand terms.
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
A proposal to ban AI research by treating it like human-animal hybrids
Local Push
Neural network walking simulator. (GAN/ pix2pix)
â¦local South African tech writer Jan Vermeulen wrote an article on MyBroadband titled âMoving Bitcoin overseas from your wallet is aâ¦
Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns – jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension
Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more
Apple’s “iCloud Private Relay” breaks risk based authentication (RIBA). You should get rid of your RIBA process and start towards the passwordless journey.
Forensic Architecture’s Digital Violence investigation is a multidimensional study of the global use of the malware Pegasus made by Israeli cyber-surveillance company NSO Group.
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust + WebAssembly – Casey Primozic’s Blog
Your brain responds in a predictable way when it encounters new or difficult tasks. This unique book teaches you concrete techniques rooted in cognitive science that will improve the way you learn and think about code.
I have been trying to generate code with the help of GPT3 from few months now and recently got access to a better product called Github copilot.
GUI-based Python code generator. Contribute to visualpython/visualpython development by creating an account on GitHub.
magit for neovim. Contribute to TimUntersberger/neogit development by creating an account on GitHub.
Management of kernel extensions has changed significantly in Big Sur and later. This overview for users contrasts kexts with user-level extensions which are replacing them.
Microsoft on Tuesday issued an emergency software update to quash a security bug that’s been dubbed “PrintNightmare,” a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is actively being exploited. The fix comes a week ahead of Microsoft’s normal…
Simple Python Calculation Engine. Contribute to bsdz/calcengine development by creating an account on GitHub.
This is post # 35 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and…
Git repository with a commit for every single shorthash – not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash
For PowerTOP saving power on IA isn’t everything. It is the only thing! PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode where the user can experiment various power management settings for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled these settings. PowerTOP User’s Guide
Iron Finance, once a DeFi darling, went from billions to bust in a day. Should investors have seen the crash coming? How stable are algorithmic stablecoins?
The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to âproveâ that its product has a public benefit.
Unlocking knowledge, empowering minds. Free course notes, videos, instructor insights and more from MIT.
Interruptions are one of the biggest sources of inefficiency for programmers. Now, to be fair, they’re probably a big source of inefficiency for everyone, but relatively speaking, they’re worse for programmers. To understand what I mean, let’s take someone whose job is in sales. A lot of the day is probably spent on the phone […]
GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego said on Sunday his banking business may begin using bitcoin, becoming the country’s first bank to start accepting the cryptocurrency.
The price of SafeDollar (SDO), an algorithmic decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin based on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain.
The internet nowadays is ephemeral. Layers upon layers of trusted 3rd parties are necessary to distribute content online. It requires ongoing maintenance and is susceptible to censorship or hostile takedowns. In this blog post, I describe the steps I took to host my blog in a trustless, permanent, and censorship-resistant way using the IPFS network and Ethereum blockchain.
A comprehensive list of books on Software Architecture. – mhadidg/software-architecture-books
A fun and tricky JavaScript quiz
The Windows 11 announcement was fun and interesting, but there is a reason that Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft’s business.
Today, we’re announcing ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), a new way to build apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you’ll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally
Don’t do it like GitHub Copilot!
I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastinat…
Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw. But…
Windows 11 Home will now require both internet access and a Microsoft account in order to set up the PC. Nope.
Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM takeover via DHCP flood – gain root access by getting SSH keys added by google_guest_agent – irsl/gcp-dhcp-takeover-code-exec
Our Leadership Principles are more than inspirational wall hangings
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
The recent shutdown of two Amazon delivery companies in Portland appears to be the first public example in the United States of such companies using their leverage to protest against Amazon. 
Apple and Intel will be the first customers for TSMC’s 3nm process, reports the Nikkei, with Intel securing the higher volume. The process is due to enter
Dozens of minimal operating systems to learn x86 system programming. Tested on Ubuntu 17.10 host in QEMU 2.10 and real hardware. Userland cheat at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-modu…
These biohackers plan to give away their instructions for how to make insulin for free.
Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax starting later this year unless customers…
Twitter shares a technical analysis of its assessment for potential bias in its image cropping algorithm as part of its efforts to be more transparent around how it uses machine learning to improve pe
Our latest AI milestone, Multitask Unified Model, has the potential to take Google’s information understanding to a new level.
Itâs overratedâboth financially and emotionally
This Masterclass covers robots in fiction, robot arms used in manufacturing and the overarching concept of how robots are being used in the world.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony held virtually at Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) today marked the official launch of Perlmutter – aka NERSC-9 – the GPU-accelerated supercomputer built by HPE in partnership with Nvidia and AMD.
Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
Researchers explore how an amphetamine and a psychedelic help parasitic fungi spread their spores through insects’ doomed mating attempts
Experts say fatal flaws in the methodology of many machine learning papers make it hard to have faith in published claims.
In August, I set out to improve the machine learning ecosystem for Ruby and wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the next 5 months, I ended up…
People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to…
His famous 1931 paper identified the fundamental limits of math, logics, theorem proving, computing, AI.
Hyundai Motor Group has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the U.S robotics firm Boston Dynamics.
Farming and gardening robots for home, educational, and commercial use. Premium Hardware · Worldwide Shipping · Drag and Drop Farm Designer · Step-by-Step Assembly Instructions · Own Your Food
PoW currencies ranked by energy efficiency
TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge. Ethereum will be completing the transition to Proof-of-Stake in the upcoming months, which brings a myriad of improvements that have been theorized for years. But now that the Beacon chain has been running for a few months, we can…
NVIDIA announced today that it’s halving the hash rate for Etehereum cryptocurrency mining on the new GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti graphics cards to make them less desirable for miners.
The Biden administration’s tax enforcement proposal would require that cryptocurrency transfers over $10,000 be reported to the Internal Revenue Service and would more than double the IRS workforce over a decade, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday.
Elliptic follows the $7 Billion in Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 and is still being laundered through darknet markets and privacy wallets
Police say they raided the building thinking they were going to find a cannabis farm.
A model checker for implementing distributed systems. – stateright/stateright
It is the first country in the world to make the move, following a proposal by its president.
Peer-to-peer serverless infrastructure, powered by blockchain technology and built using the spare capacity all around us.
Attorney Jeremy Hogan gave his legal assessment of the top five cryptocurrencies naming Tether and Binance Coin as at risk.
This month the country announced plans to become the first nation to make the cryptocurrency legal tender.
API gateways are an integral part of microservices architecture in recent years. An API gateway provides a single point of entry for all our apps and provides a
My newsletter Le Courrier du hacker (3,800 subscribers, 176 issues) is 3 years old and Mailchimp costs were becoming unbearable for a small project ($50 a month, $600 a year), with still limited revenues nowadays. Switching to the Open Source Mailtrain plugged to the AWS Simple Email Service (SES) will dramatically reduce the associated costs. …
An excerpt from Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance.
Fast & simple framework for building web applications – easafe/purescript-flame
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
Bit-sync is a utility for synchronizing arbitrary data using the rsync algorithm in pure js – claytongulick/bit-sync
You can now use FIDO2 security keys to authenticate over SSH for remote Git operations, providing a higher level of account security.
When I was a young child, one of my best friends was a turtle. Not a real turtle, although that would have been fun, but a virtual one. My turtle lived inside of an Apple II, an early 8-bit computer, at my elementary school. When I first met her, my turtle, she didn’t do much. […]
With video uploads now generally available, developers have even more ways to collaborate on GitHub. Try it out for yourself!
What is Researchhub
Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.
Today marks eighteen years since the very first release of WordPress. I consider myself so lucky to have co-founded the project alongside Mike Little. Who could have imagined that our nights and we…
GitHub Awesome: Browse Every Awesome List on GitHub
I’ve got 2 massive things to announce today that have been a long time in the works and by pure coincidence, have aligned such that I can share them together here today. One you would have been waiting for and one totally out of left field. Both these announcements are
Burn it all down…for GDP growth!
The PYthoN General UnIt Test geNerator is a test-generation tool for Python – se2p/pynguin
The European Union (EU) is set to unveil plans for a bloc-wide digital wallet on Wednesday, following requests from member states to find a safe way for citizens to access public and private services online, the Financial Times reported.
This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things. Not guaranteed to catch everything. Review and tweak before running. Reboot aft…
JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.
Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. – norvig/pytudes
I my previous blog post, I documented how one might proceed to compute the number of digits of an integer quickly. E.g., given the integer 999, you want 3 but given the integer 1000, you want 4. It is effectively the integer logarithm in base 10. On computers, you can quickly compute the integer logarithm … Continue reading Computing the number of digits of an integer even faster
Abstract Syntax Tree is an extremely useful tool. It provides a tree representation of a source code, that can be traversed to parse the code while understanding the code’s language constructs. In this article, we explain how we have used ASTs to write IntelliPatch scripts that can…
You no longer need an iPhone or Mac.
Current version: v1.1.3 (released 2021-06-23, see release notes below.) Lockdown is a preventative measure for use against malware/ransomware attacks, which works by leveraging Windows Software Re…
Highlights
How to use aligned word vectors from fastText from to translate words from one language to another instantly.
Microsoft’s official Windows 10 support documentation has just added more fuel to the fire of rumors that quickly spreads around the upcoming big Windows
Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line – chriskiehl/Gooey
Recently I was doing some work decoding the new Galileo High Accuracy Service data. In short, this new service will allow Galileo (“European GPS”) users to achieve decimeter-level accuracy, which is nice. This “HAS” data is transmitted highly redundantly by making good use of Reed-Solomon encoding.
A new type of shell. Contribute to nushell/nushell development by creating an account on GitHub.
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, …
🍃 Organic Maps is an Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe founders. …
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
One of the main reasons some people tend to avoid updating their PCs is that “it makes it slower”. Especially with Windows 10’s Software as a Service approach, where it gets the s…
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C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling (small, selfcontained, and native executables) – MichalStrehovsky/bflat
The last 12 months or so have been rough times for Google Stadia. Lawsuits, its main first-party development studio shutting…
Umami is a simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics. – mikecao/umami
By segregating macOS background tasks on Efficiency cores, M1 Macs can run user apps unfettered on their Performance cores. And that feels really fast.
Microsoft has said that it investigated Mr Gates’ attempt in 2000 “to initiate an intimate relationship”.
Michael Burry is long puts against 800,100 shares of Tesla or $534 million by the end of the first quarter.
High-resolution images of Israel and Gaza are available, so why not via public mapping tools?
Microsoft has open-sourced today a tool that can be used to build lab environments where security teams can simulate attacks and verify the detection effectiveness of Microsoft security products.
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Tomtop and Mpow are also caught up in an alleged attempt to trade products for fake positive reviews
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Xbox Touch Controls shine on the Surface Duo.
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A team of Google security researchers said they discovered a new way to perform Rowhammer attacks against computer memory (RAM) cards that broaden the attack’s initial impact.
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O)will buy MGM, the fabled U.S. movie studio home to the James Bond franchise, for $8.45 billion, giving it a huge library of films and TV shows and ramping up competition with streaming rivals led by Netflix and Disney+.
Tech executives warned that democracy has to win the AI arms race, in a new BBC Panorama.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will officially step down from his role as chief executive on July 5, he announced during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday. 
Newer Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles will no longer be labeled as having some advanced safety features after the automaker said it was removing radar sensors to transition to a camera-based Autopilot system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Wednesday.
Despite layoffs at Mountain View-based Loon LLC, displaced workers at the Alphabet moonshot that was created to bring the Internet to remote places are finding jobs with the tech titan, which owns …
A couple in Colorado was left shocked after Amazon delivered an empty box instead of the Sony a1 worth $7,000 that they ordered — and then refused to give them a refund. As reported by PetaPixel and The Denver Channel (skip to 1:03), Bill and Kelly Chiles ordered the Sony a1 back in mid-March and waited patiently for it to arrive. Upon delivery, they opened their package and were confused to find two boxes for the Sony a1, both of which were empty. Upon contacting Amazon, the company insisted that the product had been delivered and refused to offer a refund.
A new antitrust case shows that Prime inflates prices across the board, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’ that is anything but free.
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Tuesday it supports a proposed U.S. legislation to legalize cannabis at the federal level, and would drop weed-testing requirements for some recruitments.
Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.
A union-led group says Amazon’s injury rate is twice that of its closest competitor.
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Android 12 makes interest-based advertising obsolete to set off an irreversible collapse in Facebook’s ad ecosystem
US intelligence officials have found no evidence that unidentified flying objects encountered by US navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft but cannot explain what they are, a
At some point, the house of cards begins to topple over. It’s no secret that the x86 processor architecture is almost aged enough to collect a pension. It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a c…
Nigerians are reporting they cannot access the site on their phones after the government suspension.
Google said it had agreed on changes to improve its online ad market after being fined by France’s competition watchdog.
Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though.
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AMD recently unveiled 3D V-Cache, their first 3D-stacked technology-based product. Leapfrogging contemporary 3D bonding technologies, AMD jumped directly into advanced packaging with direct bonding and an order of magnitude higher wire density.
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Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks.
Like IP addresses, FLoC IDs will not be entirely static. However, it is likely that the same FLoC IDs or range of IDs will be associated with someone.
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Seattle – A 37-year-old Bothell, Washington man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 26 months in prison for securities fraud due to his insider trading activity, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman.
Google’s experiment to hide parts of a site’s URL in the Chrome address bar (the Omnibox) has failed and has been removed from the browser earlier this week.
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The UK competition authority says it has launched an investigation into the mobile phone market.
Most of Amazon’s properties including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com and Zappos.com are preventing Google’s tracking system FLoC.
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Hello, Ubuntu repositories seems to be broken, specifically I am getting '404 not found' for any .deb from apt update Err:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/20.04/prod focal/main amd64…
A look at Amazon’s culture of writing and reading
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Google sent me an email informing me that they will change the country associated with my account in 30 days. What I find curious is that it says the services are essentially the same between different countries. So, there is no advantage to me as a consumer for anything to change, the only difference will be in how my data is processed. Privacy alert! I found how to make a Country Association Inquiry to dispute this.
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This has been attempted multiple times before, but we’ve not seen it done at highway speeds or for such a long distance as in this video.
World-renowned technologists move into key leadership roles to accelerate Intel’s transformation.
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DeFi / Crypto – 2 for 1, thatâs Value DeFi – The first protocol to feature twice on the rekt leaderboard. First seven million, and now ten million dollars taken, as Value DeFi gets rekt cross-chains.
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that…
In early spring 2020, I reported an article for The New York Times on which I put the tentative headline: “New Coronavirus Is ‘Clearly Not…
The high-lift wing configuration of SE Aeronautic’s new SE200 also gives it short takeoff and landing potential.
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Facilitating ransomware payments to sanctioned hackers may be illegal, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday, signaling a crackdown on the fast-growing market for consultants who help organizations pay off cybercriminals.
How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.
A year ago at Mozilla we started to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS.
Ida Nelson says lighting up the runway is just another example of the community coming together. “It’s something that we in Igiugig do constantly, like almost every day.”
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Nations demand the dissident’s release, after a MiG-29 escorts the Greece-Lithuania flight to Minsk.
Siemens acquires Supplyframe. We DM’ed Siemens and emailed our Hackaday / Supplyframe contacts to see if Siemens also acquired Hackaday and Tindie (we will update this post when/if we find ou…
Users across the world will be able to choose whether to hide the Like Counts on their app.
Betaljätten Klarna, som har 87 miljoner kunder globalt, har just nu stora tekniska problem. Användare av bolagets app såg andra kunders betalningar samt personuppgifter, innan den stängdes ned helt. Enligt vd:n Sebastian Siemiatkowski är haveriet självförvållat.Tillsynsmyndigheten Finansinspektionen, FI, har bett Klarna förklara vad som hänt. 
I’m drunk and I’ll probably regret this, but here’s a drunken rank of things I’ve learned as an engineer for the past 10 years. * The best way…
The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters.
More and more websites are relying on JavaScript for the interactions they provide. It enables pleasant experiences but also comes with undesirable effects:
Booking.com said on Friday that it will repay the 65 million euros it received in Dutch State aid, national broadcaster NOS said.
Martin Edwards et al. use data spanning from 1958â2017 from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey of the North Atlantic Ocean to examine krill distribution and abundance in conjunction with sea surface temperatures and show a 50% decline in surface krill abundance with no associated range shift. These data show that where the northern and southern distributions were previously separated by 8° of latitude, they are now separated by 4°, indicating a warming-induced range constriction.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Maybe …
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Well, never mind. I do have a problem with Tim Ferriss, just like I have a problem with anyone who touts the spiritual benefits of minimalism and simplicity, while holding a net worth that floatsâ¦
Infecting the mosquitoes with a different bug slams the brakes on dengue fever, trial finds.
Automaker also plans to offer video games that drivers can play while charging.
Python users who upgrade to recently released pyarrow 0.12 may find that their applications use significantly less memory when converting Arrow string data to pandas format. This article details some of what is going on under the hood, and why Python applications dealing with large amounts of strings are prone to memory use problems.
Mark Moore wants to bring well-made, affordable underwear to Pakistan – he just has to get past the men.
Starting this fall, I’ll be pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Here’s how I think Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through the program.
After a long and tough year, I’ve been looking forward to once again sharing my love of Python and open source software with other people, especially middle and high school students. Before the pandemic, I co-wrote a grant to teach Python programming to middle school students using Raspberry Pi computers. Like many other plans, COVID-19 put mine on hold for over a year. Fortunately, vaccines and the improved health in my state, New York, have changed the dynamic.
Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality patents of suspect validity. Patents in hand, the LLC starts approaching high-tech companies and demanding licensing fees. If they don’t get paid, the…
The Amazon Appstore has announced that it will be reducing its cut of developer revenue from 30% to 20% for developers that earn less than $1 million in rev
Some fear the deduction is a problematic incentive that could entice businesses to pay ransoms against the advice of law enforcement. At a minimum, they say, the deductibility sends a discordant message to businesses under duress.
We’ve been hovering close to 100% for a while now but, with the staging-next merge a few days ago, it’s finally happened: https://r13y.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20210620180034/https://r13y.com/) If I’ve done everything correctly, the 21.05 ISO also passes the check on my machine, hoorray! Feel free to verify everything yourself; getting @grahamc’s r13y script running is trivial (I’d recommend running it inside a Docker container, though remember to enable sandboxing!) Next goal: 100% …
This article talks about DOGE branded as Ponzi by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneaopolis. Read CQ to learn more.
“No one knows exactly how much information was accessed, because the government has been kind of cagey about it.”
The most powerful microscopes have limited detail when they observe living cells, but a quantum trick with laser light has allowed researchers to overcome those limits
A paralyzed individual hit 90 characters per minute, 99% accuracy.
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Stocks are in a frenzy. Cryptocurrencies now equal the value of U.S. dollars in circulation. Real estate is booming. And the Federal Reserve is still pumping stimulus into the economy.
The price of Bitcoin took a tumble after Elon Musk said Tesla would no longer be accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment method. Musk raised concerns about the climate impact of Bitcoin mining. 
The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop…
Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode.
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Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.
Disclaimer: Thoughts expressed here are my own, and not of my employers.
eBPF implementation that runs on top of Windows. Contribute to microsoft/ebpf-for-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.
Houdini is a set of low-level APIs that exposes parts of the CSS engine, giving developers the power to extend CSS by hooking into the styling and layout process of a browser’s rendering engine. Houdini is a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM), enabling developers to write code the browser can parse as CSS, thereby creating new CSS features without waiting for them to be implemented natively in browsers.
Dr. Conrad Barski wanted a small, portable device for coding Lisp on the go and built the Lisperati1000 cyberdeck terminal for the job.
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Consumer Reports measures owner satisfaction, and according to those results, it’s clear that the Tesla Model 3 is very satisfactory. Why?
Instagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, but data rights groups fear “discriminatory” algorithms are at work and want greater transparency.
L’azienda di Mountain View ha fatto lo sgambetto alla app JuicePass che permette di trovare e prenotare una colonnina di ricarica. In questo modo ha favori…
The company pledged to eliminate ads for sites that charge hefty fees for otherwise free or inexpensive services—but they continue
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
The complaints have “overwhelmed” the parent bank’s customer service.
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In this post, we use Auth0’s post-user registration hook and Courier’s automations feature to learn how to help a user sign up for your product.
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