Gooooooood morning, Human beings!!! 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
- Sensors and AI are finding their way into the barnyard
- Low-Memory Neural Network Training: A Technical Report
- Weld: Accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM
After working for weeks with Pythonâs data science stack and R I started to ask my self if there could not be a common intermediate⦠- Researchers used a neural network to retrieve a lost Picasso painting
- Espresso: A Fast End-to-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit
- Why Are Some Societies More Entrepreneurial than Others?
- Why Are Some Societies More Entrepreneurial than Others?
- I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies
Guard is an AI that reads privacy policies for you and uncovers their hidden, filthy secrets. - Kheiron raises $22M for AI that helps radiologists detect cancer earlier
- 600k Images Removed from AI Database After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias
- “Did You Eat the Whole Cake?” On Learning Estonian
“Estonian is popularly known as a difficult language to learn. The only other national languages it’s related to are Finnish and Hungarian.” - MegaBots calls it a day, puts fighting robot up for sale on eBay
- Animal, Vegetable, or Both?
- DOMPurify, Security in the DOM, and Why We Really Need Both
- Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa
- Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk from Bottles
- Deep Learning with Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
- Tesla’s Neural Processor in the FSD Chip – WikiChip Fuse
- Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
The image of bottle water as clean and pure is being challenged by a global investigation that found the water tested is often contaminated with tiny particles of plastic. - Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code
- We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone
Gary Marcus, a leader in the field, discusses how we could achieve general intelligence—and why that might make machines safer. - Monoscopic panoramas to 3D using AI
- A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit
Tax forms filed by OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to artificial intelligence specialists across the world. - Deep learning powers a motion-tracking revolution
Blockchain and decentralization
- Trillion-Dollar Coin
- Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based database
- Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators
TON will be the largest blockchain ever when it launches next month, but it’s not on regulators’ radars. - Doubling the speed of std:uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library
- We need decentralized communication
Woman computer scientist of the week
Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She is credited with coining the term “software engineering”. Hamilton was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF) for systems and software design.
Cloud and architecture
- Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service
- Serverless: slower and more expensive
- Cleaning up bad bots
- Ten Years of Turning Documents into Data: A Q&A with DocumentCloud
- The Technical Challenges of Building Cloudflare Warp
- Rimbaud Draws New Followers to the Hometown He Hated
Development and languages
- Who cares about functional programming?
- .NET Core 3.0
- .NET Core gRPC
- Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game
- Steve Jobs, NeXTStep, and Early Object Oriented Programming
- 50 ways to leak your data: apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system
- Select Sections from Images of Newspaper Clippings Using OpenCV and Python
- The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available
- “Stubs” in the .NET Runtime
- Programming Idioms
- GitHub Releases an ImageNet for Code
Weâre announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning. - New ES2019 JavaScript features
- Privacy in a Digital World
- The Science of Functional Programming
- Running an eBPF program may require lifting the kernel lockdown
- Sentient: a high-level, declarative programming language
- Creating the Go Programming Language
Carmen and Jon talk with Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer (the creators of Go) about its origins, growth, influence, and future. This an epic episode that dives deep into the history and details of the how’s and why’s of Go, and the choices they’ve made along the way in creating this awesome programing language. - KDE is adopting GitLab
Code, test & deploy with GitLab. Everyone can contribute! - Fugitive on run for seventeen years found living in cave by a drone
Police used drones to track down a man who evaded detection for almost two decades. - The Principles behind Differentiable Programming
- Grail Demo from CHM Tape: Visual programming in the 1960s
- DigitalOcean block storage is down
- Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available
Quote of the week
You’re bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything.
— Donald Knuth
Enterprises
- Painting with Math Formulas in Google Sheets
- Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contractor’s vote to unionize
Last month, more than 66 percent of Google tech contractors signed cards to hold a vote on whether to create a labor union at HCL… - The Exponent IPO
- “Grassroots” anti-Amazon nonprofit turns out to be retailer astroturfing
- Blockbuster Could Have Bought Netflix for $50M
- NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack
- My Talk at Microsoft – Richard Stallman
- On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper
- Trying To Fill In The Gaps On Google Street View, Starting With Zimbabwe
- How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior. - Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse
A leaked document highlights stories of abuse and retaliation against Google employees, told by the employees themselves. - Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the mind
- Rivals aim to document Facebook, Google strong-arming
- China’s “Tesla Killer” Nio slashes thousands of jobs as losses mount
Electric vehicle startup to raise $200m from chairman and Tencent - Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize
- Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees
- Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
Reports that some AVID Users Macs would no longer boot. It now may be that a Google Chrome Keystone update modifies /var on NON SIP Protected Macs. - Google wins privacy case: ‘Right to be forgotten’ applies only in EU
- Google Chrome Update Damages macOS File System
- Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network
- Amazon Echo Buds
- Amazon Echo Loop
- Immigration Officials Use Google Translate to Vet Refugees
- Apps Selling for Hundreds of Dollars on Google Play Store
- Tesla Software Version 10.0
It’s here. Software Version 10.0 – our biggest software update ever. We’re raising the bar for what people have come to expect from their cars with new entertainment, gaming, music, and convenience features designed to make your car much more capable, as well as making time spent in your car more fun. - Twitter launches its ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan
- AMD’s Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W
- Alphabet Waymo valuation cut 40% by Morgan Stanley to $105B
- Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
Alphabet Inc’s Google will stop showing news snippets from European publish… - Google Achieves Quantum Supremacy. Is Encryption Safe?
A Financial Times report revealed that Google achieved quantum supremacy. Is it now time to panic about encryption being broken, or do we have nothing to worry about? - People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature
- Bloomberg Misreports on Whatsapp Story
- The Intelligence of Plants
- Humans can acquire TB from deer
- Avoiding Intellectual Phase Lock
- Twitter Executive for Middle East Is British Army ‘Psyops’ Soldier
- WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
WeWork’s parent The We Company on Monday filed to withdraw its initial publ…
Other news
- WeWTF, Part Deux
- Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash
Critics claim they try to suppress anti-Chinese views to keep lucrative Chinese students happy - Denmark’s Jyske Bank lowers its negative rates on deposits
(Adds CEO quote, background) - CodeTips – Learn to programme, with little or no prior experience
- Reverse Engineering – The Golden Age of Computer Hacking
- Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged with 147 Crimes
Rui Pinto ran a website called Football Leaks and won praise as a whistle-blower. Portugal’s authorities consider him a criminal. - Woman treated by doctors after her blood turned blue
- An AI learned to play hide-and-seek. Strategies it came up with were astounding
- Hacking the Brain
In
an increasingly complex information society, demands for cognitive
functioning are growing steadily. In recent years, numerous strategies
to augment brain function have been proposed. Evidence for their efficacy
(or lack thereof) and side effects has … - Viable Quantum Supercomputer
- 600k travelers are stranded after Thomas Cook declares bankruptcy
The 178-year-old tour operator failed to secure a £200 million rescue on Sunday, leading it to suspend its flights and bookings. - Went to update payment info, showed me some random person’s credit card info
- Gridgarden: A cool game to learn CSS Grid
A game for learning CSS grid layout - Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
- Tmux Tutorial
- Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals
- Woman discovers Renaissance masterpiece in kitchen
- To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
- CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux 8 Released
- WeWork, Bankers Have Discussed Laying Off One-Third of Workforce
As WeWork investors jousted over Adam Neumannâs future at the company he built, a parallel debate by WeWork executives and bankers has centered on just how deeply WeWork should cut costs to save its business.In recent days, a group of executives from WeWorkâs parent company and bankers have been … - Want to Reduce Suicides? Follow the Data to Medical Offices, Motels, etc.
- OSSU: A path to a free self-taught education in computer science
:mortar_board: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science! – ossu/computer-science - Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by wasabi consumption
- A Quantum Perceptron – First Steps in QML
- How the U.S. Hacked Isis
- AI becoming so expensive it is freezing out universities
A.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, leaving few people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology. - Understanding Disk Usage in Linux
- Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
- US doctors are hoping to start offering women vaginal fluid transplants
- MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
- Hacking Voi Scooters: How I Created $100k Worth of Free Rides
- Learn Just a Little Awk: An Awk Tutorial by Example
- SBCL 20: Steel Bank Common Lisp’s 20th Anniversary Workshop
- Learn X in Y Minutes
- Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads
- Forever 21, Which Helped Popularize Fast Fashion, to File for Bankruptcy
The retailer fell victim to the eroding power of shopping malls and said it would cease operations in 40 countries and close up to 178 stores in the U.S. - Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor
- Automation will drastically reduce police and city budgets
- Yahoo engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.
Neural Modules: a toolkit for conversational AI. Contribute to NVIDIA/NeMo development by creating an account on GitHub.
What is Attention, and why is it used in state-of-the-art models? This article discusses the types of Attention and walks you through their implementations.
The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them.
âFor every retweet this gets, I will add an Uncomfortable @awscloud Truth to the thread.â
The United States today filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), who published a book entitled Permanent Record in violation of the non-disclosure agreements he signed with both CIA and NSA.
GitLab’s CEO says he’s going public on November 18, 2020. Investors love it, pouring in $268 million at a $2.75 billion valuation.
Today weâre announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: weâre welcoming Semmle to the GitHub family.
Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python’s past and explores what’s next.
And the shopping platform has plans to take on Amazon next.
The e-commerce giant overcame internal dissent from engineers and lawyers, people familiar with the move say.
WeWork owner The We Company has postponed its initial public offering (IPO), wal…
Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research – microsoft/AirSim
While New Yorkers repelled the ecommerce giant’s expansion plans, job applications are flying in from other places
Amazon will be stepping up its efforts to reduce its climate impact, CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday. The company will be ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Michigan’s Rivian as part of this commitment, Bezos said. The commerce giant will seek to meet its goal of becoming carâ¦
Stripe’s latest funding round values the company at $35 billion, putting the financial technology firm above Airbnb and Palantir.
Sundar Pichai has said Google plans to invest 3 billion euros (£2.6 billion) to expand its data centres across Europe in the next two years.
Google announced today that it was investing â¬3 billion (approximately US$3.3 billion) to expand its data center presence in Europe. What’s more, the company pledged the data centers would be environmentally friendly. This new investment is in addition to the $7 billion the company has investâ¦
Walmart, Oracle and mall owner Simon Property Group are secret funders behind a nonprofit that has been highly critical of the e-commerce giant.
We’ve recently seen Linux smartphones are coming in a few weeks or months, but the $150 PinePhone may not come alone, and soon be joined by a $25
Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology.
A complete guide on how to use Elm with React: If you’ve ever worked with Redux â in the context of a React application or not â you may have heard numerous times that it was inspired not only by Flux (which it followed) but also by the Elm architecture….
Now that Linux kernel 5.3 is officially released we take a quick look at the new and notable changes this kernel update brings.
Square has lent billions to small businesses and consumers and applied for a banking license, but it says it isn’t a financial company.
Garry Kitchen’s unlikely story is told in this excerpt from the book Arcade Perfect.
Minimum unit pricing may have contributed to the number of alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow falling by more than a fifth, according to new research.
Functional languages such as Clojure and Haskell can often represent the complexity with cleaner code thatâs closer to the mathematics of the model.
A bot written in Scala 3 to stress test text-based MMORPGs (MUDs). – ryanberckmans/noric-bot
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is interested in gathering information on patent-related issues regarding artificial intelligence inventions for purposes of evaluating whether further examination guidance is needed to promote the reliability and predictability of patenting…
It was the âsummer of crypto loveâ â private Telegram groups were ablaze with altcoin (every cryptocurrency alternative to Bitcoin) chatter, Bitcoin whales were breaching…
âð¨ ð¨ ð¨ ð¨ ð¨ ð¨ ð¨ ð¨ ð¨ ð¨ 94,504 #BTC (1,018,147,922 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
A bill will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws so that workers get their fair share in a service and knowledge economy.
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Experimental C# Playstation Emulator. Contribute to BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX development by creating an account on GitHub.
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and whatâs next.
The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming langâ¦
The Nissan LEAF certainly doesn’t have a reputation as a serious performance car. With far less power than any Tesla, “semi-independent” rear suspension like you’d find under a Chevy Cavalier, and many similarities with the Versa, the LEAF is widely regarded as an economy car, not a luxury or sports car. It certainly isn’t seen as a real competitor to a Tesla, even an older Model S.
California’s a huge market for Tesla, the Netherlands loves Tesla, Switzerland loves Tesla, but no state or country is as Tesla obsessed as Norway.
Four years after selling his company to Microsoft, 6Wunderkinder cofounder Christian Reber wants to buy the product back from the software giant. 
A new type of arms race could be on the cards
We recently upgraded Google to use TypeScript 3.5. Here is some feedback on the upgrade. (For background, recall that Google is a monorepo of billions of lines of code. We use a single version of T…
Set custom spending controls, reconcile expenses automatically with software like Expensify, and earn extra cash back where you spend the most each month.
The pledge follows investigations into deaths from an unknown lung illness linked to vaping.
Most low cost (sub $100) single board computers are based on Arm processors because Intel processors are normally more expensive, but there are some
William Moldt went missing in mysterious circumstances 22 years ago after a night out in Florida.
Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) to French authorit…
Google makes ranking changes to highlight original reporting.
WeWork owner The We Company may seek a valuation in its upcoming initial public …
This is yet another example of in-your-face medical pricing that often reflects not what things really cost but what healthcare businesses think they can get away with.
Over six years, the public institution took people to court more than 36,000 times, an analysis finds.
Hackers have been targeting regular people and celebrities with the attack. Last week, it was used to hijack the Twitter account of Twitterâs C.E.O.
In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by sapping power from a computer’s processor. Although the malâ¦
Traffic apps turned the city’s neighborhoods into “shortcuts.” Now furious residents are attempting to take them back, street by street
New weapons like hypersonic missiles are potentially reducing the amount of time that nuclear decision makers have to respond to an attack. Two US deterrence experts are proposing an artificial intelligence-based nuclear command, control, and communications system to ease this time pressure. It’s a risky solution.
With a precise, controlled movement, microrobots cleared a glass plate of a biofilm, as shown in this time-lapse image. Credit:
As states push to criminalize the sharing of intimate photos to get revenge on former sex partners, Texas is teaming with Bumble to crack down on people who send unsolicited nude images on dating apps and elsewhere in cyberspace.
A primordial developmental toolkit shared by all vertebrates, and described by a theory of the mathematician Alan Turing, sets the growth pattern for all types of skin structures.
An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly – lumen/lumen
The accounts were purchased because of their large follower count, and then used to spam Twitter with information about the Hong Kong protests.
I’ve been typing for 20+ years and this is one of my favorite general purpose / programming keyboards when factoring in a few things.
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.
Evidence submitted to Irish regulator accuses tech giant of ‘exploiting personal data’
Access the funds you need to grow your business. Stripe Capital provides access to fast financing with one flat fee and flexible payments.
Le fondateur du mouvement des logiciels libres a été invité chez Microsoft, où il a donné une conférence.
Windows system utilities to maximize productivity. Contribute to microsoft/PowerToys development by creating an account on GitHub.
In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several years’ experience.
Throughout my schooling and career, Iâve impressed people over and over again with how quickly I pick up things, especially hard things. For instance, exactly 4y ago I did my first ever interview, got a simple question and failed miserably after… | Pranay Prakash | I care about tech and work on reference implementations for idealistic projects
Learn how Linux/FFmpeg C partial codebase is organized to be extensible and act as if it were meant to have “polymorphism”. Specifically, we’re going to briefly explore how Linux â¦
Cassava is very dangerous if not prepared properly, so how did people develop and share that knowledge?
Sugar Labs contributes to and helps maintain the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform, which promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities.
a distributed PGP keyserver project based on the dat protocol – tdjsnelling/dat-keyserver
Software Architecture is the important aspects of a software system’s internal design, usually its major components and aspects that are hard to change.
Learn how to setup your own, free image hosting using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers.
Forty years after Life of Brian was first released, Nicholas Barber looks at why the Monty Python film was banned â and went on to become a box office hit.
Git Source Code Mirror – This is a publish-only repository and all pull requests are ignored. Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements. – git/git
google@play-store: sudo rm -rf org.mtransit.android*
Modern web applications load and execute a lot more JavaScript code than they did just a few years ago. While JIT (just-in-time) compilers have been very successful in making JavaScript …
Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. How bad are they?
The news is full of the surge in deforestation and fires in the Amazon rainforest, and and I have been fielding various media enquiries about what is causing this rise and what it means for our…
âWhat happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time on a Windows 10 machine?
When I launched Google Chrome for the first time (and let it sit for a minute), 32 requests were made, and 7.26 MB of data downloaded.â
Publishers say it is a ‘quintessential’ violation of copyright law
Amazon deforestation is 75% below its 2004 high. Fires are up just 7% higher than their 10-year average. And fires in the forest itself aren’t increasing. Here’s why everyone got it wrong.
If you have a Tesla Roadster and you live in the Pacific Northwest, you probably know Carl Medlock.
Anthony Levandowski, one of Silicon Valley’s foremost technologists on autonomous cars, was charged with theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Google.
Another reverse location search warrant
Companies like Google have waged war on virtual cards and left Apple Card users without service.
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don’t know there’s anything wrong with it.
I sat next to a senior software engineer for a year. Hereâs what I learnt.
Firefox Developer Edition is the blazing fast browser that offers cutting edge developer tools and latest features like CSS Grid support and framework debugging
In my 50s, too old to become a real expert, I have finally fallen in love with algebraic geometry. As the name suggests, this is the…
Weâre pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoftâs exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.
It’s the latest tactic the wealthy use to game the system.
âWith great power comes great responsibility.â â Uncle Ben Remember PowerPC? Nah, me neither. But now it can be yours. For free. Srsly. IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to tâ¦
We hear lots of noise about ârevolutionaryâ new products in cycling. They are essentially never revolutionary, and frequently arenât even new. But when Trek starts teasing a new product with the tag, “A change like this happens once every 30 years,â weâre pretty sure itâs a big deal. Speculation started. Was the lime green material …
On the heels of a driver-led protest outside Uber’s San Francisco headquarters, where drivers showed their support for gig worker protections legislation (via Assembly Bill 5) and demanded a union, Uber is circulating a petition urging people to “protect ridesharing in California.”â¦
Mr. Dorseyâs account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats on Friday afternoon. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.
The co-founder and CEO’s account was used to retweet a flurry of highly offensive messages.
Robust learning from untrusted sources Konstantinov & Lampert, ICML’19 Welcome back to a new term of The Morning Paper! Just before the break we were looking at selected papers from ICMLââ¦
Artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems is unveiling the largest semiconductor chip ever built — with 1.2 trillion transistors.
This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP. It highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work.
Many thanks to Addison-Wesley Professional for providing the permissions to excerpt “Natural Language Processing” from the book, Deep Learning Illustrated by Krohn, Beyleveld, and Bassens. The excerpt covers how to create word vectors and utilize them as an input into a deep learning model. A complementary Domino project is available. Introduction While the field of […]
The worldâs best cryptographers meet this week to compete in a U.S.-sponsored challenge to create a quantum-resistant standard.
The authorities have begun to raise alarms about a steady uptick in the number of militant groups using the hard-to-trace digital currency.
Today we are announcing the distributed version of TimescaleDB, which is currently in private beta (public version slated for later this year).
Learn how you can migrate your Hugo static sites over to OpenFaaS including custom domains, TLS and CI/CD through OpenFaaS Cloud (or GitLab).
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. But with a big injection of open source spirit from its
Air travel has been in existence for over one hundred years. Since its inception, thousands of airports runways have been built â each one of them designed site specifically, and according to landscape and natural conditions.
Splunk, the publicly traded data processing and analytics company, today announced that it has acquired SignalFx for a total price of about $1.05 billion. Approximately 60% of this will be in cash and 40% in Splunk common stock. The companies expect the acquisition to close in the second half of 20â¦
Data offered in court was flawed when technical errors linked some phones to the wrong towers or created a less-detailed picture of their locations, officials said.
Three years after closing a $9.3 billion deal to acquire NetSuite, several Oracle board members have written an extraordinary letter to the Delaware Court, approving a shareholder lawsuit against company executives Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the 2016 deal. Reuters broke this story. Accordingâ¦
People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser. People are also excited about running WebAssembly from languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust. Lin Clark’s Code Cartoons are back, illustrating …
The WebAuthn standard for security keys is making authentication as easy as possible. Now you can use security keys for second-factor authentication on GitHub with many more browsers and devices.
Dear new developer, This came up in a Hacker News comment thread recently: I’ve been working since the 90s and I never attempted to do FizzBuzz. Is it really relevant? Maybe to screen junior â¦
In the last few months, I have learned a lot about modern JavaScript and CSS development with a local toolchain powered by Node 8, Webpack 4, and Babel 7. As part of that, I am doing my second âre-introduction to JavaScriptâ. I first learned JS in 1998. Then relearned it…
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It stopped shipping in 2009 on DVD. I …
The WeWork IPO is defined by audaciousness and excess, all of which is driven by unlimited access to capital.
Walmart Inc on Tuesday sued Tesla Inc, accusing it of “widespread negligenc…
Fires in the Amazon have risen 84% amid growing deforestation, Brazil’s space research agency says.
Cover image: Detail from Patroclus by Jacques Louis David, 1780. Courtesy Wikipedia Itâs tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experieâ¦
VMware today announced that it is acquiring Carbon Black, a publicly traded security company that focuses on securing modern cloud-native workloads. The price of the acquisition is about $2.1 billion. In addition, VMware also confirmed the acquisition of Pivotal, which will have a value of about $2â¦
Just like other tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site. A Wall Street Journal investigation found 4,152 items declared unsafe by federal agencies, deceptively labeled or banned by federal regulators.
Finland, which holds the European Union’s rotating chairmanship, called on …
Social media reflects and refracts a divided society, but eliminating the âlikeâ button could help bring us back together
When Ellie Pell took first overall, the surprised race organisers realised they had no trophy for the first place male.
Experts agree that paper ballots are needed, but eight American states will use completely paperless machines in the 2020 elections.
Who could have seen that coming?
Neural networks are transforming the way we study DNA and population genetics. Learn more about deep learning at Bayer Crop Science from Lex Flagel in this #humansofml interview.
Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets – ArgusHQ/wagyu
Clothing and tutorials for confounding and triggering computer vision-based surveillance systems with fashion and accessories.
Perhaps you’ve been charged with developing a container-based application infrastructure? If so, you most likely understand the value that containers can provide to your developers, architects, and operations team. In fact, you’ve likely been reading up on containers and are excited about exploring the technology in more detail. However, before diving head-first into a discussion about the architecture and deployment of containers in a production environment, there are three important things that developers, architects, and systems administrators, need to know:All applications, inclusive of containerized applications, rely on the underlying kernelThe kernel provides an API to these applications via system callsVersioning of this API matters as it’s the “glue” that ensures deterministic communication between the user space and kernel spaceWhile containers are sometimes treated like virtual machines, it is important to note, unlike virtual machines, the kernel is the only layer of abstraction between programs and the resources they need access to. Let’s see why.All processes make system calls:] As containers are processes, they also make system calls:]OK, so you understand what a process is, and that containers are processes, but what about the files and programs that live inside a container image? These files and programs make up what is known as user space. When a container is started, a program is loaded into memory from the container image. Once the program in the container is running, it still needs to make system calls into kernel space. The ability for the user space and kernel space to communicate in a deterministic fashion is critical.User SpaceUser space refers to all of the code in an operating system that lives outside of the kernel. Most Unix-like operating systems (including Linux) come pre-packaged with all kinds of utilities, programming languages, and graphical tools – these are user space applications. We often refer to this as “userland.”…
This article is written from a programmerâs perspective, where a monad is a software engineering pattern. Itâs just another tool for your box.
Microsoftâs recent licensing change for Windows Server is a great modern-day example of why so many businesses hated Microsoft two decades ago. Is this an aberration, or are they back to their old tricks?
Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python. Contribute to susam/mintotp development by creating an account on GitHub.
When I was working on systems deployed in on-premises data centers, it sometimes happened I had to debug an unresponsive server. It usually involved asking someone to physically press a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button on the frozen server or to send a signal to a command controller over a serial interface (yes, serial, such as [â¦]
The F.C.C. is considering shortening the number from its current 10 digits
What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision.
With the release of Chrome 76, Google fixed a loophole that allowed web sites to detect if a visitor was using Incognito mode. Unfortunately, their fix led to two other methods that can still be used to detect when a visitor is browsing privately.
Google is waging war on the peddling of magical pills and miracle cures by questionable health sites — and Examine.com seems to have been caught in the crossfire.
We’ve passed a milestone in Google’s evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based
As streaming-video viewing grows, more subscribers are paying for faster internet speeds. Even then, they can run into data limits and overage fees.
Amazon has rolled out a new selling format for brands in its third-party marketplace: Sold by Amazon, a program that lets sellers submit products to be priced by Amazonâs algorithm.
Google Forcing Nest Cameras Visual Indicator Light To Be On
Amazon has previously offered vendors the ability to “bid” for an Amazonâs Choice badge by lowering prices and spending more money on advertising.
Funding negative emissions technology through Stripe’s environmental program.
Targets employees after requests for help ignored.
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Some kids play in a band after school. Bill Demirkapi hacked two education software giants.
If you’re considering buying IBM stock, look at the long-term picture. Big Blue’s purchase of Red Hat will be material, but it’ll take time.
Public hotspots are a known securityâ issue, but new research suggests even private hotspots could be wide-open to attack.
A 30-year-old who has experience skydiving is recovering in hospital with several fractures after her parachute failed during her fall from a plane last weekend in Trois-Rivières, Que., but police say her life is not in danger.Â
Cows love nibbling on this common pink seaweed growing off the coast of Australiaâand it apparently reduces their gassy emissions by 99%.
I’m announcing the release of kdevops which aims at making setting up and testing the Linux kernel for any project as easy as possibl…