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AI, bots and robots
- I have released 100+ stock trading strategies using machine learning (GoogColab)
- Segway-Ninebot unveils scooters that drive themselves to charging stations
- Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks
- Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari
- Robust Learning from Untrusted Sources
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 ICMLâ⦠- Code is law: China now has AI-powered robot judges
- Using deep learning to analyze the ultrasonic vocalizations of rats
- Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2T transistor chip for AI
Artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems is unveiling the largest semiconductor chip ever built — with 1.2 trillion transistors. - Machine Learning and Data Science Applications in Industry
- The Essential Tools of Scientific Machine Learning
- The State of Transfer Learning in NLP
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. - LogicENN: A Neural Based Knowledge Graphs Embedding Model with Logical Rules
- A.I. Is Learning from Many Humans
- Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab
- How to Start with Machine Learning
- Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models
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 […]
Blockchain and decentralization
- The Serious Money Is Warming to Bitcoin
- Criminals are racing to cash out their Bitcoin
- Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
The worldâs best cryptographers meet this week to compete in a U.S.-sponsored challenge to create a quantum-resistant standard. - Terrorists Turn to Bitcoin for Funding, and They’re Learning Fast
The authorities have begun to raise alarms about a steady uptick in the number of militant groups using the hard-to-trace digital currency. - Tupelo as it relates to IPLD and IPFS
- Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
Today we are announcing the distributed version of TimescaleDB, which is currently in private beta (public version slated for later this year). - DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS
Woman computer scientist of the week
Janice Richmond «Jan» Lourie is a computer scientist and graphic artist. In the late 1960s she was a pioneer in CAD/CAM for the textile industry. She is best known for inventing a set of software tools that facilitate the textile production stream from artist to manufacturer. For the Graphical Design Of Textiles process she was granted IBM’s first software patent. Other projects, in differing disciplines, share the focus on graphic representation. She returns throughout an ongoing career to the stacked two-dimensional tabular arrays of textiles and computer graphics, and the topological structures of interrelated data.
Cloud and architecture
- Why Software Architects Must Be Involved
- Traits of Serverless Architecture
- Definitions of Software Architecture
- The Eleven Laws of Showrunning
- The Architecture of Open Source Applications
- Bringing Serverless to a Web Page Near You with Hugo and Kubernetes
Learn how you can migrate your Hugo static sites over to OpenFaaS including custom domains, TLS and CI/CD through OpenFaaS Cloud (or GitLab). - IBM is open sourcing the Power instruction set architecture
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 - Walmart Fire Sale: After 7 roof fires, Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel flaws
- Trails of Wind: Data Visualization of the Architecture of Airport Runways
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. - Security flaws caused by compiler optimizations
- Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
- Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
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 20⦠- Lyft Has Been Flooded with Sexual Assault Lawsuits
- Flaws in Cellphone Evidence Prompt Review of 10k Verdicts in Denmark
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. - Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison
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. According⦠- Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms
Development and languages
- Portland Police digitally remove face tattoos from mugshot, to help their case
- Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly
- Super Easy Python CLI with Click
- Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
- Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use
- Sushi Roll: A CPU research kernel with minimal noise for microarch introspection
- Fearing data privacy issues, Google cuts some Android phone data for carriers
- Removing Image Artifacts in C# with OpenCV
- GitHub Open-Source Code for Hand Gesture Recognition – Sign Language Translation
- The GitHub registry public beta is live
- A Common Lisp library for solving linear programming problems
- Run .NET Core Apps Directly from a GitHub Gist
- The ‘microworkers’ making digital life possible
- One-lined Python
- WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
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 … - GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys
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. - Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
- Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated. Yep? Nope?
- GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications
- A pop of color and more: updates to Android’s brand
- The Surprising Number of Programmers Who Can’t Program
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 ⦠- Functional Programming in Bash
- Windows 95 Web UI Kit
- Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?
- JavaScript: The Modern Parts
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…
Quote of the week
A data structure is just a stupid programming language.
— R. Wm. Gosper
Enterprises
- Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde
- Google has destroyed the lives of revenge porn victims
- Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome
- Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
- Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail to Dent Tesla’s Electric-Car Dominance
- In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
- I Miss Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It stopped shipping in 2009 on DVD. I … - Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets
- Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code
- The WeWork IPO
The WeWork IPO is defined by audaciousness and excess, all of which is driven by unlimited access to capital. - Google’s software mistreats or harms the user
- Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try
- Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
Walmart Inc on Tuesday sued Tesla Inc, accusing it of «widespread negligenc… - The Amazon is burning at alarming rate, and smoke covered São Paulo
Fires in the Amazon have risen 84% amid growing deforestation, Brazil’s space research agency says. - Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?
- Baffled student tells Twitter: ‘I’m not a Chinese agent’
- The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines
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 experie⦠- Brazil’s President Blames NGOs for Amazon Fires
- Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest
- VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B
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 $2⦠- Amazon has ceded control of it’s site to 3rd party sellers
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. - Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
- Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
- Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon
- Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
- Datadog files S-1 in advance of IPO
- Finland urges EU to consider banning Brazilian beef over Amazon fires
Finland, which holds the European Union’s rotating chairmanship, called on … - Some People Pay $30 to Get a Referral for Google
Other news
- Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp – Make
- A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics
- Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure
- A Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug
- a Linux distribution to research fast package management
- Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to one year
- Rules for Intuitive UX
- Travel Hacking 101: Travel the World for Next to Nothing
- SoftBank plans to lend $20B to its CEO and employees amid volatile markets
- What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
- Portugal trials use of goats to clear vegetation for reduction of wild fire risk
- Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?
Social media reflects and refracts a divided society, but eliminating the âlikeâ button could help bring us back together - South African bank advises against the use of password managers
- Hacking Image Interpolation for Fun and Profit
- Woman wins 50K ultra outright and gets the ‘Male’ trophy too
When Ellie Pell took first overall, the surprised race organisers realised they had no trophy for the first place male. - Surveillance cams in Pennsylvania use hackable Chinese tech that recognize faces
- A Case for Universal and Simplified Journal Systems
- Saudi Arabia implements end to travel restrictions for Saudi women
- At MIT, more fallout from the university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein
- A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties
- Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data Within Milliseconds
- Sexism in the Academy: Women’s narrowing path to tenure
- 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
Experts agree that paper ballots are needed, but eight American states will use completely paperless machines in the 2020 elections. - Acute Effects of E-Cig on Vascular Function Detected at Quantitative MRI
- SoftBank Will Let People Invest in IPOs with Less Than $10
- Tesla gets stolen with keyfob hack on camera in seconds
- Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
- Best books to learn about manufacturing
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…
Is it possible to use machine learning with small data? Yes, it is! Here’s N-Shot Learning. 
Built with artificial intelligence and human touch. Simply upload a Sketch file and we’ll automatically generate the front-end code for you (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Use Zecoda to turn a Sketch file into a fully responsive web project.
Researchers in the U.K. have found a link between the fertility declines in domestic male dogs and similar problems that have been widely reported in human males.
Financial fraudsters often try to target the elderly or otherwise vulnerable â but one recently picked the worst possible target.
On Thursday, May 30, over a dozen Coinbase employees received an email purporting to be from Gregory Harris, a Research Grantsâ¦
I once turned down a job offer from AWS, who told me my reasoning was preposterous. Last week they did exactly what I was afraid of.
One researcher’s discovery suggests troubling oversights in Boeing’s cybersecurity.
Data Visualization can be a great tool for mathematical exploration and experimentation. In this article, I show you an example using Matplotlib and Python.
It took a year, but the patch fixes a new speculative-execution flaw found by Bitdefender.
Data Structures and Algorithms explained and implemented in JavaScript – amejiarosario/dsa.js-data-structures-algorithms-javascript
Honor your right to disconnect and focus on strengthening real relationships
GitHub Actions now includes built-in CI/CD. Easily automate how you build, test, and deploy your projects on any platform, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.
After months of conflicting statements from Huawei executives, the Chinese networking giant on Friday officially unveiled HarmonyOS, the much-anticipated microkernel-based distributed operating system that it has developed to power smartphones, laptops and smart home devices as the company attemptsâ¦
The FBI said in a search warrant affidavit unsealed last month, two delivery drivers contracted by Amazon routinely stole the items and sold them at pawn shops.
The decision to delay a $10 billion computing contract for which Amazon was the favorite reflected both opposition from President Trump and an aggressive campaign by an industry rival.
In an interview with an antitrust expert Sally Hubbard, we discussed what makes Amazon a monopoly, how that affects consumers, businesses relying on Amazon, and competitors, as well as what actions and regulations antitrust investigations might bring in the future.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Google’s class-action settle…
Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to. Back in May the social network disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an accountâs â¦
Advanced Micro Devices Inc on Wednesday released the second generation of its pr…
Find inspiration for where to go, decide what neighborhood to stay in, and book flights and hotels with more confidence at google.com/travel.
The following text by Martin C. Pedersen was originally published by Common Edge, and has been reposted with the author’s permission. I spent four glorious days in Copenhagen recently and left with an acute case of urban envy. (I kept thinking: Itâs like..an American Portlandâexcept better.) Why canât we do cities like this in the …
It wasn’t “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm. The fashion and sneaker trading platform pushed out a password reset email to its users on Thursday citing “system updates,” but left users confused and scramblâ¦
This question gets asked a lot. We’ll teardown why this question keeps getting asked, whether
Why break into a company’s network when you can just walk right in â literally? Gone could be the days of having to find a zero-day vulnerability in a target’s website, or having to scramble for breached usernames and passwords to break through a company’s login pages. And certainâ¦
The proof-of-concept demonstrations herald a major step forward in quantum communications
What attracts most people to Pure Watercraft is the promise of a thrilling yet quiet ride in a high-performance electric boat. They want to catch more fish, have more peaceful conversations, and hear the sounds of nature. They want to tinker with boats less, and enjoy experiences more. The environmental impact matters, too. It matters […]
Health minister confirms plans and calls on neighbouring countries to relax their laws
Apple plans to hand out $1 million to researchers who find the most critical weaknesses in iPhones.
Scientists at Rice University have developed a method of turning heat into light using carbon nanotubes, which could greatly increase solar efficiency.
Airo Security (AiroAV) has recently discovered that a Comscore product for macOS, called PremierOpinion, uses a harmful Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) practice to facilitate its Spyware functionalities. It is developed, distributed and orchestrated by VoiceFive, Inc. a subsidiary of Comscore, Inc.(NASDAQ: SCOR). This Comscore spyware installs a proxy on ports 8888, 8443 and 8254, where it captures …
MIT fellow Alex Lipton claims Facebook borrowed the guts of its Libra project from a paper he co-authored last year.
A close look at two periods of degraded service on Coinbase.com during the week of June 24.
Slateâs Use of Your Data
Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store – zerotier/lf
The CSS background-image property allowed us to do some amazing things, but in most cases, it’s time to leave it behind.
The security researchers involved say that Apple has yet to fix all of the discovered flaws.
Physicists have found examples of âuniversalityâ in a system of confined bubbles. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of singularities.
Capital One and GitHub have been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the recent data breach that resulted in the data of over 100 million Capital One customers being exposed.
The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing portions of the service, chief executive of the Microsoft-ownâ¦
Lahja is a generic multi process event bus implementation written in Python 3.6+ to enable lightweight inter-process communication, based on non-blocking asyncio – ethereum/lahja
Tech giants Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could have their secretive algorithms policed by a beefed-up watchdog, under what Australia describes as world-first limits to the power that they wield over news and advertising markets.
On behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, Privacy Company has investigated the privacy risks related to the use of Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise, Office 365 ProPlus and Office Online, as well as the mobile Office apps. With the Ministryâs permission, we are publishing two blog posts
The ride-hailing company’s cuts follow an internal reorganization and questions about whether it can make money.
I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezosâs desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future youâd find an Encyclopedia of Retail, written in maybe 1985. There would be Post-It notes on every page, and every one of those notes has been turned into a team or an
Google’s parent company now holds $117 billion in cash
A 22-year-old is accused of scamming the largest internet retailer in the world out of nearly $370,000 by sending returned packages with dirt.
Ryzen sales have reached startling heights – and Intel should be worried
A coalition of bank activists in ten California cities is pushing for public banks. A bill to support them is working its way through the state legislature
Investigative news site Bellingcat has confirmed several of its staff were targeted by an attempted phishing attack on their ProtonMail accounts, which the journalists and the email provider say failed. “Yet again, Bellingcat finds itself targeted by cyber attacks, almost certainly linked to â¦
In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.
Appleâs unfair, monopolistic policies on its App Store hurt developers and consumers alike. But thereâs a better way.
Thousands of National Australia Bank (NAB) customers have had ‘some personal information’ compromised after the bank uploaded the details to the servers of two ‘data service companies’.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has found that the mental health and experiences of those receiving intrusive examinations, surgery, chemotherapy and emergency care are improved when visual art is installed.
The University of Alaska’s governing board plans to consolidate campuses to cope with a 40% cut in state funding.
Map With AI, tool created by Facebook researchers and engineers, is helping the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project map missing roads around the world.
In late 2017, with prices of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin surging, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong faced a tough choice: Would his company, the leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, become more like a traditional financial services company or would it lean into the industryâs wild side?In the end, …
The Internal Revenue Service has begun sending letters to more than 10,000 cryptocurrency holders, warning about penalties for failing to report income and pay tax on transactions involving virtual currencies.
Oregon has advanced the most ambitious response to housing affordability challenges in the country while California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers have struggled to pass strong renter protections and legislation that would significantly increase the state’s supply of homes. 
A collection of Scripts which disable / remove Windows 10 Features and Apps – W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
Nodes is a new way to create with code
After an uproar, DoorDash is changing its tipping policy. What would really be nice is some worker protection laws.
My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea. I may not be able to continue maintaining GameHub in future. I haven't been able to find an actual restrictions li…
The Brazilian president accuses the national space agency of exaggerating the scale of deforestation.
Training deep neural networks is one of the more computationally intensive applications running in datacenters today. Arguably, training these models is
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial
The tiny island will need to turn itself into a data hub to make use of the expected bandwidth
SAN FRANCISCO – In the small South Carolina town of Newberry, Bob’s Red Mill muesli cereal is hard to come by.
I love services like . They are the kind of just-futuristic-enough technology that excites my imagination the same way that magic does. Itâs incredible that we have accurate, automatic speech recognition for a variety of languages and accents, in real-time. There are so many use-cases, and nearly all of them are intriguing. Until now, the [â¦]
Map Caps Lock to Escape, or any key to any key. Contribute to susam/uncap development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hundreds of masked assailants dressed in white have assaulted residents, protesters, journalists and a lawmaker in Yuen Long, hours after an anti-extradition law march ended. Update: Hong Kong police made no arrests after mob assaulted commuters, protesters, journalists The group used bamboo sticks and other weapons to attack people in the area and in the West Rail …
An anonymous, crowdsourced list of which publications pay freelance writers, and how much.
For a number of years now, a group of professional hackers has been busy spying on businesses all over the world: Winnti. Believed to be controlled by China. For the first time, research by German public broadcasters BR and NDR are shedding light on how the hackers work and how much havoc they wreak.
EvilGnome, a rare type of malware with zero detections in VirusTotal, is spying on Linux desktop users by allowing the recording of audio conversations. The malware has infrastructure connections to Russian APT Gamaredon Group.
Simple command line forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts (history of USB events) on GNU/Linux – snovvcrash/usbrip
By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able to trick Cylanceâs AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign. 
With our latest v1.4.1 release, the Sia decentralized cloud storage network is ready for the next stage of adoption.
Google Cloud sets three new records in the industry-standard ML benchmark contest, MLPerf, with each of the winning runs using less than two minutes of compute time.
Learn how to run inference on Cloud Functions using TensorFlow 2.0.
I start more blog posts than I finish, due to no shortage of other distractions and at times near-crippling inability to blog short. When IBM announced they were acquiring Red Hat in October 2018 fâ¦
I was admitted to Penn for computer science, and while I got two undergraduate degrees, computer science remained my first love all along. My favorite CS course of all was CSE 121, the second semester of freshman year, which was an introduction to functional programming via the LISP language. Wh
GraphBLAS for Python. Contribute to michelp/pygraphblas development by creating an account on GitHub.
Discover key trends, attitudes, and perceptions on the state of culture, workflow, and tooling within IT organizations.
Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. But is the platform really a viable part-time hustle?
For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. Weâll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.
The firm’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China had faced much criticism.
Amazon discounted a wide range of camera gear for Prime Day this week, but some photographers scored what may be the best deals of their lives. Thanks to
The video streaming pioneer blamed price rises for adding fewer paid subscribers than hoped.
‘No safeguards’ on QA accounts, and suddenly this guy gets a Tesla and $1.6m home, say prosecutors
Technology Articles and Podcasts
org-mode on the web, built with React, optimized for mobile, synced with Dropbox and Google Drive – DanielDe/org-web
The bitter battle between the University of California, a leading source of published research papers, and Elsevier, the worldâs largest publisher of research papers, just got more bitter. 
The note – once called the currency of corrupt elites – gets a makeover with the image of a computer pioneer.
Some of the best known examples used to explain the power of prominent NLP tools (like Word2Vec) only seem to work with some cheating.
Golang was designed by Google engineers Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a statically typed, compiled language released on March 2012.
Some think automated radio emails are mucking up the spectrum reserved for amateur radio, while others say these new offerings provide a useful service
Untangling the mixed record of the latest big-fix educational trend promoted by Silicon Valley.
Triumph over five human opponents at Texas holdâem brings bots closer to solving complicated real-world problems.
VW Group is investing $2.6 billion in capital and assets into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that burst onto the scene two years ago with $1 billion in backing from Ford. The deal, which has been rumored for months, is part of a broader alliance between VW Group and Ford tâ¦
With .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 out the door, we thought it would be useful to take a brief look at the history of our infrastructure systems and the significant improvements that have been made in the last year or so.
What is the current behavior? Webpack-cli crushes: .\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\cli.js:352 if (!e && fileOwnerId === process.getuid()) utimesSync(openCollectivePath, now, now); TypeError:…
Wage war across the galaxy with three unique and powerful races. StarCraft II is a real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment for the PC and Mac.
Malicious apps from a campaign called «Agent Smith» have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point.
âMonitoring shows anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node when it is supposed to be idle. Node was recently updated. RDP to that node, observe Internet Explorer window loaded MSN homepage and renders animated banner ads. Should send the bill for 8 CPU-hours to Microsoft…â
Ahead of the highly anticipated Ryzen 3000 desktop series launch, here is a look at the AMD Zen 2 core microarchitecture.
Ad campaigns that manipulate searchers’ behavior are frighteningly easy for anyone to run.
Here are all the businesses, brands and subsidiaries (we know of) owned by “The Everything Store.”
How a nascent search engine became a tech behemoth, one edit at a time.
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Saudi Arabia has quietly directed tens of millions of dollars a year to American universities from M.I.T. to Northern Kentucky. What are the nation’s rulers getting out of it?
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Maker Faire and Maker Media are getting a second chance after suddenly going bankrupt, but they’ll return in a weakened capacity. Sadly, their flagship crafting festivals remain in jeopardy, and it’s unclear how long the reformed company can survive. Maker Media suddenly laid off all 22â¦