Gooooooood morning, Population!!! 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
- MarIQ – Q-Learning Neural Network for Mario Kart
- Why Do Neural Networks Need an Activation Function?
- As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today
- Cutting through the smog: making an air quality bot with Haskell
- Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely
- ActiveStereoNet: Deep learning for active stereo systems
- How A.I. Helped Improve Crowd Counting in Hong Kong Protests
- Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever
Blockchain and decentralization
- How blockchain takes us back to medieval times
- Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia
- Lawmakers officially ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold
- Bitcoin Rally Fuels Market in Crypto Derivatives
- SocialVault – Decentralized and encrypted storage for Facebook data
- Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment?
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
- Oracle on why it thinks AWS winning the Pentagon’s $10bn Jedi contract stinks
- Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
- Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
- Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy (updated)
- How iOS 13 redraws your eyes so you’re looking at the camera
- Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues
- How I encrypt my data in the cloud
Development and languages
- Windows Terminal Preview Available
- Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart
- Was OS/2 a viable alternative for daily DOS and Windows tasks?
- GNU Linear Programming Kit
- Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
- The Cost of JavaScript in 2019
- Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout
- Non-English-based programming languages
- Google Earth Ported to Browsers with WebAssembly
- Microsoft Issues Warning for 800M Windows 10 Users
- Gitlab.com Running Slow
- Scaling from 2k to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft
- One Program Written in Python, Go, and Rust
- It’s Time for a Modern Synthesis Kernel
- A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft’s Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
- Gitlab ends support for MySQL – here’s why
- Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python
- Jump to definition is available on GitHub (Beta)
- Python Ported to WebAssembly
- Algorithmic Governance and Political Legitimacy
- The Pike Programming Language
Quote of the week
Simplicity carried to the extreme becomes elegance.
— Jon Franklin
Enterprises
- PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
- Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk. It Doesn’t
- Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report
- Why Google Duplex might make my design job redundant
- Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings
- Tesla’s head of production is going to EV startup Lucid Motors
- Tesla has a lab trying to build its own battery cells
- ‘Football pitch’ of Amazon forest lost every minute
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Twitter* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
- Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week
- Tesla Model 3 deliveries beat Wall Street targets, shares up 7%
- Google’s Jigsaw Was Supposed to Save the Internet
- Deep Dive: Nvidia Inference Research Chip Scales to 32 Chiplets
- Ebooks Purchased from Microsoft Deleted April 2019 as DRM Servers Shutdown
- Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs
- Conflict at Walmart threatens its ecommerce battle with Amazon
- The Thousand Brains Theory: Framework for Building Intelligent Machines
- Wikipedia co-founder slams Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter and the ‘appalling’ internet
- Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites
- Why did Intel kill off their modem program?
- Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies
Other news
- The explosions, reenactments, and animals that made Vauxhall Gardens a hot spot
- CS Unplugged: Teaching material for CS using cards, string and crayons
- Lxss – Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/LXSS)
- Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China’s economy and may trigger central bank
- Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination
- The Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains
- China’s banks face cash crunch fears after authorities seize lender
- What Does It Mean That Quantum Gravity Has No Symmetry?
- Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server
- Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales
- Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases reduced to lowest area in 40 years
- ANU Quantum Random Number Server
- Renault’s driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
- Ice cream truck makes Instagram ‘stars’ pay double
- Partnering with publishers for a better journalism experience
- Lager: Unidirectional data-flow for C++ inspired by Redux and Elm
- New Report/Dataset: Just 10% of Workers Receive Nearly Half of Global Pay
- Japan’s 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers
- Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux
- Learn you a Lisp in 0 minutes
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