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AI, bots and robots
- On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python
- India’s data labellers are powering the global AI race
- The cortex is a neural network of neural networks
Neural networks of neural networks - The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says
Study points toward lifelong neuron formation in the human brain’s hippocampus, with implications for memory and disease - Resources for Learning Graphics Programming
- McDonald’s Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M
- The Godfathers of the AI Boom Win the Turing Award
Yoshua Bengio, Geoff Hinton, and Yann LeCun pioneered work in artificial neural networks, paving the way for self-driving cars and facial-recognition software. - Meta-Reinforcement Learning
- When the cows come home
- Learning Ada
I decided to try and learn Ada. I love programming languages. This post documents my attempt, and explains what I learned. This is pretty stream of consciousness and basically is a bunch of random notes, so if you hate that, better close the tab…. | Steve Klabnik | âThe most violent element in society is ignorance.â – Emma Goldman - BBC removes it’s podcasts from Google’s podcast app and Google assistant
- Why Bother with What Three Words?
I’ll be wording this post carefully as What 3 Words (W3W) have a tenacious PR team and, probably, have a lot more lawyers than I do. W3W is a closed product. It is a for-profit company masque⦠- A Deep Attention-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Model-Based Control
- ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data
Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art – dheera/rosshow - Kicking neural network design automation into high gear
- A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 Kb/S Using LPCNet
- Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes
- Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes
- TensorFlow 2.0 Deep Learning Video Tutorial
Blockchain and decentralization
- Three protocols and a future of the decentralized internet
- Qri: A global dataset version control system built on the distributed web
you’re invited to a data party! Contribute to qri-io/qri development by creating an account on GitHub. - Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs
- The Rainbow Network: An Off-Chain Decentralized Synthetics Exchange
- More security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms
- Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely
- Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership
Amazon Aurora: on avoiding distributed consensus for I/Os, commits, and membership changes, Verbitski et al., SIGMOD’18 This is a follow-up to the paper we looked at earlier this week on the design… - News Inside: A print publication that will be distributed in prisons
Woman computer scientist of the week
Paula Bonta is an Argentinian/Canadian computer scientist and educational software designer. She is known for developing programming environments for children, most notably contributing to the design of the Scratch programming language before it was even called Scratch. She co-founded the Playful Invention Company, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab noted for developing the Programmable Cricket, with Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman and serves as Lead Designer. She was also the design director for several award-winning software products for children, including MicroWorlds and the «My Make Believe» series of products from Logo Computer Systems, Inc. She has a degree in computer science and a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Cloud and architecture
- How we manage plans and features in our SaaS app
This is how we manage what a user can do and see on their account and plan in our SaaS app. We check for feature toggles and volume limits. - Oracle customers fear its reaction if they use Amazon’s or Microsoft’s cloud
- IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit
IBM has let go more than 20,000 U.S. workers over age 40 in the past six years, lawsuit claims. - New Bitbucket Cloud features that spark joy
- Serverless DNS over HTTPS (DoH) at the Edge
- Huawei Equipment Has Major Security Flaws, U.K. Says
The U.K. accused Huawei of repeatedly failing to address security flaws in its products, subjecting the Chinese telecom-equipment giant to fresh international scrutiny as it tries to fend off U.S. accusations that it poses a cybersecurity threat. - Cartography: Graph view of infrastructure assets and relationships between them
Cartography is a Python tool that consolidates infrastructure assets and the relationships between them in an intuitive graph view powered by a Neo4j database. – lyft/cartography - Multi-Scale Turing Patterns 2
Development and languages
- Computer Scientists Create Reprogrammable Molecular Computing System
- End-User Programming
- Replete 2.0: ClojureScript REPL for iOS and Android
- Google Home like WiFi remote configuration for an headless Android device
- “The Barbados Mercury”: Thoughts from the digitization team
- Pyright: Python static type checker from Microsoft
Static type checker for Python. Contribute to Microsoft/pyright development by creating an account on GitHub. - iTerm2 beta adds Python API
- Fluent Terminal – Open Source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal
A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies. – felixse/FluentTerminal - Pyre: Facebook’s static type checker for Python
- Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game
- PyType: Google’s static type analyzer for Python
A static type analyzer for Python code. Contribute to google/pytype development by creating an account on GitHub. - Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account
- Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex
The Cyber Swiss Army Knife – a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis – gchq/CyberChef - DNA Computer Shows Programmable Chemical Machines Are Possible
- EFI Boot Application in C#
Demo of the potential of C# for systems programming with CoreRT – MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp - What’s inside Python ‘for’ loop?
- A programming language agnostic type construction and interchange language
- An Intel Programmer Jumps over Wall: First Impressions of ARM SIMD Programming
(the pictured dish is apparently materials for “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall”, named for its ability to seduce away vegetarians – sadly it uses shark fin so has some ethical issues&⦠- Morning Cup of Coding – A curated daily newsletter for programmers of all fields
- C# ‘Hello World’ on x64 bare metal (no OS)
- UC Browser for Android, Desktop Exposes 500M Users to MiTM Attacks
- Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
WebAssembly is an assembly language for a conceptual machine, not a physical one. This is why it can be run across a variety of different machine architectures. WebAssembly needs a … - CopperheadOS Release: Android 9
- Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber
- Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
Today, weâre thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and itâs been shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017.
- Working with UTF-8 in the Kernel
- GitHub is now banned in China
- Vugu: Experimental library for web UIs written in Go and targeting WebAssembly
- Fibers: The Most Elegant Windows API
Quote of the week
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
— Richard Feynman
Enterprises
- The Quest to Acquire the Oldest, Most Expensive Book on the Planet
- A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US
- Man Stole $122m from Facebook and Google by Impersonating Quanta
- Amazon finds an alternative workforce of people with disabilities
- Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On
- What Is Amazon?
- Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
- Lyft moves San Francisco IPO roadshow as drivers protest
- Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
Google announced today it will expand its office space in Taiwan with a new complex in Banqiao District, New Taipei City. The space will be in Taipei Far Eastern Telecom Park, about a 20-minute drive away from its offices in Taipei 101. Google currently has 2,000 employees in the country and plans ⦠- Google partners to fund new local media sites
- Google launches AMP for email
Google today officially launched AMP for Email, its effort to turn emails from static documents into dynamic, web page-like experiences. AMP for Email is coming to Gmail, but other major email providers like Yahoo Mail (which shares its parent company with TechCrunch), Outlook and Mail.ru will also⦠- On Internal Engineering Practices at Amazon
- Anthropological/Artificial Intelligence and the HAI
- PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019
fman is a dual-pane file manager for Mac, Windows and Linux. - Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing. - Artificial intelligence pioneers win tech’s ‘Nobel Prize’
- The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach
- ‘Making Amazon look bad’: Microsoft supports a state tax on businesses
- New Amazon S3 Storage Class – Glacier Deep Archive
- Tesla’s current “autopilot” can’t see stopped cars directly ahead of you
- Microsoft bans April’s fools pranks
- What did Google+ get right?
Google+ got some things awfully wrong. They lost and they were hated. But many of us thought it was the best social network that existed… - Lyft prices IPO at top of range
Lyft begins trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol «LYFT» tomorrow. - The Death of External Storage: Where’s Google?
- Lyft’s IPO Is Making the Same Circle of Men Rich, Again
- Intel lays off hundreds of tech administrators
These appear to be the chipmaker’s largest cuts since 2016. - A Google side project evolved into a $4B company
How did Niantic happen? How did the company behind Pokémon GO and (soon) Harry Potter: Wizards Unite come to be? When anyone talks about Niantic, they generally mention that it’s “a Google spinout” and move on. As if that’s something that just happens every day. That dozens ⦠- Totaled Teslas contain unencrypted and personally revealing data about owners
Other news
- RReduX: The Fabled GMachine
- Chinese Education Startup Puts Western Teachers on Notice
VIPKid, a Chinese education startup backed by U.S. investors, is cracking down on how its Western teachers cover politically fraught topics. - Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol. - Alternative Funding Calculus: A Quant Comparison of Tiny, Indie, and Earnest
- Laws of the Universe and Teaching
- Instantbox: Spins up temporary Linux systems with webshell access from a browser
- The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
- Hackers Hijacked Asus Software Updates to Install Backdoors
- Hackers dropped a secret backdoor in Asus’ update software
Hackers targeted and compromised “hundreds of thousands” of Asus computer owners by pushing a backdoored update software tool from the company’s own servers. The bombshell claims, first reported by Motherboard, said the hackers digitally signed the Asus Live Update tool with one o⦠- Apple Arcade – Game subscription service
Apple wants to tilt the balance from ad-laden freemium gaming titles toward all-access ad-free gaming experiences that can be downloaded across platforms on iOS, macOS and tvOS. At the company’s services event this morning, they announced Apple Arcade, their new premium subscription service f⦠- Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help
- Duke University research fraud settlement: $112M payment to U.S. government
- Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
- ‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’
Then… If, like me, you’re over 40 and work in IT, you’ll probably remember a time when everyone used Windows, and a small but growing proportion of people were wasting their lives⦠- What I Learned in My First Year Year as a Solo Founder
- $50M CTF from Hackerone – Writeup
- Coinbase: Learn about Stellar Lumens (XLM)
Coinbase Earn is giving out one billion Stellar Lumens (XLM) from the Stellar Development Foundation to millions of eligible users to… - Fifty Women Say Salesforce Helped Sex Traffickers Exploit Them
- Goodly replaces office perks with student loan repayment
- Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi
- Mux is looking for engineers and PMs to build the future of video infrastructure
- Common statistical tests are linear models
- A woman who doesn’t feel pain
Jo Cameron is one of two people on Earth known to have a mutation that means she feels almost no pain. - A Link Layer Protocol for Quantum Networks
- Modern USB gadget on Linux and how to integrate it with systemd (Part 2)
- Search Algorithms Are Changing the Course of Mathematics
- Disney World to ban smoking in all parks, reduce stroller size
Weird-looking robots are the best robots.
An entrepreneur builds a one-metre-long stretch of motorway to protest about poor road infrastructure.
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Machine learned bracketology. Contribute to adeshpande3/March-Madness-ML development by creating an account on GitHub.
NVIDIA has unveiled a $99 computer that brings AI hardware to the homebrew crowd.
In episode 2 of Tech Lightning Rounds, Beth Kindig goes directly to the source of robotics expertise and hosts discussions with technologists who specialize in the field.
TextWorld is text-based game and is an open-source, extensible engine that generates and simulates text games-use it to train reinforcement learning agents.
Democracy Earth’s token architecture is designed to model a humans-only political economy
At the last Globo.com’s hackathon, Lucas Costa and I built a simple Lua library to provide a distributed rate measurement system that depends on Redis and run embedded in Nginx but before we â¦
Bitcoin made easy. Contribute to ofek/bit development by creating an account on GitHub.
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WebAssembly is a new type of code that can be run in modern web browsers â it is a low-level assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native performance and provides languages such as C/C++ and Rust with a compilation target so that they can run on the web. It is also designed to run alongside JavaScript, allowing both to work together.
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A scheme to stealthily run video ads behind banner images drained users’ batteries and data while they used popular Android apps.
A scheme to stealthily run video ads behind banner images drained users’ batteries and data while they used popular Android apps.
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation. Try our code patterns to help buiâ¦
Objectives To investigate whether and how user data are shared by top rated medicines related mobile applications (apps) and to characterise privacy risks to app users, both clinicians and consumers.
Last month, Google announced that its Nest Secure would be updated to work with Google Assistant software. The problem? Google never told users its product had a microphone to begin with. Simple oversight or invasion of privacy? We break it down.
Plus: UK health service sites contain commercial trackers
âKDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS [1]. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there’s no way to talk to Google*. 1/N
The search engine has been fined for blocking rival online search advertisers.
Microsoft today announced that it is bringing its Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to the Mac. Previously, this was a Windows solution for protecting the machines of Microsoft 365 subscribers and assets of the IT admins that try to keep them safe. It was also previously called Wiâ¦
An undocumented ranking method can result in sites appearing in Google search results for queries that donât appear on the page
Turing Tribe is the best place to find new artificial intelligence and machine learning products, individual projects, latest news stories, and events.
Tesla Inc filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a former engineer at the company, …
Amazon might have to choose between shutting down stores or putting cashiers in cashierless locales.
Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have all banned the app.
Dunford said he was concerned that the work Google was doing with China on AI was undermining the U.S military.
South Carolina sheriffs dipped into public money to pay for luxury accommodations and broke laws they swore to uphold, a Post and Courier investigation found.
Whether itâs autoplaying videos, page jumps or finding a topic within all your multiple tabs, Firefox can help. Todayâs Firefox release minimizes those online inconveniences, and puts you back in control.
There are many programs on Linux that wants to automatically manage your DNS configuration file (resolv.conf). Here is how you get rid of them so you can control the file manually.
Iâm a big Linux fan, and enjoy experimenting with new environments, so I was very excited when I was tasked with porting the OverOps agent to native Alpine Linux! But before I could get started with any actual porting work, I had to set myself a proper Alpine development environment. In this post, Iâll cover my experience in setting up an Alpine Linux workstation for C++ and Java development, with some hopefully useful Alpine know-hows, tips and resources.
Students don’t seem to be getting much out of higher education.
A new study shows clear differences in the biology of how men and women feel pain, a reminder that sex-specific pain medications might benefit us all.
As an investor, I’ve found that one of the reasons there are fewer female startup founders than male ones is that there are fewer female programmers. So this summer I’m trying an experiment to see…
Transformers are a type of neural network architecture that have been gaining popularity. Transformers were recently used by OpenAI in…
A dogged investor, missing files, an internet crusader, a disgraced judge — this scandal has drama galore. It’s about business frustration under President Xi Jinping.
Silicon Valley rents are soaring and talent is increasingly available elsewhere.
The Royal Mint’s tribute reflects the physicist’s pioneering work and making science accessible.
the purest AI + Blockchian project. Contribute to theDumbAssCoin/DUMBASS development by creating an account on GitHub.
At AWS, we focus on solving problems for customers. Over the years, customer usage and dependencies on open source technologies have been steadily increasing; this is why weâve long been committed to open source, and our pace of contributions to open source projects â both our own and othersâ â continues to accelerate. When AWS [â¦]
Founder and co-chair of Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, and Stan Meresman join Cloudflare board
Least Authority was formed in 2011 to create freedom-compatible technologies. We are a small team who believe that freedom matters in Internet technology. You can take advantage of online services while retaining control over your own data. We’re here to make it easy.
Speedrunning is the practice of attempting to beat a videogame in as short a time as possible. There are a huge variety of methods and styles. There are 100% completion speedruns, tool-assisted speâ¦
The jankest autonomous drone ever built and programmed from scratch – alexozer/jankdrone
Probably the first in a multi-part series on DP.
A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3. It runs a limited subset of Prolog and uses backtracking and generators in order to perform its magic. – photonlines/Python-Prolog-In…
The electric carmaker says prices will rise by 3% and reverses a decision to close stores.
F5 and NGINX today announced an agreement under which F5 will acquire NGINX for approximately $670 million. Hear from NGINX CEO Gus Robertson on why NGINX + F5 is a powerful combination that will âbridge the divideâ between NetOps and DevOps.
Voice recognition is a standard part of the smartphone package these days, and a corresponding part is the delay while you wait for Siri, Alexa, or Google to return your query, either correctly interpreted or horribly mangled. Google’s latest speech recognition works entirely offline, eliminating tâ¦
Certificates with 63-bit serial numbers touch off mass revocation blitz.
In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google’s popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines it offers per market — expanding the choice of search product users can pick from in markets around the world. Most notably it hâ¦
Killed by Google is a Free and Open Source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.
Google is shutting down its Emmy Award-winning VR film division, Spotlight Stories, after six years of building out content, Variety reports. We’ve reached out to Google for confirmation. Update: A Google spokesperson responded to TechCrunch with a statement confirming the shutdown. âSince itâ¦
Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
The online retailerâs move follows recent efforts by Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest to limit the availability of anti-vaccination and other pseudoscientific material.
Thereâs a glob of stringy, black rubber spilling out of the street at the corner of Speed and Fernwood in Louisvilleâs Highlands neighborhood. A block away on Rosedale, the same spongy substance that covers most of Google Fiberâs buried lines in the city snakes in and out of the asphalt.
Model Y has a 300 mile range (EPA est.), 0-60 mph acceleration in 3.5 seconds and best-in-class storage.
Model Y has a 300 mile range (EPA est.), 0-60 mph acceleration in 3.5 seconds and best-in-class storage.
Main UserLAnd Repository. Contribute to CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd development by creating an account on GitHub.
The list of the best machine learning & deep learning courses and MOOCs for 2019.
Remote-desktop giant ‘among more than 200 govt agencies, oil, gas, tech corps’ hit by gang
In Vancouver, where sky-high real estate prices have made ownership impossible for many, it’s suddenly not too difficult to live like a king.
âA major international bank accidentally published a private package of their own to the public npm Registry, took *3 years* to notice, and then sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon and Cloudflare for hosting «stolen code». Now I have to pay a lawyer to explain this to them.â
In the latest surveillance state data breach from China, a database listing the ‘breed ready’ status of 1.8 million women has been found and exposed by Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers.
âSo HackerNoon is quietly leaving Medium, but also trying to take the rights for thousands of people’s work with them and shit’s going down…
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past. They also calculated the probability that an electron in empty interstellar space will spontaneously travel back into its recent past. The study is published in Scientific Reports.
As Beto O’Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for âhactivismâ come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.
Idealism can eventually bow to financial pressure and artificial intelligence companies, big and small, can change course.
A simple explanation of how they work and how to implement one from scratch in Python.
When Ernest Quintana went into Kaiser Permanente Medical Center's emergency department in Fremont on Sunday, his wife of 58 years, his son, daughter Catherine, and granddaughter Annalisia all worried about the 79-year-old man. They say it was hard enough to learn that his lungs were failing, but they couldn't believe it when a hospital robot entered his room and they got the news…
Class materials for a distributed systems lecture series – aphyr/distsys-class
Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy Hellerstein & Alvaro, arXiv 2019 The CALM conjecture (and later theorem) was first introduced to the world in a 2010 keynote talk at PODS. Beh…
A generalised solution to distributed consensus Howard & Mortier, arXiv’19 This is a draft paper that Heidi Howard recently shared with the world via Twitter, and here’s the accompanying …
Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
With this post we illustrate the potential applications of Cloudflare Workers in relation to search engine optimization, which is more commonly referred to as âSEOâ using our research and testing over the past year making Sloth.
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Python library for building highly effective data science workflows – d6t/d6tflow
Python Data Science Handbook: full text in Jupyter Notebooks – jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook
Google’s Project Zero has exposed a «high severity» flaw in macOS’ kernel XNU – which apparently has issues in its implementation of copy-on-write behavior – after Apple failed to fix it in 90 days.
Today, weâre excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goalâ¦
A framework for creating Python/C++ polyglots, programs valid in both programming languages – wmww/Python-plus-plus
Identifying ways of thinking that shut down the possibility of progress
Amazon stops selling its Dash buttons because shoppers are using other methods to buy products.
After a recent study, the company gave raises to thousands of men after determining they were earning less than women in similar jobs.
Rich Benoit just wanted to fix his Tesla. He ended up becoming a YouTube star. 
As of March 5th, the Microsoft Store team has updated the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement (ADA). The next time you log into your Partner Center dashboard, you or someone with an administratâ¦
When a security expert on the Chrome team says, “update your Chrome installs… like right this minute” – well, here’s how to check!
The retail giant is shutting down all 87 Amazon pop-up stores in the U.S., ending a yearslong experiment with these small shops as the company tinkers with its evolving bricks-and-mortar strategy.
Tesla has more than 12,000 Superchargers across North America, Europe, and Asia and our network continues to grow daily: more than 99% of the U.S. population is covered by the network, and we anticipate similar coverage in Europe by the end of 2019. Recently, we passed 90% population coverage in China and are growing that number quickly. However, in order to drive continued electric vehicle adoption and further accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, charging needs to be even faster, and the number of vehicles able to charge at a location in a day needs to be significantly higher. Today, we’re unveiling V3 Supercharging, the next step in the growth of Tesla’s Supercharger network. V3, which is born from our experience building the
If Sidewalk Labs is allowed to proceed with plans for a high-tech neighbourhood on Toronto’s waterfront, the area will become a «constitution-free zone,» says the executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
To advance our mission, we are reimagining travel by building an end-to-end travel platform. Today, we are building on this work by signing an agreement to acquire HotelTonight.
Google purchased Picasa, a super efficient photo editor that offered seamless integration with online publishing (e.g., you add a photo to an album on your desktop computer and it automatically getâ¦
The Massachusetts senator, who is running for president, announced a regulatory plan aimed at breaking up large tech companies and “unwind tech mergers that illegally undermine competition.”
Lyftâs IPO registration paints a dismal picture of its prospects â will investors bite anyway?
The influential Massachusetts senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has been a longtime critic of the consolidation of economic power by Amazon, Google and Facebook. Now she’s making their break-up a key component of her presidential platform. Warren has just released her plan forâ¦
The hunt for male and female distinctions inside the skull is a lesson in bad research practice, writes Lise Eliot.
Teen hacker Santiago Lopez has made hacker history by becomming the first white-hat hacker to earn $1 million in bug bounties via website HackerOne.
Researchers modify microbe to manufacture cannabis compounds including the psychoactive chemical THC.
A new study suggests companies that disclose their wages can shrink the gap between what men and women earn by 7 percent. And it makes the workplace more equitable in other ways as well.
Firefox browser-maker Mozilla is considering whether to block cybersecurity comp…
The story we’re used to hearing is that women get paid less than men. In Google’s case, according to its own internal pay audit, it turned out male-identified Level 4 Software Engineers received less money than women in that same role. That led to Google paying $9.7 million to adjust paâ¦
The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique
The people of Rue Crémieux say they need gates to lock out Instagrammers.
Meet Maza-In, a Russian hacker blamed for an outbreak of Android banking malware that’s highlighted flaws in Google Play security.
Very few people have heard of them, but «dev-fused» iPhones sold on the grey market are one of the most important tools for the best iOS hackers in the world.
Chinese hackers have targeted more than two dozen universities in the U.S. and around the globe as part of an elaborate scheme to steal research about maritime technology being developed for military use.
The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates.
ZFS on Linux – the official OpenZFS implementation for Linux. – zfsonlinux/zfs
The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates.
Looking at how children process information may give programmers useful hints about directions for computer learning
Biting your tongue at yet another questionable article shared in your message group of friends and family? Add artificial-intelligence fact-checker Meiyu as a member, she will jump in with ‘False’ and explain why it’s wrong; quieter mothers-in-law.
The list of the best machine learning & deep learning books for 2019.
A report by security consultant Warith Al Maawali claims he lost $60,000 to $70,000 while using the Coinomi wallet because of a spell checker vulnerability.
Innovations like domain-specific hardware, enhanced security, open instruction sets, and agile chip development will lead the way.
A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users. The findings are said to be the first time vulnerabilities have affected both 4G and the incoming 5G standard, which promises fasteâ¦
Like any other field, the world of Software Development has some interesting and famous rules, principles and laws. 
When the government comes for your data, tech companies can’t always tell you. But thanks to a legal loophole, companies can say if they haven’t had a visit yet. That’s opened up an interesting clause that allows companies to silently warn customers when the government turns up toâ¦
Really cheap Kubernetes cluster on AWS with kubeadm – cablespaghetti/kubeadm-aws
I’m pleased to report that Hyperscan, the regular expression matcher that ate my life from 2008 through 2018, finally has a paper (pdf) – it’s being presented this week at NSDI &#â¦
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chine…
An open source AutoML toolkit for neural architecture search and hyper-parameter tuning. – Microsoft/nni
PostgreSQL backup and restore service. Contribute to aiven/pghoard development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Beautiful Python prompts made simple. Build a prompt like stacking blocks. – Mckinsey666/bullet
More than 50 employees at Microsoft have demanded the firm end its deal to provide augmented reality to the US army.
Twitter threads are a pain to read! So let’s just steal them, right? Umm… Nope, probably wrong. I’m going to say very wrong. Think about it.
A large cargo plane crashed Saturday in Texas, killing all three people on board, officials said. 
Designed to get work done.
This is my notes on the paper: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases. What’s Amazon Aurora Functionally speaking, an instance of Aurora is same as an instance of MySQL. The differences are Aurora decouples compute from storage and it’s fault-tolerant. It supports all ANSI isolation levels
Spain Tops Italy as World’s Healthiest Nation While U.S. Slips
Unisoc loses tech partnership in new blow to China’s chip ambitions
Amazon Personalize is a machine learning service that makes it easy for developers to create individualized recommendations for customers using their applications. 
We are incredibly excited to announce that the standard Model 3, with 220 miles of range, a top speed of 130 mph and 0-60 mph acceleration of 5.6 seconds is now available at $35,000! Although lower in cost, it is built to achieve the same perfect
The governor of New York has called Mr. Bezos and other Amazon executives to persuade them to resurrect their plan to build a campus in Long Island City.
Anti-vax documentaries have disappeared from search results on the platform, and appear to no longer be available to Prime members for free streaming.
In case you didn’t already see this news, PostgreSQL has got its first minor version released for 2019. This includes minor version updates for all supported PostgreSQL versions. We have indiâ¦
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Agnes Denes, the queen of Land Art, made one of New Yorkâs greatest public art projects ever in 1982. Now, the world might be catching up with her.
A simple drug cocktail that converts cells neighboring damaged neurons into functional new neurons could potentially be used to treat stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain injuries. 
Design reduces by 99 percent the data users need to join the network and verify transactions.
A distributed system for rendering 3D content with focus on bandwidth and resource efficiency – GENIVI/ramses
People are resorting to blockchain for all kinds of reasons these days. Ever since I started doing smart contract security audits in…
Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.
A TCO comparison between the Lambda Hyperplane 8 x V100 Server and the AWS p3dn.24xlarge instance. The Hyperplane cost comparison is very similar to that of the DGX-1.
The Japanese automaker, which employs 3,500 at its Swindon, England, plant, is set to close the site by 2021.
Boss sent Mark Weathers a work email on Good Friday, then called him in church during Easter weekend to make him work, religious-discrimination suit alleges.
GitHub is where people build software. More than 31 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.
Git extensions for m-of-n signing and verification on commits/tags. – hashbang/git-signatures
Company broke privacy and competition law and should be regulated urgently, say MPs
tl;dr Programming interview questions can feel unnecessarily difficult. Sometimes they actually are. And this isn’t just because they make interviews excessively stressful. Our data shows that harder programming questions actually do a worse job of predicting final outcomes than easier ones.
Learn how to block in-app and video ads on Android, without root.
The prize was clear: A promised 25,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000, but Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio were urging Amazon to hire a union workforce.
Multi-task learning and language model pre-training are popular approaches for many of today’s natural language understanding (NLU) tasks…
Antitrust agencies are concerned that the autonomous pricing algorithms increasingly used by online vendors may learn to collude. This column uses experiments with pricing algorithms powered by AI in
Police are increasingly using judge-approved «reverse location» search warrants to find cellphones near crime scenes. Civil liberties experts worry it’s a digital dragnet ripe for abuse. Authorities say it’s an important new crime fighting tool.
Bill Pollock says Amazon is printing them—and even the product photo is fake.
New system of “strain engineering” can change a material’s optical, electrical, and thermal properties.
Your digital tip jar, using Lightning Network and Bitcoin.
European Union countries on Wednesday endorsed an overhaul of the bloc’s co…
Google is finally ending forced arbitration for its employees. These changes will go into effect for both current and future Google employees on March 21. While Google won’t reopen settled claims, current employees can litigate past claims starting March 21. For the contractors Google works wâ¦
Synthetic DNA seems to behave like the natural variety, suggesting that chemicals beyond natureâs four familiar bases could support life on Earth.
Some Microsoft Corp employees on Friday demanded that the company cancel a $480 …
An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server. – imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
When I was a college student, I saw a list of essential math books on a blog. I promised to myself to read all those books in 10 years…
:star: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. – trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
Why are churches across Britain adorned with carvings of naked women exposing their genitalia?
The «sophisticated» activity follows an intrusion on parliamentary servers, PM Scott Morrison says.
Warren Buffett’s business partner Charlie Munger has warned that teaching people to trade stocks is like starting them on heroin.
I figured out the appleid.apple.com issue.
When everything is quantified, power accrues to whoever is keeping score
DVC is designed to handle large data files, models, and metrics as well as code. DVC is an open-source framework and distributed version control system for machine learning projects.
Ludwig is a toolbox that allows to train and test deep learning models without the need to write code
ð§ Leon is your open-source personal assistant. Contribute to leon-ai/leon development by creating an account on GitHub.
disclaimer: all intellectual property and techniques described in this article have been previously disclosed in US Patents US10014002B2…
Toby Walsh, a researcher in artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Australia, predicted a new arms race if autonomous robots take on combat roles, as well as the possibility they would eventually be used by police and border agents
Orca could help to fill a yawning gap in the American submarine fleet. In December 2016, the U.S. Navy announced it needed 66 nuclear-powered attack subs, or SSNs, to meet regional commanders’ needs.
U.S. investment bank JP Morgan Chase has entered the crypto world. It has created a stablecoin known as the JPM Coin, is it the next big cryptocurrency?
A blockchain-based storage network and cryptocurrency
Weâre happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech. This is the last step in the process, weâve won.
Sample cloud-native application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, gRPC and OpenCensus. Provided for illustration and demo purposes. – GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo
Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit. Contribute to magit/forge development by creating an account on GitHub.
My heart for Cutie Pai. Contribute to susam/heart development by creating an account on GitHub.
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when youâre coding a work in progress.
One key benefit that WebAssembly offers is _predictable_ performance across browsers. But how do you turn hot path written in JavaScript into WebAssembly?
An October 2019 update is still planned, but previews of that will come in spring.
At the end of January the .NET Core development team has released a new version of the .NET Core framework, .NET Core 3 preview 2. It delivers a few new C# features to developers. It is nice to see the language improving and I like all of them. But today
A plea to all android app developers and small start-up tech business owners to come together and force Google to change their automatic…
My Bitcoin News • The CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, has said that the companyâs Cash App will integrate Bitcoinâs Lightning Network and that itâs only a matter of
Despite getting rewarded repeatedly with promotions, compensation, recognition, and praise, I wasn’t motivated enough to do another year.
Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. The API has been in developer preview since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 anâ¦
Amazon is about to expand its smart home offerings in a big way. The company just announced its intention to acquire Bay Area-based home mesh router startup, Eero. Itâs a pretty clear fit for the online retailer as it pushes to make Alexa a feature in the connected home. The move also makes sense fâ¦
Video game development platform Unity Technologies is gearing up to go public, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, which was valued at a little more than $3 billion as of its last funding round in June 2018, is aiming to do its initial public offering during the first half of 2020 ã¼ provided that market conditions are favorable, a source told Cheddar.
What is the relationship between intellectual giftedness and meaning in life?
Amazon.com Inc and General Motors Co are in talks to invest in Rivian Automotive…
The festival’s marketing agency also co-produced the film, resulting in a misleading version of who bears responsibility for the fraud.
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter’s product issues.
DMN follows the legal paper trail from France and Ireland back to sunny California
Amazon, the ubiquitous purveyor of two-day delivery of just about everything, nearly doubled its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018 from $5.6 billion the previous year and, once again, didnât pay a single cent of federal income taxes.
Its plan to build a sprawling complex in Queens in return for nearly for $3 billion in government incentives had come under fierce opposition from local lawmakers.
Now that Amazon has said that itâs taking its ball and going home rather than deal with mean, pushy New Yorkers, outside observers are giving off the sense that the city (and its local politicians) are losing out for their recalcitrance. They’re wrong. New York City is running at about a 4.3 â¦
Alphabet Inc’s Sidewalk Labs unit is proposing it get a share of property t…
Blocking all ads faster than the blink of an eye.
The federal judiciary charges 10 cents a page to see electronic court records. Retired judges and civil rights groups say access should be free.
Client did not pay? Add opacity to the body tag and decrease it every day until their site completely fades away – kleampa/not-paid
Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup, has raised $940 million in financing from the SoftBank Vision Fund, a whopping amount that will be used to expand its delivery service, add new partners, hire employees and scale up its fleet of self-driving bots. Nuro has raised more than $1 billion from partâ¦
Mars One, a Dutch company that planned to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars and start the first human colony on the Red Planet, has been declared bankrupt.
When writing a book or course, you deal with hundreds of thousands of words and Vim helps you manage that in a sane way.
Uber fought as hard as any company in America in the past few years to assure th…
After a while, I decided a write a short blog post about Linux binary reversing CTFs in general. How to approach a binary and solving for beginners. I personally am not a fan of Linux reverse enginâ¦