Gooooooood morning, Herd!!! 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
- AI Guidance for Mental Resilience
- Speedcubing kid can skip last layer by learning 3915 algorithms for every case
- As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
- Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks
- WaniKani, a Kanji Learning Application
- Process behaviour anomaly detection using eBPF and unsupervised learning
- Machine learning, concluded: Did no-code tools beat manual analysis?
- The AI Art Apocalypse
- A spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation
- Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go
- Nocturnal bottleneck
- These Are Not Photos: Beautiful Landscapes Created by New AI
- Contrastive Representation Learning
- Deep Learning Alone Isn’t Getting Us to Human-Like AI
Blockchain and decentralization
- Native-GUI distributed system in a tweet
- The changing iconography of Byzantine gold coinage
- Insider Trading in Cryptocurrency Markets
- Freedom and Privacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics
- AWS Just Walk Out Technology
- AWS GuardDuty – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Scanning for AWS Security Issues with Trivy
- I made a local development, debugging and hotreload tool for AWS Lambda
- SaaS Developer Perspective Build vs. Buy
- A C++17 pattern-matching library with lots of good stuffs
- The PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript
- Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
- The architect who became the king of bank robberies
Development and languages
- Programmable large-scale simulation of bosonic transport in optical
- Functional Reactive Programming
- Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible
- Auto Traffic Control – A gRPC Programming Air Traffic Control Game
- Elements of Programming
- Are We Blub Programmers?
- Stitching – A Python package for fast and robust Image Stitching (Panoramas)
- Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident
- Where are Digital Ocean servers located?
- .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
- Traps for the Unwary in Python’s Import System
- Programming breakthroughs we need
- Is the Windows Bridge for iOS Projects Dead?
- The Zimbu programming language
- Thunderbird Time Machine: Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.0
- GitHub Actions Degraded Performance
- Just-in-time code generation within WebAssembly
- See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
- Thoughts on why sometimes programming/software engineering discussions suck
- DTrace-on-Windows
- The James Webb Space Telescope Runs JavaScript, Apparently
- 640by480: Instagram Clone for Vintage Digital Cameras
- Inappbrowser.com – see what JavaScript gets injected through an in-app browser
- Euporie Console – a terminal console for Jupyter kernels
- ShaderGlass – Overlay applying retro shaders on top of Windows desktop
Quote of the week
I recommend the linux people to call it “GNU / Linux” instead of “GNU/Linux”. never hurts to distance yourself from GNU.
— mjl on #plan9-social
Enterprises
- Copyright infringement in artificial intelligence art
- The Economics of the Tesla Semi
- Sale – A live cash register for your Stripe account
- Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
- One Tag to Rule Them All: Introducing the New Google Tag
- Running Large-Scale Graph Analytics with Memgraph and Nvidia CuGraph Algorithms
- Another Path to Intelligence
- Are You Intellectually Humble?
- Tesla in-house supercomputer now has 28% more A100 GPU (7,360)
- Embracer enters into agreement to acquire The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit IP
- Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond
- Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks
- Nvidia to Share New Details on Grace CPU, Hopper GPU, NVLink Switch, Jetson Orin
- Don’t plug in that free Microsoft Office USB drive you got in the mail
- Tesla Virtual Power Plant (Beta)
Other news
- What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
- Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
- Muxfs – a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD
- Living on a Reduced Income in 1868
- Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux
- A High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science
- Def Con hacker shows John Deere’s tractors can run Doom
- Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for Celeron laptops
- Paper: Augmenting Decompiler Output with Learned Variable Names and Types
- Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Macros
- Learn MYOG – learn to make (sew) your own outdoor gear
- Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M
- What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad
- Dan Price, CEO who cut his pay so workers earned $70k, quits amid legal woes
- A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
- AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage
- An attempt to make a reduce-palette/dither filter for 2d canvas images
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