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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
- For many neurodiverse people, ‘The Sims’ has been a lifelong comfort
«The Sims» remains popular more than 20 years after its debut. It is also a haven for neurodiverse players, some of whom grew up with the life-simulation game and continue to revisit it well into adulthood. - 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
Sreelakshmi Suresh is a multiple award-winning web designer from Kozhikode, Kerala, India. She is mainly known for her work designing websites in India which gained her media coverage as early as 2006. «. Sources have named other individuals as holding the titles of World’s Youngest CEO and World’s Youngest Web Designer.
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
- Will Bun JavaScript Take Node’s Crown
Bun is the newest and fastest all-in-one JavaScript framework. Will it take over Node? Is it better than Deno? Let’s do some testing. - Auto Traffic Control – A gRPC Programming Air Traffic Control Game
- Windows 11 x64 security hardening guide
My Windows 11 x64 security hardening guide. Contribute to beerisgood/Windows11_Hardening development by creating an account on GitHub. - Elements of Programming
- Are We Blub Programmers?
- Stitching – A Python package for fast and robust Image Stitching (Panoramas)
- Android 13
Android 13 is here with new customization features, privacy features and multi-device features for phones, laptops and tablets. - 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
- Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries. - 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
- Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion, and the Google Play Store
Dozens of apps- often highly rated in the Play Store- facilitate extortion and threats in Mexico and other countries around the world. - 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
- Tesla Virtual Power Plant
Participate in the Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP) pilot offered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and support the grid while also earning compensation and maintaining your energy security. - 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
- Sick Codes jailbroke John Deere, found outdated Linux/WinCE with LTE modems
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Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning. Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems.
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- 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
- Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
Run Postgres in your local web browser with guided tutorials to help you grow your Postgres skills. - 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
- PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal
Scammers are using invoices sent through PayPal.com to trick recipients into calling a number to dispute a pending charge. The missives — which come from Paypal.com and include a link at Paypal.com that displays an invoice for the supposed transaction… - 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
- “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
To stay ahead of the quantum computer threat, cryptographers around the world have spent the past two decades designing postquantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. These are based on new mathematical problems that both quantum and classical computers find difficult to solve. - 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
Mitchell Weiss Professor of Management Practice Harvard Business School Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Possibility government. Mitchell Weiss, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, joined the podcast to talk about his new book We the Possibility. He discusses how bringing entrepreneurship into government can help solve complex problems and improve services. He also … Continued
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
There is growing confidence that the Ethereum Merge, scheduled for mid-September, won’t be postponed after the Goerli merge went smoothly.
How Fivetran cofounders George Fraser and Taylor Brown pulled off a «rabbit out of a hat» deal to make their data company viable.
God’s actual programming language. Contribute to elonlit/Genesis development by creating an account on GitHub.
Writing Python C extensions in Julia within 5 minutes. – GitHub – Suzhou-Tongyuan/jnumpy: Writing Python C extensions in Julia within 5 minutes.
A review of the /e/ OS Android-alternative operating system for mobile devices, as used on the Teracube 2e smartphone.
Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware. Contribute to Sycnex/Windows10Debloater development by creating an account on GitHub.
Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows and macOS, because privacy is sexy ?? – GitHub – undergroundwires/privacy.sexy: Open-source tool to enforce privacy &…
For Teslas built since mid-2017, âevery time you drive, it records the whole track of where you drive, the GPS coordinates and certain other metrics for every mile driven,â says a Tesla owner who has reverse engineered the company’s Autopilot data collection.
Does your laptop need an upgrade? We ran benchmarking tests to help you decide.
A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect?
The Current Status Quo
The Federal Court has ordered Google LLC to pay $60 million in penalties for making misleading representations to consumers about the collection and use of their personal location data on Android phones between January 2017 and December 2018, following court action by the ACCC.
Working in a library with an open space of 400 seats is nothing unheard of, but such a huge open space at work is doomed to fail. Is it? Let’s take a look at what we all can learn from hundreds of years old reading rooms.
Blog posts with images get 2.3x more engagement. Here’s the problem – we make a query engine for streaming tables. How the heck are you supposed to pick images for technical topics like comparing the similarities between Deephaven and Materalize, viewing pandas DataFrames, gRPC tooling for getting data streams to the browser, using Kafka with Parquet for storage, or using Redpanda for streaming analytics?
Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov’t to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.
Fully dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment – GitHub – 0xricksanchez/like-dbg: Fully dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment
Yes, thatâs a llama dunking a basketball. A summary of the process, limitations, and lessons learned while experimenting with the closedâ¦
It cost a researcher only $25 worth of parts to create a tool that allows custom code to run on the satellite dishes.
Sonatype identified a ‘secretslib’ PyPI package that covertly installs cryptominers on Linux systems.
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Hyundai’s all-electric mid-size crossover utility vehicle IONIQ 5 Hyundai Motor Co. is highly likely to suffer a further production delay for its all-electric 
The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the works for three years, slamming the brakes indefinitely on privacy safeguards in India.
GitHub is introducing non-essential cookies on web pages that market our products to businesses. These cookies will provide analytics to improve the site experience and personalize content and ads …
All about QBasic and QuickBasic
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
Karmem is a fast binary serialization format, faster than Google Flatbuffers and optimized for TinyGo and WASM. – GitHub – inkeliz/karmem: Karmem is a fast binary serialization format, faster than …
Has TypeScript gotten slow for you? Run this one magic command to visualize what TypeScript is compiling, and maybe get to the root of the issue.
Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite – GitHub – phiresky/sqlite-zstd: Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite
FauxPilot – an open-source GitHub Copilot server. Contribute to moyix/fauxpilot development by creating an account on GitHub.
But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too?
The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and Fly.io – GitHub – serverless-dns/serverless-dns: The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy…
It has been interesting as Iâve shifted out of .NET ecosystem which Iâve worked with on the server side (and some stints of desktopâ¦
Learn how teams using GitLab SaaS can build, test, and deploy on CircleCI.
We’re sharing our internal programming language guidance that helps our engineers and developers choose the best language for their projects.
How do you create a Python package? How do you set up automated testing and code coverage? How do you publish the package? That’s what this article…
WebContainers are now supported on Firefox for desktop and mobile as a result of StackBlitz and Mozilla collaboration! ?
Tool and policy library for reviewing Google Kubernetes Engine clusters against best practices – GitHub – google/gke-policy-automation: Tool and policy library for reviewing Google Kubernetes Engin…
For the first time in our history you can buy Mullvad VPN physical activation codes on Amazon!
In an interview in June, Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers discussed making tweaks to old episodes on Netflix, something they later denied. But where do we draw the line in the retconning of art?
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McDonalds in Australia do a decent cup of coffee. It’s not great but it’s consistently decent so I often start my day with a cup. Due to my travels around Australia in a decked out van I have seen how many McDonalds operate and just how many of
Turbulent Indigo. “I was in a losing fight with a business that basically, you know, was treating me like an also-ran or a has-been, even though I was still doing good work,’ she told an interviewer at the time.
I’ve been thinking about supplementing another language to Python for some time – mainly to cope with areas Python struggles with, or is a pain to use (which I’ll go over in a minute). I had used C/C++ some years ago, but don’t want to go back to them. C
Explores the current standards for publishing deep learning papers, the details they lack, the challenges in reproducing them, and how to overcome them.
Google announces its new Quantum Virtual Machine
@kr stacked 761 sats posting https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-ever-cryptocurrency-insider-trading-tipping-scheme [11 comments]
The Internet Archive has asked a federal judge to rule in our favor and end a radical lawsuit, filed by four major publishing companies, that aims to criminalize library lending. The motion for summary judgment, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) […]
Critics fear the UK Data Protection and Digital information Bill could be incompatible with the GDPR regime in Europe.
WebAssembly, commonly abbreviated as Wasm, is a portable binary intermediate language that can execute on different platforms in a virtual machine. The intermediate language is compiled, either just-in-time (JIT) or ahead-of-time (AOT), to the machine code appropriate for the architecture. Many programming languages compile to WebAssembly, including C, C++, C#
The Council approves new rules for a fair and competitive digital sector through the Digital Markets Act.
18 trees lost per second from Brazilian Amazon in 2021, according to new report. Deforestation is up 20 percent.
A self hosted recommendation feed generated from your browsing habits – GitHub – jawerty/myAlgorithm: A self hosted recommendation feed generated from your browsing habits
Hi, from Japan. We’ve been suffering from the spam pages on Google search results for almost half a year. A large number of spam pages are indexed when searching by our product name. It’s very similar to Japanese Keyword hack, but the difference is that our site is not hacked. Our site is not hacked These links redirect to the Google Calendar spam malware pages via Cloudflare. ESET security software detects ‘JS/Adware.Sculinst’ malware. Our product name is used for their page titles. They’re…
Somehow, posting a video clip of the cat game Stray on Twitter got me banned from Twitter, and I’m baffled as to how.
Sitting exams is unpleasant at the best of times, but my daughter believes she has extra cause to complain. Two of her A-level papers are scheduled for the same time, so she must take a break betwe…
Not interacting with people reduces cognitive function over time as studies over the years show that being a part of a group can enhance happiness and life satisfaction
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Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV – GitHub – ajensenwaud/dbs-tools: Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV
Thanks to @yarbabin for the logo Electronic payment systems have existed on the Internet for a long time, and some bugs in them are twenty years old. We’ve found critical vulnerabilities allowing us…
Rich countries are not monolithic. However, outside the US and a few microstates, they vary in a limited range.
Indie Hackers is a wonderful community for founders, a vast ocean of shared knowledge and a place to showcase your product journey. A lot of people are sharing their products there along with the revenue, often verified by Stripe. We analyzed the available data to check how much revenue are those products making and what are the most money making categories!
Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we’d want a QC
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Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn.
124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day
Read about why we have decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS and what we are doing next.
The iconic Roman structure stood as the largest and most complex permanent amphitheater in the ancient world.
A few weird ideas for programming languages I came up with that it’d be «really» «cool» if someone made (wink)
Hiâââthank you for reading this article! Weâd love to talk to you about what youâre making in our C#-focused Discord for Godot gameâ¦
We are working on a config language / DSL for building web apps that integrates with React & Node.js. A number of times we’ve been asked “Why are you bothering creating a new language for web app development? Isn’t Github Copilot\ soon going to be generating all the code for developers anyhow?*”.
A big chunk of Fuchsia-related code has been removed from Android, but Google’s operating systems are still set to be intertwined.
Amazon recently announced that Aurora PostgreSQL supports PostgreSQL major version 14. The new release adds performance improvements and new capabilities, including support for SCRAM password encryption.
The authorities are looking into whether the automated features of the Tesla car were involved in the crash
Both companies are rolling out mitigations, but they add overhead of 12 to 28 percent.
Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover
U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from several rankings in the current 2022 edition of Best Colleges after the university failed to respond to multiple requests that it substantiate data it had previously submitted.
Sandboxing for Linux has never been easier.
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In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that a hands-free system could effectively automate the treatment and removal of tooth-decay-causing bacteria and dental plaque.
Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources. – GitHub – rebuy-de/aws-nuke: Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.
Amplify UI simplifies building accessible, performant, and beautiful applications with cloud-connected capabilities, building blocks, theming, and utilities.
Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms! – GitHub – hemanth/functional-programming-jargon: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
Golang SSR-first Frontend Library. Contribute to kyoto-framework/kyoto development by creating an account on GitHub.
I am currently porting an experimental language to Windows. This experimental language was built in C++ with LLVM, and relies heavily on GCC extensions like VLAs and Compound Statement Expressions, which basically made it impossible to build with MSVC (although I have a truly horrifying idea I may attempt later). Luckily, you can now build things on Windows with Clang, which solves a lot of problems. However, clang-cl simply compiles the code – it still uses the Microsoft C++ headers and links to the Microsoft C++ runtime.
Come for an introduction to programming the GPU by the lead architect of CUDA
Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode – GitHub – winterknife/PINKPANTHER: Windows x64 handcrafted token stealing kernel-mode shellcode
Bundle, transpile, install and run JavaScript & TypeScript
âI canât remember anythingâ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories?
Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub.
What happens on the other side of the acquisition doesn’t get much startup press
Amazon has been working on a Lord of the Rings TV show for years, and they seem determined that it eclipse anything ever attempted on TV before. The comp…
Most Linux-based operating systems are fairly large — usually well over a full gigabyte in size for the base install image. Tiny Core Linux, which clocks in at a svelte 22 MB download, just release…
A head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel’s network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK.
Credentials Dumper for Linux using eBPF. Contribute to citronneur/pamspy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Rogers Telecommunications said its network was beginning to recover late on Friday after a 19-hourservice outage at one of Canada’s biggest telecom operators shut banking, transport and government access for millions, drawing outrage from customers and adding to criticism over its industry dominance.