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AI, bots and robots
- Learning from Las Vegas: Sustainable vs. Susceptible
- Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos
- By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways
- An AI drew my picture
- Labrador’s robotic shelf for people with mobility issues
- ROS – Robot Operating System
- Cryptographic failures in RF encryption allow stealing robotic devices
- Belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem
- Build Your Own GitHub Copilot with Salesforce Codegen AI
- Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco
Apparently, the first system breakdown of a driverless robot taxi fleet occurred. In San Francisco, at least a dozen autonomous Chevrolet Bolts from GM Cruise Automation were spotted blocking the i… - How to Take Your Learning to the Next Level
Blockchain and decentralization
- DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (Bitcoin) security
- Metastability and Distributed Systems
- Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity
- SEC rejects Grayscale Bitcoin ETF application
- Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE
ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether. - Mozilla and Google Objections Overruled on “Decentralized Identifiers” by W3C
- ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova added to FBI most-wanted list over OneCoin scheme
Woman computer scientist of the week
Allison Druin is an American computer scientist who studies human-computer interaction, and digital libraries, particularly focusing on children’s use of educational technology. She is a professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and Associate Provost for Research and Strategic Partnerships at the Pratt Institute.
Cloud and architecture
- The Victim Cloud: Gullibility in the golden age of scams
- PyPI: Python packets steal AWS keys from users
- Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3
Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3 - Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser
- Hetzner Cloud offers IPv6-only or no public IP at all
- Class Action Lawsuit Filed over California Gun Owners’ Data Leak
- ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against VICE has been dismissed
Development and languages
- Dangit, Git?
- GitHub: Thank You to Our Maintainers
To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on. - What’s New in Python 3.11?
Latest features the newest Python release has to offer, that you should know about – built-in TOML support, better exceptions, and typing improvements. - Multi-gitter – CLI to update multiple Git repositories in bulk
- WebAssembly and C++
- Math on GitHub: Following Up
- Linx – Reveals invisible links within JavaScript files
- Windows 95 in Electron
?? Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. – GitHub – felixrieseberg/windows95: ?? Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. - The JavaScript Specification Has a New License
- Get rid of Git submodules and never look back (now for GitHub users)
- Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API
Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API. – GitHub – ForeignGods/Sorting-Algorithms-Blender: Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API. - Automated PDF Reports with Python Notebooks
- Analyze OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge
- The status of the book in the age of digital media
- 10 Years of Meteor: My experience with a pioneering JavaScript framework
- Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?
- Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
- Increased Subscription Pricing for IDEs, .NET Tools, and the All Products Pack
- GitHub incident – now resolved
- Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)
- Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
- EU Digital ID wallet is under way
Experts believe a successful digital ID system could help businesses to unlock value equivalent to 13 percent of a country’s GDP by 2030. With this in mind, the EU is set to launch its own digital wallet framework. Here’s an overview of the EU wallet - Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come
- Gradual Soundness: Lessons from static Python
- Logitech MX Products are incompatible with AirPods
My airpods pro microphone is not working as expected when i connect mx master 3 and mx keys to the macBook pro intel 2019. Is there any solution for that? - Software development from my Android phone at datacenter speeds
- A quick history of data fetching in JavaScript
- Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
- Logging in Python Like a Pro
- Google’s Android Automotive OS is coming to BMW cars next year
- Voyager Digital suspends trading, deposits and withdrawals
- There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask
- Virgil: A fast and lightweight programming language that compiles to WASM
A fast and lightweight native programming language – GitHub – titzer/virgil: A fast and lightweight native programming language - Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecraft-Style Crafting
- Python for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition – The Open Access Version Online
- why I left Android Development after 10 years for Backend
Quote of the week
That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
— Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Oath of Fealty
Enterprises
- Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of the Google Maps guessing game
Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of the Google Maps guessing game. - LaMDA’s Sentience Is Nonsense – Here’s Why
- Using the air as a wire – was Nikola Tesla right?
- The intellectual mistake of once-and-for-allism
- Amazon Is Intimidating and Harassing Organizing Workers in Montreal
Amazon is ramping up its anti-union tactics in Canada. But union organizers say Amazon’s American-style union busting won’t work in Quebec’s pro-labor environment. - FCC asks Google, Apple to remove TikTok
- Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon
- Interview with the author of “Buy Now”, a book about Amazon
- Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results
- Police sweep Google searches to find suspects; facing its first legal challenge
- Car wars: Analyst predicts GM, Ford will surpass Tesla EV sales by 2025
- Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months
The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity. - Google will remove user location history for abortion clinic visits
Other news
- Quantum Zeno effect
- Stream thoughtful films with your public library or university card
- Linux commands for advanced hardware and system info
- Energy crunch concerns lead Japan’s government to call for reduced AC use
- Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease
- The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld
Update 27/06/2022: The PocketReform has been officially announced! More information can be found at this page.
In the last year, we have seen an unexpected revival of handheld computers (or PDAs) with hardware keyboard, all of which based on Linux: the PinePhone with its keyboard case, the GPD
- EY to pay $100 mln to settle U.S. charges of staff cheating on accountant exams
- A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
- Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids)
Seriously. Someone did this. Because… why not? - TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less
- Volt, Australia’s first online-only bank, shuts down due to fund-raising woes
- Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
- Even when you do succeed, sometimes it pays to try again
- What can we learn from the secret habits of genius?
- How Much Health Insurers Pay for Almost Everything Is About to Go Public
New government rules force health insurers to publicly disclose what they pay for just about every service. That information could help consumers and employers know whether they’re getting a fair d… - BMW is switching from Linux to Android Automotive next year
- The First RISC-V Laptop Announced with Quad-Core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux Support
- FDIC Failed Bank List
- RadioShack reinvents itself as a crypto platform with wild tweets
I’m happy to share that Tabnine is successfully automating 30% (and often >40%) of the code created by over 1,000,000 developers. I would like to thank our fantastic user community.
A year ago as a result of China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency mining facilities, Bitcoin (BTC) mining became easier and more profitable.
Bored & Hungry is a magnet for fans of Bored Ape NFTs and other crypto projects. While finding a tasty burger there is no problem, paying for it with crypto is another story. 
We’ve reached a significant milestone of $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with Plausible Analytics. This post is a recap of how we got to this point.
Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively – ramblings.md
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
Dolt – It’s Git for Data. Contribute to dolthub/dolt development by creating an account on GitHub.
New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims’ computers that led to their arrest.
Introduction Rootkits are dangerous pieces of malware. Once in place, they are usually really hard to detect. Their code is typically more challenging to write than other malware, so developers resort to code reuse from open source projects. As rootkits are very interesting to analyze, we are always looking out for these kinds of samples […]
? Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker. – GitHub – radian-software/straight.el: ? Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.
Two years ago, I learned a valuable lesson about creating good UX:
Councillors have agreed an investigation should be carried out into the roll-out of a four day week for council staff – with no reduction in pay.
By Brian Armstrong, CEO and Cofounder
I cover risks inherent in USD Coin and tether USD. Thanks: I want to thank Mike from DirtyBubbleMedia for help with this piece Disclaimer: I currently hold short positions against $SI and $MSTR, wh…
The crypto market has not been kind to «investors» lately. The market has been near free-fall, and within the first quarter of the year, we’ve seen so many things going south about cryptocurrencies, and it seems almost all the promises that BitCoin and cryptocurrencies promised were a lie. So what a
Reselling software can mean recurring revenue and great profit margins. But how do you choose a niche and find your first customers?
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
The 2022 Cloud Report is the only cloud performance report to compare AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
We’re thrilled to announce our first steps on the road to delivering an outstanding Thunderbird on Android experience.
Would you like to build a data dashboard in 9 lines of Python code? I will show you how to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook. The dashboard will present information about stock for selected ticker (data table and chart). The notebook will be published as a web application. I will use an open-source Mercury framework to convert Python notebook to interactive web application.
Don’t hate, iterate.
Traffic safety officials escalate and widen probe to 830,000 Tesla cars as they discover patterns suggesting Tesla’s Autopilot feature can encourage dangerous driving behavior.
No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly.
Learn how alien intelligence connects to human intelligence through science and technology using the Principle of Computational Equivalence, the ruliad, rulial space, tiny spacecraft and the Wolfram Language.
Background Research on glucosamine shows anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits with minimal adverse effects. We aimed to explore the relationship between use of glucosamine and risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality based on data from the large-scale nationwide prospective UK Biobank cohort study.
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Hereâs how we solve them at Canva
In this episode Shahriar takes a look at one of the most advanced electrical test and measurement instruments ever created. The Keysight UXR-Series Real-Time…
Reinforcement Learning and Behavior Cloning in Python with MineRL
AI models consume massive energy levels, accelerating the climate crisis. Read how neuroscience-based techniques dramatically reduce AI’s energy footprint.
An increasing number of the machine learning (ML) models we build at Apple each year are either partly or fully adopting the [Transformer…
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
The company will reportedly give the billionaire access to a trove of data. It might not solve their dispute about spam. It might also lead to an entirely new fight.
Researchesrs at the Univeristy of Cornell anyzlized AI censorship tech designed to flag racist posts, finding that minorities are most frequent offenders.
The pandemic reshaped modern life in many ways. Over two years later, we still see ongoing shifts to urban centers. With remote and hybrid work here to stay, thriving careers in the tech industry do not depend on living in traditional technology capitals such as San Francisco, Seattle, or New York.
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
Apple announced their new 20 billion transistor M2 SoC at WWDC. Unfortunately, it’s quite a minor uplift in performance in some areas such as CPU. Apple’s gains mostly came from the GPU and video editing side of things. 
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no-op statements syntactically valid only since Python X.Y – GitHub – jwilk/python-syntax-errors: no-op statements syntactically valid only since Python X.Y
A Daily guide on live streaming, RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, low latency audio/video, and real-time calls, and well as their similarities and differences.
Imagine… Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A sm…
There is no pre-set maximum size, but that null might be coming from somewhere else.
Relates to the sale of digital electronic equipment; requires original equipment manufacturers to provide diagnostic and repair information.
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Keyless Git commit signing with Sigstore!
Germany is prepared to stump up over $5.5 billion in subsidies to secure the Magdeburg site for its $18.7 billion 2nm fab, reports Bloomberg. Intel’s plan
Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results – GitHub – iorate/ublacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
âEffective duopolyâ holds back Britainâs tech sector and restricts customer choice, says CMA
A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agencyâs hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?
Learn how you can use the Virtualization framework to quickly create virtual machines on your Mac. We’ll show you how to create a virtual…
Experimenting with ultrasonic data transmission in JavaScript as a payment method.
A project-oriented online book about Haskell
A new study has revealed how removing a common air pollutant could lead to significant gains in crop yields.
âWhat we found is actually quite fundamental,â says MIT’s Mengjia Yan. âItâs a class of attack. Not one bug.â
Is your robotic vacuum cleaner getting stuck on the laundry drying rack? Just raise the rack slightly off the floor and it becomes a natural robot barrier.
In the context of “entrepreneurial decision making”, we are still far from understanding how entrepreneurs make decisions. Therefore understanding how entrepreneurs “think” and “do” is crucial to better understand rationality in entrepreneurial decision making. A study carried out by Nidthida Lin, Ralf Wilden, Francesco Chirico, Elahe Ghasrodashti, and Dawn R. DeTiennewith with three independent samples …
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Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.
Establishes a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain transactions; provides that such operations shall be subject to a full generic environmental impact statement review.
A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python. Contribute to faif/python-patterns development by creating an account on GitHub.
A climate change what-if Over a few beers…Growing up, I was obsessed with space. Like many tech workers, I consumed everything I could find about space and space travel. Young me was convinced we were on the verge of space travel, imagining I would live to see colonies on
Before deleting your Twitter, Facebook or Instagram account, find out what others have to say about signing out for good.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a «super bad feeling» about the economy and needs to cut about 10% of the electric carmaker’s jobs, according to an email seen by Reuters.
5314 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit, was not allowed to give a presentation after employees called her «anti-Hindu».
Learn the fundamentals of typography through this gamified walkthrough with real-time feedback and logic-based principles.
I am reading Agner Fog’s optimization manuals, and I came across this example:
Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving! – bob_cassette_rewinder/README.md at master · dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder
Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix — but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we’ll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.
When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren’t going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a credit card number and I told them I had to find my wallet and call them back.
We’ve made a bold decision not to anchor pay to employees’ physical location, no matter where they are in the world. We’re calling this “One Job, One Pay” (OJOP).
Learn to build powerful Deep RL agents in just 4 hours
I was walking home from school by myself when I saw it. A robot, just standing in the middle of the street.
Neurological symptoms are increasingly associated with COVID-19, suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 is neuroinvasive. Although studies have focused on neuroinvasion through infection of olfactory neurons and supporting cells or hematogenous spread, little attention has been paid to the susceptibility of the peripheral nervous system to infection or to alternative routes of neural invasion. We show that neurons in the central and peripheral nervous systems are susceptible to productive infection with SARS-CoV-2. Infection of K18-hACE2 mice, wild-type mice, and primary neuronal cultures demonstrates viral RNA, protein, and infectious virus in periphera
I’m trying to understand https://twitter.com/KilledByAPixel/status/1517294627996545024.
The top four stablecoins by market capitalization have shrunk around 4% in May, with Tether losing 11% of its supply to redemptions
In which Nubbles is sceptical about PeerTangles’ self-styled ‘Crypto Wizard’ title.
Here’s the summary of the hardware and the software that powers Healthchecks.io.
Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite. Who is going to be talking about Datasette, SQLite and the challenges of building a server-side web application that also works in both Electron and WebAssembly.
Postgres made for developers. Easy to Use, Scalable, Cost efficient solution for your next project.
Shop MX Mechanical. Features low profile form factor, smart illumination, quick charge, Bluetooth and, 3 Unique switch types – tactile, clicky, linear.
Python utility for tracking third party dependencies within a library – GitHub – IBM/import-tracker: Python utility for tracking third party dependencies within a library
Repository of open knowledge about web scraping in Python – GitHub – reanalytics-databoutique/webscraping-open-project: Repository of open knowledge about web scraping in Python
Eastbridge? Westbridge?
It’s FTC 101. Companies can’t tell consumers they will use their personal information for one purpose and then use it for another.
A liquid-cooled NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPU is the first in a line of GPUs for mainstream servers responding to customer demand for high-performance, green data centers.
Two remarkably large sites in southwest Amazonia, belonging to the Casarabe culture, include complex civic-ceremonial architecture and large water-management infrastructure, representing a type of tropical low-density urbanism that has not previously been described in Amazonia.
Dorsey signaled his plans last fall.
Broadcom Inc said on Thursday it will acquire cloud computing company VMware Inc in a $61 billion cash-and stock deal, the chipmaker’s biggest and boldest bid to diversify its business into enterprise software.
The encrypted-email company, popular with the security-conscious, has a plan to go mainstream.
By Matthew Warren. Knowing about local police officers also reduces sense of anonymity and lowers crime rate.
Shopify shares some of the lessons we learned and solutions we built in order to run Airflow at scale.
As many as 40% of master’s degree programs cost more than the value they return to the student, recent research shows.
a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell – GitHub – phyver/GameShell: a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell
Long-Term Benzodiazepine Use Attacks Synapses Long-term use of benzodiazepines has been linked to cognitive deficits according to Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich (LMU) researchers. Benzodiazepines are a class of medications that are used to treat anxiety and sleep disorders. While short-t
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Deus Finance’s stablecoin Dei is the latest stabelcoin to lose its 1-to-1 peg to the U.S. dollar. The coin is currently trading at $0.64
wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers – GitHub – tetratelabs/wazero: wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers
Render mathematical expressions in Markdown
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Windows XP Delta Edition is a modification of Windows XP which aims to recreate the Windows XP Beta 2 aesthetic and bring back lost features, functions, and programs from previous versions of…
TL;DR – From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of five datasets including a variety of active (i.e.
Microsoft has been deeply rooted in Canada for nearly 40 years and our commitment to help grow Canada’s innovation economy has never been stronger. With the launch of our new headquarters, official opening of our Data Innovation Centre of Excellence and expansion of our regional presence, even more organizations of all sizes and sectors can leverage the power of cloud and data to accelerate their organization’s growth and drive new economic opportunity for Canada.
The Tesla Model 3 and Model Y employ a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based passive entry system. This system allows users with an authorized mobile device or key fob within a short range of the vehicle to unlock and operate the vehicle, with no user interaction required on the mobile device or key fob. This system infers proximity of the mobile device or key fob based on signal strength (RSSI) and latency measurements of cryptographic challenge-response operations conducted over BLE
Last last month, a post from the relatively obscure Good e-Reader claimed that Amazon would finally allow the Kindle to read EPUB files. The story was picked up by all the major tech sites, and for…
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Maker of stereos and speakers doomed by market shift to streaming and smartphones
Scientific Reports – Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives
Gophie is the Open Source Gopher browser for Windows, macOS, Linux and many more operating systems with Java support. 
The puzzling movement reduce diagnostic tests because of harmful downstream treatments