Gooooooood morning, Rank and file!!! 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
- Japanese Words in Neuromancer
- Leveraging AI in Photonics and Beyond
- Apple’s Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from his role a little over four years after he joined the company after… - Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference
- Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild
- We raised $100M for open and collaborative machine learning
- Beyond Message Passing: A Physics-Inspired Paradigm for Graph Neural Networks
On going beyond message-passing based graph neural networks with physics-inspired “continuous” learning models - Factory: Fast Contact for Robotic Assembly
- Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
- Learning Rust – Day 4 – Understanding Modules
- Introduction to Diffusion Models for Machine Learning
- Ultimaker and Makerbot merge to form new 3D printing company
- Building the world’s most realistic robot
- Employers’ Use of AI Tools Can Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act
The Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today each released a technical assistance document about disability discrimination when employers use artificial intelligence (AI) and other software tools to make employment decisions. - Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria
- A portable wind turbine the size of a water bottle
Blockchain and decentralization
- Using Java’s Project Loom to build more reliable distributed systems
- The golden rule of software distributions
- UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
The development comes after the Luna Foundation Guard announced that its massive bitcoin reserves will be used to defend UST’s dollar peg. - Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner, a single file (C)Python distribution
- Coinbase Q1/22 Shareholder Letter
- Coinbase stock falls -15% after hours, after quarterly revenue misses estimates
- UST “Stablecoin” at $.31
- El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets
- Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
If the exchange goes down, it’s taking investors with it. - Bitcoin Is Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock
- Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke and Why It Matters
Last week, a luna coin was worth $85. Now it’s worth a penny. Here’s why that matters. - Over $1.2B in Bitcoin reserves remains unaccounted for by Luna Fdn. Guard
- Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire
Woman computer scientist of the week
Linda Ruth Petzold is a professor of computer science and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also listed as affiliated faculty in the department of mathematics. Her research concerns differential algebraic equations and the computer simulation of large real-world social and biological networks.
Cloud and architecture
- Dark Pattern: How YouTube Makes Sure You Don’t Always “Skip Ad”
- Cloud TPU VMs are generally available
Cloud TPU VMs with Ranking & Recommendation acceleration are generally available on Google Cloud. Customers will have direct access to TPU host machines. - ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics from Raw Data
- Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers
Development and languages
- The triple dot syntax (` `) in JavaScript: rest vs. spread
- Weron – A Peer-to-Peer VPN Based on WebRTC Written in Go
Overlay networks based on WebRTC. Contribute to pojntfx/weron development by creating an account on GitHub. - New Assembly Like Programming Language?
- Multiple assignment and tuple unpacking improve Python code readability
- Thieves in London target digital investors by taking phones
- PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
Windows PowerToys are a set of powerful utilities (I can’t live without them btw) that Microsoft just hasn’t implemented into Windows OS. - Wordle in Python using literate programming
- Compiling an OpenBSD kernel 50% faster
- Waterbear is a toolkit for making programming more accessible and fun
- Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR
Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages ??? – GitHub – naptha/tesseract.js: Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages ??? - Lemon Squeezy: Sell digital products the easy-peasy way
- A most vexing parse, but for Python packaging
- Pythondocs.xyz – Live search for Python documentation
- A Spatial Environment for Python
- If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters
- Programming Style Influences
- AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
- Slik: A data processing and modelling Python library
- Ballerina: A Data-Oriented Programming Language
- Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick
- Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools
Certificate transparency is superb improvement to HTTPS certificate security on the web that’s great for users and businesses, but on… - Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
The first open-source release of GPU kernel modules for the Linux community help improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security. - Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
The first open-source release of GPU kernel modules for the Linux community help improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security. - WordPress’ market share is shrinking
- Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL
- Tokay Programming Language
- Fruits – sell digital products in less than 2 minutes
- Watermelon – open-source VSC ext. to document code and view Git blame
Quote of the week
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.
Enterprises
- Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest
New Javacript API will «simplify the access to data for all,» developer says. - Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support
- Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized warehouse
- What happens if Twitter gets encrypted DMs?
- Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto Mining Speeds
- Fast bitset decoding using Intel AVX-512
- Forcing citizens through Google/Apple for online identity verification
- Twitter Circle
- NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter
- Intel’s Core i9-12950HX has 16 cores and 55 watts of power
- Why I left Google: work-life balance
- Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump’s Twitter ban
- IntelliJ D Language – support for the D language within IntelliJ IDEA
- New Twitter TOS
- After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A
- Twitter’s head of consumer product fired
- Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
- Google Online SRE Books
- ZFS Without a Server Using the Nvidia BlueField-2 DPU
- Netflix to Employees: If you don’t like our content, you can quit
Other news
- How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn?
- ‘Rater’ is paid $10 hourly to teach Google’s algorithm
- An Excellent Woman – On Barbara Pym
- Hacking F-117A
My investigation into mission generation in the Stealth Fighter games by Microprose. – GitHub – debugcom/Hacking-F117A: My investigation into mission generation in the Stealth Fighter games by Micr… - Lessons learned from the recent job hunt
A recap of the recent interview process with several companies, what I learned, and what others should know. - The Rich New York Women Who Love Their Fake Birkins
- Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
- CaskDB – project to teach you building a key value store
- Kiss Linux
- Use fzf for tmux session switching
https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0 https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0 Quickly getting between tmux splits is critical skill for productivity. You Quickly getting between t - Boston University Undergraduate Costs Reach $80k
- Hacks for Engineering Estimates
- NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotia - Yahoo Japan’s password-free authentication reduced inquiries, sped up sign-in
- FAA Changes Course on EVTOL Certification
- Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techies Feel Underpaid
- Nvidia Linux Open GPU Kernel Module Source
- Better.com Founder/CEO Personally Liable for $750M SoftBank Loan
- Linux Insides Book
Joey Santore’s YouTube channel, Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t, crosses citizen science with vigilante environmentalism
Vanilla JS TodoMVC App in 2022. Contribute to 1Marc/todomvc-vanillajs-2022 development by creating an account on GitHub.
The behind-the-scenes of our decision to sell Postmark and DMARC Digests to ActiveCampaign in 2022
This is the source code for the original Microsoft 3D Movie Maker released in 1995. This is not supported software. – GitHub – microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker: This is the source code for the or…
Getting to the next level unlocks a lot – more money, more responsibility, more respect, a feeling of progress – and even if you care deeply about other things (your product, your users, etc), you can’t really avoid caring about promotion as well. This post talks a bit about the (well-known) issues with this type of culture, and suggests some alternatives for startups not looking to replicate it.
Offrez à vos utilisateurs la possibilité de partager leurs données financières en toute sécurité afin de simplifier les paiements, de réduire la fraude, d’évaluer les risques et de créer de nouveaux produits.
The original game held a wealth of surprises. Its meta-obsessed follow-up has even more.
Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL – GitHub – openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course: Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started…
I’ve used Linux for many years on servers, but still kept macOS as my main working environment for almost ten years now. A few months ago, I gave up on macOS and started using Fedora as my main operating system on the ThinkPad P1 Gen3 15”.
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This AI Does Not Exist generates realistic descriptions and code snippets of machine learning models given a made-up name.
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust. – GitHub – spacedriveapp/spacedrive: Spacedrive is an open source cross-platf…
I’ve been concerned about the excesses of the blockchain industry and their spread into all parts of society for some time now. Here I’ve summarized my thoughts regarding the subject.
Even after 10 years of programming, I still have a relentless curiosity about new software algorithms, reading papers and blog posts, and learning from other engineers. The best part, however, really comes when you have the opportunity to implement one algorithm and even customize it for your specific use case. In this post, I will walk you through my journey from understanding cluster membership fundamentals to the implementation of Chitchat, our Rust implementation of the Scuttlebutt algorithm with a phi accrual failure detector.
Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS dominate the smartphone operating system (OS) space. Today 7 out of 10 phones run on the Android OS, while two of the remaining three are most likely to be iOS powered. Occasionally, one out of those three will be using one of the other less known OS’. However, Android’s dominance …
A blog about (mostly) computery things
Git.io deprecation
The Digital Berlin Wall: How Germany (Accidentally) Created a Prototype for Global Online Censorship – Part two The German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) continues to inspire authoritarian and illiberal internet censorship around the world. In under a year, the number of countries copy-pasting the NetzDG matrix to provide cover and legitimacy for digital censorship andRead More
Web Scraping via Javascript Runtime Heap Snapshots
tl;dr We found that 10% of the 666 most popular Python open source GitHub repositories had the following f-string typo bugs: f prefix was missing:”hello {name}”instead of f”hello …
Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world’s richest person.
Mastodon is an open source decentralized social network – by the people for the people. Join the federation and take back control of your social media!
The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.
Online health information is terrible. How can we fix it?
Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after…
The Venice-based COVID-19 testing company doing business as «Sameday Health» allegedly falsified and forged test results, according to a complaint.
Cyberattacks on three European wind-energy companies since the start of the war in Ukraine have raised alarm that hackers sympathetic to Russia are trying to cause mayhem in a sector set to benefit from efforts to lessen reliance on Russian oil and gas. 
From the Big bang to the Heat death of the universe
Update (April 27): Boaz Barak—Harvard CS professor, longtime friend-of-the-blog, and coauthor of my previous guest post on this topic—has just written an awesome FAQ, providing his pers…
The stress hormone cortisol reduces altruistic behaviors and alters brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in people with higher levels of empathy.
I’ve been an SELinux complexity apologist for years. Lately, I’ve concluded that every implementation with difficult-to-configure policies is just unmanageable.
A self-described «comically terrible spy» who is believed to have worked with federal authorities investigating the activities of Deutsche…
CLOG – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI. Contribute to rabbibotton/clog development by creating an account on GitHub.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law SB 220, a bill mandating personal finance classes for high school students.
ProPublica’s Justin Elliot on how Intuit built its TurboTax empire. 
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Contribute to wildarch/jepsen.rqlite development by creating an account on GitHub.
It does everything differently, because of course it does.
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.36.
Memray is a memory profiler for Python. Contribute to bloomberg/memray development by creating an account on GitHub.
Private Profiles
After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have just made deal on a new EU Digital Services Act. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer sat at the negotiating table as Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) and summarises:
Brave is rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows Brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly.
MASSIVE dataset and Massively Multilingual NLU (MMNLU-22) competition and workshop will help researchers scale natural-language-understanding technology to every language on Earth.
TL;DR; We are changing std::sort in LLVM’s libcxx. That’s a long story of what it took us to get there and all possible consequences, bugs you might encounter with examples from open so…
A feature rolling out this month uses algorithms to suggest edits in Google Docs, but falls into the same bias traps it’s trying to prevent.
I once wrote an article about being poor, and I started it out with a story about a friend who had spent some time explaining to my wife (who, at the time, was struggling to maintain a household of four on entry-level retail money) how hard up for funds they were, and how stressful it was. The zinger of the story, such as it was, was that the woman and her husband were both doctors. They weren’t bad people, but they came from a context where things like “being broke” had entirely different meanings.
We confirm that in 2020 and 2021 we observed and notified the government of the United Kingdom of multiple suspected instances of Pegasus spyware infections within official UK networks, including the Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Training a collaborative filtering based recommendation system on a toy dataset is a sophomore year project in colleges these days. But where the rubber meets the road is building such a system at scale, deploying in production, and serving live requests within a few hundred milliseconds while the user is waiting for the page to load. To build a system like this, engineers have to make decisions spanning multiple moving layers like:
Exploring why Rust is our preferred language for a core WebRTC library
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
Contribute to analang/ana development by creating an account on GitHub.
A stable, non-intrusive yet fully functional build of Windows 10 to anyone, who requires the Windows operating system natively
The board voted unanimously to adopt the plan.
How a generation of programmers in the 90s learned to collaborate in the most unlikely of places, now on The ReadME Project:
The StarBook Mk V has an increased chassis size when compared to its predecessor. This allows for a battery that is 10% larger, a 14-inch display, twice the amount of speakers and removable memory.
How Neuromancer from William Gibson birthed Cyberpunk
Google Brain co-founder and Landing AI founder Andrew Ng has become an evangelist for what he calls the data-centric AI movement. âCollecting more data often helps,» he says. «But if you try to collect more data for everything, that can be a very expensive activity.â
Welcome to Videoâs customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldnât have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoinâs anonymity.
Organizations are adopting microservices architectures to build resilient and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. These applications are composed of multiple serverless functions that implement the business logic. Each function is mapped to API endpoints, methods, and resources using services such as Amazon API Gateway and Application Load Balancer. But sometimes all you need is a […]
NGINX Open Source 1.21.4 introduces support for kernel TLS (kTLS), which boosts performance by significantly reducing the need to copy data between user space and the kernel. We provide complete instructions for enabling kTLS in NGINX and share results of our performance testing.
This article is also available in Dutch Imagine for a moment the perfect organizational system. One that supported and enhanced the work you do, telling
Fast, disk space efficient package manager
The United States Digital Corps. Empowering early-career technologists to build a more effective, equitable government.
Bluesky’s mission is to drive the evolution from platforms to protocols. The conceptual framework we’ve adopted for meeting this objective is the «self-authenticating protocol.»
For those of us who add ‘reddit’ to every Google search
Up until a few years ago, I used to feel good when sharing Twitter links. Compared to the other handful of websites that now make up our entire lives, it was the best option:
Our Security Infrastructure team introduces the principles we follow to build security in Monzo’s fast-moving engineering environment and how they work with other engineering teams to keep our customers and platform safe.
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas.
Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them
What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details.
FinRL: The first open-source project for financial reinforcement learning. Please star. ? – GitHub – AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL: FinRL: The first open-source project for financial reinforcement le…
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Intuit Inc., the maker of the popular TurboTax tax filing software, by
How can you tell when software uses the Neural Engine in an M1 series Mac? How much power does it use, and what is Espresso? Mysteries unravelled.
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.
The following is the source code to Wipeout by Psygnosis, a futuristic racing game set in 2052, which ended up as a launch title for the PlayStation in Europ…
2k code solutions with clear explanation @ onelinerhub.com – Issues · Onelinerhub/onelinerhub
An experience report.
I asked Amazon to provide the data it had collected on me. The process was a labyrinthine endurance test.
Killed by Microsoft is the open source list of dead Microsoft products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Microsoft.
Google Workspace admins can no longer deactivate activity tracking for their users, Google says this is helping people.
developed for NYU Tandon’s Applied Cryptography course – GitHub – oconnor663/sha256_project: developed for NYU Tandon’s Applied Cryptography course
It saves weight, energy, and space
? I respect proton UI and aim to improve it. Contribute to black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix development by creating an account on GitHub.
Unprivileged sandboxing tool. Contribute to containers/bubblewrap development by creating an account on GitHub.
There is a terrifying and highly effective «method» that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments…
Wacom devices are being adopted in many Linux enterprise environments beyond the creative industry. Finance, banking, medical, and public sectors are commonly adopting Linux solutions with pen-based workflows.
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