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AI, bots and robots
- The difficulty of computing stable and accurate neural networks
- Vannevar Bush: A Public Sector Entrepreneur
- FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
- Deep Learning on Electronic Medical Records is doomed to fail
- Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi
Due to bots buying out certain high-demand items, such as the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, we are now requiring a verified account with two-factor authentication, 2FA, enabled for purchase. We are worki… - The AI Research Residency Program
- Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-res 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of it in a few milliseconds. - Typebot: A conversational form builder that you can self-host
Blockchain and decentralization
Woman computer scientist of the week
Maxine D. Brown is an American computer scientist and associate director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick, she co-edited the 1987 NSF report, Visualization in Scientific Computing, which defined the field of scientific visualization.
Cloud and architecture
- Data Mesh Architecture
- The spread of misinformation: A pattern we see over and over
- CSS’s !important was added because of laws about font size for some text
- Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM
- Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator
- Forge – A Django SaaS Framework
- Pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi
Put your pocket-sized silicon to work as the world’s smallest API-driven cloud – to run automation scripts, scheduled tasks, functions and to host web sites - AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
- Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
Development and languages
- `Git add -p` with multiple buckets
- Visual Studio Code is randomly erasing included header files with latest update
- Pointers and Memory Management in Python
- LibreTube: Alternative YouTube front end for Android built with Piped
- The Windows OS needs a change in priorities
We need to talk about Windows priorities as a product. And I am saying this as someone who wants Windows to succeed – it’s a great OS that, despite it’s naysayers, is still one of the best when it comes to backwards compatibility and richness of functionality. I mean, I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues. - Overtone is live programmable music and visualization
- Literate programming is much more than just commenting code
- GitHub Incident
- Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity
Enemies is a cinematic demo showcasing Unity’s latest advancements for rendering high-end digital humans and implementing a strand-based hair solution. - Monitorian (Windows monitor control app)
- A one in a million bug in Switch kernel
- Almost 37 years after its launch, someone found an Easter egg in Windows 1.0
Dedication to the cause - What did www.python.org look like from 1996 to 2021?
- GitHub incident 2022-03-23
- Google to allow Android apps to implement their own billing systems
- Fast way to build digital presence across multiple platforms
- Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed
- GitHub incident: 2022/03/24
- Bashing the Bash – Replacing Shell Scripts with Python
- I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
I wanted a way to have physical tickets from GitHub in front of me. One Epson printer, a Raspberry Pi, and some PHP later, I had a working system in place. - Slint: Native GUI Toolkit for Rust, C++ or JavaScript
Quote of the week
Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it’s dangerous when you use it to justify answers.
— Martin Fowler
Enterprises
- A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
- Google Fi Suddenly Strikes
- Exploring Google Hangouts’ easter eggs
- Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content
- M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD’s Ryzen CPUs
- Google Dialer and SMS App steal all conversation metadata and content hashes
- The complete list of alternatives to all Google products – TechSpot
- US Justice Department accuses Google of hiding business communications
The government says the tech giant is hiding business documents by misusing attorney-client privilege. - Mercedes Drive Pilot Beats Tesla Autopilot by Taking Legal Responsibility
Mercedes will accept full legal responsibility for the vehicle whenever Drive Pilot is active. The automaker hopes to offer the system in the U.S. by the end of 2022. - Turning Data Centers into ‘AI Factories’: Nvidia Introduces Hopper, H100 GPU
- Nvidia Grace CPU
A CPU Purpose-Built for Servers Running Terabytes of Data - Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges
- Remove Google Account After Factory Reset
- Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
- Apple acquires UK open banking startup
Credit Kudos, a UK open banking startup that helps lenders make better decisions, has been acquired by US tech giant Apple. - Google’s Certificate Transparency Search page to be discontinued May 15th, 2022
- Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities for both consumers and developers. Users who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store will be presented with a choice to pay with either Spotify’s payment system… Read more » - Is there a general factor of intelligence?
- Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
- Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years
Other news
- When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX
- Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 is here
- I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
- LaBanquePostale payments request bank password
- How to Pay Professional Maintainers
- Hacks can be good code too
- Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
- Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft’s alleged source code
- Simple electrical circuit learns on its own–with no help from a computer
- The quantum technology ecosystem explained
- Old imageshack images have a 1:5 chance of showing a Ukranian flag
- Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All on Display
- UK Police Arrest 7 People in Connection with Lapsus$ Hacks
- UK police arrest 7 people in connection with Lapsus$ hacks
- ‘I’m Old, Not an Idiot.’ One Man’s Protest Gets Attention of Spanish Banks
- Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds
Over a decade of annual screening, half of all women getting 3D mammograms will experience a false positive, a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open found. - An Apple Original on DVD: The Definitive Unboxing and UX Review
We need to shift our focus from disrupting markets to creating them
Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use
Restaurants say blue “order online” button saps profits, diverts customers.
My journey on finding and reporting databases with sensitive data about Fortune-500 companies, Hospitals, Crypto platforms, Startups during…
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15th March 2022 Being an experienced Twitter user is like being what comedian Jasper Carrott once said of Ed Doolan: “world-famous in Birmingham”. You have a great deal of knowledge abo…
An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved into a computational proof.
Universal Analytics is sunsetting next year. Prepare now by moving over to the next generation Analytics solution, Google Analytics 4.
Contribute to google/h2e_technical_documentation development by creating an account on GitHub.
Project ‘Iliad’ put multiple layers of questions and offers between the main Amazon page and the final cancellation
The State Bar of California, which earlier said a «hack» led to a months-long online disclosure of 260,000 confidential attorney discipline cases, instead now blames the breach on an âunknown security vulnerabilityâ in its own database.
What happened to Mavis Beacon?
Partial Executer is a brand-new LLVM optimization pass that uses an Interpreter-like engine to prove some code will never be executed, making it safe to eliminate it. In this article, I will explain the ideas behind it, the engineering challenges, and the results of this work. LLVM basics Some basic understanding of LLVM internals will…
Firmware flash Samsung SSD or NVMe directly from Linux without needing broken Samsung ISO boot environment!
The antiparasitic drug has received attention from celebrities including Joe Rogan.
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Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
S.E.P.I.A. – Your own extendable, personal, intelligent assistant.
What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress?
Anatomy of an AI System – The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)
Google Cloud Armor provides a rule-based policy framework that can be used by customers of the Google Cloud Platform to mitigate various types of common web application attacks. The Cloud Armor service has a documented limitation of 8 KB as the maximum size of web request that it will inspect. The default behavior of Cloud Armor in this case can allow malicious requests to bypass Cloud Armor and directly reach an underlying application.
This article is not intended to convince you to abandon your current antivirus solutions. In this post I would like to share my observations and ways to improve the effectiveness of Defender. You don’
For the past few months, we've been working hard to improve the Pull Request experience. One of the features we're most excited about: Pull Request File Tree. The new tree: Improves ease of…
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 – GitHub – microsoft/GW-BASIC: The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
Mandiant has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google.
Learn about using twitter.com on older browsers.
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Twitter is pushing users toward the algorithmic feed.
The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better.
Twitter client for UEFI. Contribute to arata-nvm/mitnal development by creating an account on GitHub.
Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, or more recently with external fields (electric or magnetic fields, or laser beams).
0.0 Context setting It’s Saturday, March 5th 2022 and I can’t help myself, so here’s an edited and revised version of an imaginary conversation I had earlier…
DasherA is a rewrite of my Data General DASHER terminal emulator in Ada using the GtkAda toolkit and only Gtk3 elements. – dashera/LessonsLearnt.md at 10ab6e4ece8ea1c16ad055c063c5e743d89cd6bc · SM…
Here are some things that I hated as a student. At the time, I thought my teachers didn’t understand or care how terrible they were.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has grown to be very popular in public-key cryptographic systems, most popularly used in Bitcoin. ECC isâ¦
We are excited to add support for .NET 6 to Lambda. It’s fast to get started or migrate existing functions to .NET 6, with many new features in .NET 6 to take advantage of. Read the Lambda Developer Guide for more getting started information.
Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products ? – GitHub – RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives: Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS p…
Anyone can now provide additional information and context to further the community’s understanding and awareness of security advisories.
Javascript can do a lot, but it’s really over-used. HTML and CSS are surprisingly powerful on their own, so let’s have a look at some of the things you can achieve without Javascript (or a backend) – from animated diagrams to dark mode.
The most versatile way to manage containers locally – GitHub – afroisalreadyinu/miniboss: The most versatile way to manage containers locally
A GitHub repository was public-viewable We’ve recently become aware of an inadvertent private-to-public viewable GitHub repository that could have enabled unauthorized access to information about c…
Largely thanks to the tireless work of Iain Buclaw, the D programming language is part of GCC. As well as having access to an extremely potent set of compiler optimizations and a large group of tar…
Panasonic Corp said on Monday it will begin mass production of a new lithium-ion battery for Tesla Inc before the end of March 2024 at a plant in Japan.
A modern social platform for the book community. Finally, a book platform that’s worth writing home about. It’s about time, isn’t it?
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
Video-game developer Epic Games announced that it has bought Bandcamp, the online music store and community geared around independent musicians. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “Fa…
Alphabet Inc’s Google from April 4 will require employees back about three days a week in some of its U.S., U.K. and Asia Pacific offices, its first step to end policies that allowed remote work because of COVID-19 concerns.
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Chipmaker has until Friday to comply or see its crown-jewel source code released.
A new study finds that high in rainforest trees, insects live in ecosystems that vary wildly from the forest floor on up.
Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, will vote against ratification of tech giant Apple Inc’s management remuneration plan after an advisory firm urged investors to act, the fund’s manager said on Sunday.
Less than 4 years – that is how much time it took for Hristo Borisov, Boyko Karadzhov, and Konstantin Dzhengozov to turn their fintech solution
A new report from Seedcamp reveals average founder salaries in Europe. How much are your peers paying themselves?
Why the landslide loss for San Francisco’s school board is a victory for American meritocracy
The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should â and can â be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war.
Her method was meant for the public. Then it became a privilege.
A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful – GitHub – martinvonz/jj: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Prominent AI researchers should take accurate science communication more seriously.
By Maryam Clark, science writer Image: Okrasiuk/Shutterstock.com Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of dea…
AI DJ Project#2 Ubiquitous Rhythm is an improvisational DJ performance that uses AI to generate musi…
Intel unveiled BonanzaMine, its first-generation blockchain accelerator ASIC effort.
A minimal chat example using js-ipfs in the browser.
A federal grand jury in San Diego returned an indictment today charging the founder of BitConnect with orchestrating a global Ponzi scheme. BitConnect is an alleged fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform that reached a peak market capitalization of $3.4 billion.
No wonder Steam stopped taking cryptocurrency.
It is a good time to be in tech right now: soaring salaries, daily LinkedIn recruiter spam, people bootcamping their way into career switches to tech, remote work allowing you to work for a major tech company making triple digit salaries from the beach. It really feels like every single company is trying to recruit programmers nowadays, and doing whatever they can to get them.
We’re saying goodbye to the Bethesda.net Launcher this year. Starting in early April you’ll be able to migrate your games and Wallet to your Steam account. For more details on what this process will look like, read on. 
The government’s action is troubling enough, but what should really disturb us is the ease and invisibility with which it is being done. When we can’t see the consequences of government conduct, the risks of government misconduct increases.
The Windows 8 tablet experience organized its components as a collection of layers, with each layer stacked on top of the next one. For the purpose of today’s discussion, the important layers are the Start layer and the Apps layer: If you’re using an app,
A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications. – GitHub – microsoft/reverse-proxy: A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications.
I released a new tool this week: google-drive-to-sqlite. It’s a CLI utility for fetching metadata about files in your Google Drive and writing them to a local SQLite database. It’s …
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they…
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I think I’ve come up with a novel hack for the challenge of getting your company to financially support the open source projects that it uses: reach out to the …
Scalapay lured in an all-star group of foreign investors, with China’s Tencent and New York’s Willoughby Capital leading the round
The government of Ukraine is asking for volunteers from the country’s hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops, according two people involved in the project.
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A Home Assistant Love Story
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My husband started a cryptocurrency empire that made us rich. When he died, I learned it was just a facade
Introducing 1Password for SSH & Git (Beta), the single source of truth for all your SSH keys. With 1Password, you can:
I’ve been interested in games programming since I started learning programming as a teenager more than 25 years ago (gasp!) I started with Qbasic and Gorillas.bas, but never understood the code. Of course, I didn’t get anywhere at the time, beyond very basic games. I wrote a simple Shoot
At the forefront of contributors for this latest release, our team’s work focused on two areas in which we believe GStreamer shines the brightest: embedded systems, and network streaming, in particular WebRTC.
Python-based calculations, especially those that use NumPy, can run much faster by using the Numba library.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […]
Apple and Google face a potential class action lawsuit in the Netherlands over app store charges, after a foundation headed by Dutch entrepreneur Alexander Klöpping began gathering claimants.
MFA can protect your Office 365 accounts, but attackers are looking to compromise this security feature through new threats such as Push Notification Spamming. Learn more about MFA fatigue and how to mitigate attacks in this article.
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Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. . Contribute to gristlabs/grist-core development by creating an account on GitHub.
Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets. . Contribute to gristlabs/grist-core development by creating an account on GitHub.
How Twitter moved from a home grown logging platform to the commercially available Splunk and the challenges we’ve encountered along the way.
Ethereum layer-2 solution, Optimism, fixed a major flaw that would have permitted an illegal and continuous creation of ETH tokens. According to sources,
The first Android 13 developer preview may have felt a bit underwhelming, but there’s a hidden gem with full virtualization possible on hardware such as
The patient’s transplant in New York City could help researchers who are developing gene therapies to cure HIV.
With the start of the new year, we can see a new trend delineating Linux software. Phosh with its newbord libadwaita, KDE’s Kirigami and Maui Shell show that – like it or not – the era of convergent Linux applications has just started. After all, even laptop screens are not too big
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EU: There should be identification requirements for crypto-asset transactions in all amounts. Crypto transactions in Europe must be tracked.
A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the worldâs most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world.
âZero-Clickâ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. Thereâs Practically No Way to Stop Them
Emerging evidence indicates that gut microbiota is important in the regulation of brain activity and cognitive functions. Microbes mediate communication among the metabolic, peripheral immune, and central nervous systems via the microbiota–gut–brain …
NWJS wrapper for a wider project. Contribute to dynamite-ready/movie-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.
Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.
I’ve been playing with GPT-3 to see if it can automatically write comedy that makes me laugh – spoiler alert: it can
Where the pipe-dream of Bitcoin’s real-world fungibility goes to die.
Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems
What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!
Western Digital Corp said on Wednesday certain materials at two of its manufacturing units in Japan, operated by joint-venture partner Kioxia Holdings Corp, were contaminated and will result in reduced availability of flash storage devices.
SoftBank Group Corp has shelved its blockbuster sale of Arm Ltd to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp valued at up to $80 billion citing regulatory hurdles and will instead seek to list the company.
Apple today announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone, empowering merchants in the US to accept contactless payments.
Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year
“We are often told of B.S.E or STEM students exploring the humanities to their heart’s content, but I feel that we rarely hear of students in the humanities being encouraged to take scientific classes.”