Gooooooood morning, Organisms!!! 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
- In a ‘learning trap’ experiment, adults leap conclusions while children explore
- Study finds a difference between neurons of humans and other mammals
- OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware
- Netflix released a horror movie written by a bot and it’s spectacular
- Bottlenecks: Causes and Macroeconomic Implications
- Intrepid robot is the Wall-E of the deep sea
- Practical machine learning to estimate traffic flow in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Yes, PHP Is Worth Learning/Using in $Current_year
- Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy
- Learning containers from the bottom up
- TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks
- Learning Rust for Embedded Systems
- MOOC on Mobile Robotics using ROS 2 and your own affordable robot
Blockchain and decentralization
- Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
- Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C
- Decentralized Woo Hoo
- TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT’s from Ethereum and Solana)
- Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
- Sweden no longer stands out in pandemic, says architect of ‘no lockdown’ policy
- The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture
- Automatically generating types for Cloudflare Workers
- The Diet of the Future Is a Menu That Draws from the Ancient Past
- Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
- Layout patterns – Collection of layout patterns built using CSS
- I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns
- Futurists have their heads in the clouds
- The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless
Development and languages
- Shadershop – Photoshop like interface for programming GPU shaders
- Togo made a digital government stimulus system in two weeks
- How Python List Works
- Easylang – An easy online programming language and development environment
- Apple is reportedly relying on states to pay for digital ID rollouts
- Modern JavaScript has made the web worse
- C# 10 new feature CallerArgumentExpression
- Highlights from Git 2.34
- Teliva – an environment for end-user programming
- Rust on MIPS64 Windows NT 4.0
- Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming
- Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing
- ChangeSets – group PRs across multiple Git repos
- Comparing Julia to Performance Portable Parallel Programming Models for HPC
- Save the planet Program in C, avoid Python, Perl
- Xeact 0.0.69: A Revolutionary Femtoframework for High Efficiency JavaScript Dev
- Pablo is a small, open-source JavaScript library for SVG
Quote of the week
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
— Kernighan and Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style.
Enterprises
- Apple buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps
- The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004
- Build what’s next with the new Twitter Developer Platform
- Amazon to pay California $500k for ‘concealing’ Covid cases among workers
- Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards from 2022
- Amazon Will Stop Accepting Visa Credit Cards Issued in the U.K
- Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph
- Netlify Acquires OneGraph
- Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster
- Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation
- OpenStore Raises $75M to Acquire More Shopify Sellers
- Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages
- Netflix’s Chappelle of Hate
- Google SAPI: Generate sandboxes for C/C++ libraries automatically
- Scamspotter.org – Google and Cybercrime Support Network Partnership
- Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?
- Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla’s World Record
- Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage
Other news
- Shebeen Queens: Review of “A World History of Women and Alcohol»
- Breaking down the ‘payment for order flow’ debate
- University of Austin Draws over 3k Employment Inquiries in Four Days
- Managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard
- Vaccum-chamber quantum sensor device could allow GPS-free navigation
- Yann LeCun’s 2021 Deep Learning Course at CDS free and fully online
- IBM achieves quantum computing breakthrough
- JP Morgan Chase Bank, or Why Not to Whitelist Operating System User Agents
- Prevent Zoom from consuming all your CPU on Linux
- Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros
- What’s holding open banking back?
- Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced
- Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
- Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature
- New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for testing
- Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value
- Lessons learned after 5 years of climate tech entrepreneurship
- How Quantum Computers Will Correct Their Errors
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