Gooooooood morning, Family!!! 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
- A Danish political party led by an AI
- AI better at creating fragrances than professional perfumers
- Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns
- In South Korea, robots are on the job. How is the service?
- Stability AI Raises $101M at $1B valuation
- SKRL – Reinforcement Learning Library
- Projectbook – a free collection of 100 project ideas for learning
- Capturing robot data so we can debug it later
- Icestudio: Drag and Drop FPGA programming and learning
- I made a new AI colorizer
- How a med student made the best AI writing assistant and got acquired by Jasper
- Internet down in multiple cities across France after suspected sabotage
- Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon, Apple employee accounts on LinkedIn
Blockchain and decentralization
- Stablecoin Mechanics 2: We found the Tether-Celsius loans
- Bitcoin Fails to Produce 1 Block for over an Hour
- No 37C3 in 2022: Looking forward to decentralized alternatives and CCC Camp 2023
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Skylake: Intel’s Longest Serving Architecture
- Lab-made Covid virus draws government scrutiny
- We are still early with the cloud
- Amazon faces $1B lawsuit in UK for ‘favouring its own products’
- Cloud Costs Are in a Bubble
- Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances
Development and languages
- Digital Gardening
- ESInfer – Make JavaScript Type-Safe
- VS Code Org Mode
- Google Announces KataOS: Security-Focused OS, Using Rust and SeL4 Microkernel
- Microsoft’s out-of-date driver list left Windows PCs open to malware attacks
- GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code
- GitHub at the 77th United Nations General Assembly
- That Shouldn’t Happen – UnreachableException in .NET 7
- MinTOTP – Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python
- Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
- PostgresML is 8-40x faster than Python HTTP microservices
- Firefox Beta for Android now supports custom add-on collections
- Play against the computer – Connect Four game in JavaScript
Quote of the week
Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.
— RnRS
Enterprises
- Google engineers joked about how incognito mode isn’t incognito
- US Export Restrictions, Intel Layoffs, Applied Materials, and TSMC
- Criterion Channel curates classics instead of modern Netflix monotony
- Google Announces KataOS and Sparrow
- Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel’s ‘Lost’ Early Microprocessor
- Tesla fires after hurricane raises alarm for Florida officials
- Intelligence Beyond the Brain
- Kanye West to acquire free speech platform Parler
- Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked documents
- Microsoft layoffs around 1000 people
- Microsoft Lays Off Employees After Slowdown in Earnings Growth
- Microsoft Full Circle
- Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks
- IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
- Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
- Intel Core I9-13900K and I5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Brings More Bite
- Microbenchmarking Intel’s Arc A770
- India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android
- Stripe is just trying to do layoff without paying severance
- Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in economy warning: ‘Batten down hatches’
- Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without Consent
Other news
- Lessons learned working decades with Graphical DSLs
- Tracing the Linux kernel with Retsnoop
- Annie Ernaux’s Justly Deserved Nobel
- Linux Kernel MultiPath TCP Project
- Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring
- The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands
- Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists
- Koch Method to Learn Morse
- Alpine Linux Minimalist Desktop
- Wyoming Legislators Fight Banks Regulating Behavior Through Social Credit Scores
- With teachers in short supply, states ease job requirements
- The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’
- 81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending
- Managing and using ONVIF IP cameras with Linux
- Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women
- 2020 California wildfires wiped out 20Y of greenhouse gas emission reductions
- New research suggests our brains use quantum computation
- CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both
- The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education
- Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests

Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
AI models for health care that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest. Here’s why
Bitcoin has failed. Cryptocurrencies and DeFi platforms are now more vulnerable to privacy breaches and hacking than traditional banking.
Butterfly wing patterns have a basic plan to them, which is manipulated by non-coding regulatory DNA to create the diversity of wings seen in different species, according to new research.
A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer. Contribute to rvaiya/warpd development by creating an account on GitHub.
Use new programming languages knowledge to level up your Software Engineer career!
HTMX, WebAssembly, Rust, ServiceWorkers. Contribute to richardanaya/wasm-service development by creating an account on GitHub.
(SECUSO) Lets you watch the weather for cities and locations of your choice
Recently I started migrating my note-taking from Notion to Obsidian. Obsidian does not offer free syncing between devices and you will have to manually set up a method to sync your notes, either by using something like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Git.
GitHub Copilot investigation
Over the past 10-20 years, and particularly in recent years, the computer vision research community has produced an abundance of frameworks capable of taking a single image and using it to perform ‘deepfake puppetry’ – the use of the facial and body movements of one person to simulate a secondary,…
Thank the boom-and-bust cycle—and America’s government
Q: How Faithful is Amazon’s Rings of Power to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Books? ANSWER: Amazon Prime’s show is not very faithful to J.R.R. Tolkien at all. But there’s a legal reason w…
Learn how Li-ion and LiPo batteries move so many electrons without having to open one yourself. Our CT scanner lets you see inside while staying safe.
Jay Solomon sued Dechert LLP, saying they worked with hackers from India to steal emails between him and one of his sources. The law firm disputed the claim.
Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform – GitHub – killbill/killbill: Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform
HTTP does a pretty good job staying out of everyone’s way. If you’re reading this article, there’s a solid chance it was delivered to you
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.
For a project I was working on, some of the research involved listening to thousands of sales calls from well known high-growth B2B SaaS companies.
We analyzed trends in the implementation of security best practices and took a closer look at various types of misconfigurations that contribute to the most common causes of security breaches.
Although APIs are the lifeblood of so many software applications today, the impact on their dependencies when they break can often be overlooked. And while full outages can have a more widespread and obvious impact across a user base, breaking changes to an API’s contract can be just as impactful – and much more difficult […]
Why choosing a popular cloud service, like AWS or Google Cloud Platform, may be the wrong choice for you and what to do instead.
A tiling window manager for Windows. Contribute to LGUG2Z/komorebi development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET. Contribute to gui-cs/Terminal.Gui development by creating an account on GitHub.
On October 7th, Toyota revealed a partial copy of their T-Connect source code had been accidentally exposed for 5 years, including access to data for over 290,000 customers.
Zeek, world’s leading open source network security monitoring platform, now deployed on more than one billion global endpoints via Microsoft Windows
Lawsuit claims Amazon is No. 1 seller of deadly chemical used in suicides.
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
Meta’s new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enough value to outweigh their costs.
Project Starline’s early access program allows partners to test Starline and explore how it can help them navigate the future of work.
Can Stripe actually use Stripe Billing to manage subscriptions and invoice its customers? We conducted the experiment.
“This study provides clear data that it’s not as simple as saying, ‘Colonoscopy is the most sensitive test, and therefore it is the best.’ It still prevented cancers.”
Introducing native support for the popular display server protocol on Linux.
One of Solana’s largest DeFi protocol was hacked. Check out what we know so far about how the hacker stole $100MM.
What I’ve learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
New research within the HYBRIT project shows superior results on the properties and quality of the hydrogen direct reduced sponge iron compared to the fossil-based process.
Cellular version of computer game challenges assumptions about intelligence.
Technology · 2022
Uniform eXchange Format (uxf) is a plain text human readable optionally typed storage format that supports custom types. It may serve as a convenient alternative to csv, ini, json, sqlite, toml, xm…
A former Louisville Metro Police Department officer used law enforcement technology as part of a scheme that involved hacking the Snapchat accounts of young women and using sexually explicit photos and videos they had taken to extort them, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed on Tuesday. According to a sentencing memorandum, Bryan Wilson used … Continued
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.
A reinforcement learning approach based on AlphaZero is used to discover efficient and provably correct algorithms for matrix multiplication, finding faster algorithms for a variety of matrix sizes.
Non-virtual money in a non-virtual world.
Apache Pegasus – A horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance key-value store – GitHub – apache/incubator-pegasus: Apache Pegasus – A horizontally scalable, strongly consistent…
Discover the hidden story of the first genesis block of Bitcoin
Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers – GitHub – maxwellpeterson/kafka-worker: Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers
gcloud CLI enables super-fast data transfers into Cloud Storage and delivers a consistent CLI experience across all Google Cloud services.
An experimental webkit-based kernel exploit (Arb. R/W) for the PS5 on 4.03FW/4.51FW – GitHub – Cryptogenic/PS5-4.03-Kernel-Exploit: An experimental webkit-based kernel exploit (Arb. R/W) for the PS…
A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in the process of becoming a Rustacean – GitHub – rochacbruno/py2rs: A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in the process of becoming a Rustacean
No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages. Under a new federal law, you can now get your health information digitally.
Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.
After a high flying 20+ year career in tech, Philip Su burned out. He found solace in an unexpected place: a retail Amazon job.
Intel, SiFive demonstrated high-performance RISC-V Horse Creek development platform on Intel 4 Process.
At the outset of the Depression, Charles Mitchell was the most wanted banker in America. Today, his name’s largely been forgotten.
Land plants are green because their photosynthetic pigments reflect green light, even though those wavelengths hold the most energy. Scientists finally understand why. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis. Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model…
When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released…
The importance of memory and how it relates to learning
Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.
Biohybrid microrobots consisting of nanoparticle-modified microalgae are constructed for active drug delivery in the lungs. In an acute bacterial pneumonia model, the microrobots effectively reduce bacterial burden and lessen animal mortality.
A state-of-the-art AI system generates high-quality videos from text prompts
A Go microservices framework. Contribute to go-micro/go-micro development by creating an account on GitHub.
This article compares the performance of Google, AWS, and Azure ARM-based servers in network IO-intensive scenarios through the API gateway Apache APISIX.
One of the myths of SaaS is that the products are so good, so easy to use, so quick to deploy … that the product sells itself.
Run WordPress in the browser thanks to WebAssembly magic – GitHub – WordPress/wordpress-wasm: Run WordPress in the browser thanks to WebAssembly magic
Ziti: programmable network overlay and associated edge components for application-embedded, zero-trust networking – OpenZiti
Enjoy a brand new Windows desktop experience with Cairo.
Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like, forever but I’m
Create full-fledged APIs for slowly moving datasets without writing a single line of code. – roapi/README.md at main · roapi/roapi
Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned.
Except me. As of one minute ago I confirmed what I noticed last Wednesday. According to the all seeing Google, on the entire world wide web there are but three Creative Commons licensed images of a…
Google’s cloud gaming service launched three years ago.
Microsoft has followed a small group of its competitors in building a VPN service directly into its own browser. The VPN feature, known as “Microsoft Edge Secure Network,” has rolled out to a limited selection of users in the latest Edge Canary version.
Which is good! Boring = success
BOSTON – Pharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. (Biogen), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe Biogen drugs.
The best way to stop a hacker is to think like one.
Seer – a gui frontend to gdb. Contribute to epasveer/seer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor – GitHub – carson-katri/dream-textures: Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor
My home IP ended up on Cloudflare’s naughty list for six days. Most websites and many apps loaded slowly, partially, or not at all. Just had to wait it out.
Blazing ? fast terminal-ui for git written in rust ? – GitHub – extrawurst/gitui: Blazing ? fast terminal-ui for git written in rust ?
A love letter to tools that changed everything for me.
Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub.
Modern scheduling library for Python. Contribute to Miksus/rocketry development by creating an account on GitHub.
The pair face a weak economy and powerful new rivals
A week ago, we received an email that every website owner dreads – a notification of a DMCA takedown request that has resulted in our website being removed from Google Search. In this email, Google summarized the takedown request (which can be viewed here) which accuses our company, Kapwing, of
A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative frontends and backends – GitHub – libredirect/libredirect: A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative frontends and back…
The Danish Data Protection Agency has looked into the tool Google Analytics, its settings, and the terms under which the tool is provided. On the basis of this review, the Danish Data Protection Agency concludes that the tool cannot, without more, be used lawfully. Lawful use requires the implementation of supplementary measures in addition to the settings provided by Google.
Google suffered a significant loss when a European court denied its appeal of an antitrust decision.
The company wants to establish an open, royalty-free alternative to Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. The project is known internally as Project Caviar.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
Ethernet Expansion Card gives you ultra fast and reliable networking over an RJ45 jack
The historic upgrade casts aside the miners who had previously driven the blockchain, with promises of massive environmental benefits.
The Merge has officially been triggered, marking Ethereum’s transition from proof of work to proof of stake.
In September 2018, someone bought an angry cartoon cat for the equivalent $170,000. It was big win for CryptoKitties, the worldâs first blockchain gaming hit. But the sky-high transaction obscured a more difficult truth: CryptoKitties was dying.
Install the free app that makes your phone’s Internet more fast, private, and reliable.
Enable near real-time insights on operational data with Datastream for BigQuery.
Optimize the audio quality of loudspeakers. Contribute to erdewit/HiFiScan development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hack to get Github Copilot working in the terminal with bash – GitHub – maxwell-bland/copilot-in-the-terminal: Hack to get Github Copilot working in the terminal with bash
More details are coming on September 27th.
During a presentation at Hot Chips 34, Intel detailed how their upcoming Meteor Lake processors employ chiplets. Like AMD, Intel is seeking to get the modularity and lower costs associated with usi…
Get rid of annoying cookie warnings from almost all ‘infected’ websites!
Sponsor: HYTE Y60 computer case on Amazon – https://geni.us/3ngWPEVGA has terminated its relationship with NVIDIA. EVGA will no longer be manufacturing video…
A guide to the adventurer. Contribute to joaocarvalhoopen/How_to_learn_modern_Rust development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hacktoberfest: a month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors.
Hackers Mind Map. Contribute to nadrad/h-m-m development by creating an account on GitHub.
The second part of a three part piece on incentives. It turns out that if you’ve grokked the primary incentives of an industry, you can do one other thing: identify aberrations, and use that as a guide to dig further.
The city has settled with two people whose cars were towed from legal parking spots into illegal spots, then ticketed. Two others have refused Philadelphia’s offer.
In industry-standard tests of AI inference, NVIDIA H100 GPUs set world records, A100 GPUs showed leadership in mainstream performance and Jetson AGX Orin led in edge computing.
YouTube is introducing new products that will allow learners to go deeper on subjects they are passionate about and creators to provide structured learning content.
How I wrote my own background distributed task queue to replace Celery at WakaTime.
To say Tesla is merely interested in machine learning is an understatement. The electric car maker built an in-house supercomputer named Dojo, optimized for training its machine learning models. Un…
A general purpose programming language. Contribute to tibordp/alumina development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly – GitHub – lunatic-solutions/lunatic: Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft – GitHub – IdreesInc/Monocraft: A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft
The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.
Four books and a paper on the most powerful wonks in the world
Sonja Trauss is raising $1 million from a slate of wealthy individuals to intimidate SF into complying with state housing regulations.